A person's browser history is a window into their online Identity.

[Z390]

You can not clean it because Google stored your data forever. Even your deleted web browsing history, emails, whatever, they can have terms that after 30 days of deletion, you will lose those documents forever and they will not support you to recover such deleted data.

However, on Google side, they store it and did you read about the lawsuit against Google, that they stored users' web surfing history even in Igconito mode?

If you are serious with privacy, do it at the start.

This is why I am running Lineage OS on my phone, to stay out of google reach, this open-sourcei  Android ROM comes with zero Google service and it is also one of the most secured ROMs out there, your data your rules.

Many people do like what Google is doing, not losing access to their data is why they choose Google, and in this case Google is doing it right, if you lost your phone your data is not lost, you will have access to it when you link your Google account again.
I remember when I sold my old phone years ago, I had to install an CM ROM on the phone in fear of the new buyer having access to my browser history, I felt like formatting the phone memory isn't enough for me, now I don't really care that much, because everything about crypto isn't available on my phone and computer anymore, I now have a hardware wallet but still, browser history has some big pictures about the owner.
My advice is for everyone to go pro by getting an air-gapped device, no need for an internet connection and there is no room for backing anything up into the cloud either, for crypto wise you will be save this way.

[knowngunman]

You have the patience to save and not clean the browser history, for me it's like I clean it annually for a fresh start every year, but if I look or remember the old history on my old phone, it's the same as you, year 2017 at first I started to get interested in bitcoin and I read only articles about btc every time I did research on google. nothing, it's just fun to remember, you also have a point, sometimes we can better recognize what type of person an individual is based on what we can see in their browser history.

I can hardly find my browse histories older than a year not because I use to delete/clear them but because I hardly use a device for a complete year. I don't know if these histories are safe in the browser or email address but if it is former, I can't access them again after changing of device but if it is later, they can possibly be accessed.

Yes, it can tell more about someone's on online but why should we be checking others browsing history without their consent? I think it's totally wrong. By the way, some people are different in real life and online.

I had this idea that incognito was safer, Can I ask if this data is accessible to any other person asides google? if not, does it not mean then that incognito mode is still safe, because asides google and you, no one else can access it.

I don't think these history is available to a third party but Google can always grants access to a third party if the need arise. I remember some times ago in my side here when a user's browse history was brought up during investigation. It was a case of terrorism and the law enforcement agencies recover all their browse histories both cleared and unclear ones, calls histories too in order to reach the root of the case but luckily, the suspects were later discovered innocent and were freed after several months of detention. Your privacy is not absolutely guaranteed as far as internet or technology rather is concerned.

[dkbit98]

Just a simple setting up your web browser to delete all browsing history each time you close it will make a huge difference.
Some browsers like Tor don't even store anything by default, but it's not that hard to do something similar for Firefox, Chrome and other browsers.
I would also avoid using any crypto browser web wallets if possible.

[Churchillvv]

Just a simple setting up your web browser to delete all browsing history each time you close it will make a huge difference.

I just got to find out that it doesn't really change anything, after I saw this thread I went to delete all my browser history on chrome as I was totally not interested in any history related stuff, so I took my time to clear all history.

To my greatest surprise, I found the "My Google Activity" button and clicked on it, I saw that even with my browser history being cleared there are over 8,700 past activities stored in the Google activity. Which means that no matter how much you clear your browser history you will still find it hard to see that it's clean.

No wonder a lot of reputable forum users always say they browse the internet with duckduckgo instead of Google as Google is the opposite of privacy. Maybe from now I will take this into account and start practicing using duckduckgo instead of Google.

[Tungbulu]

Just a simple setting up your web browser to delete all browsing history each time you close it will make a huge difference.

To my greatest surprise, I found the "My Google Activity" button and clicked on it, I saw that even with my browser history being cleared there are over 8,700 past activities stored in the Google activity. Which means that no matter how much you clear your browser history you will still find it hard to see that it's clean.

The reason why Google Chrome made availability for the incognito 🥸 Mode is for users who are quite considerate about the privacy and anonymity of their browser history, to avoid having Google save your current activities on the browser, then using thr incognito mode is so people like you, well of course you generally have a problem with google.

[moneystery]

The sooner we realize that everything we do online leaves a trail, the more conscious we will be about our privacy. For privacy, use TOR when browsing on the internet. It’s not today news that tech companies sell user data to other companies. Google has been accused of this in the past. ...

surfing using incognito mode will only prevent the browser from saving history, it does not increase any privacy, because search engines and operators can see the user's activities. so an option that users can use to increase their privacy is by using the tor network. maybe for ordinary users they will be confused when using this, but online there are many tutorials using this network, so if users want to increase their privacy they can use the available tor network.