Hi everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you here.
security is becoming more and more of a concern for everyone with everything
being online and it's something that I take very seriously and then more and
more videos on security being were I graduated from law enforcement and
rather than getting into the police force at the time I ended up doing some
private investigation being a volunteer probation officer and I ended up
learning as a ethical hacker so there's a lot that I know about security both on
and offline so I take that very seriously so if you're wondering about
how much the search engine like Google and other search engines are watching
what you search for online and what you can do about it you're going to want to
see this video so thanks to fuddy-duddy 99 for your question which prompted the
making of this video where I'm going to explain and show you the security
options most people don't know about and three popular web browsers so stick
around
so there are two things to consider here and one of them is your web browsing
history and the other is the autocomplete or autofill or suggested
searches which is I think part of the main question that I received here and
wondering how much is the search engines getting from you in making these
suggestions so really they get this information from everyone searching
online so once you go on to Google for example type in something you are
searching for and hit enter it actually submits that to the Google servers and
then will provide a listing from their database based on what you search for
but they're also recording what you search for so that they can find out
what's the most popular things people are searching for and that information
is used to help you better in the future by making better suggestions and also
for advertisers so they know who they can target so that may be part of it
that you are not so interested in so let's have a look quickly here starting
with Microsoft edge going up in the top right corner there's the three dots and
you can go to settings and under a privacy and
security you've got the browsing data here you
can choose what you want to clear you can turn out everything if you want to
but you might want to keep certain things on such as autofill information
passwords and website permissions so you don't have to keep entering that kind of
stuff but once you have selected what you want then you can hit clear and
you're done so assuming we already know how to do that let's just back over here
so I'll have the instructions for all this stuff in the description as well of
this video down below the video so in edge click the button the three dots in
the top right corner go to settings and in here privacy and security and then
this is where you're going to see down here to show search suggestions search
and site suggestions as I type so you would turn that off but before we do
that let's just do a test here so if I type in computer now from here it's
showing that one of the searches that came up that have the word computer in
it that I searched for previously that's still in my history that I didn't clear
out but it also is showing suggestions here these are not things that I've
searched for in the past it could also show things that are in your bookmarks
and so you may have more things come up here
but it would show a star if it's in your bookmark I don't use edge so I'm not I
have nothing in my bookmarks here so you can see the stuff come out so just for
the before and after let's go back into it in the settings for IVA see the
security show search and such suggestions as I type I turn that off
and immediately when I go and search for computer again all I see is what was in
my history that I haven't cleared out yet it's not giving me anymore site
suggestions so that is now turned off and that's how you do it in edge okay so
in Google Chrome it's a little bit different but you have similar things so
the three dots you're going to the settings if we scroll down to the bottom
under advanced there's clear browsing data and you can choose a few options
from all time or the last 24 hours whatever you'd like and also checking
off the options of what you want to put her out
so that's third your browsing data there's also some advanced options if
you want to get that deep into how specific you want to clear things so
let's go back here so when you go into settings if we want to disable the
searching feature maybe what we do here is test this out first so if I type in
computer we're seeing here it's bringing up search suggestions again
so Google Chrome when we hit the three dots
and go in the settings scroll all the way down and go to advanced and then
under privacy and security here we've got sync and Google services
and the first thing here is autocomplete searches and URLs and it says your
searches from the address bar and search box to your default search engine so if
I turn that off we'll back up here to search and type in computer to search
for anything computer related it's not giving me anything it's not even looking
at my history so that is where you would turn that off in Google Chrome ok so now
the third browser here is Firefox so quickly how to delete your history in
here is under options so it's not three dots but they're three lines so our
thing that's in a similar location and
privacy and security
and then down here you've got your history you can also set it to the
number history and that will remember have custom settings you can check the
options you like and then you can go to through the history and you can see if
you want to clear everything and active logins form search data maybe you don't
want to clear up your active logins it depends on what you want here
okay so just in case you didn't know how to
clear your history that's that but the important thing we're looking for here
again the three lines and under options and on the left side you want to go to
search and then under default search engine it shows what your default search
engine is may be different for you provide search suggestions you can
uncheck any of these things or I would say just uncheck this top one it
automatically disables the two underneath that and that now will
disable the search on this browser so if I was to start typing in something to
search for really it's only coming up with things that are in my favorites
it's not showing anything that is online that is a suggested search so that's it
for the hiding the auto suggestion in those web browsers there's many other
web browsers out there and they should all have the capability of doing the
same thing and if not and this is a concern for you I would suggest sticking
with some of these top main browsers you're really concerned about what
Google is seeing you search for and where it came from because they can
still see your IP address word you are and what you hit enter on to search for
something just because you don't see the search suggestions doesn't mean they
can't see what you're searching for unless you're using some kind of VPN
software or something that will mask your IP address and hide it so that
you're kind of not like incognito or that kind of just hide students from
going into your search history but really to make you a lot more private so
they can't see who you are searching for things but they will
always see that someone is searching for what you're searching for that's it for
this video thanks again for watching give it a thumbs up if you thought this
video was helpful put your comments down below if you have questions for a next
video or any questions about this video that I've made I appreciate all your
comments questions and suggestions and take that into serious consideration for
my next videos and hopefully be able to give you a shout out for your channel
with your question did you have thanks a lot guys and we'll see you in the next
video until then stay safe bye for now