Hello everybody!
In this video, you will see how to clear your browsing history, as well as cache and cookies,
saved logins and passwords in Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and
Edge.
We will have a closer look at setting up your browser and Google account so that your browsing
history is not saved there.
By default, every browser saves the user’s browsing history and information on all tabs
that were opened.
In any browser, the History option can be found in the settings menu.
Sometimes it is called Log or Journal.
The easy way to view browsing history is to press the key sequence Ctrl + H.
Google Chrome Yandex Browser
Opera Mozilla Firefox
and Edge
You can visit our channel and watch a video about hotkeys in popular browsers - Google
Chrome, Yandex, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge.
You will find the link in the description: I think you also know that by default every
browser saves cookies and cache.
Cookies are small files that keep settings for websites which you visited.
Their most popular function is saving passwords so that users don’t have to enter the login
and password every time they visit a website.
Cookies also remember when users follow links from advertising banners.
Later this information saved to cookies can influence on what banners are shown to this
or another user.
They are also used to track browsing history.
This is how they look in a browser.
For example, in Chrome: Settings / Privacy and security / Content settings / Cookies
Or in Yandex: Settings / Show advanced settings / Privacy / Content settings
Cookies are usually found in the browser menu: Privacy and security, or privacy, or Security
and so on.
What is cache?
It can be found in the browser.
It saves every visited webpage, so if you go there again, the browser doesn’t have
to load it from the server.
Here is how cache looks like in Google Chrome: chrome://cache/
It looks similarly in other browsers.
Now, to clear browsing and downloads history, browser cache and cookies, as well as synchronized
passwords and autofill data in any browser:  press the key sequence Ctrl + Shift +
Delete.
It works with all popular browsers.
In the description, you will find links to our videos about top free browsers and a review
of alternative browsers:
 in the opening window, select what you want to clear
 Most browsers also allow you to choose the period for which you want to clear data:
the last hour, today, all history and so on.
 Choose your option and click on “Clear browsing data”
As a result, the information will be deleted and no longer available to other users.
I’d like to say a couple of words about synchronization or user’s account.
In any of the top browsers, every user can have their own profile.
It includes all browser settings — extensions, passwords, bookmarks, browsing history etc.
Why am I talking about it?
If you care about privacy of data on the web resources you visit, browsing history, bookmarks
or registration data, you can use the browser after logging in with your details.
When you finish work, you log out and clear browsing history as I’ve just shown.
After you log in again, the browsing history will be synchronized again from the online
server.
It doesn’t matter what computer you are using.
You can create a user profile in the browser’s settings menu.
Such menu can be found under one of the names: Users, Synchronization or Account.
To sign up, you only need your email address and password.
In the same way, you can clear browsing and downloads history, browser cache and cookies,
as well as synchronized passwords and autofill data in any browser from your smartphone.
You can clean browsing history of a mobile version of browser from the menu Settings
/ History / Clean history or Settings / Clean browsing history.
This menu is not too difficult to find, quite often you can guess its location.
If you care about your privacy and remaining anonymous all the time you’re using the
Internet, you can achieve it by changing some settings in your browser or online account.
I will show it with the example of Google Chrome,
as I use it most often.
However, you can find similar settings in your browser.
• First of all, we are interested in Privacy and Security.
• Enable the option “Send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic”
• After that, go to Content settings / Cookies • and disable the option “Allow sites
to save and read cookie data”; enable “Keep local data only until you quit
your browser” and “Block third-party cookies” • Also, turn on “Ask before accessing”
function for: Location, Camera, Microphone, Notifications
• Leave all other options at their default settings.
• Now let’s go to the “Passwords and forms” menu
• and disable “Autofill settings” • as well as the opportunity to save passwords
for websites.
Now you will have to enter them on your own every time, but no one else will be able to
sign in your accounts with login and password autofill.
You can also make similar settings for the browser in your smartphone.
Once again, the menu may look different in other browsers, but the point is the same
- to prevent the browser from automatically remembering your data, such as browsing history,
cookies, cache, passwords and so on.
Every time you use Chrome on your computer or smartphone to search for something, Google
tracks your actions to personalize search results.
The same happens when you use other apps by Google, such as Google Maps or Google Now.
To stop Google from tracking your online activities: • Go to your Google account
• In the section “Personal info and privacy” select “Manage your Google activity”.
• Then go to Activity Controls.
• There you can see all types of data that Google monitors.
• To disable saving web and app activity, just click on the symbol on the right.
If that’s not enough for you and you want to clean the entire history of your online
activity, do the following: • To begin with, select “Manage Activity”
• You will be redirected to My Activity page.
• You can see my entire browsing history, though I’ve just cleaned it in my browser.
• To remove this data, you should open an additional menu (to do it, click on the three
vertical dots in the upper right corner of the page).
• In the menu, choose “Delete activity by” and then “All time.”
• You can delete the data received for a certain period of time, specifying it in special
fields.
• Click “Delete.”
• As you can see, the browsing history is deleted.
Previously, Yandex accounts also had a similar tool that saved all browsing history of a
user.
It was known as My Findings.
After Yandex portal was updated, it seems to have been removed.
So Yandex doesn’t have it anymore.
In this video, I can’t help mentioning Tor browser which by default doesn’t save browsing
history, cookies or cache, and uses a chain of servers to go to a certain website.
That is why it is the most privacy-focused browser and the one to choose for anonymous
web surfing.
But this is a topic for another video, and you can find the link below:
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