It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

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    I’ve turned off all the history tracking on my google account for years. I’m sure somewhere in their data lake, the data exists. They just don’t make it available to see on the web. I think this probably because when presented with a subpoena, they seems to have the data. Shocking, I know.

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      Oh yeah. One of my probably unprovable theories is that the data they collected on me will always be floating around, I can just do my best to stop new data being harvested and, potentially, old data might be unsellable. Like when Daniel Radcliffe didn’t update his outfit for several months and paparazzi couldn’t sell the photos they took of him to magazines because they all looked outdated and therefore inaccurate