Finally got rid of Google accounts - all gone. What's the alternative to Google? BING looks promising. Nice touch when you first go there: a grapic of the Indian Ocean with snippets of history about Rottnest. Bill
On 24/02/2012, at 7:54 PM, cm wrote: > One more possibility occurred to me. If you are using the online mail > archive, it probably does not support embedded links. So here is the link > spelled out: > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect > > Hope this one works. :-) > > Cheers, > Carlo > > > On 24/02/2012, at 19:44 , cm wrote: > >> Hi Darrel, >> >> Thanks for pointing that out. I had a cut-and-past excerpt from the news >> aggregator site in the original post. My guess is that for some reason it >> doesn't show up in your email client -- might have to do with text colour or >> font. It does show up, incidentally, in your reply to me. Probably because >> that is plain text rather than RTF. So here is the message in plain text >> with the appropriate link. Let me know if there is a problem... >> >>> "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — >>> unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change >>> goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have >>> posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at >>> Google." >> >> >> Click on the simple instructions link in the above excerpt and there is an >> easy four step process to delete your web-search history and to pause it so >> it will no longer be collected -- at least not where it is easily accessed. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> On 24/02/2012, at 19:35 , Darrel McGuiness wrote: >> >>> Hi Carlo, >>> What excerpt >>> Regards >>> Darrel >>> On 23/02/2012, at 10:17 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Muggers, >>>> >>>> If you have a gmail mail account, you may also have a search history with >>>> Google. To quote a news aggregator site >>>> >>>> "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com >>>> — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The >>>> change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF >>>> have posted some simple instructions showing how to delete your web >>>> history at Google." >>>> >>>> Click on the simple instructions link in the above excerpt and there is an >>>> easy four step process to delete your web-search history and to pause it >>>> so it will no longer be collected -- at least not where it is easily >>>> accessed. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlo >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
