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Between Google Analytics (which everyone seems to have nowadays), Adsense and now the +1 button, Google has been master of user tracking. Facebook only has things I chose to share, but Google can tie everything to my private emails through Gmail and all the creepy search terms I might have ever used. How do we stop them?

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You can opt-out: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

Or from Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

And permanently delete your web history: https://www.google.com/history

And you can take your data with you when you go: https://www.google.com/takeout/

Privacy center: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/

The point of this article is precisely that they know/have MORE than what you explicitly give them.

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