9 Default Chrome Settings You Should Change If You Care About Your Privacy – Lifehacker

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You should probably avoid storing your browsing history and other website data for too long, and you can periodically erase it by going to Chrome settings > Security and privacy > Clear browsing data. Select the Advanced tab and change the time range to All time. You can click Clear data to delete everything, or manually uncheck individual categories to remove some (but not all) data.

You should also go to Chrome settings > Security and privacy > Site settings. Here, you can select Block third-party cookies, which will reduce tracking when you’re using Google Chrome. You can also select Block all cookies, but it could break some websites. The default choice only blocks third-party cookies in incognito mode, which is less than ideal for your privacy.

You can also disable Preload pages for faster browsing and searching to stop Chrome from preloading pages it thinks you might visit. This may make some pages take longer to load, but it’ll also save some bandwidth.