Most Useful Links/Urls EveryOne With A Google Account Should Know
It's interesting to know that Google keeps record of almost all our activities on the internet and in some cases our android devices, through the Google account used on our browsers and android phones. And i believe that even an average internet user has a Google account, which was opened when creating a gmail (i.e @gmail.com) email address.
Hence i believe it is necessary to have a knowledge of this important links attached to your Google account. Although they are in your account dashboard, but are hidden and may be very difficult to find. You can use these links to keep track of your activities and personal data on Google products and services, such as; YouTube, Google search, Gmail, Chrome and a bunch of others.
Here are the links/urls
>> Your Passwords:
Google keeps record of all the passwords and usernames you typed in when accessing any site using Google Chrome on your computer or andriod device. And you can view the list of all those passwords and usernames and the site you used them on with this link;
>> https://passwords.google.com
>> Your Ad Preferencies:
Google stores a data of all your activity on it's services/products and on other websites on the internet, they use these information to predict your kind of person, and use the information to serve you ads(advertisements), that is why they always deliver targeted ads on every adsense publisher's site. So you can use this link to see who google sees you as.
>> https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
>> Restore/Download/Import Your Files On Google Servers:
You can download your files and data on google servers to you device, including(but not limited to) your google photos, your contacts, gmail messages and your youtube videos. Use this link and head down to the take out page to grab you files;
>> https://www.google.com/takeout
>> Your Location History:
That your android device sometimes sends your loaction history and data to Google servers using the google maps on your device. It also reports if at present your walking or not and also how fast or slow you'r walking. So use the link below to view your location history stored on Google servers. And the data can also be exported and viewed on google earth or google drive as KML files.
>> https://maps.google.com/locationhistory
>> Create A new Google Account With A Different E-mail:
You can actually open another google account using another existing email address like kizito@askkizito.com instead of the regular @gmail.com. So use this link and get yourself another Google account with another existing email as your username.
>> https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
>> History Of All The Things You Have Searched On Google And Youtube:
Google keeps a data of all what you've ever searched on google and youtube, including all the youtube videos you've ever watched and all the google ads you've clicked on any website.
>> https://history.google.com
>> https://history.google.com/history/audio
>> https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
>> You Gmail Account Inactivity Status:
According to google program policies and terms of use, you need to login to your gmail account at least once every nine(9) months in order for it not to be closed. So if you have multiple gmail accounts, you can use this link to set a particular email as your trusted/primary email address, so you'll get a reminder on that account from Google to login to the rest of your gmail accounts.
>> https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive
>> Get A Log Of Your Login Activity On Your Google Account:
Are you worried that someone else may be using your Google account with you. Just use this link to check the log of all the devices that has been used to login to your account, the ip's used and their corresponding geographical location.
>> https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
>> Sites That Have Read/Write Permission(s) To Your Google Account:
Use this link below to get the list of sites, web apps and android apps that have a read/write permission to your Google account. And sites that you've used your Google account to sign-in to them.
>> https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
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