Changing these settings will allow for safer and more comfortable browsing.
Perform a security check
When we browse with Google Chrome, we are led to enter passwords, bank details or other personal information. Malicious people can try to get their hands on all this information through various methods. To avoid this, Google Chrome allows you to run a security check.
Go to your Chrome settings and then go to the “Privacy and security” section.
When you click “check now”, Chrome will check for updates, passwords that could be compromised, or potentially harmful extensions.
clean computer
Still in the Chrome settings, you can also clean up your computer. To do this, you need to go to the “Reset and Clean” section.
By clicking “Clean up computer”, Chrome will look for possible malicious software or programs. You will then have access to a log of what was found and you can decide whether or not to remove certain software.
Clear your browser history
Browsing history is an important source of information and provides accurate information about our various travels. Some rightly don’t want to be tracked and spied on, but luckily Chrome offers the option to delete that browsing history.
Newly created Google accounts already have automatic deletion enabled. However, if your Google account is more than two years old, you have to do it manually. To do this, you need to go to the “Activity controls” section, scroll down the screen and press “Auto clear – off”.
You will be able to delete your internet activity that is older than: 3 months, 18 months or 36 months.
Block third-party cookies
Most sites offer us to accept or decline cookies. However, there is another type of cookie (third party cookies) that are placed on us. These third-party cookies are not connected to the site consulted, but to other sites that use them to follow our various Internet browsing. Quite invasive as a practice.
However, it is possible to block these third-party cookies. To do this, you must go to the “Privacy and security” section and then click on “Cookies and other site data”.
This will allow you to block third-party cookies.
Block pop-ups
Pop-ups are often very invasive. You are browsing the Internet calmly when an advertisement or a request to subscribe to a newsletter appears. You can install an extension that fixes the problem, but you can also access the settings to block pop-ups. To do this, you must go to the “Privacy and security” section and then to the “Site settings” section. You will then come across “Pop-ups and Redirects”.
You will have the choice between allowing and blocking pop-ups.
Manage permissions
Often a site asks us to have access to different things: the microphone, the webcam, sending notifications or your location. Over the years we no longer know which permissions we have granted to which sites. This can be viewed in the “Privacy and Security” section. Once you are in this section, go to “Site Settings”.
On the one hand you will have access to the list of sites to which you have granted certain permissions and on the other you will be able to modify these permissions (block access to the webcam for this site, refuse access to the microphone for this another site, etc.) .
turn off notifications
The appearance of a notification can sometimes completely interrupt your browsing experience. To avoid this kind of inconvenience, you can turn off notifications. To do this, go to the “Privacy and security” section and then to the “Site settings” section. Once you are there, click on “Notifications”.
You will have the choice between three options.
Stop apps running in the background
Even when Chrome is closed, some tasks continue in the background, including the ability to find new updates. This consumes energy and can, to some extent and in the long run, affect the battery. However, these background tasks can be blocked in the settings. To do this, you need to go to the “System” category and you will come across “Continue running background applications after closing Google Chrome”
Sliding the button to the left will stop background apps from running in Chrome.
Stop communicating data from Google
For performance reasons, Google Chrome collects a variety of information about your browsing and identifies bugs to fix them. However, you are under no obligation to allow Google to collect information about you and incorporate it into reports. To avoid this, you need to go to the “You and Google” section and then to the “Google Services/Sync” section. You will then come across a whole series of authorization requests from Google: “automatically send usage statistics and error reports to Google”, “send the URLs of the pages you visit to Google” or again “to correct errors spelling, Chrome sends the text you type in your browser to Google”.
So many intrusive practices that can now be blocked.
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