DON'T WATCH YouTube UNTIL YOU CHANGE THESE SETTINGS

0:00 don't watch YouTube until we change these settings. The thing is that when we go to YouTube on our phone or computer, YouTube tracks us. For example, it tracks what video we watch, how long we watch them, what we search for, what device we use, our location when we go to YouTube and more. This information is stored on Google servers because Google owns YouTube. Google says it doesn't sell this information, but it uses it to show us personalized ads. So, if you don't want this and you care about your privacy, watch this video until the end. I will show you how to turn it off. Welcome to my channel and let's dive in. Open YouTube app on your phone. After this, tap on your profile photo, then tap on Google account.

0:49 here. Scroll down a little bit and select data and privacy. Then scroll down to my ad center and tap on that. This feature collects information about us to show us personalized advertising. Here you can see what information has already been collected about you. If you don't want this, you can turn this off. Next to personalized ads, tap on this button. and tap turn off. Then tap guar. That's all. Next, tap back. Then scroll up and select YouTube history. Then scroll down a little bit. This feature saves your search history

1:35 and the videos you have watched. You can either turn off this feature completely by clicking the turn off button or you can choose exactly what you want to hide. For example, you can stop YouTube from saving your watched videos or search queries. After you disable this feature, your search history will not be shown. If you want to keep this feature on, so your search history is still shown, then you should enable automatic data deletion. Scroll down a little bit and tap deletion activity. Here, select three months and tap next. Then tap confirm and tap it. Next step back and select timeline. Scroll down a little bit. This function

2:22 records your location. It tracks where you have been and this information is used for advertising for example or for statistics on the number of visitors to different places. This function drains the battery quite a lot since GPS is used to determinize the location. To turn this off, tap this button and tap turn off. Then tap guard. Then tap back and scroll down to third party apps and services. Tap on that. Then scroll down a little bit. Here is a list of services and sites that you have logged into using your Google account which is also used on YouTube. Review and delete services that you will no

3:07 longer use since these services have access to information from your account. And if this list contains services that you logged into a long time ago and will not use them further, then delete them from this list. To delete, tap on service, for example, this. Then scroll down and tap delete all connections and confirm it. That's all I wanted to share with you. If you found this video helpful, please like, subscribe, and click the bell so you don't miss new helpful videos. Thanks to everyone supporting my channel. I really appreciate it. If you'd like to support us, well, you can do so via the link in the description. Thanks for watching.