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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by gumby on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:27AM (#21453828)
Three months is a hilarious joke. The value of analytics data decays steeply; they let you delete the stuff that's not particularly valuable to them.

If Google actually cared about your privacy you'd be able to delete the info for shorter intervals, or even have it not stored at all.

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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by Spoom on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:32PM (#21454537)
They do. You can turn it off entirely in most (all?) cases.
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