The iPhone trick to prevent Google from spying on you

If you do not want Google to spy on you, pay attention to this small adjustment that you must make on your iPhone.

Google makes the vast majority of its revenue from targeted advertising to users. This is achieved by creating a profile with our internet searches to offer us personalized ads on the different websites we visit. But nevertheless, with a small adjustment of the we can limit the amount of data that Google collects About us.

Change the default search engine

If you want Google not to know anything about you and to stop spying on what you are looking for on the Internet, we recommend that you change the search engine your iPhone uses. Safari uses the Google search engine by default, in exchange for a hefty amount of money, but users are free to choose the search engine that we like best.

For change search engine of the iPhone, or the iPad, you just have to follow these steps:

1. Go into Settings of your iPhone.
2. Go down and tap on Safari.
3. In the Search section, tap on Seeker.
4. Select one of the other four options.

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What search engines does iOS offer?

In addition to using the Google search engine, Apple offers us other 4 very interesting search engines to use in Safari, most of them do not collect all the data that Google collects. These are the options:

• Yahoo. One of the best known options that comes from a brand with a long history on the internet.
• Bing. It is the Microsoft search engine, it is interesting especially if it is the one you use on your Windows computer.
• DickDuckGo. A search engine that emphasizes privacy and not logging user information.
• Ecosia. A search engine that donates approximately 80% of the income to different non-profit organizations around the world related to reforestation.

How to delete your house from Apple Maps and Google Maps

no one doubts that Google offers the best search engine, however the price to pay may not please everyone. We will have to transfer part of our data to Google to enjoy its search engine. But fortunately, if you don’t want to, there are alternatives that make more responsible use of our data and offer us an extra point of privacy. Now it is you who decides.

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