{"id":68876,"date":"2022-04-22T10:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=68876"},"modified":"2023-02-21T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:59:32","slug":"how-to-delete-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete your Google account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to remove yourself from the internet | #AskFirefox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZBYwK4kvIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google\u2019s share <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/216573\/worldwide-market-share-of-search-engines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">of the global search market stands at about 85%<\/a>. While the tech giant will likely continue to loom large over our lives, from search to email to our calendars, we can delete inactive or unnecessary Google accounts. Here\u2019s how to do that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/data-and-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/myaccount.google.com\/data-and-privacy<\/a> and scroll down to your <strong>data &amp; privacy options<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on <strong>more options<\/strong> &gt; <strong>delete your Google account<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter your password and hit <strong>delete account<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/32046?hl=en\"><em>More information from Google<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With our lives so online, our digital space can get messy with inactive and unnecessary accounts \u2014 and forgetting about them can pose a security risk. You\u2019ll be off to a good start with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts\/\">our one-stop shop for deleting online accounts<\/a>, but it\u2019s far from exhaustive. So here\u2019s a bonus tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for Firefox Monitor.<\/a> It alerts you when your data shows up in any breaches, including on websites that you\u2019ve forgotten giving your information to. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s share of the global search market stands at about 85%. While the tech giant will likely continue to loom large over our lives, from search to email to our calendars, we can delete inactive or unnecessary Google accounts. Here\u2019s how to do that: More information from Google With our lives so online, our digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1889,"featured_media":68780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461998],"tags":[],"coauthors":[464117],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to delete your Google account<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While the tech giant will likely continue to loom large over our lives, from search to email to our calendars, we can delete inactive or unnecessary Google accounts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/how-to-delete-google\/\" \/>\n<script 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