Choose your privacy settings

You can improve your browsing experience with privacy settings. For example, when you visit a web page, Chrome can use a web service to automatically load pages based on the page’s links.

Most of these settings are turned on by default, but you can choose which you'd like to turn on or off.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  3. At the bottom, click Advanced
  4. Under "Privacy and security," choose what settings to turn off.
    • To control how Chrome handles content and permissions for a site, click Site settings.
    • To delete information from your browsing activity, like your history, cookies, or saved passwords, click Clear browsing data.

Learn about each privacy option from the list below:

  • Preload pages for faster browsing and searching: Browsers use an IP address to load a webpage. When you visit a webpage, Chrome can look up the IP addresses of all the page's links and load the ones you might navigate to next. If you turn this setting on, websites and any embedded content that are preloaded can set and read their own cookies as if you had visited them, even if you don't. 
  • Allow sites to check if you have payment methods saved: If you've saved payment methods to Chrome, you can let Chrome offer your saved info to make filling out forms easier. Learn more about how to fill out forms automatically

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