Are you tired of having to type in your address every time you purchase online for delivery? Don’t want your home to be visible on your Google Maps reviews? Then these new settings in your Google account should help you.
Managing personal data on the Internet is complicated. We deposit them everywhere and all the time, every time we use any online service. While not all of them are necessarily critical, our geographic addresses are, however, particularly sensitive information, given the risks to which their disclosure may expose us. However, we must regularly provide our different addresses to properly take advantage of various services on the Web, whether it is making online purchases or obtaining personalized itineraries and relevant recommendations.
Google Account: new options for managing your addresses
Over time, it can become tedious to enter the same addresses over and over again on different forms, and difficult to remember exactly which ones you have provided in the past. Good news, if you mainly browse the Web through your Google account, whether through the Chrome browser or your Android smartphone, a new geographic address management function has just been added to your account settings by Google. The latter allows you to view, in the same place, all the addresses that you have previously used with your account, to modify them, delete them, add them or manage their confidentiality.
You can access this new address management tool from any device connected to your Google account, whether it’s a computer, smartphone or tablet. On computer, you can go to the address https://myaccount.google.com/ or open a Google service, such as Gmail or Maps, from your favorite browser, then click on your profile thumbnail at the top right and finally on Manage your Google account. On a mobile device, same principle, open any Google application, such as Maps or the Play Store, then click on your profile thumbnail at the top right and finally on Manage your Google account.
Once in your account settings, go to the tab Personal informations and scroll down the page until you find the section titled Addresses. If in the past you have already entered one or more geographic addresses in a service linked to Google, then all those recorded will appear here, divided into three categories. The addresses Residence And Work are completely confidential and are only visible to you. To make an address public if you wish, you will need to add it to the category Others then make it visible to other users on the page About mewhich you can access just below the section Addresses.
Once your different geographic addresses are saved in your Google account, you can then use them to automatically fill out online forms with the Chrome browser, which will save you valuable time. Note, however, that the registered addresses will also be used by Google to offer you suitable itineraries and recommendations for places to visit in Maps or more targeted advertising on the search engine, which may suit some and put off others, according to the needs of each person.