<story><title>Finance information on Google</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/search/stay-top-finance-information-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>They just proved that Google never forgets anything, even when you do your best to remove&amp;#x2F;delete&amp;#x2F;erase&amp;#x2F;destroy your personal information.&lt;p&gt;I thoroughly and repeatedly deleted all stock-related information from my Google account: all portfolios removed, all search history erased, all past Google Now topics suppressed, past emails deleted, Google chat conversations removed. Just &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; (and I know really well how to control data on a Google account, I was once a Google fanboy and explored every little feature I could get my hand on, so customizing my Google account&amp;#x2F;products settings is something I&amp;#x27;m quite good at).&lt;p&gt;Guess what? Going to their new google.com&amp;#x2F;finance brought all the stocks I&amp;#x27;ve once added to Google Finance &lt;i&gt;and removed&lt;/i&gt;. More than a dozen of stock tickers were automatically added to my account, and listed as &amp;quot;following&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s impossible for me to completely delete my Google account because of some work-related obligations, but Google just proved that it will NEVER allow you to get forgotten.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re forced to feed a beast we can no longer escape.&lt;p&gt;PS: the only Google things I occasionally use now are Gmail &amp;amp; Google Contacts (planning to switch to ProtonMail, but waiting for a contact syncing service on Android) and search (when Qwant isn&amp;#x27;t good enough).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>Google Now had a separate list of stocks it would show you alerts for that differed from Google Finance. There was a way to manage that stock list from with Now.  Maybe the new Finance UI pulled stocks from that?&lt;p&gt;This is old, but shows the Now setting for stocks[0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;android.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;41357&amp;#x2F;how-do-i-remove-stocks-from-the-stock-card-settings-in-google-now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;android.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;41357&amp;#x2F;how-do-i-r...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Finance information on Google</title><url>https://www.blog.google/products/search/stay-top-finance-information-google/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rcMgD2BwE72F</author><text>They just proved that Google never forgets anything, even when you do your best to remove&amp;#x2F;delete&amp;#x2F;erase&amp;#x2F;destroy your personal information.&lt;p&gt;I thoroughly and repeatedly deleted all stock-related information from my Google account: all portfolios removed, all search history erased, all past Google Now topics suppressed, past emails deleted, Google chat conversations removed. Just &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; (and I know really well how to control data on a Google account, I was once a Google fanboy and explored every little feature I could get my hand on, so customizing my Google account&amp;#x2F;products settings is something I&amp;#x27;m quite good at).&lt;p&gt;Guess what? Going to their new google.com&amp;#x2F;finance brought all the stocks I&amp;#x27;ve once added to Google Finance &lt;i&gt;and removed&lt;/i&gt;. More than a dozen of stock tickers were automatically added to my account, and listed as &amp;quot;following&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s impossible for me to completely delete my Google account because of some work-related obligations, but Google just proved that it will NEVER allow you to get forgotten.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re forced to feed a beast we can no longer escape.&lt;p&gt;PS: the only Google things I occasionally use now are Gmail &amp;amp; Google Contacts (planning to switch to ProtonMail, but waiting for a contact syncing service on Android) and search (when Qwant isn&amp;#x27;t good enough).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>decasteve</author><text>I once tried blocking all Google domains from my hosts file. Every domain they own set to 0.0.0.0. It was fascinating to see how sites break because of this. The most annoying were logins and registrations failing because of recaptcha. And also embedded maps not being displayed, incorrect fonts, and sites just showing a blank white page when failing to render. That being said there was an noticeable boost in speed for most sites.</text></comment>