Help with Chrome navigator on Android

[Atrapa Almas]

Hello, today my android chrome navigator decided to add shorcuts from my historical searchs:

As I dont like it, I manually deleted them. But when I enter again in the chrome app, it restores a new set of 4 shorcuts...

Do any of you knows how to get rid of this "new automatic unwanted feature"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Judge]

With those links and behavior, it might be the google chrome popup virus on android. You might want to approach it from that direction rather than assume it's a legitimate feature of Google.

Although at times it may be difficult to tell the two apart in terms of what really constitutes malware.

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/smartphones/how-to-fix-the-google-chrome-pop-up-virus-on-android/

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Use Firefox or Duck Duck Go.

 

[mysterionz]

Use Firefox or Duck Duck Go.

Duck duck go is amazing

 

[Judge]

I suspect most of this audience no longer even uses Google's search engine/browser for the same reason.

We don't like our privacy flagrantly violated. Legitimately or not...

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Thank you,

I just unistalled my last downloaded app (from G Store), re initiated, also downloaded Karspesky antivirus that found nothing.

 

[Atrapa Almas]

Ok, im writting from DuckDuckgo.

Thanks, will keep trying it.

 

[Judge]

You might move onto attempting to block those popups using the browser itself. But yeah, best to avoid Google Chrome altogether.

https://www.howtogeek.com/411439/how-to-allow-or-block-popups-in-chrome/#autotoc_anchor_1

 

[Atrapa Almas]

You might move onto attempting to block those popups using the browser itself. But yeah, best to avoid Google Chrome altogether.

https://www.howtogeek.com/411439/how-to-allow-or-block-popups-in-chrome/#autotoc_anchor_1

Thanks, they are not pop ups, but links of my previous searchs on the browser.

 

[Judge]

Listed previous searches?

Try this...straight from Google. Just not sure if that it is relevant to the Android platform. <?>

Stop saving activity completely
You can prevent searches, browsing history, and most other activity from being saved to your account:

1. On your computer, go to Activity controls.
2. Turn off the activity you don’t want to save.

You may delete the previous history:

Delete all activity

1. On your computer, go to your Google Account.
2. On the top left navigation panel, click Data & personalization.
3. On the Activity and timeline panel, click My Activity.
4. At the top right of the page, click the More icon
   
   .
5. Click Delete activity by.
6. Below "Delete by date," click the Down arrow
   
   and select All time.
7. Click Delete.

If you need further help Pls visit the Google Accounts Help Forum.

https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/2945571?hl=en&msgid=2952283
If it works, hope you uninstall that browser.