I am currently in the process of cleaning my Google account, I've done takeout three times, however I would like to keep my youtube account with uploads I made and my gmail, since I occasionally still do get emails to it. I'd only prefer to clean years of google searches, activity and whatnot, I was a long time Chrome user with all data saving enabled... Recently I read about geofencing and how much data google collects and how they received a warrant to catch people, honestly it's really shocking how much data is collected and while mine is mostly just useless, it's just random life stuff, redditing, reading news, watching vids and studying etc, I'd still appreciate to have my privacy...

I'd just like to remove the "My Google Activity" that is searches, bookmarks, history and stuff like that. They do provide a way to remove it, but the question arises, is it truly removed? And you don't get any guarantee it's indeed removed. As opposed to GDPR removal request. Though it seems that they react to GDPR removal harshly and accept it and then terminate your entire account. Lol.

Edit:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465

When you delete data, we follow a policy to safely and completely remove it from your account. First, deleted activity is immediately removed from view and no longer used to personalize your Google experience. Then, we begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems.

Even when activity is deleted, some data about your use of Google services may be kept for the life of your Google Account. For example, after you delete a search from My Activity, your account will store the fact that you searched for something, but not what you searched for.

Sometimes we retain certain information for an extended period of time to meet specific business needs or legal requirements. When you delete your Google Account, much of this information is also removed.

q. begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems

no proof or gurantee or timescale for this + they say they're obliged to keep it for some time, but didn't specify for how long, etc...

Using Windows laptop.

I'm about to pay the monthly subscription for Google products (running out of the 15 GB!). The "My activity" option popped up during the payment process. My Activity states:

"The activity you keep helps Google make services more useful for you, like helping you rediscover the things you've searched for, read, and watched.

You can see and delete your activity using the controls on this page."

Here is my question: Can I limit which "My activities" I put on auto-delete? For example, I'd like to auto delete things I've searched for, read, and watched. However, i do not want to auto delete history and things I search for via "Maps". I don't see an option for picking and choosing.

https://myactivity.google.com/