To ensure you understand the implications of each control, Google’s Chrome browser has launched a new Privacy Guide on desktop. It’s basically a one-stop shop that walks you through tightening your privacy in a step-by-step fashion.

Google Chrome Privacy Guide helps tighten your privacy

Google has built quite a few privacy protections and related controls into its Chrome browser. And with the various settings getting more and more granular over time, it’s become difficult to get users to keep up with every new addition or tweak.

To solve that problem, Google’s Safety Engineering Center has created a step-by-step guided tour that walks you through the privacy and security settings in Chrome, letting you manage various settings and options. According to the announcement onGoogle’s The Keyword blog, the redesign ensures the controls are “even easier to find and understand, with simplified language and visuals.”

A lifestyle photograph showing a young male from behind, sitting in front of a MacBook Pro with the Chrome browser running on the Google search page

What you can do with Chrome’s Privacy Guide

Here’s how it works:

The tour includes helpful explanations of each setting’s implications so you can make informed choices about the kind of security and privacy you want from desktop Chrome. In one instance, for example, you’re cautioned that turning on browsing history sync will save URLs of the websites you visit to your Google account.

All things considered, there are many settings to sift through so take your time. And don’t sweat about taking the whole tour at once. “Your changes are saved along the way, so you can pick it back up whenever works best for you,” Google notes.

An animated GIG displaying the various controls and settings in Google Chrome’s Privacy Guide tour

How to use the Privacy Guide in Google Chrome

Start the Privacy Guide from the “Privacy and security” tab in your Chrome settings.

Google has sharedthis GIF to show how the Privacy Guide works.

Currently, the Privacy Guide provides controls for browsing history sync, cookies, Safe Browsing and Make Searches and Browsing Better. Google says that more settings could be added over time.

I don’t see the Privacy Guide in my Chrome

Google says the Privacy Guide will be released in stages to all users of Chrome for Mac, Windows and Linux over the coming weeks. If you don’t see the guide in the “Privacy and security” tab of your Chrome settings, then the feature hasn’t been rolled out for you yet. Check back in a few days. The Privacy Guide requires Chrome version 100 or above. Read:How to set Google Chrome to autofill passwords