Posted on 01/02/2022 4:06:45 PM PST by Libloather
Do you use any of Google's apps? If so, you're probably being tracked. Even if you turned off location history on your Google account, you're not completely in the clear yet. While disabling that setting sounds like a one-and-done solution, some Google apps are still storing your location data. Just opening the Google Maps app or using Google search on any platform logs your approximate location with a time stamp.
Following a 2018 investigation by the Associated Press, however, Google has made it easier to control what location and other data is saved, and what is deleted with features like Your Data in Maps and Search, which give you quick access to your location controls. You just have to know where to look.
**SNIP**
Turn off Google's location tracking To completely shut down Google's ability to log your location, here's what to do:
1. Open Google.com on your desktop or mobile browser, and log into your Google account by using the button in the top right corner.
2. Click your user icon in the top right corner and select Manage your Google account.
3. Click Privacy & personalization.
4. Click Things you've done and places you've been.
5. Click Location history inside the History settings box. This opens Activity Controls.
6. Beneath Location History, click the button on the right that reads Turn off. This opens a pop-up window.
7. Scroll to the bottom of this window and click Pause.
What does this stop Google from storing? Pausing this setting prevents Google from storing location markers associated with specific actions and stops storing information collected from searches or other activity. Turning it off keeps your approximate location private and other places you go -- like your home address.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
B4l
Yes, it is prudent to do this. No, I do not believe that doing this stops Google/NSA from monitoring and tracking you.
Isn’t the best course NOT to have a Google account at all?
Or:
Don’t use Google.
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That’s where I’m at. I, for example, stopped being active on YouTube at all simply because to continue would require a Google account.
Bkmk
You just think you're not using Google.
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“Yes, it is prudent to do this. No, I do not believe that doing this stops Google/NSA from monitoring and tracking you”.
From what I’ve read, you are correct.
Thanks. I turned off my location and activity tracking in Google a long time ago. I just verified that they are off — they are and there are no activity / location tracks.
I do keep my YouTube history going as I find it useful to find old videos I watched.
I spent nearly a day once searching through my computer deleting anything remotely Google- or Chrome for that matter.
Unfortunately it doesn’t stop it for your web browser. Every time you hit a site with hidden Google 3rd party API scripts it loads tracking ware in your browser and follows you everywhere you go on the net in real time. And not just google...
Huh? Never have.
Smelled it early on, Google is Evil.
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“You just think you’re not using Google. “
Yep see #16. Google is EVERYWHERE.
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