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.
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And to think that Google's motto used to be "Don't do Evil".
And don’t post on FR cuz Google indexes new threads very quickly.
Close, you can use it, but just the calls, text, camera, hardware do dads like flashlight. And you can download and use a different browser and search engine so that you can use the net. But to have any other apps or install apps you do have to attach a Google account to the phone. This is how mine is set up, I don’t miss the apps at all anyhow. And it still does what I need done. :)
I don’t care if they follow me. Well, except when I visit the Runway 69 Cabaret.
Bkmk.
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You are not wrong. Everything is made far more difficult without one, and the vast majority of features require it. Like, y’know, calling people.
That’s been my experience with mine. I had Windows until my phone, literally, died. The battery overheated regularly and damaged the internals.
Possibly in the beginning the Google founders had good intentions but they seemed to quickly find a path on the road to hell.
>If you are going to use an Android phone and you want to install any apps of any kind you have to have a gmail account.
False. You can allow your phone to install apps from F-Droid or APK Pure, or install Aurora and can install apps from Google Play store, without having a Google account, it will even update apps you installed when you did have a Google account or even if you never did.
Thanks. I haven’t been able to get around having an account. I will give it a try.
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And your microphone doesn’t listen to you because you told it not to.
>Thanks. I haven’t been able to get around having an account. I will give it a try.
Aurora is your best bet for a Google Play store replacement, it can be found at the play store ironically. APK Pure and F-Droid are really for open source apps, may of which are pretty good, some of which are meh. Good luck
VPN?
If that’s true, then it is the reason I’d never own an Android phone.
Or: Don’t use Google.
You just think you’re not using Google.
BINGO!
Thanks a million!
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