Yes, it is prudent to do this. No, I do not believe that doing this stops Google/NSA from monitoring and tracking you.
“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.
Right. Despite the directions, others have said they are dummy controls. They do nothing except hide Google’s tracking from you.
As far as NSA goes. They do not “track” you, rather they record your electronic emissions. Recording is not the same thing as finding.
In a room with hundreds of people taking at once, a recorder may pick up all the sound - but finding an individual conversion is not so easy. Now multiply the difficulty by 8 billion, since NSA basically records all emissions worldwide - and that’s just for one period of one day.
Just do not use any form of electronic media and you are invisible to NSA.
“No, I do not believe that doing this stops Google/NSA from monitoring and tracking you.”
When I learned from my boss that General Dynamics was tracking my movements in the plant, I started leaving my RFID badge at my desk. Very embarrassed, my boss asked me why I’d been to the bathroom so many times last week. I said, “benign prostate hyperplasia. Would you like a doctor’s note?” But once I knew, I started leaving my badge at my desk and walking all the way across the plant to a bathroom that didn’t require me to access an electronically controlled door. The point is, if something can be done, it will be done.
People who go to riots or rob houses and carry their phones are idiots. I guarantee that every BLM rioter is known if they carry a phone. When a fellow employee was murdered in his house, the police simply got the records of all the cell phones at that address on the day in question. They had nailed the suspects, two black pimps and two underage white prostitutes, in mere hours. The girls testified against the pimps who went up for murder one.
Of course, some people are so stupid they photograph themselves committing the crimes and then post the videos on Tik Tok.
Same here - I wondered if Google’s OFF really does anything but provide a false sense of privacy.