On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/13/2018 07:41 PM, Steven Schear wrote: >> https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb/AP-Exclusive:-Google-tracks-your-movements,-like-it-or-not > > Google tracks my movements? Not yet, anyway. > > The cell tower networks do track my movements
And dump them straight into your government's databases. > except when I leave my > $25.00 mobile phone behind or pull its battery. But Google? Not so > much. Every so often they know when I was "at home" because I > voluntarily accessed one of their server farms. Otherwise not. > Google Analytics and the ubiquitous "G+" links on a vast array of > websites, do not track my web browsing - one has uBlock Legacy and > NoScript to attend to that, respectively blocking all outbound requests > to blacklisted domains, and all outbound requests for Javascript except > where and as whitelisted. > > The few occasions when Google does 'see' me on the networks, result from > voluntarily revealing my existence when accessing YouTube videos, and > occasional contact with a GMail account (via Thunderbird, not a web > browser) which I use as a spam trap and offsite backup server for > encrypted credentials logs and the like. > > :o) Generally beware web bugs, supercookies, TLS session metadata.
