DF reader Brian Ashe sent this, correctly pointing out that it pretty much nails Google’s approach to turning off location tracking <https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/13/ap-google-location-history>.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/13/douglas-adams-plans On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/13/2018 07:41 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > > https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0e > cb/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 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) > > > > > >
