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Disclaimer: I work for Google. FYI - Google does offer a series of tools for you to manage your data. If you are signed in there is my activity[1], and takeou
by altgoogler 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google.
FYI - Google does offer a series of tools for you to manage your data. If you are signed in there is my activity[1], and takeout[2]. There are options to control targeted ads[3] and auto-delete location and activity data older than 3 months[4].
[1] myactivity.google.com
[2] takeout.google.com
[3] https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en
[4] https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatically-delete-data/ https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/automatic...
- wegs 6y agoDisclaimer: I've used these tools. Google is really good about takeout. It's really bad about maintaining my privacy. The opt-outs are limited in scope to the point of being almost meaningless. I don't mind ads being targeted as data being collected about me. Google's privacy tools are a joke. Google's security tools are a joke too. Google silently drops security support for Android phones after two years, and people unwittingly walk around with zero-day exploitable phones. Chromebooks are similar. If you want to maintain a secure Google Apps domain, you need to pay Google huge bucks. It benefits everyone, especially Google, if the Internet is safe, and Google's attitude here will come back to bite it.