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No, that's a setting in your Google account and not in the browser. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts
by sp332 6y ago
No, that's a setting in your Google account and not in the browser. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en
- nerdponx 6y agoThat Q&A is very careful to avoid stating that location data is not sent to Google when "location history" is turned off. You really think that by flipping a switch on your account page, they are going to start discarding some of the data they are sent from client devices?
- tesseract 6y agoBut would people necessarily associate "I gave Chrome the OS-level location permission, so I could enable location on <non-Google website>" with Chrome itself tracking the location and connecting it to a Google account?
- loveistheanswer 6y agoHow do we know if turning off that setting actually does stop location tracking, considering what we know about Google's past history? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-location-tracking-android-iphone-mobile https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
- tobasq 6y agoI have long ago turned all of Google's activity tracking preferences off and erased the existing activity, yet once in a while some Google service reveals to me that it knows something it shouldn't.
- nofunsir 6y agoSame. Also, why must all the services attempt to guilt me into turning it back on?
- stonesweep 6y agoGoogle Takeout is a good way to find out all the things you thought you deleted, but are still hanging around on their servers. Even stupid banner photos from PicasaWeb and G+ 8 years ago were buried in my Takeout that I had zero access to see or delete, but they were there (and probably still are).