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Google Location History is privacy friendly now. It was just recently changed a month or two ago and it no longer works in the way the article describes. The hi
by modeless 2y ago
Google Location History is privacy friendly now. It was just recently changed a month or two ago and it no longer works in the way the article describes. The history data is now stored on your phone. Cloud backups are optional and default off and always end-to-end encrypted if enabled, so your location history database is not ever accessible to any Google server. Google made this change in response to issues like the ones described in this article.
- krackers 2y ago>not ever accessible to any google server How can they use it for ad targeting then?
- modeless 2y agoThey can't, obviously. Is this some kind of trick question? Your location can be used for ad targeting in other contexts. For example if you granted location permission to google.com in your browser, Google gets your location at the time you do a query and uses it both to provide relevant results and to target ads. And if you have search history on, I assume that location snapshot would be saved along with the query in search history, which Google can see. But the comprehensive and much more detailed "Location History" that is collected constantly in the background (when enabled) can't be seen by Google anymore.