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Google has your location either way. What difference does it make?
by amazingamazing 7mo ago
Google has your location either way. What difference does it make?
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo agoYou can lock down their usage. Limit it to three months storage and minimize sharing. They still report an old address for home and work for me since I dialed up the restrictions years ago. They have the data but it is less exposed.
- amazingamazing 7mo agoI honestly don’t understand the scenario you’re defending against. Google still knows where you actually live and work trivially. If you don’t trust Google you should just de-Google completely.
- lukan 7mo agoI also don't trust my government. So should I just degovernment completely? Sounds just as practical or realistic for most people.
- amazingamazing 7mo agoYou’re saying moving on from Google is similar to switching government?
- lukan 7mo agoIn a way, yes, as google de facto governs and controls much of the internet.
- Jtarii 7mo agoSwitching government and deleting google are probably on the same order of magnitude of difficulty for most people.
- bornfreddy 7mo agoHave you tried moving on from Google, and preferably not to Apple?
- amazingamazing 7mo agoYes, it’s trivial. What are you having difficulty with? There are plenty of threads here on HN about this
- autoexec 7mo agoIf you think it's trivial you must not be paying attention. You cannot keep your data from Google. Government websites include google tracking. Google drives past your house to take photos and sniff your wifi traffic. Your employer hands your data over to google. Your doctor hands your data over to google. Your bank hands your data over to google. You can limit how much you actively and voluntarily give them, but you can't free yourself from them entirely and still function in society.
- bornfreddy 7mo agoTrivial? Ha! Way to say that you never tried it. Either that, or that you don't care for things like push notifications. Yes, most of the things work, but not nearly all of them.
- shibapuppie 7mo ago"Just move" seems to be a pretty popular sentiment, in that scenario.
- autoexec 7mo agoAs if the government doesn't monitor both non-citizens and ex-citizens living in other countries too.
- lxgr 7mo agoNot GGP, but I suppose the general idea is: Granting permanent location permission to maps.google.com seems a bit more privacy preserving than granting it to *.google.com, assuming one opens maps significantly less often than e.g. GMail, search etc.