Limiting Google’s tracking
I’m not especially good at this sort of thing, but I’m planning to study this article about how to adjust your settings so that Google doesn’t track you quite as assiduously.
The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
I just checked, and except for youtube searches I had nothing. Probably because I use duckduckgo for my search engine.
It’s not only google:
[quote]It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.[/quote]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-middle-night-do-you-know-who-your-iphone-is-talking/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.900f31f0620d
The list of “free” apps in the article that are constantly transmitting your information is frightening.
It’s not just Apple, of course. “Google won’t even let Disconnect’s tracker-protection software into its Play Store. “
I switched to the Brave browser which is blocking about 1,000 ads per day for me. I also don’t have a smart phone.
You can turn it off, and you should.
That was useful. I had forgotten that I had created a Google account years ago and quit using it shortly thereafter. It only took me about 10 to 15 minutes to find and use the 4 or 5 step process to delete the account.
Brave will block most ads. Actually, it’s probably all ads.
The best commercial sites can do is to stop you from browsing the website until you white list them for ads.
As for google, the worst spy is Alexis and the mobile AIs. Google just collects meta data. It’s a data mining op the Special Forces were good at before Google was a thing. Collect meta data, connect the dots, find the High Value Targets, and kill them. Easy.
This sounds incredibly naive. The message used to be something like, “Turn off personalized advertising.” That didn’t mean that the tracking stopped, it only meant that you didn’t see the obvious evidence of the tracking.
Google’s business, their only business, is getting into your business. Do you actually think that they would allow you to erase their source of income? You can delete only the copy that you can see. Do you actually think that they would allow you to tamper with the underlying data set?
Mike-SMO:
Simply put, no.