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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by Siemer on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:57PM (#16181374)
Meh. Open Google Maps (the app responsible for all of these notifications). Go to settings > notifications > your contributions. Turn off everything. Done. It's just one app being a bit too nosy. Nothing like the OS that tried to silently re-enable the privacy settings I turned off in an update.
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by wand3r on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:39PM (#16181740)
The article seemed to mention that they took this step and the notifications seemed to migrate to google search. I dont use android and may have misunderstood but that behavior wouldnt surprise me and I suspect either way the information is being logged.
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