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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by jonathanyc on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:46PM (#16181805)
And I tried to turn the creepy Google Maps prompts off but could not. Why should these be opt-out —- should others be tricked into sacrificing their privacy for your convenience?
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by khedoros1 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:03PM (#16182842)
I found them buried in some menus that I didn't see last time I tried to opt out. Settings->Notifications->Your Contributions. There were about a dozen things that I decided to turn off, in addition to my previous choices regarding deletion of my location history, home address, etc.
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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by jonathanyc on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:53PM (#16206337)
Neat, thanks. Wow, I didn’t think to look in “Notifications”—-was looking for things labeled “Location Settings” or things like that. “Your Contributions” is a very dystopian name :)
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