Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
by mattmanser on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:47PM
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Also try turning location off on your android phone so it only gets it when requested. The nagging, whining, breaking and pleading various google services do is confusing and annoying.
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If you revoke location permissions, Google still guesses it accurately, for me at least, "from your search history", as it says at the bottom of the search results page - even when you're not signed in (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/wU8EZUA). I wouldn't mind if they just used the IP address to locate me, but why use the search history? If I wanted Google to know my exact location, I wouldn't have revoked the permissions for it.
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
by bhnmmhmd on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:58PM
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Also, try to visit google.com by Edge/Safari/Firefox. It keeps nagging why you're not using Chrome and shows the banner constantly.
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
by haZard_OS on Sunday April 22, 2018 @09:59PM
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I have been using FF Nightly on Android for quite some time. In addition, I have uninstalled or disabled every Google app I can find on my device. Last year, I switched to unlimited mobile data and (almost) never use WiFi, even when easily available. I use DDG instead of Google.
Consequently, I am never nagged by Google apps or social media apps. I just don't have any problems like what I hear other people experience. Particularly amusing is seeing that my inferred location is way off.
Re:After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?
by mattmanser on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:39AM
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Yeah, I've switched to DDG on my mobile too as a result.