Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by andrepd on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:13PM (#19809461)

uBlock with dynamic filtering takes care of that for me, but I recognise it isn't practical for >95% of internet users.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by the_duke on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:09PM (#19810046)

I use uMatrix, but the amount of sites where you need to allow Google domains and cookies for reCaptcha to work is depressing.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by andrepd on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:21PM (#19810196)

And then you will be "punished" for being off the grid, and the images will take 8 seconds to fade out and fade in...

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by luckylion on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:34PM (#19810338)

Glad I'm not the only one hating this. Especially with lots of captchas in a row it's super annoying - "yeah, it's the same browser, same cookie, same IP, doing the tenth captcha in 10 minutes, all previous tests succeeded ... better make sure to look extra closely and slow it down".

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by Simon_says on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:56PM (#19812816)

I've experienced this too. Are you saying Google's algorithms know (or at least strongly suspect) I'm human but throttle me anyways because I've taken steps to protect my privacy? Out of spite?

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by judge2020 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:31PM (#19814036)

Probably not, the issue is that headless browser bots take the same precautions of preventing Google knows anything about them as you and other privacy-conscious users do.

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