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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by alyandon on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:37AM (#24826226)
What data? The location history feature in only on briefly while you are setting your Home location and once you turn it off again it stops collecting it. You also can go into your Google account and verify what information (if any) was collected in that window and delete it if you really feel that strongly about it.

This is really just Google using hostile UX to badger people into enabling location history and (in their eyes - hopefully) leaving it on.

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by nuker on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:04AM (#24838142)
Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by alyandon on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:49PM (#24850274)
That's distinctly different than the location/web history that Google pesters you to enable in order to set the Home location.
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