Turning off Google tracking
#1
Turning off Google tracking
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ation-tracking
What is to be gained? I'm not on the run from any of the world's security services so I don't have any reason to be wary of logging on to an account or using my credit card to pay for a flight to Brazil and I don't have a cell phone so that can't be tracked either.
I do have some top secret information that I downloaded from a CIA computer onto a thumbdrive but I don't think they know that. Yet.
What is to be gained? I'm not on the run from any of the world's security services so I don't have any reason to be wary of logging on to an account or using my credit card to pay for a flight to Brazil and I don't have a cell phone so that can't be tracked either.
I do have some top secret information that I downloaded from a CIA computer onto a thumbdrive but I don't think they know that. Yet.
#2
Re: Turning off Google tracking
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ation-tracking
What is to be gained? I'm not on the run from any of the world's security services so I don't have any reason to be wary of logging on to an account or using my credit card to pay for a flight to Brazil and I don't have a cell phone so that can't be tracked either.
I do have some top secret information that I downloaded from a CIA computer onto a thumbdrive but I don't think they know that. Yet.
What is to be gained? I'm not on the run from any of the world's security services so I don't have any reason to be wary of logging on to an account or using my credit card to pay for a flight to Brazil and I don't have a cell phone so that can't be tracked either.
I do have some top secret information that I downloaded from a CIA computer onto a thumbdrive but I don't think they know that. Yet.
Isn't this about people who dislike adverts on websites generally, so it's an attempt to thwart localised ads? I see that the article refers to personalised services, but I'll wager that it all comes down to the lucrative advertising.
#3
Re: Turning off Google tracking
I've looked at BE with adblocker disabled, out of curiosity, and it seems subject related rather than locale. The Guardian displays Moncton weather but I find that useful and I believe that's down to my registration with the site anyway.
There is one website that I am working my way through missed Simpsons episodes on and at the bottom are things like Asian girls keen to meet mature men and sometimes it will mention Moncton, but I suspect that if I enabled my VPN or turned off those google things mentioned, those seductive ads would still be there, but maybe not mentioning Moncton occasionally. It wouldn't make the slightest difference as I don't imagine the woman 40 years younger than me would be interested regardless of where we both lived.
Last edited by BristolUK; Aug 14th 2018 at 12:36 pm.
#4
Re: Turning off Google tracking
Yes, they work nicely for me.
I just tried to PM you on a related matter, but I can't find a way to include a screenshot that might be of interest, I only get invited to use a URL.
I'll ask about this in the Site Feedback area.
I just tried to PM you on a related matter, but I can't find a way to include a screenshot that might be of interest, I only get invited to use a URL.
I'll ask about this in the Site Feedback area.
#5
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Joined: Apr 2009
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Re: Turning off Google tracking
You can't - you never have been able to send images in PM's although you can include a link to one, of course.
#8
Re: Turning off Google tracking
Although I can see the reason for not allowing it. After all, people might end up swapping photos of lawnmowers or tea-towels and goodness knows what other stuff.
#12
Re: Turning off Google tracking
It is a bit weird though, having that location by location history to your life logged in black and white. I briefly checked my file and flipped back a few years ago and literally every movement was on there. And yet, I feel compelled to keep it on.
#13
Re: Turning off Google tracking
Sounds like a good alibi source. Unless you really are the guilty party.
#14
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Joined: Jan 2006
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Re: Turning off Google tracking
That's always been on my mind when I think about tracking and phones, more difficult to be wrongly accused your phone has been tracking your movements.
I've seen too many crime shows where people have been convicted without having committed the crime only to be found not guilty 20+ years later........Had they had some sort of proof of where they actually were, they may not have been convicted in the first place.
#15
Re: Turning off Google tracking
That's always been on my mind when I think about tracking and phones, more difficult to be wrongly accused your phone has been tracking your movements.
I've seen too many crime shows where people have been convicted without having committed the crime only to be found not guilty 20+ years later........Had they had some sort of proof of where they actually were, they may not have been convicted in the first place.
I've seen too many crime shows where people have been convicted without having committed the crime only to be found not guilty 20+ years later........Had they had some sort of proof of where they actually were, they may not have been convicted in the first place.