The Google timeline has surprisingly missed a log places that I have been. They are either not telling me about it, or they don't store everywhere I go.
https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
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#12I'm more interested in what they collect about me that they're not showing on a user-friendly dashboard.
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#13Took advantage to go onto Google and give it even more info on what ads they should (and should not) show me. That's probably not what the Guardian expected/wanted me to do. I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here.
> I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here. So how do you send private messages? Carrier pigeon? Even Signal uses the internet, after all.
Maybe you don't? Pretty hard to guarantee at any given time anything you do or say is "private", internet or not.
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#14It's okay, I only use Incognito mode.
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#15I'm more interested in what they collect about me that they're not showing on a user-friendly dashboard.
+ what do they collect when you are not logged in.
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#16Took advantage to go onto Google and give it even more info on what ads they should (and should not) show me. That's probably not what the Guardian expected/wanted me to do. I may be alone in this, but I expect that everything I do on the Internet is done in public. Nothing new here.
Interesting, I won’t do that because I find targeted ads harder to ignore.
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#17I feel a disclaimer that The Guardian uses Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager on the site to track you and help Google further track you should probably be added to a scaremongering article about Google tracking the user.
I feel most technical people are aware of the level of tracking going on. The more privacy concerned do what they can to mitigate it.
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#18My google activity history, youtube search/watch history, and location history are all completely empty because I've disabled all of it. I would recommend going through the privacy checkup[0] to control what does and doesn't get saved.
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#19"The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents" What does this even mean?
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#20The Google timeline has surprisingly missed a log places that I have been. They are either not telling me about it, or they don't store everywhere I go. https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
If your laptop doesn't connect to anything, it has no idea where you are.
If your phone doesn't connect to anything and enable location services (GPS is costly in terms of battery though), it has no idea where you are. Of course, your phone -is- connected to the cell network most of the time, and so theoretically it could calculate where you are to within a mile or so, but that, 1. Takes battery, and 2. Isn't that accurate. So there's a good chance it wouldn't bother.