Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
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#12I wonder how many people have died in car accidents while trying to type their home address because of this while driving.
Not even joking, I rear ended someone while trying to dismiss the "USE OUR APP" popup that comes when you navigate via maps.google.com instead of the phone app.
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#13Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
How about storing things locally?
Re: Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
#14Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
Shouldn't we be able to set home address in a map to get directions without it tracking anything at all? The 24/7 of everyone's existence should not be a marketing opportunity. You know, like TomToms and other GPS maps used to before everything was always connected.
Is it really unreasonable to expect any company, or Google specifically to decide "you know, home address and travel is more sensitive, let's provide some options to leave that out of ad tracking"?
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#15Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
Not really. If you have first and last name, it's not hard to find residential address. Semi-public information. [1]
On the other hand, the data about online activity can be voluminous and private.
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#16Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
For many of us home address is not very sensitive information. What we do online can be.
It’s not just what Google knows about you. If your account is compromised, attacker may be able to download all historicsl information and share it with everybody.
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#17I wonder how many people have died in car accidents while trying to type their home address because of this while driving.
Not even joking, I rear ended someone while trying to dismiss the "USE OUR APP" popup that comes when you navigate via maps.google.com instead of the phone app.
I have been using OsmAnd~ [0] lately and have been pretty happy with it as an alternative. Uses open street maps, works offline, pretty good and configurable app.
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#18In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don't delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with that though. It's just good for people to realize that.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the link to your essay is ... where?
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
You wrote an interesting blogpost, but I think its a stretch to say this relates. Your essay is about click tracking and ads, and social media tracking.
The prime issue under discussion here is that google demands you turn on location tracking to use a feature, not that they do any kind of clicktrails.
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#20Wait... What? You don't mind telling Google where your home is, but you mind it tracking your online activity? Shouldn't home address be more sensitive?
Can't you set your address to a made up address across the street from you (often they leave unused numbers) 1, 9, 15... 2, 8, 12.. and set it as your home address. You can even just use a street over, it's not going to affect the routing at all but the last block or so.
Of course, I don't think this does much since they can get your address by other means.
Anyhow, giving them your actual home address is like filling out those secret security questions truthfully.