Google – My Activity • Hacker News Board

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by jmkni » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

glerk wrote: post #22

sajithdilshan wrote: post #3

Jesus fucking christ. This is scary. They can build a full profile of me with all this data.

Do you enjoy your free email account, free maps, free YouTube and free search?

I pay for GSuite (custom domain), can I turn this shit off?

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by scrollaway » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

stedaniels wrote: post #37

danShumway wrote: post #13

On this subject https://myaccount.google.com/purchases Turning off all of the controls under myactivity won't stop Google from scanning your emails to track any purchases you make. The only way to stop that is to switch off of Gmail.

Is this a US only thing? Mine is empty.. UK/Gsuite

I think it's a GSuite configuration thing. Mine used to be empty (GSuite). Now I'm checking it again, there's some stuff on it, although it's buggy.

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by nawitus » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

stedaniels wrote: post #37

danShumway wrote: post #13

On this subject https://myaccount.google.com/purchases Turning off all of the controls under myactivity won't stop Google from scanning your emails to track any purchases you make. The only way to stop that is to switch off of Gmail.

Is this a US only thing? Mine is empty.. UK/Gsuite

It shows purchases in Finland too.

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by truebosko » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

booleandilemma wrote: post #25

Just gonna leave this here: https://duckduckgo.com/

What's notable is that when I search though DDG, Google still is able to see and track my search item there. I did not even think about that, but a bit eye opening. (I am using Chrome, afterall)

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by d3v0 » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

britch wrote: post #32

booleandilemma wrote: post #25

Just gonna leave this here: https://duckduckgo.com/

I would love Maps and Gmail alternatives if anyone has them.

Proton mail and OpenStreetMap(not as good as Google Maps but still decent) are proper alternatives.

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by deg4uss3r » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

Achievement unlocked: No Activity.

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by jwr » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

This is great. Now I can see in a single place how YouTube mixes other people's history with mine. It seems I watched "Funny Dinosaurs in Poop Fight", "Poop Cartoon 04: Fried Sh*t" and "Pirate Pete's Potty: Potty Training Video for Toddlers" yesterday. Fun.

(I've been getting some other kid's watched videos in my history, and Google doesn't care about this kind of history mixing, my reports got me nowhere).

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by cameronbrown » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:21 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #5

Totally irresponsible. What if another person (colleague, family member, friend, spouse) opens this on your computer? This should be opt-in, not opt-out!

So you'd rather this data be hidden from you?

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by clarry » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

Why does oneplus launcher report to google and how do I turn that shit off?

Re: Google – My Activity

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Post by lotu » Thu, May 30, 2019, 3:23 PM UTC

booleandilemma wrote: post #23

How easy is it for a Google employee to access my activity?

Normally it is impossible. Normal logs have the user name and IP address removed, they even do stuff to truncate URLs in case a website is hiding usernames or passwords in the URL. If to perform your job it is needed to access a user's data (I'm not actually sure what that job would for consumers), that goes through a separate system which where every access is logged and audited.