Google – My Location History
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Google – My Location History
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#2It shows me driving over water. That's interesting. I'm not seeing a bridge.
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#3Honestly, I find this really useful and love being able to see where I've been, especially since I travel on almost a weekly basis.
It's an invaluable tool for me and I trust Google to safeguard the information. They haven't failed me yet, and if they ever do, it should be easy enough to delete the info.
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#4Honestly, I find this really useful and love being able to see where I've been, especially since I travel on almost a weekly basis. It's an invaluable tool for me and I trust Google to safeguard the information. They haven't failed me yet, and if they ever do, it should be easy enough to delete the info.
I like it as well - but google is almost certainly using this data to target you. I also wish I more control. Is there a way to export to GPX? It would be fun to create a heat map of your daily locations over the course of years.
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#5It shows me driving over water. That's interesting. I'm not seeing a bridge.
To conserve battery, you phone only reports current location periodically. The location history then draws a straight line between successive plot points.
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#6I've been wanting to disable this for years now but find it too interesting and sometimes useful to look back on.
I've ditched many Google services due to Google being Google yet I still have this enabled which is somewhat ironic.
One day I'd like to figure out how to implement some sort of private alternative to this without using Google.
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#7Be sure to click on the nodes to get your full history.
This is why I 1) switched back to Apple Maps and 2) never say yes when Google asks for my location in Safari on iOS (it doesn't change the query results anyway)
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#8I know it is not really advisable to share this info with third parties in general, but I'd love to have this data under my control, since it is has proven very to my-self.
A few examples on why it has been useful to me:
- When did I go to the dentist last?
- Where did that credit card charge I see in my bank statement originated?
- Where did I go on the day I lost my umbrella?
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#9Honestly, I find this really useful and love being able to see where I've been, especially since I travel on almost a weekly basis. It's an invaluable tool for me and I trust Google to safeguard the information. They haven't failed me yet, and if they ever do, it should be easy enough to delete the info.
I like it as well - but google is almost certainly using this data to target you. I also wish I more control. Is there a way to export to GPX? It would be fun to create a heat map of your daily locations over the course of years.
AFAIK Google account activity exports are limited to JSON and HTML. There may be a way to convert the JSON to GPX somehow.
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#10I've been wanting to disable this for years now but find it too interesting and sometimes useful to look back on. I've ditched many Google services due to Google being Google yet I still have this enabled which is somewhat ironic. One day I'd like to figure out how to implement some sort of private alternative to this without using Google.