* Posts by Rbn

3 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2018

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Rbn

Re: Google takes revenge

Disable location history and/or Google maps location permissions, it's maps that suggests these "what did you think of ..." Requests (as far as I know)

Rbn

If you want to be really anal about it you can go app by app, go to the following:

Settings (device settings)

Apps & Notifications

Locate the app in question (presumably maps)

Press maps, then permissions, then disable the location permission.

Otherwise do the following:

Settings (device settings)

Apps and notifications

Permissions

Your location

Then disable any app that you wish not to use your location from there.

If you want to disable all Google apps tracking your location do the following:

Settings (device settings)

Google

Location

Then disable "access to my location"

You'll notice the apps get greyed out.

Then go into google location history and disable that once inside.

Rbn

Re: Haven't updated G Maps for more than a year

Presumably because you can add addresses to your contacts, then ask Google to take you to "John Doe home" in turn opening maps and directing you to that address. There are probably many more reasons alongside this but it's not a snooping mechanism if you were afraid of that being so.