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I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I'm very sure there is even more data they have.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

don't forget if you have location enabled in your phone it tracks every single place you've been to

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It does that even if you turn it off. The setting just controls location access by third party apps.

Lineage os and F-droid is the better solution. It has the advantage of being bloat free as well

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can also use GPS location without any google services running, it just takes a bit longer to find your position when you first connect. OsmAnd or Organic maps from f-droid, which are actually superior apps to google maps in a lot of ways, particularly OsmAnd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I had to use Satstat to reset the AGPS data as Lineage os just won't refresh agps on its own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah Google Maps isn't actually a map app. Its for navigation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

And it can be very wrong about those locations, too. For better or worse, idk. My old phone showed me going to completely different cities on the other side of my state when I went to the corner store.