It's pretty easy to go to the main privacy settings and turn off all tracking and also 'delete' whatever info they've accumulated. I tend to do that every month or to, as Google's dark patterns on my phone or some other site almost always turn them back on, especially location.
Regardless, it seems like a pointless exercise. Besides the easier to find 'privacy' settings that Google makes available, you can actually request to download ALL the data Google has on you. Last time I tried, I filled out the form and the reply is that Google will need almost a week of time to gather the data, upon which they sent me a link to download a massive (several GB) log file.
So let me get this straight. I supposedly deleted ALL my data in the privacy settings. Just five minutes later I can then download the GB of data they still have on me?
I'm guessing the easier to find privacy settings don't do much at all except delete some advertiser ID that is used a primary key in their main caches, used with cookies and on Android.
On the other hand, using more complex analytics, they could easily put together a profile of every single bit of data they've got on my for the last 10 years.
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It's pretty easy to go to the main privacy settings and turn off all tracking and also 'delete' whatever info they've accumulated. I tend to do that every month or to, as Google's dark patterns on my phone or some other site almost always turn them back on, especially location.
Regardless, it seems like a pointless exercise. Besides the easier to find 'privacy' settings that Google makes available, you can actually request to download ALL the data Google has on you. Last time I tried, I filled out the form and the reply is that Google will need almost a week of time to gather the data, upon which they sent me a link to download a massive (several GB) log file.
So let me get this straight. I supposedly deleted ALL my data in the privacy settings. Just five minutes later I can then download the GB of data they still have on me?
I'm guessing the easier to find privacy settings don't do much at all except delete some advertiser ID that is used a primary key in their main caches, used with cookies and on Android.
On the other hand, using more complex analytics, they could easily put together a profile of every single bit of data they've got on my for the last 10 years.
That’s not all the data on you. That’s all the obvious visible sort of data.