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On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
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>
> On 08/13/2018 07:41 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
>> https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb/AP-Exclusive:-Google-tracks-your-movements,-like-it-or-not
>
> Google tracks my movements?  Not yet, anyway.
>
> The cell tower networks do track my movements

And dump them straight into your government's databases.

> except when I leave my
> $25.00 mobile phone behind or pull its battery.  But Google?  Not so
> much.  Every so often they know when I was "at home" because I
> voluntarily accessed one of their server farms.  Otherwise not.
> Google Analytics and the ubiquitous "G+" links on a vast array of
> websites, do not track my web browsing - one has uBlock Legacy and
> NoScript to attend to that, respectively blocking all outbound requests
> to blacklisted domains, and all outbound requests for Javascript except
> where and as whitelisted.
>
> The few occasions when Google does 'see' me on the networks, result from
> voluntarily revealing my existence when accessing YouTube videos, and
> occasional contact with a GMail account (via Thunderbird, not a web
> browser) which I use as a spam trap and offsite backup server for
> encrypted credentials logs and the like.
>
> :o)

Generally beware web bugs, supercookies, TLS session metadata.