DF reader Brian Ashe sent this, correctly pointing out that it pretty
   much nails [1]Google’s approach to turning off location tracking.
   [2]https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/13/douglas-adams-plans

   On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Steve Kinney <[3]admin@pilobilus.net>
   wrote:

     On 08/13/2018 07:41 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
     > [4]https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0e
     cb/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 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)

References

   1. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/13/ap-google-location-history
   2. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/08/13/douglas-adams-plans
   3. mailto:admin@pilobilus.net
   4. https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb/AP-Exclusive:-Google-tracks-your-movements,-like-it-or-not