How to remove all user data from Google?

[lxskllr]

Assuming you use a phone & have an email address they know stuff.

Not much, unless several competing companies are collaborating with each other. Could a nation state figure out who I am? Sure; but that's beyond the scope of an ad company.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

EMP the size of a white dwarf ought to do

Doubtful. Any U-verse customer for Internet is also in the same boat. And you saw what happened each time they destroyed the death star ... got replaced with something bigger.

 

[sdifox]

Doubtful. Any U-verse customer for Internet is also in the same boat. And you saw what happened each time they destroyed the death star ... got replaced with something bigger.

an EMP the size of a white dwarf is slightly bigger than Earth...nothing electronic will survive that.

 

[UsandThem]

What type of phone do you use? How do you know Lougle or whatever browser/search engine you currently use isn’t selling the data to google?

I was just (attempting) to be funny since it was posted in OT.

Lougle was the company Lou created when he stayed in the past in the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.

I don't get caught up in the (political-based) "issues" outlined in the OP.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I was just (attempting) to be funny since it was posted in OT.

Lougle was the company Lou created when he stayed in the past in the movie 'Hot Tub Time Machine'.

I don't get caught up in the (political-based) "issues" outlined in the OP.

Should have known that. You are too smart to fall for random BS Services

 

[UsandThem]

Should have known that. You are too smart to fall for random BS Services

If there's a show on MSNBC that I want to watch, I do so. If I'm in the mood for a chicken sandwich, I happily eat a Chick-fil-A. If a network has a show I don't agree with, I simply don't watch it. If Hallmark Channel airs a commercial about......gasp, OMG a lesbian couple no less!!!!.......well I never would watch Hallmark Channel to begin with as all of their shows suck.

IMO, life is too short to get into all of that left vs. right posturing mess. I listen to Pink Floyd and buy Star Wars toys collectibles instead.

 

[gill77]

If there's a show on MSNBC that I want to watch, I do so. If I'm in the mood for a chicken sandwich, I happily eat a Chick-fil-A. If a network has a show I don't agree with, I simply don't watch it. If Hallmark Channel airs a commercial about......gasp, OMG a lesbian couple no less!!!!.......well I never would watch Hallmark Channel to begin with as all of their shows suck.

IMO, life is too short to get into all of that left vs. right posturing mess. I listen to Pink Floyd and buy Star Wars toys collectibles instead.

I agree with pretty much all of it, except for the Star Wars toys thing

But it really doesn't address the Google issue. I Googled it, and they dominate the search space with 93% I use Startpage, so I get the same Google results without sending them data.

Skipping MSNBC or Chick-fil-A would be fairly easy, but think if you had to choose only from the bottom 7% of news channels and fast food. Different experience.

 

[Greenman]

When you close your account, google retains the data. How do we delete all google data of our user account? Google has became so Democratically biased on this impeachment stuff that it blocks everything The Ingraham Angle unless it has favorable stuff to say about Democrats. It is totally disgusting (not to say some of her views are not, but that is no reason to block her).

Google has become as biased as CNN, NBC, and many many others.

Google is further up your ass than any proctologist will ever be. Either give up the internet and smartphones or accept that every single bit of information you type into any device is monitored, compiled, stored, and sold, again, and again, and again.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually I just thought of one thing that MIGHT work, but probably not. You can just poison the data. Put stuff that is completely irrelevant to you in it so it takes up most of the total content. That means tons of weird internet searches, maybe stick your phone (if android) near a radio station you never listen to or TV shows etc, make a lot of fake contacts based outside the country etc. Just do everything to pump tons of data into your account.

Only thing, I don't think this would work that well since the algorithm probably takes time into account. They accumulated data on you over many years, even if you pump it full of other data in a couple week period they might still consider the other data as being you. But it's an idea I guess.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Just verified it again. Just goto Youtube and type in Ingraham Angle full episode. You get a 1 second video showing The Ingraham Angle (insert 2019 date), the it says next video where there is something good to say about democrats.

Are we suppose to care???

 

[JEDIYoda]

I agree with pretty much all of it, except for the Star Wars toys thing

But it really doesn't address the Google issue. I Googled it, and they dominate the search space with 93% I use Startpage, so I get the same Google results without sending them data.

Skipping MSNBC or Chick-fil-A would be fairly easy, but think if you had to choose only from the bottom 7% of news channels and fast food. Different experience.

Nobody said you had to use google...

 

[gill77]

Nobody said you had to use google...

I know.

Nonetheless, a monopoly has been allowed to be created, with all the ramifications of that. Just saying.

No one says you have to have electricity run to your house either.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Even if you don't use Google they still have tons of data on you. Same with Facebook.

All you can do is try to not directly use it, as it still reduces how much data they get but they still know a lot about you. Companies like Google and Facebook can spy on you even on websites they don't own or run.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Even if you don't use Google they still have tons of data on you. Same with Facebook.

All you can do is try to not directly use it, as it still reduces how much data they get but they still know a lot about you. Companies like Google and Facebook can spy on you even on websites they don't own or run.

Doubt that would work, there is already tons of data about you. I’m sure they use some sort of machine logic to filter out crap from compromised accounts or someone not logging out of something. You’d probably just end up with a bunch of weird ads.

 

[UsandThem]

I agree with pretty much all of it, except for the Star Wars toys thing

But it really doesn't address the Google issue. I Googled it, and they dominate the search space with 93% I use Startpage, so I get the same Google results without sending them data.

Skipping MSNBC or Chick-fil-A would be fairly easy, but think if you had to choose only from the bottom 7% of news channels and fast food. Different experience.

True, Google is by far the leader.

A person can decide to not use them by using competing search engines, avoiding Android phones and Chromebooks, any sites they own (like YouTube), etc. It's possible to do, but a person would really only end up limiting their options. Even if they did all of that, they would still likely need a cell phone, so that basically leaves Apple. I've seen people say they wouldn't use Apple products because they are too "left-biased", and I've also seen people say Microsoft is too "left-biased", so that eliminates the vast majority of computers out there. It seems like most companies (if not all of them) are now labeled as being biased (in one direction or the other). These are just issues I personally don't care about (much like Anandtech being called AMD biased in the tech forums). I simply ran out of tin foil a long time ago.

Those type of issues are just not something I personally worry about. I use a lot of Google's services, and have since 1998 I believe. If a person goes online at all, there will be some company that will be tracking them, trying to collect info or trying to sell them something. And if a person is successful in avoiding private companies from detecting their use through obscure browsers and VPNs, the NSA and other government agencies around the world are busy doing their own thing.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For cell phone I really do hate we don't have good options. The Librem looked promising but it was a huge flop. Really wish there was a Linux equivalent to a cell phone OS you can just load on an Android phone or something. Like I'm talking a whole new OS not just an android spin off. Android may be Linux based but it's still powered by Google and relies on having an account with them and has spy stuff built in.

 

[lxskllr]

You don't need a google account to use android. I don't. There's also third party android roms with various levels of freedom.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm how does that work? I don't think it's even possible to delete any of the google stuff as it's built right in.

 

[lxskllr]

You can disable some of the google apps, but not all of them. If you have root, you can remove a lot of the google stuff, or just use a degoogled rom. Also, if you don't use an account of some kind, you can't access the play store through authorized means. The vast majority of the programs I use are from fdroid. I have two proprietary programs, and two libre programs that are on play, and I use the aurora app to login anonymously to play to update them.

 

[balloonshark]

Most people don't block things like 3rd party cookies, trackers, fingerprinters, etc. If you have Noscript and/or Ublock Origin browser add-ons installed you would see just how much extra crap websites have on a page. Looking at Noscript Googleapis.com and Googletagmanager.com are on this page (and a million others) unless you block them. Not sure exactly what they do but it involves google.

 

[lxskllr]

Tag manager is a tracker, and should be safe to block globally. apis I believe are libraries to enhance websites. I don't /think/ there's any trackers involved. Blocking it should maintain basic functionality, but you may lose features. I have it temporarily trusted atm. Don't remember why.

 

[balloonshark]

Tag manager is a tracker, and should be safe to block globally. apis I believe are libraries to enhance websites. I don't /think/ there's any trackers involved. Blocking it should maintain basic functionality, but you may lose features. I have it temporarily trusted atm. Don't remember why.

It does seem like I have to allow apis for certain sites. What's bad is when you have to allow both and more just to get more stuff to load that is needed for the site to work. I think some sites bury stuff on purpose.

 

[lxskllr]

News sites are the worst for that. It's like a set of Russian nesting dolls, except they expand exponentially. I usually say "fuck that", and go look at something else.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

an EMP the size of a white dwarf is slightly bigger than Earth...nothing electronic will survive that.

I would not put it past AT&T to be encrypting user information (bills, internet history, etc.) into an innocuous strand od DNA and coding it into cockroaches and sending them into space. That way they can bank on future revenues. Remember, leading of most majob large corporations are not normal people. They are psycho/socio-pathic in nature.

 

[gill77]

A couple weeks ago I was watching a YouTube of Charles Murray, my favorite gay British author , promoting his new book. He suggested a google image search, "straight couple" before google changes it. Tried it out a couple times, nearly all gay and lesbian couples. Such incompetence for such a successful company .

I tried it earlier today and the results are not near as obvious. Had some fun trying out other social issue searches.