Thinking of dumping Google.

[Seb67]

for maps:

openstreetmap.org
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[Pruneman99]

[Abscate]

Well, when you have to amend your mission statement with

Don’t be evil

There isn’t a lot left to say.
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[chrisflstf]

You may have some malware installed on your device

[Manfred58sc]

Basic Yahoo for my e-mail with ad-blocker. I read a map when I need a location. GPS always off. Not particularly paranoid , but since I have a choice why not lean on the side of privacy?
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[mark tucker]

thinking?????

[calvinater]

flip phone and a paper map. atlas,, i can get anywhere i want to be. which is usually right here.
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[67rustavenger]

I have another creepy example.

Yesterday morning while texting with that Fn Xevin. I looked at a refi offer for my 2020 Tundra. The offer came from Credit Karma. After I closed the Creditkarma webpage. There was a new email in my primary email account for a refi offer from another site.

Fn creepy that every time I even look at anything on Chrome. I get email ads/offers that I didn't ask for. Nor do I want to receive.

The creepiness covers all Google connected devices. If I search on my phone. I get email offers for what I searched for.

Then there is the sync between my home computer and my work computer. On my personal computer. My bookmark bar matches my work computer.
IMO, these should never be connected. but alas they are. If I were to un-sync them I'll loose all my bookmarks on both units.
WTF?
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Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[typ914]

[Chickensoup]

they are all spying on you. its not creepy. its just messed up. do what you can to not give them the info they seek. and as typ914 said just drink whats left in the cup.

most of its is marketing as you can tell. much of it is sold off as research. and the rest goes to the gov.

try looking up "how to leave a clean digital footprint" and you will find some good advice.
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[s.e.charles]

DuckDuckGo & Adblocker Pro ring my chimes.

in Settings of your computer there should be a line item regarding tracking and/ or ads. turn those forkers off too!

any company that offers to help you really wants to help itself to your information.

[AutoMechanic]

I only use Google on the computer because my iPhone has Safari. I’m not sure if it’s Google based or not. I started getting ads recently too. I use gmail and YouTube all the time so probably from that because they spy on you I’m sure.

[pitargue]

I neglected to mention. For browsers, I use Brave. https://brave.com/

[67rustavenger]

Cruising the news today. I found the article pasted below.
It has links to Chrome Extensions that block ad trackers, third party cookie trackers and the like.
There's also a link to convert pages searched from http: to https:. This gets you a secure page, rather than an insecure one.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/browser-privacy-settin...MSF491fea7

I'm gonna do a search test in Chrome for something I never buy and see if the above extensions block ad trackers.

Let's see how this works out.
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I have learned over the years.
Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[67rustavenger]

Huh!
I just searched for "Natural Dog Food" in Google Chrome.
First thing I noticed after installing the extensions above, there are no targeted ads.
Meaning, instead of the top search results being ads. They are from real vendor sites. Sweet!
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I have learned over the years.
Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!

There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo!

[LAGrunthaner]

pitargue, is Startpage a downloadable browser? I've never heard of, the email and browsers you posted but very cool to learn more. I use Apple Maps too and appears to be more accurate. I used to use Waze because users post debris or potholes which I miss. Our school janitor just told me his Waze app sent him on a wild-goose-chase (yup dating myself with that saying) so now I'll stick with the Apple Maps.

[jspbtown]

I keep picturing the guy at the secret data site who is monitoring my life and web browsing as having his elbow on his desk, supporting his head, as he continually falls asleep from monitoring my boring life.

When they installed the electronic tolls in my area I remember that people were all concerned that "big brother" was going to know where they were going all the time. I thought....."Gee, aren't they going to be bored seeing me drive to work and back every day?"

Remember the days when you got piles of junk mail in the mailbox at the end of your driveway? Same thing now they just deliver it to your phone or email.

I rarely have my cell near me. I don't use it to access the internet.

Most SPAM I get goes into my SPAM folder. I do notice ads for things popping up on the side of some sites for things I have researched but it doesn't bother me. I am more focused on the web page that I am on versus the ads off to the side.

[ShortyMedlock]

[pitargue]

Sorry for the late reply.