This is rather freaky.

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes) 04/03/2018 at 23:11 • Filed to: None

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I was playing around on google maps, & saw a “ !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ” button. I decided to click on it. It shows my travel history all the way back to 19/12/2017. It’s freakishly accurate too. I’m not sure why I’m shocked google tracks me, but I am.

WilliamsSW > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:19

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Because you are nothing more than data that can be sold

Urambo Tauro > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:21

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I have location tracking turned off, but apparently Google’s been using my search history to pinpoint me anyway. DO NOT WANT

fintail > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:22

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Weird, I didn’t know it did that - memories of the past 2 years:

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:25

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I wish I had never clicked this post. I even looked back on specific dates that were regrettable in the recent past... It’s all there... Snapshot is just from working today.

HammerheadFistpunch > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:29

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good news is you can delete it.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > HammerheadFistpunch 04/03/2018 at 23:32

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& turn it off in your phones setting.

HammerheadFistpunch > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:34

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I turned mine off but it still had history for me.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:34

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That’s fucking terrifying.

Maxima Speed > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:35

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Mine hasn’t tracked me. I have google and phone settings extremely restricted though.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/03/2018 at 23:36

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& fixed.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Urambo Tauro 04/03/2018 at 23:40

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Duck duck go. It’s not as fancy and polished as google for searches, but it accomplishes what you need it to and they claim to store no data on you.

Urambo Tauro > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 04/03/2018 at 23:47

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Made that the default search engine on one of my devices. It takes some getting used to, but I’ll probably start using it more regularly now.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/04/2018 at 00:23

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welp..... it knows where my house lives... but thats it.... hooray for no cellphone

(i suspect it’ll know much more about the missusses whereabouts but if i tell her about it she’ll probably have a meltdown... so i wont)

AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/04/2018 at 01:36

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Can someone please explain to me why the entire world is so freaked out by this and Google tracking them? I mean I get that it’s a company looking into your personal life but is that really such a big issue?

They have so much data that flows into them that there is no way they are using it to pinpoint you specifically. Hell, they don’t even use it to pinpoint a specific neighborhood. The data is being used as a set to create more useful tools in the future. Sure, they’re also selling it to marketers but if that lets me have proper tools that are useful then I don’t see an issue.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/04/2018 at 08:58

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What’s funny about mine is that I can figure out which phone I had. “Oh, it went blank, that must have been when I had the Nokia.”

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Aaron M - MasoFiST 04/04/2018 at 10:31

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Mine started when I got my Xperia XZ1.

Thomas Donohue > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 04/04/2018 at 13:31

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I usually have mine off, except when using maps for directions. It’s kinda cool looking at roadtrip history.

However, I noticed one random red dot in the middle of the country. I don’t recall being in Osage County, Oklahoma last July.....in the middle of nowhere.