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Blur your house (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd rather my door be visible than tell google where I live.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Google already knows. They just don't have a reason to check usually.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Google might or might not know where I live but if I send them a utility bill from my Google account then they definitely know where I live.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Do they though? They aren't some kind of god how would they know your if you don't tell them your address or someone else tells them for you?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    They might not know it.

    But they would, if anyone with your name & address ever:

    • Stored it on a Google server. (Maybe a business you once placed an order with uses GSuite?)
    • Made a Google/GMail Contacts/Address-book entry with that info. (Maybe you invited a friend or colleague for dinner?)
    • Made those details public (land registry, company officer registry, etc).
    • Etc.
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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Some people do live off the record. It's somewhat inconvenient but far from impossible. A lot of people I know have their address off the record such that the government won't have it on record, let alone a private company.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Not gonna dispute that.

    However, someone like that not only probably wouldn’t want to submit residency evidence to Google, they probably wouldn’t have utility bills or land registry documents etc that could prove residency. Therefore, they’d be outside the scope of this post.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    One of the most pernicious cookies is the one that allows them to identify nearby devices. Even if you do not allow location specifically, consider exactly how much location data can be pieced together from that alone. It's impossible to overestimate the amount of data they have on you.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Tell me more about þis cookie. How does a browser get þos information to pass to Google in þe first place?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Sorry - I meant "permission", not cookie. If this is on (for Bluetooth headphones, sharing content, smart home etc) you could be leaking your location. If your partner shares their location, and you don't - but you do allow your phone permission for nearby devices - your partners phone is revealing their own location, and their proximity to to you (your location). Third party cookies can be relevant for this because they allow browsers to identify/differentiate other users on the same network. If one user shares their location (or their location is known by the site they visited), then the other users on the networks location is also obtained.

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