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How do we know if turning off that setting actually does stop location tracking, considering what we know about Google's past history?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...

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I have long ago turned all of Google's activity tracking preferences off and erased the existing activity, yet once in a while some Google service reveals to me that it knows something it shouldn't.

Same.

Also, why must all the services attempt to guilt me into turning it back on?

Google Takeout is a good way to find out all the things you thought you deleted, but are still hanging around on their servers. Even stupid banner photos from PicasaWeb and G+ 8 years ago were buried in my Takeout that I had zero access to see or delete, but they were there (and probably still are).

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