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How to stop Google from tracking your location

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55 Comments

  1. PrettyAngel31

    January 24, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    I been knew how to do this. Actually, everyone knows how to do this. But good video though.

  2. yarma

    January 24, 2022 at 12:35 pm

    👍

  3. James Green

    January 24, 2022 at 12:43 pm

    Google still gets your rough location from your WiFi but at least this is not as bad as tracking.

  4. Shailesh Pal

    January 24, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    Thank you.

  5. Mark B

    January 24, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    Wtf 😳 that’s so much effort to not get tracked, thank goodness I’m using iOS with zero google apps except for YouTube.

    • TUNNEL77Xx

      January 24, 2022 at 3:41 pm

      If that’s what helps you sleep better at night then good luck I guess lmao

    • Steven McClellan

      January 24, 2022 at 6:44 pm

      comments like this is why I don’t like posts like this, iOS tracks you too but tech sites know mentioning Google tracking you and “privacy issues” are buzzwords and will get more views and comments than making a video on how to disable it on iOS

    • Tony Hawk

      January 24, 2022 at 7:27 pm

      @Steven McClellan iOS does not profile you and sell of that info. Google is an advertising company and this is their entire business model. Stop pretending Google and Apple are the same on privacy. They are polar opposites.

    • Steven McClellan

      January 24, 2022 at 8:15 pm

      @Tony Hawk if you want to believe apple doesn’t have as much info about you as Google go right ahead… Does Google do questionable things with the info sometimes, I can’t say bc I haven’t read all the TOA, but I agree they do stuff that we don’t like sometimes. But if you want to sit online and lie like apple hasn’t been in the news the last 3+ years for info gathered or other privacy issues I have nothing else to say

  6. CK Gaming Channel

    January 24, 2022 at 1:07 pm

    I took the battery out of my phone and left it in the drawer. Does that work too?

  7. Kiki K Darling

    January 24, 2022 at 1:17 pm

    Makes me want to throw the phone out the window. I guess they’ll track that as well. 😶

  8. Øystein

    January 24, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    Your aprox location is never private as long as you are connected to the web with a device tied to you…

    • Shubham Shah

      January 24, 2022 at 7:57 pm

      Unless you use a VPN and turn off location on the device.

    • Øystein

      January 24, 2022 at 8:18 pm

      @Shubham Shah Turning of location wont help at all since it is still possible to get your basic location.
      VPN can help.. But depends on how good it is etc

  9. P R

    January 24, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    Superb! must do if you care about your privacy! Thank you!

    • Tony Hawk

      January 24, 2022 at 7:24 pm

      Caring about privacy would be not using Google phones or apps in the first place. Beyond YouTube of course.

    • P R

      January 25, 2022 at 9:23 am

      @Tony Hawk.. Haha Absolutely!

  10. Mohamad Tawash

    January 24, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Is it going to effect google maps navigation??

    • Tony Hawk

      January 24, 2022 at 7:24 pm

      Don’t use Google Maps.

  11. Newish lunch

    January 24, 2022 at 5:33 pm

    I don’t think people know how much they need this

  12. Tormented Mango

    January 24, 2022 at 6:00 pm

    Google doesn’t believe in your privacy, it needs to sell your soul without your permission.

  13. Ismail Abdullah

    January 24, 2022 at 6:18 pm

    Mashallah may Allah reward you for your efforts!

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      January 24, 2022 at 6:52 pm

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      January 24, 2022 at 6:52 pm

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    • K

      January 24, 2022 at 8:54 pm

      There is no allah 😉

  14. Dave kent

    January 24, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    Thank you

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      January 24, 2022 at 6:51 pm

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  15. D Ch

    January 24, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Want privacy? Simple. Throw alway ALL your electronics.

    • Tony Hawk

      January 24, 2022 at 7:28 pm

      Start with throwing away Android phones. And Android TVs too while you’re at it. People who entrust their most personal devices to an advertising company are nothing but lemmings.

  16. Tony Hawk

    January 24, 2022 at 7:05 pm

    Alternative title: “How many hurdles can Google make you jump through to make you think they care about your privacy”

  17. Tony Hawk

    January 24, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    That Google labels turning off these tracking options as “paused” rather than “off” or “disabled” shows how little they really care about privacy.

    • Gspec 5

      January 25, 2022 at 12:05 pm

      That’s the price you pay for a better google assistant, better Ai, etc. I run a VPN 24/7 so I’m not a big tech shill but none of these features are ever really paused or turned off. They use predictive algorithms to pick up your trail when you show up elsewhere online or when you’re interacting with someone who doesn’t have tracking “paused”.
      Apple is no better, they just farm out the data externally so their name remains “clean”

  18. Tom Smith

    January 24, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    Google is Evil

  19. MR.

    January 24, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    Good job honey 👍🏾

  20. JUR O

    January 24, 2022 at 7:30 pm

    What on earth is that phone? That big black bar in the side looks ridiculous……
    But how can I then found out I traveled 75% around the world and that I traveled 29975 km this year……lol….I fly already 6000km for nothing in brazil to see my child sometimes 😂

  21. Musharraf Hamza

    January 24, 2022 at 7:38 pm

    just use an iPhone? lol

  22. Orhan G

    January 24, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    man, google’s settings looks hellish even more so than windows’s. too cluttered with gibberish

  23. shea Hill

    January 24, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Excellent video

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      January 25, 2022 at 1:32 pm

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  24. cncsmarty

    January 24, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    U need to turn on the Al-Heeti in ur apartment.

  25. Kexin

    January 25, 2022 at 2:01 am

    Remember way back when Google motto was don’t be the bad guy? 😒

  26. STEVEN MOIRE Y2J

    January 25, 2022 at 2:49 am

    this is not full proof,lots of people are jail,cop use cell location regardless what you do

  27. Ellie Kim

    January 25, 2022 at 6:11 am

    I personally don’t care lol. If they want to track me to work and home basically they can 😆

  28. Non155

    January 25, 2022 at 8:20 am

    WGEN GOIGLE REKEASE THE G PAY DEBIT CARD?????

  29. Gspec 5

    January 25, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    You can’t really stop tracking, the algorithms will pick you up again when you interact with users who don’t have tracking “turned off” or whenever you use a website that forces you to agree with their cookies.
    All you’re really doing is turning off curated ads, you’ll instead get more random ads for things you don’t care for

  30. Aijaz Edits

    January 25, 2022 at 5:05 pm

    please help me I’m installe window in Lenovo yoga 11s
    bot key???

  31. Saeed Alani

    January 25, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    May Allah bless you Alheeti we are proud of you 👏

  32. Rory McLoughlin

    January 25, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    Thank you. Very helpful

  33. Chico Ramirez

    January 26, 2022 at 3:36 am

    💪🏼 privacy is power 💪🏼

  34. Jorge Santos

    January 26, 2022 at 4:24 am

    What are y’all hiding🤨

  35. Scott Leo

    January 26, 2022 at 4:42 am

    Your lips are way too red.

  36. Donald Harlan

    January 27, 2022 at 2:17 am

    📱Those people who own Google phone products: should really follow and learn the tutorials, on how to adjust their location settings, for individual apps. 🤖 Once an app is given location permission in settings, permissions then needs to be turned off after used. ☕🍔 Also, you need to delete and secure your location history, in your Google account. 🐗 These are the same people, who tried to sue Google, when they found out that, anyone can see their web browsing history, unless they delete it. 🤭So embarrasing! 👊 The lawyers need quash/suppress, some of those states attacks/robbery of the technology industry, from California. 🔏

  37. Derrick Barlow

    January 27, 2022 at 12:54 pm

    TY. Someone is servering people whenever they want to watch their internet access. I don’t know who. I just had to change my DNS settings with a DNS changer app. It means getting shocked less as I use my devices.

  38. Nannem Sri Harsha Sharma

    January 29, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    It’s so much messy

  39. Biswajit Baruah

    January 29, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    Make a video on how to stop Google from listening coz it don’t stop listening even after turning off the mic

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