Comments on: Is Google Following You Around Town? https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/ A look at how trends in communication technology impact individuals and organizations. Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741930 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:30:32 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741930 In reply to Angelika.

My reaction was similar. The feature itself actually sounds quite helpful, but it's just one more way I'm being tracked and commercialized.

]]> By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741929 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:29:16 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741929 In reply to greatpoetrymhf.

Welcome

]]> By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741928 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:29:08 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741928 In reply to KaufmansKavalkade.

Yep, though it seems to be intensifying over the past few years and more and more information is being tracked and stored. Do you think it will ever hit a tipping point or do you think it will just continue to be a debate that amounts to nothing but talk?

]]> By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741927 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:27:19 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741927 In reply to blogs4bytes aka blogantly.in.

Good point, but that's only half the story. You would also need to prevent Google from monitoring your location if you have an Android phone or other phone with Google apps.

]]> By: Kurt Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741926 Tue, 27 May 2014 17:26:03 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741926 In reply to Mark Steinbrueck.

There is an app that will inform you when a friend is nearby. The app creators talk it up as a way to connect more with people, though I heard some people referring to it as the app that helps you avoid people who you don't want to see 😉

BTW – You may want to get those flowers…

]]> By: greatpoetrymhf https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741896 Sat, 24 May 2014 12:42:23 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741896 Thank you kindly

]]> By: Angelika https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741878 Fri, 23 May 2014 22:09:27 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741878 Oh dear, part of me thinks 'how exciting is that!' and the other part thinks 'oh no, that would be awful'. Just like everything else, with the good comes the bad 🙁

]]> By: KaufmansKavalkade https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741872 Fri, 23 May 2014 19:51:58 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741872 The privacy debate has raged since the internet started.

]]> By: blogs4bytes aka blogantly.in https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741856 Fri, 23 May 2014 12:59:36 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741856 There is no doubt about the fact that they are following you. All depends on how smartly you handle your browser cookies (best option is not to handle and just delete them every time you exit the browser). Another way is by setting the Ad Preferences of your Google account from the settings.

#plbkkt via #blogs4bytes

]]> By: Mark Steinbrueck https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/is-google-following-you-around-town/#comment-741847 Thu, 22 May 2014 15:08:17 +0000 https://www.ourchurch.com/blog/?p=47930#comment-741847 What's next??? Will Facebook send an alert to your phone when your driving past a florist if your wife posted that she is frustrated that you've been watching too much football?

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