Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I did a search for posts on Google Takeout before posting this and the only one I saw was from a year ago so I guess its ok to post this.
I just learned about it this morning.
The TLDR; is that you can request all the info Google has on you, in my case I want to do something with that data as I move away from Google, but just seeing what they have is nuts.
You might want to consider doing so.
(i would link the url, but its long and ugly, just search for Google Takeout, you will find it)
Wouldn't this create a download of all your data? Even if you delete all your data they could still keep the download and view your previous data.
I don't google but isn't it this?
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
If you have a "long and ugly" URL, it's usually because it's full of tracking. Use something like URLCheck or Léon from F-Droid to sanitize that garbage.
Actually there is a custom filter for uBlock Origin for that:
https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
You add this as a custom filter to uBlock, and it does all the URL cleaning without needing an extra extension.
it's not perfect, it loses tons of data for some reason. there's also pretty much no way to properly archive documents in google docs (their history/metadata)
fuck google
i actually recently tried this, and for some reason almost all the files were empty, didnt even contain my mails
The drawback is, despite you can delete your data from Google, it is only possible if you have an Google account.
Thanks I’m Already Considered Removing Them Once I Have My New Home Made PC