I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I’m very sure there is even more data they have.

  • risencode@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    now they have your email.

    That’s why you use hide-my-email aliases when you sign up to sites, so they can’t tie “your” email to you anymore.

    Every time I 'm forced to use a google account

    Create a few junk accounts, send recovery to a hide-my-email alias

    If you use password managers it really is no bother to have multiple accounts, and Proton Pass integrates hide-my-email, it’s pretty neat.

    • glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for the hint with hide-my-email! I will ask my mail provider, if they offer something like this as a service.