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Old Aug 15, 2014 | 9:09 am
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jeffcarp
 
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An information thief? That is a bit comical honestly. Anyone's use of Google's services is voluntary and 98% of it is free. If people don't like the terms that a private company offers a service to you then by all means go somewhere else.

For the record, in about 3 minutes of looking I found a complete Google FAQ on how this feature works including instructions for not participating: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1710607

Turn off Private Results in your Google account preferences and this feature is gone.

Originally Posted by RichardInSF
Google is a notorious information thief, they don't want to allow you to opt out of it. It's not just Google maps that knows, it's all of Google's products. As long as you use gmail to receive reservation confirmations, they'll know. Might consider another non-Google email address just for that purpose.
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