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Google Tips: How to stop Google from tracking your location? Know these privacy tricks..

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Google adopts many tricks to track your location. It does this even without GPS. If you do not know, then let us tell you that Google Maps keeps an eye on your activities. Not only this, location data is collected through many applications of Android devices. If you want Google not to track your location, then you have to change some settings in your mobile for this.

Remember that Google tracks your location even without GPS, so you have to turn off this feature. How can you do this, understand step by step here.

How does Google track your location?

Google collects data from your Wi-Fi network. As soon as you connect to a device, Google will track your location. Your location can be accurately detected based on the signals coming from nearby routers. Apart from this, Google also detects the location of your device from the signal of the cell tower. If you have connected to a Bluetooth device, then Google tracks your location.

Your device has an IP address. Google detects your location from the geographical area location of the internet-providing companies. If you have shared your location with someone, then Google will automatically know.

How to stop tracking location

1. Go to My Activity in Google Account and there in Web & App Activity click on Location History. Now disable it here.

2. Go to My Google Activity and delete the history there.

3. Turn off location history in your Google account.

4. Stop location sharing in the Google Maps app.

5. Delete your location history in the Google Maps app.

6. Turn off web and app activity in your Google account.

7. Activate Do Not Track in Google Chrome.

8. Disable geographic location in your browser.

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