Not a Bug Invasion of privacy

[Patrice B]

nope... it just happens to be the center of europe for google, apparently.

Edit: In fact, the arrow seems to point somewhere at the sea, so I must be a fish!

So, no worries someone ever finds you looking here

For the record, Google Maps locates me here! Good luck with the traffic and the amount of streets blocked by public works

 

[5StringBlues]

No, I'm not sure. In fact I never gave my street address to anyone but google maps for use when I'm using the GPS feature. So maybe I cried wolf through ignorance. From the responses I've seen posted here, it looks like that's what I did. I guess a spanking is in order. That could be fun.

Where's the line start?

 

[ardgedee]

You can't create and operate the platform, take the money and then claim you have nothing to do with anything.

Any link to Google Maps without a defined location will default to Google Maps' assumption of the user's location, when location services on the user's device makes that available. If you click on the link in this paragraph in a mobile device, you will see your location on Google Maps. If I click on the same link, I will see mine, not yours.

Google Maps is only showing you information your device is sharing directly with Google, and Talkbass is not an intermediary.

I hope this helps you understand how it works.

 

[B-Mac]

Grrr... You still can not type on the Amozon Fire Stick as before.

@paul

 

[sissy kathy]

Where's the line start?

I guess at my house, look up the address here.

 

[Ottertail]

Well I could not figure out what y'all were talking about, but then I accidentally held my phone sideways and low and behold profile stuff including location is now visible on the left hand side under the avatars. Since I have google blocked from loading on my phone (bless 1Blocker) it can't load whatever is there. I might enable google for a test, or I might wander into the kitchen and forget why I'm there instead.

 

[KenD]

Any link to Google Maps without a defined location will default to Google Maps' assumption of the user's location, when location services on the user's device makes that available. If you click on the link in this paragraph in a mobile device, you will see your location on Google Maps. If I click on the same link, I will see mine, not yours.

Google Maps is only showing you information your device is sharing directly with Google, and Talkbass is not an intermediary.

I hope this helps you understand how it works.

Is that entirely beyond the control of the owner of this platform? Or to put it another way, is google in control of this platform?

 

[ardgedee]

Is that entirely beyond the control of the owner of this platform? Or to put it another way, is google in control of this platform?

It will occur regardless of any relationship between this site and Google.

You can prove to yourself that Google does this without the use of data from any other website. Open a blank window or tab on a computer or device with location services enabled. Enter "maps.google.com" into the browser address bar and the map will default to your current location.

In fact even when you don't have location services enabled. Google Maps will attempt to make a best guess about your location based on the information it has about your browser, network uplink, or the presence of other devices that are also on your local network.

 

[mcnach]

Is that entirely beyond the control of the owner of this platform? Or to put it another way, is google in control of this platform?

It has nothing to do with "this platform". You're in charge. If you provide a location, the software uses Google maps to display it. If there's no valid location, it'll just display YOUR OWN, to yourself, not to others if you have location enabled on your device. You are in control, nobody else

 

[Manticore]

This is hilarious, and simple. I have two very broadly-defined homes, one in SoCal and one in PNW. If I look at my profile on my phone it takes me to a map of the western US showing the general location of both places. The SoCal pin is very generalized, there is essentially no information to be had. There is also a very generalized pin for PNW, just north of the border. There is, however, a different pin, with a different color in the PNW. The pin with a different color can take me precisely to my house. The satellite photo of the house is more current than most on the net, so that's cool. There's no ground-level photos because it is private street. The difference? I'm at the PNW home and the location is turned on my phone. It's simply following your phone around.

 

[KenD]

It will occur regardless of any relationship between this site and Google.

You can prove to yourself that Google does this without the use of data from any other website. Open a blank window or tab on a computer or device with location services enabled. Enter "maps.google.com" into the browser address bar and the map will default to your current location.

In fact even when you don't have location services enabled. Google Maps will attempt to make a best guess about your location based on the information it has about your browser, network uplink, or the presence of other devices that are also on your local network.

Apparently, "Google Brain" was an accurate prediction of things to come.

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

Is that entirely beyond the control of the owner of this platform? Or to put it another way, is google in control of this platform?

 

[J Wilson]

Where Y'all At?

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Where Y'all At?

GPS keeps making me turn left.
I been turning left for the last two hours.

Five more days to go, keep it warm for me.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

When you click on a member, you can get a google map to their house, along with a picture of it. This is a massive privacy invasion. STOP IT.

How do you do this? I've clicked on members snd poked around to see how the new site works as a beta tester and since it went live and have yet to see this.

 

[sissy kathy]

How do you do this? I've clicked on members snd poked around to see how the new site works as a beta tester and since it went live and have yet to see this.

See post #77 (page 4) and get in line.

 

[Tassieviking]

I was thinking of getting a new phone last year but I heard too many stories about how your phone will try to latch into your computer and share information if it can.
New phones are great but they are real gossipers as well, they will talk to any other device they can find and link up with.