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To put my point of view bluntly, this is going to be a never ending game of whack-a-mole. Even if someone documents how to cleanup your location history across all of Google’s properties/services/databases, nobody can guarantee that it’ll solve the problem forever — except Google.

And Google’s business model as well as response to this finding make it clear (at this point) that Google won’t “solve this” and won’t do anything to make this less confusing and easier.

This is not the first time that Google had been found collecting and storing location information contrary to its claims or its explanation in help pages. Every time someone does an exposé, certain things may change (in this case it did not).

The writing on the wall has been clear for a long time — if you don’t like Google tracking your location, stop using its products/services or at least avoid creating an account with Google. I’d guess that the latter is highly impractical for most people. “Choose your battles” is what can be said when there’s no hope.