BEWARE MAP APPS AND LOCATION HISTORY - MY WIFE WENT CRAZY WHEN SHE FOUND IT

[whydoidothis]

Not sure where to post this information but it could save your marriage or at the very least avoid getting caught out like I was!

Do you use Google maps? Sure you do - have to find these seedy establishments we visit, right?

I had made the mistake of leaving my google log in details for my email account which also covers Google Maps.

So what happens when you log into Google Maps and you come across this menu on the left and the item Timeline.

It shows where you have been every hour of every day for months, even years.

She came across this entry  Shanghai Massage - you will see the entry as per attachment

How could I explain what I was doing there?

Luckily I was able to say I visited the hairdressers next door and she believed me as I had a haircut that day - luckily.

However she went back into my Timeline and found other Massage Parlours which I could not explain away. Needless to say heated arguments followed and things are not the same at home to put it mildly.

So I have posted this as a warning to all fellow punters out there. Go into your Google maps timeline and if a massage shop is mentioned you can delete it or say I have not visited this place. Shows up as 3 dots next to entry.

 

YOU HAV BEEN WARNED

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[Derrick101]

You can turn off location history so it's never recorded.

[whydoidothis]

Absolutely right but many never do. This is for those who don't

[Rocket Scientist]

A Punting Phone should be standard kit of every punter.  "Failing to plan is planning to fail"

[Fuzzyduck]

Shit, that's a bitch. Thanks for the heads up and a reminder to all to tidy up the breadcrumbs after you've dipped into the bakery.

I assume this is the app? I only use the web version on my phone.

I can only imagine the grief you're getting. The doubts in her mind. Telling her friends. Them all looking at you as if you're a paedo. Imagine if she finds this post. I hope you've gone through all your devices and accounts and cleansed the whole lot. And I guess your next review might be a while

Hope it works out, fella.

[whydoidothis]

If she saw my reviews I'm a dead man.

[Jonestown]

If she saw my reviews I'm a dead man.

Don't worry, she'll get there in the end, once they are on your trail they never let up, I’d start planning for the inevitable now, get those funds stashed away somewhere safe where her solicitor can’t find them, cover your tracks. Good luck.

[threechilliman]

You can turn off location history so it's never recorded.

Thats what I did. Before I realised I could do that I always deleted the timeline history for any day I punted.

[yorkshirepunter3333]

You can turn off location history so it's never recorded.

but.. some get suspicions when its turned off.. My wife checks my location as I do a few long distant runs so she checks to see if I am alive and sometimes checks if I am still at the shop etc.

I turn mine off, use an old satnav and I clear the history and yes to the punting phone or a cloud sim solution on your main phone.

[hogcatcher]

This happened to me a few years back with my Note 3. It literally tracked every location.
Make sure to turn of location services!!!!

[Derrick101]

A Punting Phone should be standard kit of every punter.  "Failing to plan is planning to fail"

Having a punting phone is essential in my view, but if you have a domestic phone as well, that's the one OH will have access to. That needs to be location clean as well 

[Jack Flash]

Use an incognito window in your browser for all your punting including planning journeys on google. By default your timeline location is off in incognito mode. That means you can still use Google Maps and the timeline feature in your main browser with your 'usual' email address.

I assume you have a separate email address for punting anyway. Any punting searches and logging in to porn websites should also be in 'incognito mode'. That way it will not appear in your usual Google search history.

Good luck in riding out this episode. Swear blind that it was a one-off and show her lots of attention over the next few weeks. I almost got caught out years ago when my wife discovered a bar receipt showing gin and tonic which I would never drink. I was at a conference hotel so explained that I had met a female colleague. Tightened up my security arrangements after that but you can never be too careful. Always check your clothing and car when coming back from a meet to make sure there are no bits of paper with the address or phone number etc. If you use a satnat make sure you can delete the history.

[Happyjose]

If you chaps find yourselves under this degree of surveillance from your other half, the answer to your problem is not technology based

unless it's a dating app

[niftyfiftydave]

Don't worry, she'll get there in the end, once they are on your trail they never let up, I’d start planning for the inevitable now, get those funds stashed away somewhere safe where her solicitor can’t find them, cover your tracks. Good luck.

You are not too far wrong, but it does not always lead to the inevitable, sometimes coming clean to a certain extent can save the situation, did for me many times.

[threechilliman]

If you chaps find yourselves under this degree of surveillance from your other half, the answer to your problem is not technology based

unless it's a dating app

I'd agree with that. My Mrs doesn't have access to my phone and I don't have access to her two phones. No idea why she has two but there you go, must be for emergencies or summat.

[Happyjose]

I'd agree with that. My Mrs doesn't have access to my phone and I don't have access to her two phones. No idea why she has two but there you go, must be for emergencies or summat.

  

[Muff licker]

I'd agree with that. My Mrs doesn't have access to my phone and I don't have access to her two phones. No idea why she has two but there you go, must be for emergencies or summat.

  I wonder if she has got a punting phone?

[jeanphillipe]

if she went crazy with discovering that imagine when she finds this top secret site that only reveals it self to punters 

[NelsonH]

I just can't believe people will go about carrying a machine that knows where they are.

You have all been brainwashed into compliance with big-brother.

I carry a mobile phone, I turn it on to call rescue if my car won't go.  Or I break my leg in the forest.

Otherwise I am unavailable.  This is called freedom and there is no price on it.

[Kool Keef]

Just don't ever get bloody married. Simple

[Fuzzyduck]

I just can't believe people will go about carrying a machine that knows where they are.

You have all been brainwashed into compliance with big-brother.

I carry a mobile phone, I turn it on to call rescue if my car won't go.  Or I break my leg in the forest.

Otherwise I am unavailable.  This is called freedom and there is no price on it.

Ignorance is bliss.

[houseboot]

  I wonder if she has got a punting phone?

Nah ..... it's her SP phone     

[yobbra]

Just don't ever get bloody married. Simple

This is the answer to virtually every thread on here!  I often wonder if all these guys who hate being married and are trapped into this sneaking around and risk all lifestyle encourage their kids to get married?

[felixhendrix]

Wow
I always delete all evidence and I use a  basic payas you go phone when I'm contacting escorts and leave it at my work drawer.

[threechilliman]

Nah ..... it's her SP phone     

  I've often wondered!!

[m4rmite]

After a punt goto your timeline and delete the punt location.
Or choose the nearest supermarket.

And remember if your the type to take pictures turn off backup orthey will sync to your Google account

[anyfucker]

one more thing to remember is that when you fire up Google Maps it remembers the last place you were at and defaults to there.
As said above don't store timeline and bring up maps when back at work or near to home.

[Gordon Bennett]

No disrespect but that's got little to do with Google Maps and more to do with sharing access to your Google account with your Mrs. Nobody can get  on my phone, tablet or PC and nobody can access my Gmail and other Google stuff.
I like Google Maps and you can edit it to either delete days (suspicious) or simply change your stop at Roxy's Salon to Rod's Snooker Hall. Alternatively, just disable it.
Hint: You need to delete you car SatNav destinations too if you share car with others.

[DoctorSalchicha]

That's why you need to get used to use incognito mode if you need to browse on your tablet, laptop or desktop PC. If you really need google maps don't use the app, make yourself a favour and install Firefox Focus on your mobile device, use the google maps website there as Firefox Focus will automatically deleted everything for you by clicking the bin icon, or if you forgot and close your phone I'm sure it deletes it history/cache/cookies automatically, made it for privacy.
Good luck at home thouhg.

[MrMatrix]

This is why I use a Nokia which is 12 years old. None of this modern tech on it. All PAYG. All very simple
And my modern android I leave at home.

[Grinder69]

wow wow wow not that  tec savy but just went onto google maps timeline, hate to think what could have happened if partner ever looked at, as have been leaving phone lying about for any one to access for years, have now put on pin lock and disabled maps location. Thanks from one punter to another

[tantraman]

Jeez Louise!

Thanks for the heads-up about this Google Maps Timeline thing ... I had no idea, and have just seen my tracks dating back for an age!

Anyway, just deleted that most incriminating record ... and shall ensure to keep doing so going forward. Phew!

[Plan R]

If she saw my reviews I'm a dead man.

Particularly if she's not Chinese.

[Rocket Scientist]

This is why I use a Nokia which is 12 years old. None of this modern tech on it. All PAYG. All very simple
And my modern android I leave at home.

Agreed. Low tech, low maintenance is the way forward.  All the above configuration guidance is valuable, that's what UKP is for, but remember it only takes one moment of forgetfulness and you could be digging your own grave

[smiths]

This is why I use a Nokia which is 12 years old. None of this modern tech on it. All PAYG. All very simple
And my modern android I leave at home.

Same here, I don't need a smartphone for punting, I use that old fashioned thing pen and paper then rip the paper up. The lower the tech used the less chance of being fucked over by it in my book.

[Dipper]

Why and how did you leave your login?

[whydoidothis]

Let her use computer while I was logged in earlier.

Had not logged out

Glad I was not logged in to this site

Bit of a war zone at home, can't understand why.

Lesson learned

[whydoidothis]

Just want to add - IT GETS WORSE - COVER YOUR TRACKS

On your computer just go to Google Maps

Enter your home address ( you use for sat nav )

Then you will see your timeline tab

Press it and be prepared for the shock of your life

Months and months of data of your movements

DIVORCE ON THE CARDS

With all this evidence we are banged to rights

[whydoidothis]

Just want to add - IT GETS WORSE - COVER YOUR TRACKS

On your computer just go to Google Maps  ( She would not even have to log in)

Enter your home address ( you use for sat nav )

Then you will see your timeline tab

Press it and be prepared for the shock of your life

Months and months of data of your movements

DIVORCE ON THE CARDS

With all this evidence we are banged to rights

[Jonestown]

Just want to add - IT GETS WORSE - COVER YOUR TRACKS

On your computer just go to Google Maps

Enter your home address ( you use for sat nav )

Then you will see your timeline tab

Press it and be prepared for the shock of your life

Months and months of data of your movements

DIVORCE ON THE CARDS

With all this evidence we are banged to rights

At the very least I suggest it would be in your best interest to ask the mods to remove the screenshot and specific details from your first post. Women these days, especially when they are pissed off, have the ability to become far more tech savvy than men give them credit for. If your wife is onto you she will eventually get here.

[smiths]

Just want to add - IT GETS WORSE - COVER YOUR TRACKS

On your computer just go to Google Maps

Enter your home address ( you use for sat nav )

Then you will see your timeline tab

Press it and be prepared for the shock of your life

Months and months of data of your movements

DIVORCE ON THE CARDS

With all this evidence we are banged to rights

No we about it, some of us take great care and never get complacent about being caught out.

[berksboy]

  Nowt showing on mine but then i dont log into google maps on my PC or phone .

[niftyfiftydave]

  Nowt showing on mine but then i dont log into google maps on my PC or phone .

While you are all checking your phones and laptops, check the car for little magnetic tracking devices. If they want to catch you they will.

For those of you that lock the OH out of your devices are you not raising suspicion ? What are you going to do if she says let me use your phone or laptop for an hour, mines not working? Say no? Automatic guilty look.

Deleting your history will also raise suspicion, you have the app or the account but never use it ? Then the question will be asked why you have it. Did you use it at the weekend to find a garden centre or shop with her.

No matter how clever you think you are being with technology a woman scorned will find the evidence one way or another.

[Dipper]

Easy for me to say after the event....but...

Never sign in and/or use only via a securely locked ‘other device’, certainly NEVER a shared computer of any kind.

If you must login somewhere shared, then keep any searches ‘legit’. Those unable to have a punt phone will understand this more.

[Dipper]

While you are all checking your phones and laptops, check the car for little magnetic tracking devices. If they want to catch you they will.

For those of you that lock the OH out of your devices are you not raising suspicion ? What are you going to do if she says let me use your phone or laptop for an hour, mines not working? Say no? Automatic guilty look.

Deleting your history will also raise suspicion, you have the app or the account but never use it ? Then the question will be asked why you have it. Did you use it at the weekend to find a garden centre or shop with her.

No matter how clever you think you are being with technology a woman scorned will find the evidence one way or another.

All good points, depending on how individual relationships are.

Will work for some but not others.

[tynetunnel]

I don’t see a timeline simply by typing my address into google maps. Although I don’t use google maps, or anything google as I believe they (Google) are the devils work! Their customers are their advertisers, service users are merely sources of data, which the more they know about helps them sell even more advertising. Google only developed Android to sell more adverts and to lock people in to their services, which ultimately sell adverts!

I use anything but google. My default search engine is DuckDuckGo and does not track me. I’m sorry the OP is having issues, privacy is a massive concern and I reiterate:- Google = the devil 

[earlgreyman]

OP, man - that sucks! Another reason why it's STUPID as hell to use your personal phone as a punting tool - even more so if you have an S.O!

Some dudes say it's easier to use a personal phone than keep a punting phone hidden. General advice is, if you think your marriage is worth less than buying a throw away £10 burner phone, getting caught is proof.

[smiths]

OP, man - that sucks! Another reason why it's STUPID as hell to use your personal phone as a punting tool - even more so if you have an S.O!

Some dudes say it's easier to use a personal phone than keep a punting phone hidden. General advice is, if you think your marriage is worth less than buying a throw away £10 burner phone, getting caught is proof.

A second phone isn't needed, just a second tiny sim card dedicated to punting which I don't believe any punter cant hide.

[JamesFD]

A second phone isn't needed, just a second tiny sim card dedicated to punting which I don't believe any punter cant hide.

You still need to remember to turn off location history & preferably not sign into Google. A second SIM won't delete your history.

[Rocket Scientist]

You still need to remember to turn off location history & preferably not sign into Google. A second SIM won't delete your history.

correct.  the activity of a second sim will show on the shared device.