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> It is for this reason I don't let any apps track my commute to work.

That doesn't seem like it would do you any good. Either other people on the road are reporting their speed and location to Waze (in which case your resistance is futile), or no one is, in which case Waze will presumably assume that there is no traffic on the road and send more people down it.

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I live in Los Angeles. Waze only learns a new route if you teach it a route. One time I was stuck in the hills in the Valley and traffic was particularly awful. It kept re-routing, and I was wondering why it wasn't sending me on a particular route, so I decided to go that way. Well, next day the route is full of people. This has happened a few times.

So now I have routes that I know and purposely do not share with any of these apps. I make everyone in the car turn off Waze, Google, etc. If I am in an Uber or Lyft, I will just sit there. I once shared a route with an Uber driver and it's now filled with Wazers. I also have routes where I ignore the no turn signs but Waze respects those so I don't care.

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