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To me it seems most likely they have a syncing framework/library that takes care of both the local storage of recent items, forwarding those to the google cloud
by tokenizerrr 10y ago
To me it seems most likely they have a syncing framework/library that takes care of both the local storage of recent items, forwarding those to the google cloud services, and retrieving them when necessary. And when you disable the cloud services, this framework becomes inactive.
Of course, you could say the design of the framework is hostile, or that they should fall back to something else, but I can see this being considered extra unnecessary work.
- grive 10y agoTo me it seems obvious that adding these sync features was the original "extra unnecessary work". It is a dark pattern that Google is obviously engaging in to the detriment of their users. They went the extra mile to annoy their users to gather some more data.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoPersonally I think the syncing between devices is very convenient.
- izacus 10y agoYes, which is great. But note that they require Location history for it! So to get saved (and synced) previous searches you need to let your phone upload your location constantly to Google.