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I think the Google Maps annoyance after activity tracking is disabled is designed intensionally. To force users to give up the control with easy to click button

• jkaplowitz 9y ago
  I too dislike how many of Google's consumer services are being increasingly gated on the location history permission, which I too have disabled and which therefore means I can't use those services. However, having worked at other parts of Google (not on Maps or location stuff), I'd guess at a much more prosaic explanation than that kind of conspiracy: the product managers / engineers / tech writers / UI designers don't want to maintain the complexity of both code paths and UX flows indefinitely if most users are happy to share their location server-side in exchange for the conveniences and features that enables. You and I aren't happy to do that, but we on Hacker News aren't representative of most consumer-product Google users.
  • solarkraft 9y ago
    I find it interesting that the engineers' laziness may just happen to translate to an "evil" win for the company.
  • majewsky 9y ago
    > I too dislike how many of Google's consumer services are being increasingly gated on the location history permission, which I too have disabled and which therefore means I can't use those services. Huh? Google Maps works fine for me despite having disabled location services. It nags me nearly everytime I open the app to "enable location services to proceed", making it sound as though it is required, but I just click "No" and get on with it. Haven't noticed any missing features.
    • jkaplowitz 9y ago
      One example of a Google consumer service that needs location history is the Google Assistant. on my Google Pixel phone, that has fully replaced the older non-Assistant OK Google system which didn't require location history.
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