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Google either do or used to automatically detect your home and work based on your history. While I agree it should be settable without it, that may be the reaso

• maxxxxx 8y ago
  That’s a very charitable way to explain this. It’s much more likely that they want to coerce people to turn on tracking.
  • IanCal 8y ago
    Quite possibly, though I have a very uncharitable reason for my guess. Google likes to go for "don't worry we'll do it automatically!" but they're overconfident and often terrible at it. This seems to happen throughout the business and is a huge downside to me. I wonder if they added the feature without thinking it'd be worth letting people set it themselves because they're so good at doing it automatically. This also has the benefit of being a decision made at a lower level rather a larger "add more tracking" push. I've had to turn off lots of automated Google things like ticket reminders (that tell me to catch the wrong train because they can't read the email right).
• reaperducer 8y ago
  Google either do or used to automatically detect your home and work based on your history The iPhone does that. Or at least tries. It knows that the place I live is my wife's home, but for me it's always labeled "gym." Apple Maps should talk to my Health app and figure out that the chances I'm at a gym are pretty much zero.