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If only there were some middle ground between "not having autocomplete" and "ruthlessly data mining the everliving fuck out of everything I do in order to sell
by mighty_bander 7y ago
If only there were some middle ground between "not having autocomplete" and "ruthlessly data mining the everliving fuck out of everything I do in order to sell me shit." Oh well, nothing we can do, I guess, except shut up and take it.
- tripzilch 7y agoWith Google Maps the choice is even between "simply remembering your past few searches" (incredibly easy to do locally) and ruthlessly data mining the everliving shit of everything you do. That's basically holding my privacy hostage for what is stupidly basic UX functionality. And it's not like I was given a choice about it. Maps used to remember your search history just fine, until they pulled that a few years ago, and I "just" had to give them my location history, so they would remember my fucking search queries. You might recognize these tactics from heroin dealers and similar scum. It's amazing how unnecessarily less useful Maps is, if you have to retype the addresses every. single. time. But you don't want Google to keep a log of everywhere you've been.