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I don't want this! Google location history is a constantly useful part of my life.
by flarg 6y ago
I don't want this! Google location history is a constantly useful part of my life.
- opless 6y agoAgree! I use this feature all the time. Especially if I want to find where I went a few years ago
- opless 6y agoThankfully older accounts are set to auto delete being “off”.
- netsharc 6y agoIt does have a bug though, if the place you visited changes its name, your history will say you visited $NEW_PLACE instead of $OLD_PLACE. So if you went to an e.g. Hilton in Berlin in 2018, and in the meantime they shut down/move, and some companies (let's say Facebook) set up offices in the former hotel, if you look in your history, it will say you spent the nights in Facebook offices in Berlin..
- opless 6y agoBlimey! That’s a rookie mistake!
- MivLives 6y agoI wonder if there's a local solution to this, store it out of Google's hands.
- ta17711771 6y agoCourse there is. Always is. How badly do you want it? OwnTracks, Traccar, etc - lots more on F-Droid.
- kelchm 6y agoI’ve tried them, none really work as well as Google’s location history.
- ta17711771 6y agoMeaning....UI/UX (how pretty and well-arranged the buttons are)? Some specific feature? The data capture? What's the actual issue? Also: the proprietary version will usually be a step or two of "new features that may or may not be important" ahead of the FOSS offerings.
- nelaboras 6y agoThere are plenty of apps that can do this of you want it.
- myopenid2 6y agoWhich ones has the same level of integration and reliability as Google?
- wilde 6y agoOut of curiosity, what do you use it for? I turned mine off after learning about how Google gives the info to police, and the only thing I miss is being able to set my home location in Google Maps.
- catsdanxe 6y agoDo you really think turning that setting off stops google from collecting it and giving it to the police?
- sukilot 6y agoYes, obviously.
- DharmaPolice 6y agoI basically use it as a type of diary. Sometimes the use is just remembering what I did on a particular day for nostalgia purposes, other times it's practical. Couldn't remember when exactly I bought something (but it was a shop I don't go to often) so had a look on my timeline and found the date and claimed on a warranty. It also gives you data you can look at when analysing your life - e.g. how often I go to a friends, how long I spend walking in a week, how fast particular routes are to work, etc. When I used to fill in timesheets it was an easy record of what time I got to work each day. There's a fairly basic nerdy pleasure from having these facts available. Yes, I could collect this information manually and keep these records myself but that is quite a lot of work which I'd prefer spend doing other things. I've also used it to piece together the previous night after getting blackout drunk in a foreign city.