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I was always annoyed by that, it feels like low level malicious compliance: “see? not storing anything, anything at all”

Cerium 5y ago
Indded it feels like that. It's like you are paying with your data and here is where you choose the plan you want. Oh, you don't want the pro plan but would rather the free plan? It has less features.
- laurent92 5y ago
  Are you sure you want Google to have definitive answers for “Work” and “Home”? I know they already infer it by tracking overnight location; but - When I type “Ho” in GMaps it will first suggest all businesses — “Ho... Home Depot? House Garden? Horror House (375km)?” then cities (“Ho... Chi Minh City, Vietnam?”) and, after many tries, “Home”, the real. - I had Web Activity and Location History registered, in France but English with a address for “Home”, - I was using it for every return trip; They could have suggested by default without typing anything; Clearly they optimize to promote businesses or other usecases first, not convenience. - I ended up putting a Label “XKDJF” on my home, which is more convenient (until a city starts with “XK” – hoping Elon Musk will not name a city on Mars this year).
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    > Are you sure you want Google to have definitive answers for “Work” and “Home”? I know they already infer it by tracking overnight location; but I would say the root problem is that supplying any information to a Google app is by default assumed to mean "This should be uploaded to a persistent profile of user data." They could just let me set a Home and Work location on my phone and leave that data on my phone (regardless of tracking preferences), or they could store it in a more private mechanism with a key that lives on your device (see Chrome bookmark sync), but they choose to not do any of that.

4 ms·

I was always annoyed by that, it feels like low level malicious compliance: “see? not storing anything, anything at all”

by GoOnThenDoTell 5y ago

Cerium 5y ago
Indded it feels like that. It's like you are paying with your data and here is where you choose the plan you want. Oh, you don't want the pro plan but would rather the free plan? It has less features.
- laurent92 5y ago
  Are you sure you want Google to have definitive answers for “Work” and “Home”? I know they already infer it by tracking overnight location; but - When I type “Ho” in GMaps it will first suggest all businesses — “Ho... Home Depot? House Garden? Horror House (375km)?” then cities (“Ho... Chi Minh City, Vietnam?”) and, after many tries, “Home”, the real. - I had Web Activity and Location History registered, in France but English with a address for “Home”, - I was using it for every return trip; They could have suggested by default without typing anything; Clearly they optimize to promote businesses or other usecases first, not convenience. - I ended up putting a Label “XKDJF” on my home, which is more convenient (until a city starts with “XK” – hoping Elon Musk will not name a city on Mars this year).
  - wlesieutre 5y ago
    > Are you sure you want Google to have definitive answers for “Work” and “Home”? I know they already infer it by tracking overnight location; but I would say the root problem is that supplying any information to a Google app is by default assumed to mean "This should be uploaded to a persistent profile of user data." They could just let me set a Home and Work location on my phone and leave that data on my phone (regardless of tracking preferences), or they could store it in a more private mechanism with a key that lives on your device (see Chrome bookmark sync), but they choose to not do any of that.