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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 “
by laurent92 6y 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 6y 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.