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So, the real and useful bit of information in TFA is that Big G is transitioning the Location History / Timeline service to be on-device only, thus removing the
by darkwater 2y ago
So, the real and useful bit of information in TFA is that Big G is transitioning the Location History / Timeline service to be on-device only, thus removing the web version of it (since it will be tied to the device generating the coordinates material).
And the comments are all dunking on "yet another Google dead project" "someone who was already promoted doesn't care" etc etc etc. You can dunk on Google here asking, for example, if "is there any possible secret agenda behind this?" "What's the catch?" "No way they are giving up on that data!", at least it would be in topic with the article.
- chankstein38 2y agoYeah I came here ready to be mad another useful feature was being sunsetted and as much as I'd rather not have to view it all from my phone, if they're telling the truth that this data will stay on-device now, this is actually pretty cool!
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- Andrex 2y agoHow fragile is the local data? Will it be preserved if I switch phones? What about past events that aren't on the current phone? What if I use two phones? This takes a unified view and fragments it for spurious user privacy benefits (when we know Google is still collecting and holding all the information needed anyways).
- darkwater 2y agoyou can optionally use an e2e encrypted backup to restore it from another phone. I guess the key to encrypt it will be in your google account data.