Yeah, I can understand going in and deleting specific things in your history if Google keeps serving you ads about them. But turning off the entire history seem

Yeah, I can understand going in and deleting specific things in your history if Google keeps serving you ads about them. But turning off the entire history seems like overkill. (And your point about hiding from the NSA vs. Google is what I was trying to get at in my comment above, which for some reason got downvoted quite heavily).