Google keeps asking about turning on my location timeline, trying to push for me to turn ON Ad tracking.

Are they stupid? If I’m the type of person who went out of his way to turn this crap off …do they really think saying “Your in Control” is going to encourage me to turn this s*** back on?

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    It’s not spyware anymore. It’s stored on device so Google does not have access to it. It was a big issue when they did this as people could not longer log into the website and view their history. Right now there is no way to back it up so if you loose your phone you loose your history.

    Reading these comments first nobody knows Google moved it locally.

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      4 days ago

      Okay so it doesn’t matter that I don’t let them collect it in the first place so there’s no reason to turn it on, cool.

      Unless you’re wrong of course, but I trust you, random paragraph I encountered anonymously on an internet forum and engaged with for 8 seconds before moving on with my life forever. You couldn’t possibly have a vested interest in misleading me and hey my coffee is ready.