Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by danmg on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:49AM (#18073082)

Why would you want to let them know where you live or work in the first place?

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by sbtrct on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:10AM (#18073164)

For me, it was so that when I'm somewhere I don't know, I can type 'home' into the maps search box and get directions.

I turned off Google's activity tracking on iOS a couple of months ago, and only realised that Google Maps wasn't storing my home location when I used it for directions while stuck in traffic and it sent me to a nearby nursing home instead of my house.

I ended up turning activity tracking back on, because Apple maps still isn't fit for purpose where I live (Ireland). I often need directions down small rural roads, and four times out of five Apple Maps won't recognise the destination address, or will send me to a nearby but incorrect location.

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by chrisper on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:58AM (#18073739)

Have you tried HERE?

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by yCloser on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:07AM (#18073438)

mmm, you think they don't already know that?

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