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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by wendigo on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:45AM (#18647459)
Nonetheless, I actually don’t enjoy seeing my search history accumulate on my device. Half of my searches are just spell checks anyway, the next 40% are just wikipedia shortcuts. Probably less than one in ten searches are genuine queries, to scour for a real result.

The number is small enough that I pretty much can directly remember the thing I was thinking about, and why I searched for it. I don’t even want my device saving my recent searches.

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by bad_user on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:54AM (#18647502)
Your preference is not very relevant for people that need to remember their searches though.
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by inetknght on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:48AM (#18647835)
People that need to remember their searches should configure their preferences in such a fashion.
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by bad_user on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:25AM (#18648522)
Let's not talk past each other. An app can remember preferences and searches locally, without synchronizing them to a central server. Requiring that the server remembers those searches only if you agree to having your activity tracked is a dark pattern.

Which is what we are talking about.

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by zaroth on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:28PM (#18649492)
And this is very much still present in the latest version on my iPhone anyway. I still see a big prompt to turn on Web & App Activity I order to “Get the most from Maps” — which includes saving “Work” and “Home” favorites. Boo :-(
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by sa1 on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:53PM (#18650665)
You don't see that prompt if you aren't signed in.
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by zaroth on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:18PM (#18652321)
Son of a .... &%$!
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by Firadeoclus on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:05AM (#18647575)
This is about location search history in Google Maps, though, not general search history. Personally, I rarely need the latter but I find the former very useful.
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