Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a...
by noneeeed on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:44PM
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This is my number one annoying dark pattern from Google at the moment.
I would very much like to store my home and work addresses in Google Maps on my phone, but I can't do that without them also storing everywhere I go.
There is no good reason for these two things being tied together other than to make we share my location data. We are talking about storing a few hundred bytes of relatively static data and letting me select them as a shortcut, this is not a complex feature, it's a simple shortcut.
I would very much like to store my home and work addresses in Google Maps on my phone, but I can't do that without them also storing everywhere I go.
There is no good reason for these two things being tied together other than to make we share my location data. We are talking about storing a few hundred bytes of relatively static data and letting me select them as a shortcut, this is not a complex feature, it's a simple shortcut.