Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user
by mighty_bander on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:17PM
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If only there were some middle ground between "not having autocomplete" and "ruthlessly data mining the everliving fuck out of everything I do in order to sell me shit." Oh well, nothing we can do, I guess, except shut up and take it.
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Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user
by tripzilch on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:48AM
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With Google Maps the choice is even between "simply remembering your past few searches" (incredibly easy to do locally) and ruthlessly data mining the everliving shit of everything you do.
That's basically holding my privacy hostage for what is stupidly basic UX functionality.
And it's not like I was given a choice about it. Maps used to remember your search history just fine, until they pulled that a few years ago, and I "just" had to give them my location history, so they would remember my fucking search queries.
You might recognize these tactics from heroin dealers and similar scum.
It's amazing how unnecessarily less useful Maps is, if you have to retype the addresses every. single. time. But you don't want Google to keep a log of everywhere you've been.