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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by Mezzie on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:52AM (#30177468)
I have a use case for turning it off:

I'm in the middle of trying to create a taxonomy of our unwieldly internal documentation (which exists, to my despair, mostly in Google Workspace Apps). Part of this is recreating how other employees find and access things, including search.

And oftentimes when I'm searching in this capacity, I'm looking specifically for documents that are hard to find or that I've never had to touch before. My history is not only not helpful, I don't want it on because I don't want it influencing my thinking or searching.

Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by jcranberry on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:22AM (#30177898)
Thanks for sharing, that's a very cool use case.