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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:21PM (#17881974)
Wasn't this "Web and App Activity" just this month found to keep its own location history when Location Services are disabled? Seems like they've loaded a lot of different behaviors into this one setting.
You can set kernel boot parameters to disable the mitigations on a patched kernel.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...

This makes some sense. A few months back Apple was found to be limiting the performance of iPhones with degraded batteries. A fresh battery wouldn't have that issue.