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if you feel you can trust Google today, you'll probably feel the same way in the future, regardless of what happens
This just ... isn't true. People can and do evolve their opinions, feelings and levels of trust over time. I.e. people change. Particularly in response to external changes as you imply ("regardless of what happens").
Once you get into the tool and click on Activity Controls, you will see an option called Web & App Activity. Click Manage Activity and then the button under the calendar icon. Here, you can set your activity history on several Google products to automatically erase itself after three months or after 18 months. This data includes searches made on Google.com, voice requests made with Google Assistant, destinations that you looked up on Maps and searches in Google’s Play app store."
If Google actually cared about your privacy you'd be able to delete the info for shorter intervals, or even have it not stored at all.
Three months is a hilarious joke. The value of analytics data decays steeply; they let you delete the stuff that's not particularly valuable to them . If Google actually cared about your privacy you'd be able to delete the info for shorter intervals, or even have it not stored at all.
A few months ago someone posted a tool that cleared this and old tweets as well, but I can’t remember the name. I wish there was a tool that regularly nuked my Facebook history as well, from comments in random groups to likes across the site. I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.
> I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago. This attitude confuses me. Looking back at things I wrote ten years ago makes me think "huh, I used to believe X and now I don't, why did I change my mind?" and "X used to be really important to me and now it's not, what happened?". If I'm writing something today I'll often look back at what I've said about it previously (and I like having most of what I've written…
But it feels like everything can cause outrage these days and I don’t want to know what will look bad in 10 more years, out of context.
I’ll take out the archive and keep the memory on my computer, not online, for everyone to see.
> For those who don’t want Google to create a record of their location history at all, there’s a switch for that. On the My Activity page, click Activity controls and scroll to Location history and turn the switch to the off position. Yes, that's what I do. But then Google Maps on the phone nags you constantly that it should be on. Removing the nagging would be an immense improvement and proof of commitment to privac…
> For those who don’t want Google to create a record of their location history at all, there’s a switch for that. On the My Activity page, click Activity controls and scroll to Location history and turn the switch to the off position. Yes, that's what I do. But then Google Maps on the phone nags you constantly that it should be on. Removing the nagging would be an immense improvement and proof of commitment to privac…
Be very careful about combining Inactive Account Manager with telling Google not to store activity data. I started getting countdown to deletion warnings telling me I needed to log in to show I wasn't inactive, but no matter how often I did it was ignored completely until I turned on activity tracking. I'm not sure if this is a rare bug or working as intended, but it could go badly. In the end I turned off Inactive a…
Can you set up an API key app that pings an API weekly?
> For those who don’t want Google to create a record of their location history at all, there’s a switch for that. On the My Activity page, click Activity controls and scroll to Location history and turn the switch to the off position. Yes, that's what I do. But then Google Maps on the phone nags you constantly that it should be on. Removing the nagging would be an immense improvement and proof of commitment to privac…
Some amount of advertising is expected in a free app.
There we go again, shaming mental health :(