points by lacoolj 4 days ago | 0 comments
Yeah dude, I had to explain this to my mom and sister this past weekend
One of the darkest patterns on top of the most childish behaviors a company can have.
You don't want to share your data with us? Well, I guess you don't want it either then, so now no one gets it.
[–] warkdarrior 4 days ago
[–] gewetensleegte 3 days ago
The same behaviour happens when you turn off "Location History", Google Maps stops showing the last few searches in its search box. That's literally a matter of local storage that's available in any decent GUI library.
It's really stupid but it's the only reason why I keep Location History turned on. I don't really want Google to keep my Location History, but when I'm on the road, it's super inconvenient to have to type full address over and over again.
I wonder if with the reverse engineering LLMs allow us, I could patch Google Maps to behave like a normal program with a normal search input field.
[–] k0dyn 4 days ago
As in, Google's AI plans explicitly specify the amount of storage you're buying.
No, that doesn't apply to free usage - but that old adage about "If the product is free, are you sure you're not the product?" applies.
[–] lacoolj 4 days ago