Google

So apparently Google finally provides this functionality as an opt in privacy option in your Google account. The thing is though.. the check box and line "Include visual search history" isn't there in my account settings. It's supposed to be under Data & Privacy => Web & App Activity. Is this still in AB testing or being rolled out per region or...??

Thanks for anyone who can help me find an answer. I've been wanting this feature for a long time and google can't provide me with an answer to this question.

I'm tired of these places coming up in all my searches because I will never go back to these places again.

How are they not trying to fix their search?

I've been cleaning out my drive and photos lately because I've been on the edge of having no storage for a year. I removed A LOT of photos yesterday and now I am again out of storage.

Upon investigation, 'Device Backup' is now taking up a third of my storage space. Delving into that further, MMS messages backup is taking up 6 gb total.

I do not have Google One.

I don't see any way to remove the MMS without deleting the entire backup.

Anyone have experience with this?

Full list of coming changes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2563044

I have no particular love for Google as a company in its current form, but I've got to admit that as an ecosystem of tools (particularly for work) they get a lot right. I'm new to the fediverse, but one thing I liked about the forum-that-should-not-be-named were the strong communities around sharing knowledge relating to Google Workspace. Does such a community, even a small one, exist anywhere out here?

Funny how it is the worker bees that have to pull the over time to fix issues that are probably the result of demands from some management stooge that didn’t appreciate the outcomes of their demands.

I was gonna share this report I wrote for school with a friend. I remember throughout college I kept my school files organized on Drive, but when I went to look for it nothing seemed right. The rule is that I have a folder for every class I had organized by semester and year and alot of them are gone. Classes I know I took I have no record of anything I did there.

It's kind of a bummer. I found some record of me writing this report, I wrote it in December 2020.. Has there been some files loss in Google Drive that I didn't know about? It's kind of a bummer that I can't look at these old things I did but, I'm just hoping for the best.