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Once a month google sends me this email. "Your timeline".
It's a map with this line drawn on it showing everyplace I went that month. Home to work to the grocery store to my dealer's etc.
Why are they showing this to me? Is it an advertisement of services? A brag? A threat?
It's a smidge disturbing.
For me, it is useful. At the very least, such a blatant display of tracking information means people will know about it and disable it if necessary.
It should be an opt in feature, but it has helped me a couple times. I got beat up pretty bad after leaving a bar and couldn't remember anything about the night, was able to retrace my steps from the google stuff.
It is opt in. someone didn't read.
Oh that's spooky. What phone do you have? I was almost gonna say that it's likely a pixel thing, but I have one too, so idk why they would brag with your data.
Its baked into Google Maps.
Huh, interesting. Thanks for sharing.