For many of us home address is not very sensitive information. What we do online can be.

It’s not just what Google knows about you. If your account is compromised, attacker may be able to download all historicsl information and share it with everybody.

Shouldn't we be able to set home address in a map to get directions without it tracking anything at all? The 24/7 of everyone's existence should not be a marketing opportunity. You know, like TomToms and other GPS maps used to before everything was always connected.

Is it really unreasonable to expect any company, or Google specifically to decide "you know, home address and travel is more sensitive, let's provide some options to leave that out of ad tracking"?

Can't you set your address to a made up address across the street from you (often they leave unused numbers) 1, 9, 15... 2, 8, 12.. and set it as your home address. You can even just use a street over, it's not going to affect the routing at all but the last block or so.

Of course, I don't think this does much since they can get your address by other means.

Anyhow, giving them your actual home address is like filling out those secret security questions truthfully.

If someone knows my home address, they have to drag themselves all the way to Wyoming to do anything about it. High cost, low value. If somebody tracks everything I do online, they can start spamming me online on all the sites I visit. Low cost, high value.

Not really. If you have first and last name, it's not hard to find residential address. Semi-public information. [1]

On the other hand, the data about online activity can be voluminous and private.

[1] https://www.whitepages.com/person

How about storing things locally?