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To be fair... I miss being able to access my location history data via the browser. So it's not a case of "google being evil", it's a case of "sane defaults", "shifting regulations", and "unintended consequences". Google should get the accolades they deserve in this case.

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Google doesn't care that their business model is hording data in a manner that puts users at risk from any malicious government official.

They merely bowed to public pressure when the press turned against Google because continuing to horde location data put women seeking abortions in legal jeopardy.

To deserve accolades, they would need to stop hording all the other types of data and adopt a business model not based on spying on everyone as much as possible.

They killed a lot of functionality. For instance, if you opened the details of a place, it used to tell you when all your visits were. I feel the timeline is mostly abandonware these days.

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