> Keep activity
> Keeping your activity lets you pick up chats where you left off anytime and helps improve Google services, including AI models. When this setting is off, Google still saves chats for 72 hours to respond to you and help keep Gemini safe.
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.
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.
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.
The only way out is to stop being a 'consumer', and opt for a business account.