I know most of you won't care about this, but I'm sad that Google is enshittifying Location History by deleting it from the cloud and making it device-only.
To the layperson this probably sounds like a good thing; keep that private data local. But that just means I need to back it up somewhere. And what about when I want to use it? The history is pointless unless I can browse it when I need to find something.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24172204/google-maps-delete-location-history-timeline
@schizanon i felt this way about “web activity” (despite knowing they were using it to profile me for ads). for years it was a great way to find that thing i’d forgotten to bookmark or see what i was doing on a given day years ago, and then one day i realized most things i do don’t get recorded there anymore. “timing” mac app (and “rewind”) help with that now at least, but i have to make sure they’re running, and mobile support isn’t as good.
