Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        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.

    • Smorty [she/her]
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      41 year ago

      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.