You can flip a widget that claims to do something. How do you know it actually does what you think it does? For example, it might simply mean that you no longer have access to your location history - which your experience documented here implies. That does not mean that the data is no longer there or being added to.
Have you read the small print?
Nearly appropriate anecdote: For a customer, the SNMP "public" community has been deemed a security issue. The GUI for three of their systems showed that the SNMP agent was not configured, let alone running. $snmpwalk -v2c -c public w.x.y.z enterprises from my PC says otherwise.
Here we have a saying: "it does what it says on the tin" to imply a form of integrity (a quote from an advert, funnily enough.) Not all tins tell the complete truth.
I'd be really interested in hearing an answer on this from Googlers. Does switching all these settings off actually affect what data Google collects and stores about you, or does it just mean they hide it from you on the activity page?
Have you read the small print?
Nearly appropriate anecdote: For a customer, the SNMP "public" community has been deemed a security issue. The GUI for three of their systems showed that the SNMP agent was not configured, let alone running. $snmpwalk -v2c -c public w.x.y.z enterprises from my PC says otherwise.
Here we have a saying: "it does what it says on the tin" to imply a form of integrity (a quote from an advert, funnily enough.) Not all tins tell the complete truth.