[typenil]

These dark patterns around location tracking was what finally made me give up on Android. I knew Google tracked location even when the location setting was turned off, so I had App & Web activity disabled.

As Google bricked more and more functionality to dis-incentivize disabling that setting, they dis-incentivized me right off the Android platform and off of the rest of their services.

They did me a favor, really. I was far too naive about them prior to that wake-up call.

[freeAgent]

Same here. By totally borking the user experience when one attempts to disable location tracking, they just encouraged me to stop using their services. I switched to iOS for mobile devices and now I don’t even use Google Maps on mobile. Apple Maps is good enough. Now Google have no idea where I am when I leave my house, and that’s a good feeling.