[solardev]

I wish I could opt out of this change. I've been asking Google to remember my location for more than a decade, and it's an amazing record of where we've been, when. I don't care that the government or Google can see it, it's still super useful. I'd pay to keep it in the cloud.

[tim333]

WaPo article says:

>If you do decide you want that information in the cloud — say, as a backup for when you get a new phone — the data will be encrypted.

So maybe it'll still be available? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/14/google-...

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Hopefully there's some way you'll be able to get it out of your device. Obviously not as ideal as a simple checkbox in Google, but to me making you have to set up some sort of export/sync yourself is an acceptable tradeoff for what the rest of us get from this change. Of course, it's easy for me to say that, because I don't use the feature basically at all ;)

[solardev]

It's not that I just want to export what I have right now (which can already be done), but that the active tracking was a valuable service to me. I hope somebody offers an alternative.