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[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. The only thing this setting does is hide the information from the user. Google, or a thousand other data brokers (many probably created by Google for this purpose) still retain that data indefinitely.

[โ€“] cole@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

categorically false. literally do a little bit of research. it is stored on-device entirely now, and Google has no access to it.