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As of yesterday I've been noticing various Google applications (Maps in particular, both web and iOS) nagging me to turn on centralised history recording, in order to have any kind of search history or bookmarking.

My answer is "hell no", always has been and even more so now; and I can deal with the disappearance of functionality, but the nagging is especially irritating and the timing doubly ironic.



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