Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
I&#x27;m going to be completely honest here: If these things were behind a configuration option and defaulted to off, I&#x27;d have gone into my phone and turned that option on. I <i>want</i> to leave reviews for restaurants as I&#x27;m walking out of them - it serves the common good and doing it immediately is better for memory. I <i>want</i> to remember to download offline maps when I&#x27;m about to go somewhere where I won&#x27;t have coverage. My memory is terrible enough that I can&#x27;t do those things myself. Google obviously can&#x27;t provide this service out of the goodness of its heart, of <i>course</i> it&#x27;s going to have self-serving tweaks added on, but I consider those to be easily worth the value I get out of Google Prosthetic Associative Memory.