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This is the classic "my use case is the only use case and anyone who thinks otherwise is stupid" response.

> Why do you believe that anybody in their right mind would want this functionality turned off?

Because they want to. We don't need to give you a reason. (I know you're not GP)

I keep browsing history in Firefox turned off. Not out of privacy concerns or anything like that - it's not leaving my computer and nobody else inspects what sites I've been visiting - but just because I don't like having it. If I find something useful I bookmark it.

I do the same in Drive and Gmail. Because I just don't like having the history suggestions pop up when I'm trying to search. It's annoying and obnoxious and frankly quite useless IMO. I can type the query again.




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