>Imagine going into a restaurant and saying "I really don’t enjoy a medium rare steak please make it medium well" and having the chef say "ok fine but medium rare steak is the best way to enjoy it so I made it medium rare despite what you previously explicitly told me enjoy".<p>Alternative: Imagine people expect the waiter to always know what they want when they walk in the door and say "I want steak with the usual" but the waiter doesn't know what the usual is. And it's because you, the customer (or your "dad", the workspace admin), has told the waiter not to remember you once you leave the restaurant each time. You don't really know you did this, you just had some friend from the EFF tell you "Waiters should never remember you!" and so you went along with it.<p>People probably expect Google to "just know" what they're looking for when you search, and search quality goes down when search history can't be used to refine results. So Google is putting it back in peoples' faces saying "I am pretty sure you want this on, and with Workspaces, we aren't using it for ads, just to make the product better".<p>There is my charitable reading of it.