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Thanks past me!
I have all my histories turned off and once a year or so I go in and make sure they haven't added anything new for me to turn off.
Now the question is, are they really not collecting my data or have I just made it so I can't see what they have on me?
My best guess is that they instead aggregate your data and serve ads based off of basic demographically information - instead of data they've harvested from your Google account. E.g. they'll use your age range, gender, region, etc