This particular point was rather annoying, and involved working around it in this manner:
Me: "OK Google, navigate home"
Google: "You need to turn on web and app activity."
Me: "OK Google, navigate to $NUMBER $STREET, $TOWN."
Google: "No problem".
But, they then decided that web and app activity was essential in order to give me commute information, and the only way I found around this was to turn it back on and start doing almost all my searches via Duckduckgo.
I have done the same thing. My default search engine is now duckduckgo. Changing the default theme to blue/green (upper right corner) made a huge difference. I don't know why duckduckgo uses a black and gray color scheme that essentially does not distinguish between link/site/description. Makes the results appear very muddled when they are, in fact, usually comparable to google.
Me: "OK Google, navigate home" Google: "You need to turn on web and app activity." Me: "OK Google, navigate to $NUMBER $STREET, $TOWN." Google: "No problem".
But, they then decided that web and app activity was essential in order to give me commute information, and the only way I found around this was to turn it back on and start doing almost all my searches via Duckduckgo.