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yndoendo 19 seconds ago [-]
I've dumped Google Maps for OSM over three years ago and have not looked back. Did this as one of my de-Google steps by choosing a Fairphone.
Looking at a FuriLabs FLX1S to start the next phase by switching to a Linux phone.
I've become a sunk cost to Google by not spending anything on their products or services and always use Ad-Block solution in a private session if I must.
wlonkly 58 minutes ago [-]
They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps.
People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
nancyminusone 35 minutes ago [-]
as opposed to a top of the barrel advertising company like Google
altcognito 11 minutes ago [-]
There is significant differences in advertising. The things at the bottom of the barrel in advertising are often literally malware.
gruez 54 minutes ago [-]
>Startpage.com
I thought that was still the best way to get anonymous google index search results?
doubled112 53 minutes ago [-]
Dogpile?!? There's a name I haven't heard in what feels like 20 years.
The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.
verdverm 26 minutes ago [-]
Ironicly this is what my agent does today on my behalf because regular search has become so bad
mc32 44 minutes ago [-]
They forgot to scoop up mapbalst!
never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!)
standeven 33 minutes ago [-]
I think a lot of people are desperate for tech giants to stand up to the current US administration.
declan_roberts 2 minutes ago [-]
As long as tech companies make a stand against stupid, pedantic things like names nobody will care that they've caved w.r.t privacy over the last two decades. Sad!
gnuplustoejam 30 minutes ago [-]
It still says Ontario because there's no one left at MapQuest that knows how to change it.
D-Coder 22 minutes ago [-]
That may be, but it's still what many people want.
gnuplustoejam 19 minutes ago [-]
I suggest they buy a laminated map for children, cross it out, and write the old name in so they can sleep at night.
nickthegreek 3 minutes ago [-]
Or we could not bend the knee to a single old man throwing a tantrum.
RajT88 19 minutes ago [-]
I enjoy how Bing Maps (and Bing in general) are so unloved that it's not even part of the debate. (Bing Maps hasn't changed - yet - but probably will eventually, since they caved on the Gulf of Mexico)
chrononaut 57 minutes ago [-]
> In 2019, Verizon sold MapQuest to internet advertising company System1.
It's ad companies all the way down.
declan_roberts 1 minutes ago [-]
And this is a PR piece put out by the ad company that people eat up because orange man bad.
ghostoftiber 27 minutes ago [-]
I feel like it wasn't defiance as much as "we need to come up with a story why we don't have any developers who know how to update this".
Varelion 38 minutes ago [-]
Finding MapQuest on the PlayStore was a quest all on its own. More specifically, it does not exist on my PlayStore, and I had to install it on my phone remotely through the browser PlayStore.
Review wise, it sits firmly at a single star, so it's possible that Google burried it, although I would not put it past them to rig things.
organsnyder 33 minutes ago [-]
I tried it out for a trip yesterday. I wanted to love the app—it has a great retro feel, and an ad-free subscription option—but it gave me weird routes and the audio was extremely stuttery.
afavour 15 minutes ago [-]
I get why people want Apple and Google to push back but ultimately there isn’t any logical approach for them to operate that isn’t “name things as the relevant governmental bodies name them”. Otherwise what source of truth is there?
The responsibility here is with a spineless government. An executive order is not a law and a congress that did its job would quickly contract these kind of mad king declarations.
bigstrat2003 3 minutes ago [-]
The government has no right to name geographic features. The names are established by popular usage, not the feds. As such Google and Apple should not listen to the demands of a body which has no right to make them in the first place.
pmdulaney 52 minutes ago [-]
On the back of a cocktail napkin, I drew a map of you...
egberts1 40 minutes ago [-]
Once again, private equity ruined another fine company ... with incessant advertisements
Looking at a FuriLabs FLX1S to start the next phase by switching to a Linux phone.
I've become a sunk cost to Google by not spending anything on their products or services and always use Ad-Block solution in a private session if I must.
People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
I thought that was still the best way to get anonymous google index search results?
The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.
never mind looks like they got swallowed up by bing maps (that’s where Bing got line drive from, TIL!)
It's ad companies all the way down.
Review wise, it sits firmly at a single star, so it's possible that Google burried it, although I would not put it past them to rig things.
The responsibility here is with a spineless government. An executive order is not a law and a congress that did its job would quickly contract these kind of mad king declarations.
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