Profit-seeking has ruined innovation and killed us all.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Also Magic Earth and Here We Go are decent alternatives.
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Weirdly The Most Infuriating Part Of This Story For Me Was The Twitter Post Someone Wrote Entirely Like This
Dear Google glitterati,
Are you actually wanting us to touch our phone while the car is on? This is a huge penalty in some regions, after all.
Tell me more about how smart you all are.
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I'd like to use this opportunity to promote Organic Maps, yet again
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This is the worst example of enshittification I've seen from Google. I think it's time to start considering iPhone.
That's where you went?
There's Google maps on the cryphone as well.
Just go get openstreetmaps.
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Glad my Garmin doesn't do that... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oop, you dropped this ༼ つ ◕‿◕ ༽つ\
Weird... it rendered fine on initial post... same issue as reddit I guess.
Alright, what's the next best navigation app to switch to if they actually pull this shit?
I've been playing with Organic Maps. It's not... perfect. But it's a contender I'd say
Ok, I should clarify, unfortunately I am someone who needs a navigation app that is able to know public transit schedules and routes. Offline is generally not gonna work as it's vital to have up to date info on rescheduling and rerouting.
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Google Maps is good for finding businesses and their opening hours. That's it. Personally I then copy the address and then use one of several apps, depending on my mode of transportation. For car either Waze or Magic Earth.
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I will 100% uninstall when I see this.
Their analytics need to see how little time it takes me to uninstall. I'll fucking pull over and uninstall mid trip. I am a psycho against ads. I'll call the AG and say it caused me to get in an accident.
Fuck ads. Fuck any company that forces them down your throat.
Fuck. Ads.
Fuck. I'm mad now.
Totally feel that. I will go to extreme lengths to avoid ads.
Brothers from another mother.. I fight ads daily ..... Been pretty lucky I stay away from TV. They keep trying, really all it's done lately is forced me to go foss for most of my apps.
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I'm not even against ads, because their little blurbs about a mcdonalds nearby on the map - eh. fine.
This shit though, that pops up and distracts me while I'm driving? Nah fuck that, I'll get rid of google maps over it
Yep. I might buy a fucking beater vehicle just to insure and subsequently softly careen into a boulder as soon as that shit occurs.
Make Google fucking liable for forcing content on me. Fuck them.
My brother in arms! lol
Was just having a conversation last week when the subject of roadside billboards came up, the other guy says to me that he reads every single one of them when he’s driving. I tell him when I look at billboards the only think I think about is how much fun it would be to cut them down and set them on fire. Dude looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead.
So, when we drive up to Georgia or South Carolina from Florida, there's a point on I-75 where the Jesus billboards come out. Many of them are the usual "Babies have heartbeats" variety, but there's also the following:
- "Have you decided yet ... Jesus" which we always render in an exasperated voice, aka "OMG have you decided yet? Jesus!"
- "Go ahead, let go. I'll catch you - Jesus" which we always respond to with "WTF Jesus just reach down and grab me, you're RIGHT THERE!"
- "Jesus is in control" with mysterious Russian tanks and American soldiers.
- Zombies and Jesus for ... reasons.
I can't say that I can agree with you more.
A new bright as FUCK billboard was put up on a frequent road I travel. I want it GONE and the people responsible for it to just die.
It's seriously a hazard at night...
This screens fade so fast.
Call them up and say it's already looking dimmer. Repeat monthly. You could gaslight them into thinking it's dying fast. And those things aren't cheap.
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I live in the lovely state of Vermont where billboards are fucking illegal. 😍
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Apple Maps is great now. Fuck google maps I never use it anymore.
Ehhhhh I think Apple Maps is hit or miss depending on your area. In urban centers? I think Apple Maps gives superior directions.
In more rural areas? I think Google wins.
I haven’t tested out incident avoidance with Apple Maps as I haven’t used it since it guided me to the wrong address three years ago..
Maybe it’s worth a second try
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i have noticed too, apple maps is absolutely superior to google. when we are navigating somewhere with gf, she uses apple maps with no issues while i can't find shit with google maps...can't remember this being a problem in the past.
Nice. And then soon it'll be "watch this add to take the fastest route".
Then "subscribe for an add free experience" without subscription you get the add, as well as navigation that requires you to drive to a detoured location and take a picture of said location before continuing on to your destination (or yet another detour add, if the trip is long enough).
Look at us, peak civilization here.
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The map in my head will be deemed content theft because it cuts into Google's profits.
Please drink your confirmation can now
don't forget 3 years later when the subscription isn't profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
Promptly killing off the old version
"Google roads"->"road maps"->"Google directions"->"Google maps"
Well, guess I need to look into more Google alternatives. OpenStreetMaps most likely.
While not FOSS, the closest thing we have to a drop-in replacement would be Magic Earth. It uses openstreetmap data, supports fully offline usage, has satellite images (only online though) and best of all, no tracking or telemetry.
It's it better than organic maps?
It has a better car navigation interface and some nice features like traffic amd live events data, but it really looks like it's update much, if any at all. Organic Maps is a little more barebone, but it constatly gets new features
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People arent actually thaat tolerant to this cancer. If they arent careful people will switch.
OrganicMaps (or Osmand) is all i need usually. Search is kind of bad sometimes and obviously no live traffic data, but if you dont drive a car, the latter one at least is irrelevant.
I've tried Osmand and my only complaint is that you need to tap and access too many menus to set up and/or exit navigation mode. Last time I tried it was last year, not sure if that's changed
Yeah, I used it a couple years ago, and for walking especially it seemed really cool, since it has all sorts of extra data like slopes and benches or whatever. But there are a whole ton of settings everywhere, which is cool that you can customise everything but also a bit of a mess. Definitely more for power users it seems.
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