„On your way to the ER? Make a quick stop at Wallmart to get some vitamins!“
I am using Organic Maps for all my navigation needs (mostly bike and pedestrian navigation).
And tell me how exactly this it’s good idea in an emergency? If a friend of mine had their car die in the middle of a snow storm or my wife was in labor I don’t think they’d appreciate me taking a detour to get fucking Wendy’s.
Edit: They’ve updated the article with a quote from Google saying it will be pop-ups that don’t do anything unless you tap on them. Still a pain in the ass with more dumb ads, but at least it’s not as stupid as it seemed initially.
That’s the thing though. They placed it exactly where they know people will click. I clicked the alternate route while driving yesterday, as traffic was getting worse, and suddenly I’m on the page of a business I am not at all interested in. They don’t give a fuck about people’s navigation at all.
Well that’s fucking dumb. Nothing like using the excuse that people aren’t going to read too far into a pop up while driving to get more of that sweet advertisement money.
Yey more ads on its way, can’t wait what else Google is in store for us
And this kind of bullshit is why I stopped using anything Google, or at least heavily ad blocked like YouTube.
Because they want money for their service?
Go ahead, use MapQuest, I’m sure it’ll be just as good.
I would rather pay an upfront fee, or even a subscription of some kind than have this crap shoved in my nose. I’m firmly in the camp of believing there’s nothing wrong with closed software that the devs want to earn money from, but this modern method is so fucking annoying I’ll use basically anything else
Yeah, intentionally making a service or product worse to force feed obtrusive ads isn’t the only way companies can make money from it. Once they start doing that it becomes an ad platform that sometimes offers a service, rather than a service that has ads.
I think platforms like patreon are the real way forward. If you have a product or service that people want, you can even offer it for free, but people will support you financially if they believe in what you’re doing. The added beauty of this is that there really is no upper limit. You could add an “ultra platinum” tier for $150 a month and one wealthy investor could make a huge difference in your project.
Also, I don’t even think ads are the devil. I get why they exist, and I understand why they make so much money. I’m fine being advertised to, because I know what I’m interested in and am very skeptical. I think I’ve had one ad sway me into buying a product I’d never heard of until that point. What I do hate is when the actual advertised product takes a backseat to the massive amounts of data harvesting/brokerage that comes with the advertising industry.
Nobody is stopping you. Go ahead and buy a Garmin.
I’d make a 100 bet, you question the people in this thread 75%+ of them have no experience buying an atlas for $20 a year and would scoff at the price of buying new maps every year.
We already lived through this shit when GPS became common in the early 00s and EVERYONE bitched about paying for new maps.
Sucking the corporate capitalist chode one ad at a time
Go ahead, pay for a shitty Garmin or Atlas every year. Just another code for you to suck on as well.
You’re not thinking of the other options on a phone you don’t have to pay for
You also come across as a very simple minded ass
Use them then and stop complaining about Google IMO. None of them are nearly as good and that’s why I couldn’t care less about an ad.
Apparently this was a UI glitch or dishonest reporting by the person that told Android Authority.
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
This maybe true, but I still feel bitter about that time Google Maps recommended me to take a fucking Lyft ride inside the JFK airport!!
It happened to me it was real
Organic Maps or Magic Earth?
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