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Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

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[–] Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It would be considered illegal where I live to interact with that popup while driving.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

Screw off.

[–] Magnolia_@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

Fuck google, Microsoft, Mac and Israel

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Welp time to stop using google maps I guess

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[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apple Maps sure had a rough start back in the day, but I will always use that over Google/Waze. It’s just so much better now and no worries about this type of junk.

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[–] Blue0x@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The moment this starts happening to me, I’m going to start giving every single sponsored stop I see a 1 star review.

[–] pseudonym@monyet.cc 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tbh that kind of behavior will almost certainly be stopped automatically

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm willing to pay for an ad-free version. Google maps are very useful. I don't need it to be free. But ads are poison.

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Interesting, you don't think they make enough off your data already? I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I will never pay google a single cent for anything they have to offer, ever.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'd much rather pay with money than data.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You'll pay with money and they'll still harvest your data.

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[–] Sbuiko@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (7 children)

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organic_Maps

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Id recommend osmand over organic maps

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 0 points 6 months ago

I don’t like how OsmAnd limits the number of maps you can download for free, Organic Maps’s donation model is much better in my opinion.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Organic Maps is fine. It's what I use, although I am not located in a great area for OSM. Are there any specific benefits to OSMand?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Contributing by updating roads and POIs is fairly straightforward and can be pretty fun ^^ https://openstreetmaps.org/edit

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Of course! I do that all the time, and I agree it's fun. OrganicMaps uses the same data, I just find it a little simpler to use and clearer to read.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 months ago

Personally I been using organic maps because Osmand isn't giving me better directions and it needs more permissions and it doesn't have working voice directions

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Does it have traffic data?

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not, and the time estimates are quite inaccurate. Sigh, it's the price for not having to deal with Googles shit

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

Sounds like you just have different shit to deal with

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Not to defend Google, but it seems unclear right now if this is something that will happen while driving, or similar to something Waze already does.

[–] soratoyuki@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Virginia, at least, it's not a meaningful distinction.

There used to be an exception for GPS, but the state changed the law a few years ago so that any non-hands-free use of a phone in a non-parked is a ticketable offense. Swiping away an ad at a red light would technically be illegal.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do not live in Virginia. Is this law actively enforced? Lots of things are "technically illegal".

[–] soratoyuki@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Anecdotal, but a friend of mine was ticketed for it within the first week it went into effect. She (understandably) assumed that being stopped at a stop light was acceptable. That said, I'm not aware of any enforcement since then and wouldn't be surprised if they deliberately only enforced it right after it took effect.

Still wouldn't risk it, though.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago

Waze has popped up ads on me plenty of times while I'm driving. Yes it knows I'm driving, the map is still scrolling along my route. At one point it was bad enough that the ads were remaining after every stop light, and finally clearing about half way to the next light. I haven't seen it happen in awhile though, maybe they finally got it fixed.

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

I'm honestly surprised it's taken them this long. They bought Waze in 2013. I feel like Waze has been doing this kind of ad for at least that long.

[–] soratoyuki@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I've been getting a lot of 'suggested' locations and sponsored pop ups in Google Maps the few weeks. I get that it's a 'free' product, but ugh. My GPS while I'm driving down the highway is one of those things that really, really needs to be clutter-free.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 months ago

Google doesn't give a shit if you live or die, so long as their corporate partners at Shell Oil and Sheets checks clear

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It is by no means free tho. They are making lots of money from selling your location data and furthering their market dominance by forcing it on everyone by default

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I get that it's a 'free' product, but ugh.

Yes, he/everyone understands that for the past decade lol.

[–] Jako301@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

They get that same location data with or without maps. As long as you are using stock android, Google knows exactly where you've been even if you enable airplane mode. They get your position with WiFi networks and other phones around you and store that data with timestamps. Maps doesn't give them any extra data, it simply binds you into their ecosystem.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not a free product, your data is being sold.

[–] soratoyuki@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know. I'd assume everyone on Lemmy knows. That's why I said 'free' in scare quotes and not free.

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[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Is it too much to ask for an app that just does one single thing. Everything doesn't need to be an advertising platform.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They need the money for the next quarter earnings report.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

So do I :((

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those AI electricity bills don't pay for themselves.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

Yeah... we pay....

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But line no go up.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago

The only line I care about is the line that takes me from A to B

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

Remove the detour by drinking a verification can

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (43 children)

Gmaps has been actual hot trash for way the hell too long now.

GraphHopper, OSRM, and Valhalla all blow Google's shitty routing algorithm out of the water.

OSMAnd really the only mobile app competitor worthy of putting gmaps out of its misery. The only problem is it still uses a renderer from the stone age and has lackluster address data despite the fact that said data is available for free online from several open source mapping projects (there's some nice github scripts that can import ir for you).

Garmin forgot to invest in mobile technology. Sygic went to crap. Waze is just Gmaps+. Maps.me died even harder than Sygic.

It's 2024 and yet some of the best navigation tech I've seen is from 15+ year old devices.

Edit: Also Android Auto can go to hell.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I smell reVanced Gmaps coming soon...

[–] skizzles@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Waze works well also.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This won't always work, but I get it to stop changing the fucking route by putting it in airplane mode while I'm driving. It's locked in to the route I picked, GPS still works, no distractions.

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