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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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[–] Matombo@feddit.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Popups while driving? With buttons that have to be pressed for it to go away? What could possible go wrong diverting the attention of a driver this way?!

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The article was updated, this was fake news. There are no popups while driving.

It was all based on someones Tweet, which either made it up or was confused.

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Ah, the eagerness to publish some “news” based on a Tweet or a Reddit post from a random person with no confirmation at all.

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

It’s too bad androidauthority doesn’t think the “reject all” cookies rule applies to them.

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

For some reason, this got me imagining an ad causing an unnecessary detour the wrong way on a one way road and cause a head-on collision. which is going to get them hit with a class action lawsuit that could send their line graph all the way down into the ground.

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