Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (Update)
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Google Maps is testing a new ad format that gives users the option to add a stop for a sponsored location during navigation.
  • @suctionEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    Have you tried the navigation apps by the old school navigation unit brands ( TomTom, Garmin etc.)

    Unless you can’t spend some money on this thing you “desperately” need to replace, those are better for navigation than any map app.

    • @LordKitsunaEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Let me rephrase, I’m desperate for a more open, not garden locked solution. Paying for Garmin and tomtom is just paying for a different corporation locked solution.

      It’s the same way I’m desperate for a replacement for Plex. But the closest thing, jellyfin, is terrible. It fails to match media, fails to play back certain files, and a bunch of other issues that Plex just does not have. Despite that I have donated to the project, I want to get away from plex and support something open. I want to get away from Google and support something open. But I need to be able to have a minimum amount of functionality.

      • @suctionEnglish
        0•5 months ago

        That’s how I know you’re really young, you spend brain cycles and time to wish for something that doesn’t exist instead of simply accepting there is no better solution right now, and make the best of what you have. I feel silly for trying to engage with you. You say you want better navigation, I tell you how to get it, then suddenly something else is the priority. It’s the same idiotic way of thought that the “I won’t go vote against fascism, because I wish there was a better democratic candidate” clowns apply to an imperfect situation. Despicably silly. Sorry.

        • @LordKitsunaEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          Yo chill dude, I’m 32. I’m allowed to want something that doesn’t exist, I’m literally the one that said it doesn’t exist. And I do accept there’s no better solution, that was the point of my original message. There is no alternative to Google Maps. Sure I could go get TomTom or Garmin but then I’m just paying for an equivalent Google Maps experience. Which would just be me spending money for no reason, I have had a Garmin in the past it’s a good GPS but I wouldn’t say it’s better than Google Maps so I don’t feel it’s worth the money.

          It’s also just another closed Garden system that has many of the same problems as Google Maps that I’m trying to get away from. Just because I have a desire for something better does not make me a child.

          I’m not even going to bother addressing that insanely leap of logic you made to somehow compare this to voting and fascism