• InsertUser
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    15 months ago

    @gedaliyah @NeatNit @openstreetmap

    If you select a hotel found on Kayak it will add an affiliate link to Kayak in addition to the direct link stored in OpenStreetMap.

    If you know to look in https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/app.organicmaps.yml you will find:

    “AntiFeatures:
    TetheredNet:
    en-US: Map download service (cdn*.organicmaps.app).
    NonFreeNet:
    en-US: Hotel widget includes a link to kayak.com not contained in original map
    data.”

    It’s new so I think more will probably be flagged later.

    • @gedaliyah
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      15 months ago

      Okay, I had to search through a lot of hotels, but I was able to find this in the app. Weird.

      It seems like any money they would make would be offset by users who are unhappy with the situation. I don’t have a recurring donation, but I’ve given in the past and this certainly makes me less likely to in the future.

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        15 months ago

        @gedaliyah

        Maybe, but as it says above, that’s the old NonFreeNet complaint that doesn’t keep it out of search results.

        The newer TetheredNet that is causing it to disappear from in app search results is just that they use their own map servers to serve the map files after they’ve been converted to the Organic Maps format.