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At a certain point you may have to make a sacrifice. You may have to reject convenience, and call the store, or park your car and walk down the block. And while you're at it you can update the OSM address.
I know it's not the easiest way and I'm not judging you one bit—I also take the less principled option sometimes. But I can't even render Google maps on my phone now, and it's amazing how things just turn out fine when I muddle through.
I come from the 90s for fuck's sake, before all this. I'm not going to let some power tripping ad platform make me feel helpless.