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Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 110 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yeah google doing this made me stop using it as much. still need to find a permanent alternative

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Google does it so much I’ve had trouble finding favorite places because they’d rather show an ad that overlaps it.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm still using Google for looking up places but I stopped using it for car navigation because holy shit it sucks ass. Using waze now and it's so much better. No idea of they're FOSS tho

[–] silica@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Waze is owned by Google. They bought it in 2014 (someone please correct the year, if I’m wrong). It’s not FOSS.

Waze was amazing. Sadly, a lot of features have been removed over the years, in an attempt to shift people from Waze to Google Maps. Waze in 2016 was better than the current version.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It really sucks that they were bought out by Google because for some reason waze's navigation is 1000x better than gmaps, even tho they're apparently from the same parent company

[–] silica@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Most of the improvements seen for navigation in google maps (over the past decade) is due to them pulling the information and replicating a lot of features from Waze.

[–] copd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Waze and Google use the same data for traffic, obstructions and routing. They are both owned by Alphabet. I have no idea why you think Waze is better