I use Naver maps because I'm in Korea and they've kept out the competition until now. They already introduced ads some time back. It's infuriating.
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2026
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I hope your blue bubbles become water marked with adds!!! ๐
No one is talking about the real sin that Apple makes and that sin is having a crappy buggy operating system that has parental controls break and also blast Bluetooth speaker volume to max volume the moment you pause it and start it again. It is a subpar operating system and it's a piece of garbage.
Honestly, if I want to find a local bicycle shop, and apple maps can help me find one without being obnoxious, then im okay with it as long as they don't share any data about me with the bicycle shop. I want to shop locally and support my local businesses, rather than shop online.
"Stuffing ads into the Maps app" makes it sound evil, even if we have no idea how it's going to look.