Has this not been the case for a while? I think I've been getting /maps for at least the past year.
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#22Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first started?
I’ve been seeing this redirect to google.com/maps for at least a year now because my default has always been to type maps.google.com and I find it weird every time it redirects.
A/B testing?
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#23Also a great way to share cookies, avoid CORS, and probably a zillion other complexities that result from running on multiple subdomains.
thought they have moved mail.google.com to google.com/mail a while ago. Tracking would still be possible over 2 domain, but then google would have to do a bit of ETL operations. Guess this will save some more engineering.
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#24I'm wondering how much time browsers will take to implement URL match permission granting.
If that was the goal, google could simply &tbm=maps it further.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#25I think this change probably has more to do with corporate firewalls than anything else. A lot of corporate internet access isn't set up to MITM the requests (a lot of places are setup for this, but a lot aren't). If they places all their services under google.com as suffixes, places that don't MITM won't have any way of stopping it as all they can see is the request to google.com.
Given the history of Google's stance towards privacy and tracking, I think it's naïve to assume technical reasons.
It may have been ok to fall for that argument for 10 years, but after AMP, manifestv3, android's location log disaster, the recording of wifi names and countless lawsuits across the globe, it seems that the resource of good faith assumptions has been depleted. Some may even say that trusting google (the corporation) to act on technical or altruistic reasons is delusional.
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#26Firefox containers to the rescue.
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#27Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first started?
Definitely been a while. Like, perhaps a year or more.
I'm in Asia btw.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but do you want to bet that during the management call and the subsequent engineering call that made this decision, the main topic of discussion was the direct financial benefit from improved tracking? We'll never know, but if we could find out, say 1 year from now, I'd bet 100:1 that was the main driver.
Wow...i didn't for even a second think it was anything other than a way to get a financial benefit. Kudos to you for not be as cynical as me.
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Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#29It's a very strange move indeed. maps.google.com implies an application lives there, far better than being on the root domain. It also means that when you start typing maps.google, you'd get all your history searchable related to maps, although arguably that's useless. I can't think of a reason why this would be a good technical move for Google (ignoring the don't do evil thingie), other than simplifying... certifica…
> "It's a very strange move indeed. maps.google.com implies an application lives there, far better than being on the root domain."
How does "maps.google.com" imply an application "lives there" any more than "google.com/maps"?
Technically speaking, "google.com/maps" is far superior to "maps.google.com" (check out the rest of the comments in this thread for examples: simpler DNS configuration, simpler certificate management, CORS, cookies, etc).
Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
#30https://www.openstreetmap.org
Unfortunately this is really not an option for (some) areas in the US. After having moved to a populous LA area from Germany I was baffled at the lack of detail in the maps. Basic things like building numbers are entirely missing. Even after adding more and more details I would never fully rely on OSM here sadly. And if it only works sometimes why even bother using it in the first place? At least this was my progression. From fully using OSM, I am back to Google.
The only good in-between solution is MagicEarth which supplements OSM maps with data from lord knows where. However although they claim to be privacy cautious they are quite opaque.