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maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

uniqueuid wrote: post #25
no_carrier wrote: post #20

I 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…

> after AMP, manifestv3, android's location log disaster, the recording of wifi names and countless lawsuits across the globe

Tangentially, it's funny how the whole Google+ fiasco with forcing G+ account creation for YT etc. was quickly forgotten.

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by midasz »

garritfra wrote: post #22
sam- wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Living up to their name

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by verytrivial »

canbus wrote: post #7

https://www.openstreetmap.org

Here's a question for someone who understands cross-site cookies (which isn't me): Why does www.google.com/maps 's site permissions show https://www.openstreetmap.org/ as one of the sites 'that can use cross-site cookies and site data'?

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by ilyt »

bluepnume wrote: post #3

Also a great way to share cookies, avoid CORS, and probably a zillion other complexities that result from running on multiple subdomains.

It's funny for browser vendor to push those "security" features, only to work around them in their own products

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by cft »

canbus wrote: post #7

https://www.openstreetmap.org

I found OsmAnd absolutely essential in my extensive off-road travels in Central America and Spain, paid to support it via Google Play, but i could not for the hell of it figure out how to submit photos and places. It forced me to create a separate account and then always gave me errors when i tried to submit

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by ilyt »

csmpltn wrote: post #29
keyle wrote: post #8

It'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 manag…

Technically speaking it goes around any security CORS and friends provide
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