Maybe they think the subfolder approach will help their SEO.
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
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#332HN title "moderation" (ie, arbitrary ex post facto editing) is frankly infuriating. It doesn't add meaning, it removes it.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole "threat model" thinking is useful for security, but I don't think it translates well to privacy and data sharing consent matters.
I disagree on the former, but I agree on the later, technology is not a good substitute for consent. Regarding the privacy: If you are using a VPN to protect your privacy, then you are effectively transferring your trust from your ISP to your VPN provider. The VPN provider is your new ISP. So you have to make sure you trust the VPN provider more than your ISP.
I don't use VPN when I'm on my home ISP but I do when I'm someplace where I don't control the gateway. My VPN is on a vultr VPS I control (in as much as I can control a VPS), and I do trust vultr (or digitalocean or any of the major VPS providers) more than I trust, let's say, the person who set up the wifi at the holiday inn.
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#334Now?
On my PC this is happening since years!
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#335It just started doing this now? I've been using google.com/maps for years, and that isn't the canonical address?
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#336I kinda like the new url. The other reason could be that browsers won't be able to autocomplete the url any more if you start typing map... and hit enter to go directly to the site. Now you probably have to do a google search for "maps" first and then click on the first link driving more traffic to Search.
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rumor/theory I have heard about Netflix is that increasing discoverability too much would allow people to see two negative traits of Netflix: How often things come and go from the platform (which other apps like Criterion Collection embrace), and just how limited their library actually is at a given time. Scroll through recommendations. It looks like they have hundreds of great movies for you to watch! And yes, t…
I wonder if AppleTV's atrocious single-line onscreen keyboard fits into this picture of making things less discoverable, or if it's just an extreme of form over function.
Definitely not, because Apple gives users the ability to type search in on an iPhone or iPad instead of using the apple TV remote. They also let you do voice-to-text, which is nice.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
This makes perfect sense product wise, if I'm searching "bakery" on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me and not the generic location-agnostic google search of it, just like I would if I was searching on map. Matter of fact, this is actually something I do a couple times a month, search then clic the maps tab to see localized results then from them click the website result to find their webpage. As a te…
Somehow DuckDuckGo has taken this to absurd extremes. Almost any search that doesn’t get many natural hits shows branches of my local government toward the bottom of the first page of results.
I have seen this too, also on bing. Not just government though, sometimes it manages to find a local house for sale instead.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. The change does exist (although it apparently has been live for quite some time in some regions at least) 2. The change does have the effect of Google gaining more permissions (and subsequently more data) than previously 3. The author assumes that (2) is the (main) reason why (1) was done in the first place Regardless of whether (3) is correct or completely wrong - and regardless of whether the author truly believ…
Upvoted, this looks more correct than what I wrote.
I think your original comment was spot on. The reply above didn't really add anything imo.
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#340Now how long until they put ads under google.com/*