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If you're not using an adblocker in this day and age in 2023, you're doing it wrong.
Mobile doesn't have ad blocking, at least on iOS. Which is why I pay for Youtube premium.
(Although you should continue to pay for YouTube Premium. I do, it's well worth it.)
Trying out Organic Maps, I noticed two big things: 1. Man, this UI is so much faster than Google Maps. 2. Man, this has trouble finding addresses. Hopefully they improve with time. On my older laptop at home, Google Maps is horribly sluggish compared to just about any other map product.
> 2. Man, this has trouble finding addresses. If you are or someone else is interested one can: - add addresses to OpenStreetMap if missing (highly welcome!) - report search problems to https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues - or even submit fixes if they want - wait till someone else will do any of above (to be clear, that is also OK to do this - noone is obligated to volunteer for above) - I guess you ca…
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They have a blog post about it from way back. Essentially the map changes depending on context so you don't need to see store names if you are zooming down the freeway by the side of it, you might see road names if walking and navigating, but not if you have gps in a car, you might see more restaurants if you came to maps from a restaurant search context etc etc
Yes, Maps does it what it thinks the average mook wants, and refuses to do what the actual user wants.
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surely google employees can't look up peoples locations..
Surely they can. Who would be locking them out? Another google employee. So the useful questions are which google employees can look up people's locations, and through what process?
De-anonymizing a Gaia ID is about as secure as it gets.
Disclosure: this is 6 year old info. YMMV.
This is explicitly against Google's TOS but they don't stop people putting them on.
You can flag them, and Google do remove them. Scan your neighborhood, click any business which is clearly actually a house, click Suggest an Edit > Close or Remove > Not open to the public.
I've had a lot of success removing a whole ton of spammy junk from the map this way.
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If you haven't read 1984, this is really confusing, but a "memory hole" is a hole into which you place something you don't want to have any memory of, destroying it forever. The ironic name is an example of "doublethink."
I believe you mean "Doublespeak" rather than "Doublethink".
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Probably because 99% of normal people "don't refill their water bottles" (and surely not off of water fountains), just buy bottled water and/or drink when they stop at cafes and restaurants? Not saying it's good. In fact, it's quite bad and harmful. But it just is.
Nah, it's just that 99% of people aren't so chronically online as to need a web service to find out how to freely drink water in a place with free water drinking infrastructure.
The funniest thing to me is that Google Maps seems to be the "normal person" option and yet only OSM tells me where water fountains are. Millions of tourists worldwide use GMaps to navigate around in foreign places and yet they have no option to see where the closest place to refill their bottles is? Especially in the summer?
I don't care where are water fountains, but what bus/train/metro can I take to go to another place, where is the bus stop. At what time does arrive, and which bus stop do I need to get down. I can do that only on google maps. Open Street Map does not provide that info. Now I am sure there are some local app I can use for each individual city that works fine. But with google maps I only need to have one app. As user,…
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surely google employees can't look up peoples locations..
Surely they can. Who would be locking them out? Another google employee. So the useful questions are which google employees can look up people's locations, and through what process?
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They have a blog post about it from way back. Essentially the map changes depending on context so you don't need to see store names if you are zooming down the freeway by the side of it, you might see road names if walking and navigating, but not if you have gps in a car, you might see more restaurants if you came to maps from a restaurant search context etc etc
Without a trace of irony: thank you for explaining to me why I fucking hate Google Maps. Don't change the context and try to outsmart me without giving me any indication of doing so. Don't attempt to outsmart me without giving any recourse if I don't like it. It only ever leads to information I want to see being hidden. You, Google Maps, do not know what I want better than I fucking well do.
Oh and not to mention that it sometimes tries to translate street names to my phone's language setting. Leave street names in their original language so I can match it up to the physical signs, goddamnit.