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Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

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Post by hackmiester »

gabereiser wrote: post #60
bfdm wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting! But also really speaks to the need for a browser setting for very coarse location without requiring user entry. Eg, I always block location API access, and sites often have poor fallback UI for entry. If it'd let me, I'd be setting my browser to always report "Toronto, Ontario" and auto-deny location requests.

That ship has sailed. Location data is vital to a lot of internet services now. GeoIP fencing is one thing but location fencing is a tech that is being used by every major government (despite them outcrying privacy concerns). I wish it wasn’t like this but until the open web becomes the “transparent” web, the snooping, spying, logging, graph-identity-building, MarTech driven, web will continue to go towards walled ga…

And yet if you want your app to be listed on the iPhone App Store, it must be equally functional if the user denies location. So, I always do it, and have no problems, although sometimes it is slightly more annoying to use the app.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

#62

Post by pvg »

zagrebian wrote: post #43
gruez wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not, given that the post's author was seemingly more concerned about making an outrage post than doing the most basic of investigation. From what I can tell one part of the script is trying to do `google.maps`, which errors out because `google` is undefined. The code in question seems to be initialization related, so it's unclear whether the page actually requires google maps api, or the site was poorly desi…

OP here. I’m not outraged. I’m just sharing interesting observations.

But the observation is wrong or at a minimum, gussied up to make it look interesting. If you're calmly producing clickbait, it's still clickbait.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

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Post by bombcar »

hackmiester wrote: post #61
gabereiser wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That ship has sailed. Location data is vital to a lot of internet services now. GeoIP fencing is one thing but location fencing is a tech that is being used by every major government (despite them outcrying privacy concerns). I wish it wasn’t like this but until the open web becomes the “transparent” web, the snooping, spying, logging, graph-identity-building, MarTech driven, web will continue to go towards walled ga…

And yet if you want your app to be listed on the iPhone App Store, it must be equally functional if the user denies location. So, I always do it, and have no problems, although sometimes it is slightly more annoying to use the app.

Almost any non-mapping application for location is just as well served by “zip-code”.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

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Post by saalweachter »

Spooky23 wrote: post #50
inhumantsar wrote: post #4

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Almost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?

McDonald’s does regional distribution that affects some of these factors too; different suppliers, etc. It’s harder to see these days, but where I live in Albany, NY, McDonalds was in the New England region, and we would get the lobster roll “a New England favorite!” Head a few miles away and you’d be in an area supplied out of New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Western NY. This sort of thing is noticeable if you live in a…

In the Midwest where I grew up, a burger came with ketchup and mustard. East coast, just ketchup.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

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Post by dharmab »

clnq wrote: post #48
cf100clunk wrote: post #3

Just a guess, but maybe its because there are different sources of the chicken, by region?

Drop-down list with regions where the closest is selected based on your IP automatically? We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.

The cardinality of the suppliers is higher than a dropdown of menus can provide. In some areas that straddle distributors it may be unique for each store.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

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Post by zagrebian »

pvg wrote: post #62
zagrebian wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP here. I’m not outraged. I’m just sharing interesting observations.

But the observation is wrong or at a minimum, gussied up to make it look interesting. If you're calmly producing clickbait, it's still clickbait.

The headline that I wrote is a fact, pure and simple.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

#68

Post by clnq »

dharmab wrote: post #65
clnq wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drop-down list with regions where the closest is selected based on your IP automatically? We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.

The cardinality of the suppliers is higher than a dropdown of menus can provide. In some areas that straddle distributors it may be unique for each store.

Oh. Drop-down with stores then and the closest one picked by IP location or device location API. Still no need for Google maps unless a user wants to see locations on the map.

Re: Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

#70

Post by LeifCarrotson »

reactordev wrote: post #51

The sourced ingredients are indeed regional. The menu is regional as well. The website is built on top of their mobile ordering platform. The mobile ordering platform requires your location to be able to route your order to the “correct” McDonald’s. This is done via requesting your location from Google or via location services within the mobile app. This platform is used by a lot of different QSRs. Or Quick Service R…

Why can't you just select a particular McDonald's, set a (first-party, essential) cookie to say that address is "my restaurant" and then show nutrition facts/delivery destination with that location?

You don't need to know which room in my house I'm sitting in to tell me how many calories are in a McChicken.

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