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Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by sixtiethutopia » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google has forgotten the plot. A quick tangent story follows: I attempted to add a Tesla Supercharger as it went live to Google Maps. I was the very first to pay to recharge at the new location. The process went something like this: 1st time: Uploaded 4 photos, local business info, current charger prices, and GPS coordinates. Google replied this would be sent to human review. It was rejected within 6 minutes. 2nd att…

If we're sharing problems contributing to google maps: I tried submitting a correction to google maps for the first time a few months back. A cafe was listed in the wrong location by about 100m. Very confusingly putting it on the other side of the station it's in front of in a different building.

I submitted the correct location and it said the change required manual review. Then a few days later I got an email that the change has been accepted. But opening google maps it was still in the same wrong location, and it's still wrong now.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by carlosjobim » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 3:58 PM UTC

0xbrayo wrote: post #37

trainingonme wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Question here then, is when will we see a competitor enter the market who both cares about getting it right and is actually able to compete with google maps

Apple Maps maybe?

They are absolutely awful and won't accept even a correction of opening hours - when you are the owner of the business and registered as such with Apple.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by doublepg23 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

sixtiethutopia wrote: post #141

1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google has forgotten the plot. A quick tangent story follows: I attempted to add a Tesla Supercharger as it went live to Google Maps. I was the very first to pay to recharge at the new location. The process went something like this: 1st time: Uploaded 4 photos, local business info, current charger prices, and GPS coordinates. Google replied this would be sent to human review. It was rejected within 6 minutes. 2nd att…

If we're sharing problems contributing to google maps: I tried submitting a correction to google maps for the first time a few months back. A cafe was listed in the wrong location by about 100m. Very confusingly putting it on the other side of the station it's in front of in a different building. I submitted the correct location and it said the change required manual review. Then a few days later I got an email that…

I'm just sad they never sent me the Google Maps socks :-(

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by thesuitonym » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

soltanov wrote: post #2

Google treats its customers so blindly. in short, Google is not user centric company at all.

Used to be you'd say Google was bad because the users weren't the customers, the advertisers were. Nowadays even the advertisers aren't the customers. They only customers Google has anymore are the shareholders.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by ozim » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

Everyone who is angry at „not giving feedback what is malicious” should remember that bad guys will also do so and with feedback they just get more information on how to make malicious sites to hide better.

Google is not great but we all can’t have nice things because of thieves and criminals.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by cube00 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

qingcharles wrote: post #124

1970-01-01 wrote: post #14

Google has forgotten the plot. A quick tangent story follows: I attempted to add a Tesla Supercharger as it went live to Google Maps. I was the very first to pay to recharge at the new location. The process went something like this: 1st time: Uploaded 4 photos, local business info, current charger prices, and GPS coordinates. Google replied this would be sent to human review. It was rejected within 6 minutes. 2nd att…

Friend owns a construction company. Been at same address for seven years. Suddenly their Google Business Page not working right. Google says to delete it and reverify, only solution to try. Four times my friend had to take a video: you have to start by standing on the street on the nearest intersection, film all the street signs around you to prove your location, then he had to walk down the street, show the gate wit…

You can bet those videos have been fed into their training.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by LoganDark » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

Chris2048 wrote: post #120

LoganDark wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you obtain the satellite images directly from Google Maps, you can still have problems because you might not have permission to use the data. That's not copyright though.

> you might not have permission to use the data Isn't it fair use, like training data?

Google Maps has commercial licenses to some of their data. Reusing that data without your own license can cause problems you might not like. This mostly applies in cases where it's provable that the data you used would've required a license that you do not have.

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by xlii » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

GrinningFool wrote: post #127

xlii wrote: post #23

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This is my driver since it become usable. I have 140 terminals on 2 workspaces. Grouped by project/task. I know, I'm the author, so I'm biased, but I love working using it.

Any chance we'll see this for linux?

Yes, and since multiple people expressed interest in Linux it might come much sooner than later.

I kept macOS surface isolated and constrained on purpose (and also have my own rendering engine) so it should be rather easy to make it run on Linux. The biggest obstacle is that it's hard for me to test (I have a gaming rig on Linux, but I don't use it often lately..).

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by hermitcrab » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

I sympathize. My Google Adwords account (that had been running continuously for 10 years at that point) got suspended for (I shit you not) hyperlinking to another domain. I believe it was due to a very poorly trained contractor. The whole sorry saga is here:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2015/03/04/google-bans-hyperl...

Re: How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

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Post by saghm » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

madamelic wrote: post #111

saghm wrote: post #73

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I've stopped believing in the accuracy of Google maps after my experience at my last apartment. The ground floor of my building was a deli with an address like 123 4th Ave, and the entrance to the deli was basically facing the corner itself rather than either side of the cross street, and my apartment's address (using the placeholder above as a reference) was 123 4th Ave Apt. 2R. All of the apartments had a separate…

When I lived in Jersey City, I committed the crime of living at a 1/2 address. Literally nothing could get delivered to me if they used a Google Maps address bar. My address just didn't exist at all to that search bar. It could be found on maps, just not on that little search bar widget. I ended up just putting my neighbors address and either intercepting delivery drivers or putting in the notes that I was at the hal…

It's pretty messed up that the only way to "solve" this problem is by treating addresses that Google mishandles as uninhabitable, but I'd be lying if I didn't tell my wife I was concerned about living on a corner again when we were looking for houses to buy after that (luckily, the one we liked most and had our offer accepted for wasn't on a corner, and our plan is to never move again!)