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DDG's main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they'll highlight that angle in any change.
Or Apple's marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible
Somewhat related but DuckDuckGo Image and Map search results have been broken for months for me. I just get blank, broken images. Anyone else have this problem? Kind of defeats the purpose if I have to use google for half of my searches.
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They were using an open source map company, not google maps. By that standard, I feel this is probably a privacy regression. I'm looking forward to the day when people know what they are talking about.
> They were using an open source map company, not google maps. By that standard, I feel this is probably a privacy regression. I'm not sure this is a fair comparison. Open source is not the same as privacy-friendly. Apple makes privacy a core-tenet of their product. I do not see the same stance from Mapbox.
I wish they were explaining why they moved away from Mapbox and OSM in general!
Because it sucks. Isn’t that obvious? There’s no point in having a feature that nobody uses. I switched to DDG a few months ago and this has always been the one weakness. This is really good news IMO. Apple maps has come a long long way since launch, and their data is about on par with Google at this point.
You can argue all day that of course it’s still a commercial company. But I’d rather compromise and hitch my wagon to the folks that are outwardly explicitly drawing out their commitment to privacy, whose incentives I understand and trust.
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That and from a purely data privacy angle, Apple is legitimately better than Google.
Are they or do you just believe that because of what you think you know about the difference between the two companies?
Not over privacy stuff (I don't trust Apple that much either), but because Apple maps just sucks. Unless things changed within the last 4 months, Apple Maps couldn't accurately navigate me from Custer State Park to Mt. Rushmore (which really isn't far).
I have to say I'm pretty upset about this. Not over privacy stuff (I don't trust Apple that much either), but because Apple maps just sucks. Unless things changed within the last 4 months, Apple Maps couldn't accurately navigate me from Custer State Park to Mt. Rushmore (which really isn't far).
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Or Apple's marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible
Why does the glass always have to be half empty? Maybe Apple simply was the better choice?