Costs of using Google Maps • Hacker News Board

Re: Costs of using Google Maps

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Post by jimktrains2 » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

duality wrote: post #15

ChrisSD wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally wasn't aware they directly sold the data. I always assumed they acted as intermediaries to advertisers,

I'm not aware of that either. What API scope would share your location data with a third-party developer? https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescope... doesn't turn up anything obvious.

That would implying you giving access to a 3rd party. I think everyone else is talking about something like Google selling access to said data directly, not via the normal api.

Re: Costs of using Google Maps

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Post by pwg » Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

dougb5 wrote: post #14

What restaurants did Google Maps show you? Unless you searched for a specific restaurant, you likely saw only those restaurants that paid for contextual advertising on that search. (At the very least, you saw the paid listing first, and on a small mobile screen, you may not have scrolled past them.) The author makes a pretty sweeping claim here and then walks it back in the next sentence. Does anyone else have the ex…

The claim the author is making (note, I can not substantiate it in any way) is that the query showed a list of restaurants, and that the top 5 (or top X) in the list were restaurants who had paid Google for the privilege of being listed first (or at least paid so that their position in the results list was closer to the top than those who had not paid).

Re: Costs of using Google Maps

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Post by xbmcuser » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

aorav wrote: post #17

ChrisSD wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally wasn't aware they directly sold the data. I always assumed they acted as intermediaries to advertisers,

They don't (sell your data directly), explained by Google itself https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/ Of course it's up to you how much you trust what they write there.

It's in Google best interest to not give others the data it collects as it can rent out the results multiple times to multiple customers. Where as giving data means they earn money of it one time.