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Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by raybb »

probably_wrong wrote: post #238
raybb wrote: post #93

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Lets not forget StreetComplete is a dead easy app to use to help contribute to OSM. It just asks you a few questions like "is this bench still here" or "is there a bike lane on this road" etc https://streetcomplete.app/

Can I use this app to suggest issues? In one of my projects I found a bunch of buildings that have either the wrong direction or the wrong coordinates. Think "Random street 1, 2 and 4 are next to each other, but Random street 3 is 500m away". But since it's a city I don't live in I can't go there in person and confirm.

You can report issues by long pressing and tapping "Create a note" which people will eventually review and fix.

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by gpshead »

foreverathome wrote: post #338
amluto wrote: post #288

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Somehow DuckDuckGo has taken this to absurd extremes. Almost any search that doesn’t get many natural hits shows branches of my local government toward the bottom of the first page of results.

I have seen this too, also on bing. Not just government though, sometimes it manages to find a local house for sale instead.

You do realize that duckduckgo is primarily a frontend for bing right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Search_results

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by RobertRoberts »

jsnell wrote: post #268
RobertRoberts wrote: post #266

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It did, I watched it explicitly for this reason, but I guess unless it's documented somewhere, oh well. It was even googlemail.com for awhile. Edit: It's possible my concern was the subdomain and my memory is off. It moved from a subdomain to a /gmail at one point (or something similar). That is when I swore off it. What clearly recall is that there was something wrong, either it was how it did a redirect to google.c…

Sure, this is what that Wikipedia page says: > As of 22 June 2005, Gmail's canonical URI changed from http://gmail.google.com/gmail/ to http://mail.google.com/mail/ . As you can see from your own source, the canonical URL has always been under google.com, not under gmail.com. Edit: the parent post was originally linking to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail , before being edited

Gmail.com was redirecting (still does) and that at the time sub-domains could share cookies with the main domain.

Therefore, gmail.google.com could track cookies and activity via google.com.

This has been fixed since then, so I think the memory of the internet is short and wouldn't understand how bad this was in retrospect.

(my previous edits: Yep, I didn't want to drag this out. My memory was off on something.)

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by mattzito »

The5thElephant wrote: post #369
thanhhaimai wrote: post #346

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> It is absolutely bizarre to me how half-assed Google is with integrating its products The answer can be summed up in one word: "privacy". There are two forces at play here. One side wants privacy. When they give data to Google Calendar, they don't want Google Maps or Ads know about it. The other side (your opinion above) wants more integration between services. In this political climate, the privacy side has an edg…

The privacy argument doesn’t make sense to me. The addresses are already in Google Calendar. They don’t need to be saved into a different service to be viewed anonymously in Google Maps. You can already do it in Google Calendar for one event/address at a time. Yes there are business/internal-politics reasons why some obvious features or experimentation doesn’t happen, but those aren’t necessarily good reasons beyond…

FWIW, I worked on the integration with calendar and maps - the GP comment is exactly right, it was due to privacy concerns. The terms of service for Workspace say that user data can never be used for anything not related to Workspace, so moving any user data from Workspace to another service has to be done very carefully.

In the example of this integration, allowing it to open in the sidebar was okay because it was a user action, and there is some data anonymization that happens (I don't recall the details, this was a few years ago).

But we couldn't share a list of your appointments with maps ahead of time to allow them to generate the view you describe, because there wasn't a way that guaranteed that the data wouldn't be associated back with the original user.

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

hdhdxkfchsk wrote: post #370
rjzzleep wrote: post #365

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It's amazing to me that people have already forgotten that Google had in fact already successfully done that with Google Inbox. It's not that they weren't able to do it. It's that in their infinite wisdom they shut it down. Just like they shut down hangouts in their infinite wisdom.

what even was project inbox? at most five people used it. hangout is now integrated in meet, which is integrated in gmail. it's google doing a microsoft/apple and trying to be the leader in video calls/remote work/remote classes by forcing people to have it ready just by having the gmail app. just like apple with facetime (but they have no idea how to expand on it) or Microsoft adding teams to windows status bar, you…

Both AOL and Google had, around the same time, secondary mail interfaces that provided extra features. Google's was Inbox; I've forgotten the name of AOL's. They were quite similar to each other, with each slightly better than the other in some ways. Both sites were slower* to load than AOL's and Google's standard email interfaces. Neither reached the market penetration or current-account conversion management wanted., and those of us who used them were sad to see them go.

* Google eventually added so many features to Gmail that they had to add a progress bar during page load.

Re: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

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Post by arminiusreturns »

Y_Y wrote: post #384
arminiusreturns wrote: post #180

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Hanlons Razor is a fallacy on it's face and I'm so tired of the incompetence excuse for actors who are repeatedly bad.

You're a fallacy on your face.

I admit this made me laugh, and now have adopted it into daily usage. Thanks!
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