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Google to push new ads on its apps

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Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by cameronbrown »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #58
foota wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe they've stated these are not ads, but are strictly for navigation.

That makes it an unpaid ad.

Cynically, yes, but this is how humans follow directions anyway. Are your friends giving you an unpaid ad when they say "head down main st, past the Burger King"?

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by wybiral »

airstrike wrote: post #8

Time to install a mobile browser with ad-blocking capabilities. Suggestions? I haven't used Firefox on my phone in years, but I remember it being slower than a snail

Firefox on mobile is really good these days. With tracker-blocking enabled it usually performs better than Chrome for me. Most of the time these days websites are slow because of all the trackers and ad traffic.

They also have some cool features like being able to send tabs between different devices.

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by cwkoss »

pxtail wrote: post #42

"In Maps, ads will now appear in recommended search queries, on routing pages and during navigation " Ugh, this is sad and clever at same time - during navigation screen is on all the time and one usually glances at route from time to time even if it is just "straight ahead" for couple of kilometers. Moreover ad will be potentially visible to all passengers as well.

Anyone who buys ad slots in Google Maps is basically trying to kill their customers.

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by Marsymars »

ape4 wrote: post #46

Now Google maps will use more bandwidth, yipee.

This is actually the reason I stopped using Google Maps for most of my navigation. It used up most of my 5 gb monthly allotment over the timespan of a week of travel/driving.

I typically only use ~500 mb of data per month otherwise.

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by mastazi »

nsuser3 wrote: post #18
airstrike wrote: post #8

Time to install a mobile browser with ad-blocking capabilities. Suggestions? I haven't used Firefox on my phone in years, but I remember it being slower than a snail

Try Blokada ( https://blokada.org/ ), it blocks ads system-wide.

A similar one, also for Android, is Block This https://block-this.com/

(PS By looking at their respective GitHub pages, Blockada seems more actively developed though)

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by kroltan »

airstrike wrote: post #8

Time to install a mobile browser with ad-blocking capabilities. Suggestions? I haven't used Firefox on my phone in years, but I remember it being slower than a snail

Firefox on mobile has definitely improved a lot over the last couple years. It, plus uBlock Origin makes the web incredibly more tolerable.

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by razvanh »

stordoff wrote: post #48

> In Maps, ads will now appear [...] during navigation. Unless I'm missing something, distractions whilst navigating (and thus possibly driving) seems like it could be dangerous.

Probably when you stop, for example while at a stop light. This is how Waze is doing it too.

Re: Google to push new ads on its apps

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Post by prepend »

stordoff wrote: post #48

> In Maps, ads will now appear [...] during navigation. Unless I'm missing something, distractions whilst navigating (and thus possibly driving) seems like it could be dangerous.

Waze started doing this and it’s annoying, but I’m already looking at waze so it’s typically when I’m stopped or during some other period where I think it’s safe to look at my phone while driving.

I feel sorry for the advertisers as it’s dumb stuff like showing me an ad for “there’s a kfc nearby would you like to eat here” when I’m driving to a business meeting at 10am.

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