Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Default search engine? Google. Apple Intelligence? Believe it or not, also Google.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t use any of those

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    • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. The first thing i do when i get a new machine/reinstall MacOS/iOS is to change it from google. Fuck google so fucking hard. Anyone who uses Google deserves what they get knowing how much of a shitstain company they are.

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  • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But no adverts.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes these ads suck, but these are not targeted ads based on your entire history of personal data which is google’s entire business. these are ads shown based on your current location in the maps app. theoretically everyone in your vicinity is getting the same map ads.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    doubt

    also, fuck ads. people are trying to find destinations, not be sold trash from some shitty corporation like mcdonalds or whatever. don’t care the purpose, or the reasoning… if there’s ads, it’s bought and paid for by some jackoff corp that can rightfully fuck off to high hell.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yes I agree, fuck ads. but fuck targeted ads even harder. The point is if you’re deliberating between apple and Google based on the ads, apple is still not as bad as google. it’s not a binary ads vs no ads issue.

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      • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it’s always binary fuck all ads issue for me

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      • trailee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you’re deliberating between Apple Maps and Google Maps, the only advantage Apple ever had was the lack of ads. Apple’s data is worse, routing is worse, navigation UI is worse (which of the lanes should you be in right now for your next turn), etc. It’s astounding that Apple would enshittify this right now when they’re not even close to being a decent replacement for the primary competition.

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe but you give them an inch and in a few years the ads will be targeted

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  • Xatolos@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So… never read Apples privacy policy huh?

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