Maybe but you give them an inch and in a few years the ads will be targeted
Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 22 hours agoYes 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.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 19 hours ago
Xatolos@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
So… never read Apples privacy policy huh?
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 21 hours 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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 19 hours 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.
trailee@sh.itjust.works 1 hour 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.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
it’s always binary fuck all ads issue for me
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
as i said, “if you’re deliberating between apple and Google” which is how this conversation started.