Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App

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• ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  As long as they are tasteful, that’s fine. Like little Dunkin Donuts indicators or whatever if they’re in the normal driving view and take up a very small amount of visual space, great. Waze has done this for years. No bother, no forced waits, no delays in navigation.

  If you put banner, UI-blocking, and/or full-screen ads in my maps app, go fuck yourselves.

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• wowwoweowza@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’m done.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I thought if people pay for things, like extreamly expensive Apple hardware, no ads can exist there? Must be confused or hearing things.

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• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  CoMaps is a nice offline alternitive. Not perfect,but it respects privacy

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  • HyonoKo@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Might give it a spin, currently using Organic Maps.

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• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The next headline will read, OpenStreetMaps gains users as Apple adds ads to maps.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After that, Apple would ban OSM apps from their store.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I could totally see this happen.

      Not in a direct manner, but something about “OSM not living up to Apple’s high standards of privacy” or similar strategy.

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Be realistic, not many people using apple devices (or any mobile devices tbh) are going to care or be intelligent enough to pull an open source alternative

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    • natecox@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “People using devices I don’t like are stupid” is among the dumbest of takes.

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    • JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Be more realistic and try it. You’ll find obsolete and missing information, no review, and no info about opening times. I’d be happy to use it, but quite frankly it lacks all the features I need.

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    • Luci@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What the heck did I (an iOS user) do to hurt you???

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• DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It already has ads. Those businesses it highlights for no reason at all when you’re scrolling around.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So you overpay them for crappy iPhone and have to pay them again by watching ads?

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget web users. Duck duck go uses Apple Maps.

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I guess DuckDuck pays them, so Duck users would be spared of the ads?

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t say I’m surprised but it’s such a shame. I’m guessing this ties inter their newly launched timeline feature. Maps was at least up to this point a better alternative to Google Maps.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well shit.

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’ll probably make “Maps+” soon after.

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Issues that don’t affect me

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  • chwilson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    thanks for your input

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    first I did not speak up because I was not an apple user.

    then I did not speak up because I can use adb to install my apps anyway.

    then I did not speak up because I have already switched to linux on the desktop.

    at the end there was nobody to speak up against windows-only forced secure boot.

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• desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  /uninstall

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  • desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    then again google maps and waze already do this too

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    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CoMaps is a passable alternative if you don’t need live traffic data, otherwise the proprietary HERE WeGo app can be used. Both don’t project fascism onto the Gulf of Mexico.

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• SystemL@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont think they will to be honest.

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