232
Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (Update)
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
232 points (98.3% liked)
Not The Onion
11812 readers
620 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It won't work. It will just lower the barrier to entry. I don't disagree that this is their angle, it's just... Short sighted.
I wish you were right. If I thought there was an actual shot at Google suffering consequences for bullshit like this, I'd short the stock. In reality, they'll somehow be up. They'll launch some stupid new thing and this will be completely forgotten. It's bad enough that every time Maps updates, it resets my customization to avoid tolls. I live in NoVA. These tolls are absolute fucking bullshit and I ain't paying it.
I would too, except the hard part isn't predicting whether there will be consequences, it's predicting when.
Not finding this to be a problem personally. Having lived in multiple areas with tolls.