Scrubbles to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down115cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansprivacy@lemmy.worldnottheonion@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1321arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comScrubbles to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansprivacy@lemmy.worldnottheonion@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareScrubblesOPlinkfedilinkEnglish50•2 months agodon’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
minus-square@thejml@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish30•2 months agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-square@Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish18•2 months ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
don’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
Promptly killing off the old version