Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 2 JahrenGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square90linkfedilinkarrow-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@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 2 Jahrenmessage-square90linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansprivacy@lemmy.worldnottheonion@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·vor 2 Jahrendon’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
minus-squarethejml@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·vor 2 JahrenOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-squareTolookahlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·vor 2 Jahren“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·vor 2 JahrenPromptly killing off the old version
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