Is Google Maps getting worse?
Is Google Maps getting worse?
My dad uses Google Maps, and he mentioned that it seems to be getting worse. Like, giving him directions that are obviously worse than alternatives. Has anyone else here experienced this?
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Just like their search engine, making you scroll down further and potentially not even wanting you to leave their page, maps is trying to send you into the vicinity of more <insert big brand name who paid the most for ad space> physically so you can go into their store and tell them that you found them along a route suggestion.
I don't think the above is true. At this point I'm just trying to give them ideas on how to enshittify it more.
They also removed cached results which was a great feature imo. I used it all the time. In a way, it was a good thing for me because it got me completely off of Google search.
Same with maps. I'm almost always using Osmand+ now instead of Google Maps. The only feature I miss is the crowd-sourced speed trap alerts that Waze was originally so successful from (which Google incorporated into Maps after they bought Waze).