Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour
Google Maps is testing a new ad format that gives users the option to add a stop for a sponsored location during navigation.
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I will 100% uninstall when I see this.
Their analytics need to see how little time it takes me to uninstall. I'll fucking pull over and uninstall mid trip. I am a psycho against ads. I'll call the AG and say it caused me to get in an accident.
Fuck ads. Fuck any company that forces them down your throat.
Fuck. Ads.
Fuck. I'm mad now.
My brother in arms! lol
Was just having a conversation last week when the subject of roadside billboards came up, the other guy says to me that he reads every single one of them when he’s driving. I tell him when I look at billboards the only think I think about is how much fun it would be to cut them down and set them on fire. Dude looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forehead.
I live in the lovely state of Vermont where billboards are fucking illegal. 😍
If you can handle long frigid winters, short and surprisingly uncomfortable summers, class 4 roads, "mud season", and a lack of services like Uber unless you're in Burlington, bad low paying job opportunities...
Yes. Yes it is.
It's lovely but it's work.
I’ve driven through almost every state, and Vermont was easily in the top-3. But I did go in August.
I can't say that I can agree with you more.
A new bright as FUCK billboard was put up on a frequent road I travel. I want it GONE and the people responsible for it to just die.
It's seriously a hazard at night...
This screens fade so fast.
Call them up and say it's already looking dimmer. Repeat monthly. You could gaslight them into thinking it's dying fast. And those things aren't cheap.
Start a nonprofit to buy up billboard space that just reads "this billboard is so bright that it will literally kill you."
So, when we drive up to Georgia or South Carolina from Florida, there's a point on I-75 where the Jesus billboards come out. Many of them are the usual "Babies have heartbeats" variety, but there's also the following:
Brothers from another mother.. I fight ads daily ..... Been pretty lucky I stay away from TV. They keep trying, really all it's done lately is forced me to go foss for most of my apps.
My Brothers / Sisters from other misters, I have been successfully avoiding ads for around 2/3 years and wow, no regrets. Talk about a war worth fighting, life is better without. This new in-navigation ad felt specifically made for folk like us, who are almost unreachable for marketing. I did some FOSS car navigation today. Bye Gmaps :)
I don't mind TV commercials. They aren't creepy and the remind me to get up.
Totally feel that. I will go to extreme lengths to avoid ads.
I'm not even against ads, because their little blurbs about a mcdonalds nearby on the map - eh. fine.
This shit though, that pops up and distracts me while I'm driving? Nah fuck that, I'll get rid of google maps over it
Yep. I might buy a fucking beater vehicle just to insure and subsequently softly careen into a boulder as soon as that shit occurs.
Make Google fucking liable for forcing content on me. Fuck them.
They most likely won't let you. Also Google android is spyware so I use Lineage OS with F-droid apps