Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook

Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by RobertoG on Saturday August 12, 2017 @12:50PM (#14998664)

Lately, I'm getting even more paranoid with Google.

I have the location in my Android inactive and everytime I open google maps I get the message:

"To continue, let your device turn on location, which uses Google's location service. cancel - ok"

I have to click cancel every time. I think the language is disingenuous, because if you click cancel you can use the maps anyway. I suppose I should stop using Google Maps.

I use duckduckgo in my android, and the other day I realized that the keyboard where I'm typing is "Gboard - The Google Keyboard".

I suppose it's not calling home with every key, but who knows?, or, if it's not calling, if this will change in the future.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by zipwitch on Saturday August 12, 2017 @01:31PM (#14998883)

You may want to check out OpenStreetMap.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by pacala on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:44PM (#14999865)

http://maps.me

For mobile, totally offline, uses OpenStreetMap data.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by Nition on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:56PM (#15000741)

Nokia HERE WeGo[1] also does offline GPS maps. You can download whole countries as vector map data.

MAPS.ME looks really good but I know some areas around here don't have great OpenStreetMap data yet, whereas they do have complete road data on Nokia's app.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by pacala on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:07PM (#15001283)

Cool! FWIW, around Pacific North West, I found OpenStreetMap data is significantly more detailed than Google's for hiking and pedestrian points of interest.

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