Re:Alternatives to Google Products
by bubblethink on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:06PM
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There is a fork of maps.me on f-droid that strips out analytics/ads/proprietary bits. It's called omim (https://gitlab.com/axet/omim).
Re:Alternatives to Google Products
by _emacsomancer_ on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:13PM
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On F-Droid it's just called Maps though: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Given that alternatives to Google products are largely services rather than software run locally on one's own machine, you're probably right about the partial orthogonality of FOSS here since it can be hard to verify that the remote server is in fact running the software it claims it is, and from a privacy-standpoint it may be somewhat irrelevant (I recall even the FSF said something of the sort).