Re:Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 re...
by V-eHGsd_ on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:01PM
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> Maps barely has ads...
maybe you're using a different version of maps than I am, but I just downloaded it and the first page is chock full of ads, it begs me to turn on search history so it can show me "more relevant results".
it's also full of dark-patterns like if I click "commute" in the settings, there's no back "<" like there is in most views, but there's a nice blue "turn on" and a grayed out "no thanks".
hell, when you finally disable the account linkage (another dark pattern hiding that option), the main window is still 25% (+) ads.
maybe you're using a different version of maps than I am, but I just downloaded it and the first page is chock full of ads, it begs me to turn on search history so it can show me "more relevant results".
it's also full of dark-patterns like if I click "commute" in the settings, there's no back "<" like there is in most views, but there's a nice blue "turn on" and a grayed out "no thanks".
hell, when you finally disable the account linkage (another dark pattern hiding that option), the main window is still 25% (+) ads.
https://imgur.com/a/IMg3PQf