Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com

Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by jmoak3 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:23PM (#37274214)

Sounds plausible, also they may use it to decide the units (cals/joules) of the viewer

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by inhumantsar on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:17PM (#37274151)

Almost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by reaperducer on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:03PM (#37274618)

Almost certainly this. Not just chicken but breading ingredients, the oil they fry them in, probably salt content. Maybe sauces too?

Oil sounds like the likely culprit to me. About a decade ago a bunch of cities, including Chicago, started regulating the types of oil that could be used for frying in restaurants.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by stefan_ on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:16PM (#37274740)

That's a nice idea, as if these nutrition facts are super specialized to your precise McDonalds location, and don't actually ya know come down to how much the kid in the back of the kitchen is using the salt shaker.

People don't actually believe these are anything more than averages with huge error bars right?

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by mlyle on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:29PM (#37274898)

Just because the numbers may be approximate, doesn't necessarily mean that you don't need to measure again somewhere where you're doing something different. It's far more defensible for regulators to require a measurement or new calculation than to accept "eh, it's about the same, I promise."

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by asu_thomas on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:22PM (#37274821)

HN is full of propagandized technologists who have yet to realize how few of the world's problems are technical, and how approximately all of them are political.

I'm sure there are better essays with similar value, but the one that comes to mind is Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology: https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil394/The%20Quest...

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by phpisthebest on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:36PM (#37274964)

I disagree, I think most people here understand the problems are political they just not understand that the problem was CREATED by the politics, and instead believe the solution to the problem is political.

They refuse to believe that government thus politics is the problem, not the solution

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by skidd0 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:34AM (#37279454)

I have seen your comments elsewhere on HN. It's refreshing to see some like-minded opinions. Do you have any other online presence or some way I might contact you? My email is in my profile here, if you're open to that.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by Spooky23 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:29PM (#37274903)

McDonald’s does regional distribution that affects some of these factors too; different suppliers, etc.

It’s harder to see these days, but where I live in Albany, NY, McDonalds was in the New England region, and we would get the lobster roll “a New England favorite!”

Head a few miles away and you’d be in an area supplied out of New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Western NY. This sort of thing is noticeable if you live in a place that’s sort of a Venn diagram from a distribution standpoint.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by saalweachter on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:12PM (#37275340)

In the Midwest where I grew up, a burger came with ketchup and mustard. East coast, just ketchup.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by sp332 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:22PM (#37274204)

Is the script actually getting your location data though?

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by zagrebian on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:17PM (#37274755)

So the website asks Google for the user’s location, and it all happens transparently without the user’s knowledge? I’m not sure if I’d like that.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by bamnet on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:41PM (#37275021)

This isn't how it works. The Google Maps API doesn't know where users are.

Instead, it's probably being used for an autocomplete widget to help users type in an address.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by HelloImSteven on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:36PM (#37274976)

Not saying it's right, but this is pretty standard practice -- it's likely mentioned in their privacy policy somewhere.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by zagrebian on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:40PM (#37275010)

If I understand “total cookie protection” in Firefox correctly, this shouldn’t even be possible. When the website makes a request to Google, the user’s Google cookie is not included in the request, so Google does not know which user it is. All that Google can do is try to determine the user’s approximate location from their IP address.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by clnq on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:26PM (#37274859)

Drop-down list with regions where the closest is selected based on your IP automatically?

We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by dharmab on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:13PM (#37275347)

The cardinality of the suppliers is higher than a dropdown of menus can provide. In some areas that straddle distributors it may be unique for each store.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by clnq on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:17PM (#37275403)

Oh. Drop-down with stores then and the closest one picked by IP location or device location API. Still no need for Google maps unless a user wants to see locations on the map.

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by ergocoder on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:34PM (#37274936)

Damn, McDonald cares this much to provide accurate precise nutrition by geo?

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Re:Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts ... by gumby on Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:36PM (#37274970)

It may be a legal requirement.

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