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IMO Google Maps became completely awful when they made that new version of it, and they've been doing everything in their power to continue making it worse. Su

by jgh 9y ago

IMO Google Maps became completely awful when they made that new version of it, and they've been doing everything in their power to continue making it worse. Sure the scrolling is a lot smoother, but it's missing just a ton of features that the old version had. Plus the problems mentioned in the tweet storm, everything disappearing as soon as you change one item. PLUS that stupid side-bar that takes up half the screen now. Edit: Here's another good one I just ran into -- I can't sign out of just one Gmail account. I have to sign out of all my Gmail accounts, and sign back into the ones I didn't intend to sign out of.

pjc50 9y ago
I suspect most of gmaps' problems are there because it's an advertising company. They don't want you to plan a route, they want you to click on local search ads: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en Note that if they clear your pins so you have to re-search for something, that's potentially another CPC payment to them... You can sign into multiple Gmail accounts? How on earth does that work, does it involve the menacing prospect of "linking" them?
- jgh 9y ago
  I'm not really sure how it works under the hood, not being terribly familiar with how these login systems work, but you can basically (in your browser) click "add an account" and it will open a new tab and you can sign into the account. So right now I have 3 tabs open for gmail with 3 different accounts.
megaman22 9y ago
> Edit: Here's another good one I just ran into -- I can't sign out of just one Gmail account. I have to sign out of all my Gmail accounts, and sign back into the ones I didn't intend to sign out of. This seems like it is a shitty behavior inherent with OAuth. I have half a dozen Microsoft accounts for various things, and you just can't sign out of one and sign into another, unlinked account - things go all sideways and the auth providers that are trying to read your cookies get really confused and go into 401 redirect loops. It's better to burn it down and open a new set of incognito tabs instead.

by jgh 9y ago

pjc50 9y ago

I suspect most of gmaps' problems are there because it's an advertising company. They don't want you to plan a route, they want you to click on local search ads: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en Note that if they clear your pins so you have to re-search for something, that's potentially another CPC payment to them... You can sign into multiple Gmail accounts? How on earth does that work, does it involve the menacing prospect of "linking" them?

jgh 9y ago
I'm not really sure how it works under the hood, not being terribly familiar with how these login systems work, but you can basically (in your browser) click "add an account" and it will open a new tab and you can sign into the account. So right now I have 3 tabs open for gmail with 3 different accounts.

megaman22 9y ago

> Edit: Here's another good one I just ran into -- I can't sign out of just one Gmail account. I have to sign out of all my Gmail accounts, and sign back into the ones I didn't intend to sign out of. This seems like it is a shitty behavior inherent with OAuth. I have half a dozen Microsoft accounts for various things, and you just can't sign out of one and sign into another, unlinked account - things go all sideways and the auth providers that are trying to read your cookies get really confused and go into 401 redirect loops. It's better to burn it down and open a new set of incognito tabs instead.