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Google Maps doesn't make money using wifi data. It makes money the way it always does: through ads [0,1]. [0]: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/704
by Youden 5y ago
Google Maps doesn't make money using wifi data. It makes money the way it always does: through ads [0,1].
[0]: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7040605?hl=en https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7040605?hl=en
[1]: https://ads.google.com/hotels/ https://ads.google.com/hotels/
- seqastian 5y agoThey can sell ads better if they know where you are. Wifi data is making that every easy and battery saving to track.
- Youden 5y agoThey already know where you are to a sufficiently high degree of precision with GPS. The battery matters to you, not to Google. Wifi ads next to nothing for Google.
- iszomer 5y agoOr more pedantically, Google knows where your device is to a sufficiently high degree of precision. They can't stop me from just leaving that shit home or in a faraday cage.
- albertsondev 5y agoThey also make a fair bit of money selling geofencing services to law enforcement agencies.