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Google maps/Waze shows these business logos as well. In certain cases, the navigation assistant will also say the business' name when navigating. Example: Inst
by yurishimo 4y ago
Google maps/Waze shows these business logos as well. In certain cases, the navigation assistant will also say the business' name when navigating.
Example: Instead of "Turn left onto Broad Street", it will say, "Turn left after the Wendy's".
It's pretty subtle right now, but I have no doubts that it will get more nefarious in the future.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoI don't think that's an ad. I think Google just knows that a giant restaurant sign is a lot easier to see than a tiny street sign
- antsar 4y agoYou really think no money changes hands to power this feature? The last ~decade of tech teaches one to assume otherwise…
- gruez 4y agoTrue, but instructions based on intersection features are better than both. Apple maps does this with instructions like "go past this light then at the next one turn right"
- fartcannon 4y agoCan't it be both? Google's entire career is combining something useful (gmail) with something shady (reading your emails to sell ads). This sounds exactly like that.
- dwighttk 4y agoTo be fair, for some turns that is a better experience.
- eulers_secret 4y agoIf there’s an option to disable this “feature”, then it’s probably not advertising. Good thing Apple Maps doesn’t subtly repeat biz names to me until I remember them. If this ever happens, I’ll move back to paper maps. I don’t care if I have to pull over, it beats this mental manipulation and my mind being an advertisers plaything.