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Not a youtuber but i am aggressively degoogling. I imagine other people are doing it too. The regression in quality of google’s products is noticeable and frust

Not a youtuber but i am aggressively degoogling. I imagine other people are doing it too. The regression in quality of google’s products is noticeable and frustrating. Even search results are unreliable as of lately. Search for one term and you get results for another. Email works in the sense the you get and send email but search broken. Google drive search too. I suspect they are experimenting with ai behind the scenes, otherwise i cant explain the sudden spike in unreliability. Then there are features. Almost every product seems to suffer from the eagerness of mediocre managers to leave their mark. And sure they do, products are loaded with silly features no wants. All in all google is now a mediocre company making mediocre products.

Grimblewald 3y ago
google maps is another example, it used to give me great paths but these days I feel that it is trying to kill me somewhat. I've switched to OSMAND which is a FOSS map app built over open street maps, and it is amazing how much better it is in terms of navigation. Search has a little left to be desired, but it thrashes google in actual navigation. It feels a lot more like what google maps was as opposed to what it has become. Voice recognition has become way less reliable as well. I think you might be right about the experimentation though, because now google maps often gives me a "why didn't you do as I told you, was the path you ended up taking better?" style questionnaires afterwards.
- pers0n 3y ago
  I think google maps send you down weird routes to do traffic/police/accident reporting I use gps all the time and go the same way all the time but it often wants me to take some side road when there is no accident or construction
- gumballindie 3y ago
  Havent heard of OSMAND before - thanks for sharing. Downloaded. Yeah google is likely training an ai at our expense. Not sure why they’d choose that over a deterministic approach that has been working reliably for more than a decade.

Grimblewald 3y ago

google maps is another example, it used to give me great paths but these days I feel that it is trying to kill me somewhat. I've switched to OSMAND which is a FOSS map app built over open street maps, and it is amazing how much better it is in terms of navigation. Search has a little left to be desired, but it thrashes google in actual navigation. It feels a lot more like what google maps was as opposed to what it has become. Voice recognition has become way less reliable as well. I think you might be right about the experimentation though, because now google maps often gives me a "why didn't you do as I told you, was the path you ended up taking better?" style questionnaires afterwards.

pers0n 3y ago
I think google maps send you down weird routes to do traffic/police/accident reporting I use gps all the time and go the same way all the time but it often wants me to take some side road when there is no accident or construction
gumballindie 3y ago
Havent heard of OSMAND before - thanks for sharing. Downloaded. Yeah google is likely training an ai at our expense. Not sure why they’d choose that over a deterministic approach that has been working reliably for more than a decade.