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There are lots of good experiences from ads in maps: - I search for "restaurants" and someone is having a special - A trampoline park opens near me, I'd like
by Noumenon72 1y ago
There are lots of good experiences from ads in maps:
- I search for "restaurants" and someone is having a special
- A trampoline park opens near me, I'd like it to catch my eye
- I've been googling chocolates recently, so populate the map with chocolate shops
- Maybe I'm bored as a car passenger and watching the map screen so my attention is free anyway
- kelnos 1y agoThat sounds absolutely awful, honestly. I wouldn't want to see any of those things mess with the "natural" order of search results for whatever I've explicitly searched for.
- joshgachnang 1y agoThe 1st and 3rd are better served by Apple choosing the best result rather than who's paid for an ad.
- xp84 1y agoI do agree with you in theory, though their 'attempts' at this kind of thing are comical if not absurd (witness the organic search results in the App Store).
- ses1984 1y agoI don’t want my phone to consume any of my “free” attention, ever, but holy cow especially not while driving.
- jdminhbg 1y ago> as a car passenger
- thaumasiotes 1y agoSometimes the driver looks at the map screen too. That's most of the reason it's there.
- normie3000 1y ago> Maybe I'm bored as a car passenger and watching the map screen so my attention is free anyway I'm glad there are always ads available to stop my mind from wandering.
- dkdcio 1y agogenuinely the worst opinion I’ve seen on HackerNews there are such better ways to enable these experiences without introducing the zero-sum, scam-inducing, corporate fuckery game that making it a pay-to-win ad-driven experience gives you I’m also concerned that boredom makes you want to see ads
- ratelimitsteve 1y agoI want to challenge the idea that any of these is an unqualified "good experience". I desire none of this.