Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1334arrow-down115cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1319arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·28 days agodon’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
minus-squarethejml@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·28 days agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·28 days ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·28 days agoPromptly killing off the old version
don’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
Promptly killing off the old version