Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square78fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months 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-up0·6 months agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoPromptly killing off the old version
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
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”.
Promptly killing off the old version
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”