Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1331arrow-down115cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansnottheonion@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1316arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansnottheonion@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.idtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·1 month 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-up28·1 month agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 month ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month 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