Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1336arrow-down115
arrow-up1321arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detourwww.androidauthority.comScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square90fedilink
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50·2 years 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-up30·2 years agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 years ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years 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