Jesus, and that’s just from selling user data and ad placements? Yeah they are never willingly moving away from that business. Investors wouldn’t let them.
Technically no, at least not to other companies, that would be the dumbest thing for them to do
and ad placements?
Yeah, that’s the one.
Companies like Google and Meta prefer not selling your data because… why feed their own competition? Their product is access to the ad network which has profiles on everyone. If they sell that data to competitors, the competitors can build a good ad network too (though the space it can sell isn’t necessarily as premium of course).
They all will sell or even just share your data to some three letter government agencies though. Because those aren’t competition.
I mean some will but I get what you mean. Many people will just never pay the opportunity cost to divest themselves, no matter how far Google falls.
Aside: this is what people like us are good for. You’d better believe that everyone I know well knows that they can come to me if they ever want help degoogling, decorporatising, or otherwise exorcising their tech. Sometimes they even do.
I don’t know what that is, so I don’t know what you mean. I just use CoMaps. It doesn’t have every business by name, but then I’ll just look up their address online.
So new model car consoles have a touch screen in them and it can show you the route on google maps if you connect your phone via “Android Auto”. The Android Auto works to a limited extent with GrapheneOS and CalyxOS (TBH idk if they’re still around even) but it’s getting worse with recent updates requiring you to enable their AI Assistant Agent to use it at all, and it has always require specifically Google Maps to work.
Ugh that fills me with dread. I don’t use any gadgets or screens while driving. I just plan my route before I start driving and pull over if I really get lost. I suppose at some point I’ll need to put up with a screen just to access basic functionality. :/
But anyway, I don’t drive much so my way works for me. I imagine if you’re like cabbing people around, or driving weird places, it would be an issue.
Jesus, and that’s just from selling user data and ad placements? Yeah they are never willingly moving away from that business. Investors wouldn’t let them.
Thanks for posting the snip.
Technically no, at least not to other companies, that would be the dumbest thing for them to do
Yeah, that’s the one.
Companies like Google and Meta prefer not selling your data because… why feed their own competition? Their product is access to the ad network which has profiles on everyone. If they sell that data to competitors, the competitors can build a good ad network too (though the space it can sell isn’t necessarily as premium of course).
They all will sell or even just share your data to some three letter government agencies though. Because those aren’t competition.
And users will never willingly move away either, so we’re stuck with them getting bigger and bigger until the system collapses.
I mean some will but I get what you mean. Many people will just never pay the opportunity cost to divest themselves, no matter how far Google falls.
Aside: this is what people like us are good for. You’d better believe that everyone I know well knows that they can come to me if they ever want help degoogling, decorporatising, or otherwise exorcising their tech. Sometimes they even do.
I wish we had a solution to bring up maps on Android Auto without google, lmk if you figure something out.
I don’t know what that is, so I don’t know what you mean. I just use CoMaps. It doesn’t have every business by name, but then I’ll just look up their address online.
So new model car consoles have a touch screen in them and it can show you the route on google maps if you connect your phone via “Android Auto”. The Android Auto works to a limited extent with GrapheneOS and CalyxOS (TBH idk if they’re still around even) but it’s getting worse with recent updates requiring you to enable their AI Assistant Agent to use it at all, and it has always require specifically Google Maps to work.
Ugh that fills me with dread. I don’t use any gadgets or screens while driving. I just plan my route before I start driving and pull over if I really get lost. I suppose at some point I’ll need to put up with a screen just to access basic functionality. :/
But anyway, I don’t drive much so my way works for me. I imagine if you’re like cabbing people around, or driving weird places, it would be an issue.