It’s not about mass adoption for me. It’s about not giving Google my info to resale. You should do what’s best for you, not what is going to get adopted enmass. I do see how you could’ve taken my recommendation as ‘killing google’ given the parent comment, though. Unfortunately Google isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it.
that’s okay! there are other great alternatives: the folks over at [email protected] generally agree that porkbun is excellent (and i’d agree with them)
Well that is unfortunate, Waze is a great community that showed what is possible with crowdsourced information and keeping people from getting as many sepeding tickets
If you actually care about crowdsourced information, please consider contributing to your local area in OpenStreetMaps. There’s way more to crowdsourcing than just avoiding speeding tickets!
Indeed. I update it regularly through OsmAnd. It even has a google traffic overlay. Waze users can slide over to Magic Earth and start reporting traffic, construction, and speedvtraps over there and automatically start using OpenStreetMaps!
Yes. The priblem with crowdsourced data, is it requires a crowd. This is why I encourage everyone to hype Magic Earth to people who love waze. I attached a screenshot of the available alerts.
Read the article… It’s transitioning to a different ad team, so cost reduction when only one system for ads is needed. I don’t think this will be cancelled since their community is actively keeping it alive.
But Google traditionally is operating internal teams as competing teams. So Waze has a great chance of being seen as a “competing” product to Google maps. A customer sent to Waze might be seen as a customer lost to Waze. For example Waze added first the integration with Spotify in 2017, never supported Google play music and only after years it supported YouTube music. If they felt that they were under the same company (they were acquired five years earlier), they should have been integrated Google play music first, Spotify second (or both, GPM was killed three years later).
Regarding the community, i saw a lot of mods doing a lot of unpaid work. And i mean A LOT, they are investing hours of their free time to improve maps for a multi billion corporation. But when I tried to login, i had the impression that it was abandoned since the acquisition. The interface design is very outdated and it’s very hard for a regular user to find this place as it’s not advertised anywhere (i got the link when I sent a correction to the map from the app)
And corrections appear to be unidirectional. Something that gets fixed or flagged in Google maps doesn’t transfer to Waze, but the opposite happens.
Again on Android auto, Waze got split screen support 6 months after it was publicly announced and one year after it was available in the public beta channel on the play store. No communication between the two teams in the same company, the android auto team treated the Waze team as they were some independent company
Seeing Google history, i give 3 years max before they wind down Waze.
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How do we kill Google?
DuckDuckGo
DDG has to get a lot better before that’s going to happen, sorry.
If you want a better alternative, Kagi is better than Google in my experience.
Kagi is paid unfortunately. That might not be a bad thing but it’s going to really hurt adoption when “free” Google still exists.
It’s not about mass adoption for me. It’s about not giving Google my info to resale. You should do what’s best for you, not what is going to get adopted enmass. I do see how you could’ve taken my recommendation as ‘killing google’ given the parent comment, though. Unfortunately Google isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it.
I didn’t say it’s going to kill Google at all.
Huh?
Before what is going to happen then, if you didn’t mean kill google?
I’d like to see more Waze features integrated into Google Maps.
A lot of the data is shared back and forth, but yeah the tools are much better in Waze.
The reports of police and obstacles are also super useful and more plentiful then in Gmaps
And that is why Waze has to go away. It’s giving people info on cops, so that’s becoming politically inconvenient for Google.
Oh for fuck sake.
Fuck Google. I used Waze since it didnt need a Google account and was still reasonably popular in my area.
If I have to use a Google account for this shit, I dont know what I’d do.
Is it Tuesday again?
Sorry to hear this, I really liked the social aspect of Waze where you could report things you saw on the road.
In my country Waze is the literal go-to app for drivers.
Magic earth seems pretty good.
HD traffic and report a cop. Also not google and privacy built.
https://www.magicearth.com/
I wonder if anyone predicted this when Google bought Waze…it’s not like Google has a history of killing major projects when they acquire them.
Google: Google remains deeply committed to growing Waze’s unique brand
Also Google: And how are we going to achieve that? By decreasing the workforce that works on waze
Now is the time to start encouraging Waze users to try Magic Earth!
It also has social reporting features, uses open street maps, and has a real privacy policy.
Google kills everything it touches
https://killedbygoogle.com/ is a great site to see them all. It’s A LOT.
Damn, I missed the news about Google domains. That sucks. Squarespace domain pricing is typically pretty high.
Switch to cloudflare, they recently started with domains
Wait are we sure about Google domains? I literally just saw an ad for it yesterday.
Confirmed by Squarespace: https://domains.squarespace.com/
that’s okay! there are other great alternatives: the folks over at [email protected] generally agree that porkbun is excellent (and i’d agree with them)
Why are they doing this. Waze was such an amazing tool
Title is clickbait, they are laying off the ads department and using Google’s.
They’ve integrated what they want into Maps navigation. Now they want you to switch and be happy about it.
No they didn’t. They show traffic info from Waze in Google Maps, but the navigation is still the old one, not the Waze one.
Do Only Harm
Well that is unfortunate, Waze is a great community that showed what is possible with crowdsourced information and keeping people from getting as many sepeding tickets
Then again, another great way to reduce speeding tickets is not speeding.
Seriously ?
Cop are master at putting trap in the worst area possible, like where it goes from 110 to 90 then 110 again over 200 meters.
Crowdsourcing proprietary software - it ends the same every time. People should just do OpenStreetMaps instead
If you actually care about crowdsourced information, please consider contributing to your local area in OpenStreetMaps. There’s way more to crowdsourcing than just avoiding speeding tickets!
Indeed. I update it regularly through OsmAnd. It even has a google traffic overlay. Waze users can slide over to Magic Earth and start reporting traffic, construction, and speedvtraps over there and automatically start using OpenStreetMaps!
To clarify, does Magic Earth let people mark cops?
If so I assume it only works well in larger cities?
Yes. The priblem with crowdsourced data, is it requires a crowd. This is why I encourage everyone to hype Magic Earth to people who love waze. I attached a screenshot of the available alerts.
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming when they first bought Waze?
The Waze UI is soooo much nicer that GMaps on iOS 😢
Read the article… It’s transitioning to a different ad team, so cost reduction when only one system for ads is needed. I don’t think this will be cancelled since their community is actively keeping it alive.
But Google traditionally is operating internal teams as competing teams. So Waze has a great chance of being seen as a “competing” product to Google maps. A customer sent to Waze might be seen as a customer lost to Waze. For example Waze added first the integration with Spotify in 2017, never supported Google play music and only after years it supported YouTube music. If they felt that they were under the same company (they were acquired five years earlier), they should have been integrated Google play music first, Spotify second (or both, GPM was killed three years later).
Regarding the community, i saw a lot of mods doing a lot of unpaid work. And i mean A LOT, they are investing hours of their free time to improve maps for a multi billion corporation. But when I tried to login, i had the impression that it was abandoned since the acquisition. The interface design is very outdated and it’s very hard for a regular user to find this place as it’s not advertised anywhere (i got the link when I sent a correction to the map from the app)
And corrections appear to be unidirectional. Something that gets fixed or flagged in Google maps doesn’t transfer to Waze, but the opposite happens.
Again on Android auto, Waze got split screen support 6 months after it was publicly announced and one year after it was available in the public beta channel on the play store. No communication between the two teams in the same company, the android auto team treated the Waze team as they were some independent company
Seeing Google history, i give 3 years max before they wind down Waze.