Google Maps is testing a new ad format that gives users the option to add a stop for a sponsored location during navigation.
  • Sentient LoomEnglish
    185·
    5 months ago

    I’m willing to pay for an ad-free version. Google maps are very useful. I don’t need it to be free. But ads are poison.

    • InternetUser2012@lemmy.todayEnglish
      271·
      5 months ago

      Interesting, you don’t think they make enough off your data already? I’m sure I’m not alone in saying I will never pay google a single cent for anything they have to offer, ever.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        5 months ago

        There is no such thing as making “enough” money under the chicago-school dominated business thought. A business should always make as much money as it can for its investors, always. A friend who read Friedman’s works says that the Friedman doctrine makes room to say that a wise business will optimize investor outcomes by investing in its product, workforce, and other smart long-term choices, but in practice, nobody ever reads that deep into the Friedman doctrine. It’s just “philosophical” license to make (and demand, on the part of investors) the shallowest slash-and-burn business decisions possible to make line go up NOW. I will accept arguments about how it’s capitalism, but I’d like to point out that we experienced a very distinct culture shift in business leadership starting around the time that Chicago school thought became all the rage.

          • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Exactly. I would be happy to pay for a privacy-focused version of these products, but those doesn’t exist. You can pay facebook to not show you ads, but they never promise to stop harvesting your data, so you would be actually just paying them twice, no thanks, as much as I hate ads.

            The EU needs to step up and start regulating data more. Every person should be the legal owner of their data. Meaning not just personal data, but also data synthesized from their behaviour (it is illegal to follow me in a cat during the day and take photos of my activities without my permission, the same should be the case in the digital world). And every person should have a right to sell the rights to collect and use this data, but it shouldn’t be mandatory for the usage of any app. So you could decide to keep your data private, and pay a monthly fee to use apps like navigation, or social media, or you could decide to give access to your data, and use these apps for free.

        • InternetUser2012@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Me too. Problem is, that’s not an option. They’re taking your data regardless, so if you pay them, you’re paying them to take your data.

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      I would too, but they need to also not collect my data. Like, at all. I’d pay $2-3/month for that.