• InsertUser@en.osm.town
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    2 months ago

    @gedaliyah @NeatNit @openstreetmap

    If you select a hotel found on Kayak it will add an affiliate link to Kayak in addition to the direct link stored in OpenStreetMap.

    If you know to look in https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/app.organicmaps.yml you will find:

    “AntiFeatures:
    TetheredNet:
    en-US: Map download service (cdn*.organicmaps.app).
    NonFreeNet:
    en-US: Hotel widget includes a link to kayak.com not contained in original map
    data.”

    It’s new so I think more will probably be flagged later.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Okay, I had to search through a lot of hotels, but I was able to find this in the app. Weird.

      It seems like any money they would make would be offset by users who are unhappy with the situation. I don’t have a recurring donation, but I’ve given in the past and this certainly makes me less likely to in the future.