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Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm fucking done with Google Maps and their brown-nosing bullshit. Disabled it (can't uninstall easily, otherwise I would). MapQuest from now on (or one of the other alternatives that has a spine).

Now to find a good alternative to Gmail (and go through that migration hassle). I've tried Proton Mail in the past. It was okay, but didn't blow me away.

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Shizuku, activated with USB debugging (if you can't/won't root), and Canta will let you fully remove Gmaps (and any other google shitware) pretty easily.

I even used it to remove that Android System SafetyCore app that apparently keeps reinstalling itself if you uninstall via normal methods and it hasn't come back after roughly a year since removal so I'd say it's a pretty effective and simple method to set up, just make sure to read the notes the Canta dev added for certain apps to make sure you aren't going to break something you may still want.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Shizuku is on the chopping block. One of the change requests being made to AOSP is blocking adb connections on the loopback interface, "for security".

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Good info, thanks.

[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like the Yelp integration with MapQuest. FlockHopper is good for finding routes that avoid flock cameras.

[–] EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

I use Organic Maps and CoMaps mainly. Sometime Kagi Maps and FlockHopper (not sure what I under the hood of that one though). I prefer OSM generally.