Google kills everything it touches
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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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
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)
Yeah it’s super frustrating too because google was one of the few places that you could get a .dev domain, and square space isn’t exactly the most logical place for a developer’s sight
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288 services dead
Pretty sure if this was any other industry there would be a lot of shit thrown, but because its Google they somehow get away with it.
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Why are they doing this. Waze was such an amazing tool
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.
Title is clickbait, they are laying off the ads department and using Google's.
I dunno, google has a long history of buying competitors then shutting them down, we are all just anticipating it this time.
Google maps is pretty damn good though - but I do like Waze for road trips
Do Only Harm
Google cross Reddit when?
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
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!
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Killing a functional product
Is it Tuesday again?
It's a day that ends in '-y'.
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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Kind of an alarmist headline, and not at all what the article says.
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.
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Magic earth seems pretty good.
HD traffic and report a cop. Also not google and privacy built.
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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
Waze editor here. Based on the article’s content, this post’s title is a bit of an overreaction. Google would be a fool to kill off a platform with more accurate street maps than its core platform, maintained by a vibrant group of volunteers, at least without creating or migrating those tools over to GMaps.
Oh sweet summer child. Google could turn off waze with no warning. Are you going to switch to bing maps? If every waze member stopped using any google service as a result, would their bottom line be affected in any meaningful way?
Shouldn't uneditorilised headlines be a rule around these parts too? Take your hot takes to the comments or the body text.
Is there anyone who didn't see this coming when they first bought 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.
DDG has actually been a lot better when searching than Google ever has for me. The top posts aren't always ads, I don't have to keep rephrasing everything to find what I'm looking for, it's been great.
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Degoogle!
In my country Waze is the literal go-to app for drivers.
Sorry to hear this, I really liked the social aspect of Waze where you could report things you saw on the road.
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.
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at this point I'm not sure how any sane person can have trust in a Google product. Things get killed left, right and centre 🪦
Don't state your speculation as fact, it's really bad.
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.
Oof click bait. They're just switching ad teams.
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