Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)

Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?

Personally, I’m getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It’s been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.

  • jcit878@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    try navigating along distance trip you’ve never done before without google/apple/bing maps. they don’t publish hard copy street directorys anymore where I am

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      For iOS,
      Google Maps Third-Party Advertising:
      Location: Coarse Location
      Search History: Search History
      Browsing History: Browsing History
      Identifiers: User ID
      Usage Data: Advertising Data
      Other Data: Other Data Types

      Apple Maps Third-Party Advertising: N/A

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There’s actually a number of mapping apps that are better than Google or Apple maps. Mapquest looks pretty good.

      So, it seems more so the case that you’re acting as if there are no other choices when in fact there are.