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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Boycott And Delete Google Maps (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by panda_abyss@lemmy.ca to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

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Google has decided to rename Lake Ontario in the US. Please uninstall Google Maps.

While I understand they’re pulling data from the US government, they have no actual legal obligation to comply. This is entirely a choice an executive at Google made.

Did you know: When you click a link on Google and then go there Google tracks your location and links it to all your ads. This feature is called Local Search Ads, and you can hit Google’s pocketbook directly in protest by not having Google Maps installed.

When you have Google Maps installed Google is always tracking you. That tracking data feeds into a lot of products: things like mapping cell and wifi networks to geolocations, ads, recaptcha, search, and more. Google stores a profile of who you are, where you live, where you work, who you visit, etc.

If uninstalling is too much for you go to your Google account and disable Location History in privacy settings. Alternatively, click your user profile icon and turn on incognito mode, which disabled tracking and other features.

This will reduce the data linked to your profile (though, in reality, there’s no assurance this does anything, like when that disabled Nest camera was used by the FBI last year).

Browsing without an account does not have the effect. If you simply log out you have no privacy limitations enabled.

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[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I've tried but I can't find shit on there, sometimes even when I directly paste the address. Magic Earth is still not as good but much closer.

If you combine ME with the apple maps web beta you can get closer to the functionality of Gmaps.

I understand that both of these aren't as good for privacy as OSM.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

can't find shit on there

Acastus is what solved the Problem for me. Yes, it's a second app which is a annoying, but it works vers well.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it do addresses or also names? Google is very good for I want to go here and it takes you there. You don't have to find the address and type it in.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, it also does points of interests. So you can just enter "Museum of Fine Arts" and it will work.

The workflow is: Enter location name, click on results, the app automatically leads you to OSMAnd, it takes some seconds and your marker is there.