Google also says Jerusalem is the capital of israel despite international law and virtually every other country designating Tel Aviv as the capital.
Fuck google.
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2026
473 points (98.0% liked)
Technology
87680 readers
2553 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Surely, the community-run, mapping project Open Street Maps won't rename it like Google did... right?... right?!?!
Fuck Google.
So everyone's switching to foss alternatives, right?
OSM?
Spread the word, share with your friends, etc.
I recommend CoMaps on Android, (or Organic Maps, which CoMaps forked from when Organic started enshitifying)
CoMaps is awesome.
OSM?
edit: To be clear, CoMaps and OpenStreetMaps is still leagues better than Google Maps for privacy, respecting users, etc and I recommend people switch. But it’s still a community-run project which means the community needs to participate to keep it awesome.
Like I said when Zuck et al were on the inauguration stage kissing the orange ass: what's the point of fuck you money if you never say fuck you?
Getting more fuck you money
RIP HOMES mnemonic
HAMES just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Aptly, the next word I can think of for a memory aid is SHAME.
How's the Ass of Trump looking, Google?
These are the issues one can expect when one is dependent on foreign country companies for any services, it comes with their world view. Similar if you would be using services from other countries that are interested in how their image is seen from the other side.
I personally don't mind they can name things to what ever they want, but you as a user should always be aware of who is the owner of the platform and it's indirect message. I do not call Germany, Deutschland or will also have an issue with Macedonia in Greece or Nepal in China.
It is just a petty thing to do that makes that orange mandarin look like a person with huge issues that many of us left at the age of 10.
load more comments
(9 replies)
Good they make themselves even more untrustworthy, loss of value
I wish Trump decides to rename something in Europe and Google complies so another jump in degooglelization takes place there..
"NATO is a bunch of pussies! From this day forward I proclaim that the water between France and England be known as the "Strait of Ben Dover". Get it? I'm so clever..."
"...and not many people knew there was a "B" in Ben, but it's true..." /s
Hmm, unfortunately >99% people dont care… In Poland everything relies on us infrastructure. Government buys services from M$ or Google, when we have own european companies or it could invest in own infrastructure
I'm not sure that Google could sink any lower.
Canada should announce that they've changed the names of all the Great Lakes to Canadian names, like Lake Toronto, and Lake Ottawa. Make sure there's a Lake Saskatchewan, because there is no way Trump can read or pronounce it, so that will really piss him off. Maybe he'll painfully stroke out and croak, and we can all read about it the Big Beautiful Obituary.
I like the idea of Canada naming the lake after Trump personally : "Lake Inferior".
Nah, if they really want to get under his skin, they should rename the lakes to Lake Obama, Lake Hillary, Lake Comey, and so on.
No, they should find the most sorry thing of a mud puddle (preferably one in Patagonia or so) and call THAT Lake America.
In other places it looks like it
Same for Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
They should have made it an opt-in feature that only kicks in if you check a MAGA box on your profile.
Kashmiri levels of cope
it would be funny if Canadians started referring to South Canada instead of America
Nah, that'd be an insult to our country. We need not be associated with the dumpster fire south of us.
Just "USA" works fine. It's easy to type and the world already understands it means "Festering pile of shit".
Maybe North Mexico? Naw that is mean to Mexicans.
I thought we settled on dumbfuckistan a few years ago....
Except it shows up as Lake Americas in my google maps and I'm in Europe...
Mine has it in brackets. They can honestly fuck off with that.
Like I specifically searched lake Ontario.
Edit: if I go out of search there's no mention of the wrong name however.
That's how it is for me now. The actual lake was labeled as Lake Americas yesterday however, today it's back to Ontario.
Fuck you google
For android users recommend CoMaps, or "OSMand", both are open source and privacy focused. Both use openstreetmaps data, CoMaps just have what I think is a cleaner interface. Both have offline maps, turn-by-turn navigation and frankly a lot more customization since it's not corporate owned. No ads, and no businesses who pay being stuffed in your eyes first when maps load.
Both are much improved since trying to ditch maps a few years ago and basic local business info wasn't available, now it looks to be much improved and it's a great time to jump.
Hope this helps someone.
Or mapy.cz
Mapy.cz relies on open street map, but it has advantage that you can add reviews and photos to places.
I think its the best replacement right now, but it needs more community
There's also Organic Maps.
CoMaps was forked from Organic Maps. There was some drama because the Organic Maps shareholders were demanding profit or something, idk. CoMaps is like the community edition, so they aren't beholden to any shareholders.
Nice! Thanks
Just downloaded both, will give them a try - thsnks for the recommendation!
view more: next ›