Awful change, basically killed GMaps WV overnight.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 day ago

    Fight scrapers, provide more targeted advertising, use this as a beginning to get people to make an account.

    Google doesn’t have an incentive to keep this information open without an account but several incentives to put it behind an account wall.

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      What’s odd is that for a very small portion of the users, this is incentive to actually logout! Less clutter? Yes please.