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hoy, 13:54

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Google totally sucks!

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmit

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 13:56

f*cking cowards.

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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 13:57

it was ‘t there Friday.

Fuckity
Fuck
Fuck

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Espen 👀 🇧🇻 🇺🇦

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:10

😮 Yes!... google sucks!... big!... so why bother with them?! 🧐

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Steven Jones

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 13:59 (Recibido hoy, 14:11)

In the UK it still shown as Lake Ontario in Google Maps

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Edwin G.

in reply to Steven Jones hoy, 15:17 (Recibido hoy, 15:28)

@StevenNT I have confirmed the same in Japan through a friend

@Steven Jones

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babble encat

in reply to Edwin G. hoy, 15:25

@EdwinG @StevenNT Guess in the US we're getting the dementia patient treatment

"It's Lake America!"

"Of course it is grandpa, let's take your meds"

@Edwin G. @Steven Jones

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Google follows a predictable pattern whenever there is a legal conflict between maps: appease each country's legal claims when browsed from within each country, then show as a territory in dispute when browsed from anywhere else. They already do so with Crimea (Ukrainian for Ukraine, Russian for Russia, disputed elsewhere), the Gulf of Mexico/America (America from the US, Mexico from Mexico, both for the rest of the world), and now the Lake Ontario/America (same as above).

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Tofulogie

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In Germany it is still displayed as Lake Ontario. Well, sorta. In the description that stupid "new" name is already present. Did not expect Google chicken out that fast.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:23

Wot Americans need to do is use a VPN so they can see the rest of the world's truth rather than just their own junta's propaganda.

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Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:29

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Calling in from the U.S. Apple Maps hasn't caved, yet. Still Lake Ontario with none of this America shit. HOMES forever!

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Sister Lucy Fur

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:45

What messaging app has RCS?

Google makes it impossible to NOT use their goddamned app with that crap. Has someone found a workaround?

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Mastodon Migration

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@FIAR_Light

Indeed. Think they are the only Android messaging app with RCS.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:51

For some reason, big tech is not cool anymore

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stux⚡️

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:57

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Maybe only inside the US?

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Tane Piper ⁂

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@stux click a bit further. It's showing up here as a marker at least (also NL)

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stux⚡️

in reply to Tane Piper ⁂ hoy, 15:04

@tanepiper I found the (Lake) indeed but the name on map still says Ontario

@Tane Piper ⁂

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Szilárd Koczka 🎲

in reply to stux⚡️ hoy, 15:45

@stux @tanepiper I think the name changes if you open Google Maps from a non-U.S IP. I tested with VPN, if I use an U.S. IP the name would change to Lake America, if I turn off the VPN, I see the real name of the lake.

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Peter Koopman 🦣

in reply to stux⚡️ hoy, 15:10 (Recibido hoy, 15:28)

@stux Sadly, no. blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change/

How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps

The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States. Since we update Google Maps …

^Google

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Liminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah

in reply to stux⚡️ hoy, 15:18 (Recibido hoy, 15:28)

@stux google does google things npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/12/302337754/google-maps-displays-crimean-border-differently-in-…

@stux⚡️

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Stumpy The Mutt

in reply to stux⚡️ hoy, 16:40

@stux They have gone from "Don't be evil" to just "Be evil."

@stux⚡️

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CubeOfCheese

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 14:58

@CoMaps

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D3

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can't confirm a name change

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SilvertipGrizz

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……… unbelievable ….

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Byrnensorg🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 15:27

Oh it must be true, now that a Google app says so. Just remember, it only says that within the U.S. or from a U.S. IP. the rest of us, well it's still the good old Lake Ontario, and if Google should try to change that, well Google gets the heave ho not the lake.

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Petra van Cronenburg

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 15:33

Why do you still use it???
Alternative: mspsocial.net/@ianrbuck/117185123150257814

#degoogle #boycottUSA

Ian R Buck (@ianrbuck@mspsocial.net)

If you're fed up with Google Maps for immediately capitulating to nonsense like this, I'd recommend trying out CoMaps or OsmAnd as general-purpose map/navigation apps.

^{Ian R Buck (MSP Social.net)}

#degoogle #boycottusa

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gavinisdie

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 15:35

i don't use Google maps for a reason

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Stoneface Vimes

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 15:44

interesting. I'm in the UK and it's still displaying as Ontario. Perhaps that one is purely for US consumption. Not that I'm weighing in on Grovel's side - very far from it.

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Wyatt H Knott

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 15:53

It does not bode well for humanity that all it took to go from "Don't be evil" to "We would like to be considered for the Evilest Company In The World Award" was a bunch of money.

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qesuto

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 16:05 (Recibido hoy, 16:35)

in Italy it still shows up as "lake Ontario".

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Sophie of Ratsnake Games

in reply to qesuto hoy, 17:26 (Recibido hoy, 17:56)

@qesuto they pulled the same stunt for the Gulf of Mexico.

@qesuto

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Saul Pwanson

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 17:06

From HOMES to SHAME

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no brain no pain

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Lake America Vacation

An image tagged lake america vacation

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Nele Neubauer

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 17:50

What are good alternatives to Google Maps on Android? Google Maps has had lots of issues lately including political stuff and constantly trying to send me through closed roads with alternative routes also trying to go through closed roads.

Also Google Maps constantly tries to get me to drive on bike and hiking paths and support hasnt done anything despite me making complaints.

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AndromedaX

in reply to Mastodon Migration hoy, 18:40

abandoned google maps (and from there also the whole google ecosystem) from the times of the "Gulf of America"

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