I’ve got to make a decision and want to take a room temperature check on what sacrifices people find acceptable for their own comfort. Use any services you know you shouldn’t? Any tools that you’re just waiting for a chance to replace but can’t yet?

        • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
          11·
          10 days ago

          They didn’t. As far as I’m aware they bought the competition.

          Waze serves a slightly different purpose to Maps, being a friendlier face that’s more of a driving GPS than Maps is. And while they don’t really market it as a Google product, people will use it thinking it’s a good alternative to using Google or Apple.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Noooooo. Nothing is wrong with Tuta, they are awesome. The compromise is that PayPal knows that I subscribe to Tuta and BitWarden.

      As for Waze, it has been bought by Google a long time ago. If you have Android, you can restrict the location to “when the application is running,” but it’s still Google behind.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        ohhhhh. I see. I guess that’s still better than maps. Do you think it had use of all the same geography as Google maps then?

        • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          The geographical data was always good, and you can use it without an account. The algorithm itself has improved a lot. It used to be very bad in the past though, it would switch the route every five minute to gain a few seconds towards the destination, but they stopped doing that.

          CoMaps looks great, but it’s still buggy and I don’t know how to have some traffic data.