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#Degoogled Maps? Yes, it's possible. 📍🗺️
The Big Tech does not need to track your every step 👉use a Google Maps alternative instead.
Find out which open source maps we'd recommend: https://tuta.com/blog/google-maps-alternatives-foss
Here's a complete guide to boycotting Google Maps: https://boycottusanow.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/boycott-google-maps-here-are-the-alternatives/
TLDR: Replace Google with Organic Maps and Mapcarta. Contribute to #OpenStreetMap by using fun and gamified app StreetComplete!
#BoycottGoogle #BoycottGoogleMaps #GoogleMaps #GulfOfmexico #GulfOfAmerica
How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants
#Google Maps changes #LakeOntario to ‘Lake America’ in #US searches
Anyone in the US searching for Lake Ontario on #GoogleMaps can no longer find it as of this weekend.
Users in the country will now see the smallest of the #GreatLakes identified as “Lake America” on that site, following #Trump’s idiotic executive order on Thursday mandating the change in how the US government refers to the lake amid his tense #trade war with #Canada.
#idiocracy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/politics/google-maps-changes-lake-ontario-to-lake-america
This is hilarious to me because obviously it doesn't matter to anyone looking for directions what the app calls Lake Ontario. But of course it does. It tells you the company is willing to lie to you when it's politically convenient to. #GoogleMaps is #Spyware anyway. Everything #Google is spyware actually.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/31/1646204/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario
SHAME ON GOOGLE FOR CONTINUING TO BEND THE KNEE!!!
Boycott Google maps & switch over to MapQuest!! There is even a whimsy bonus! You can be a unicorn, warlock, ogre, or knight (? not totally sure if that's what the orange one is lol) and they call it a "Questie" ahhhhhhh So. Cute. 🤩
#FindOutCrew #LakeOntario #GulfOfMexico #MapQuest #GoogleMaps
