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Better late than never, right?
Better late than never, right?
I think ad space sellers wildly overestimate the effectiveness of ads and google has made it far worse with targeted ads. People have gotten used to saying things like “ads work” and “brand recognition” but does anyone know the numbers? Or is this just repeating some phrases you’ve heard?
I don’t know the numbers myself, but I’m quite skeptical.
I have a pihole already, so I guess I could use that.
Any idea how much that would block?
And besides the sensors, what data is the OS collecting? Wouldn’t the Chromecast collect the same amount of data?
But what happens if someone sends you an email from a non-gmail account? Can you react then?
If so, does it just reply to this email with an emoji in the body? Cause then you’re basically just replying in the exact way as before, google just added a quick-reply button with a predefined body.
I’m personally not a fan of nonstandard functionality for something as ubiquitous as email. Email should be exactly the same regardless of the client that’s used.
Good start though, right? More than most fines for similar infractions
May I ask why you use maps.me? As far as I know that’s just a worse version than Organic Maps at this point.
Yes that’s indeed great and I have contributed to OSM, but even for places with tags in multiple languages the search still didn’t work great.
Perhaps it’s been improved, but I think Organic Maps first searches for the primary name
tag first and only later name:es
or name:ca
. But that means that when searching in Spanish in Valencia (where the name
tags are in Valencian/Catalan), it would often give me results outside of Valencia but that would have the name of what I was looking for.
That’s not impossible to improve, but it’s difficult to get those things consistently right. Google knows so much about its users it can make really accurate predictions about which results are most relevant.
But what’s for me way more significant is that OSM is quite unforgiving when it comes to typos or slightly inaccurate spelling. Organic Maps has that problem and openstreetmap.org as well. As an example: there is a part of the city called l’Eixample. If you search for l'Eixample
on OSM you will find it no problem: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=l’Eixapmle
But if you forget the apostrophe, lEixample
, or if you switch around the m
and p
, l'Eixapmle
, you get no results: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=lEixample
For me that is really frustrating when I’m outside somewhere and have to quickly look up some place on my phone. Most of the time I can still find it with organic maps, but it can definitely be more cumbersome than with google maps.
I use Organic Maps as much as possible. For public transport I use another app (not google maps but a local app for my country). Sometimes I check google maps if I can’t find a place or if the opening times are missing on openstreetmap (the source for organic maps).
The main issue with organic maps (and I think any map app based on OSM data) is search. Especially in places where multiple languages are used I’ve found it quite frustrating.
Valencia, for example, has Valencian/Catalan as its main language on OSM, but Spanish is very common. If I search in Spanish I don’t get good results. A small typo will also mess things up. That’s pretty frustrating and means I often have to go to the website of wherever I’m going to get the proper name in Valenciano without typos, or I have to look it up on google maps.
Yes that’s a good point, and thank you for the insight
Thanks, that is good advice indeed. I don’t work for a company and I trust the phone itself, but a very valid point.
And what sport?
Edit: football nvm
Is it one though? I’m having a difficult time finding the source code of this new version.
Awesome!! Looks clean. Will check it out once the season starts 🙂
/r/soccerstreams was the best of times. I mostly watch Dutch football which has way fewer streams than the big European leagues. Since /r/soccerstreams closed I haven’t been able to find streams nearly as easily.
Yeah the search is not forgiving. One typo is enough to ruin the search results.
How well an area is mapped also matters a lot for search though. I now live somewhere that has all addresses in the country mapped from a government source. I didn’t before, and it’s so much easier now because at least I can just punch in the address and I’ll find whatever I’m looking for.