Yeah... The invasive AI tools and blocking the ad blockers finally managed to chase me off Chrome... I'm now just using basic Brave... Google embraced Enshitification with both hands.
Because it’s still Lake Ontario. Google’s just trying to avoid shade, which is probably prudent but still annoying AF because it just continues to delude Dementia Don that his executive orders have the authority he thinks they do.
They base all naming on local government databases to try and maintain neutrality from the gov perspective. US uses GNIS, maintained by the Ececutive Branch.
They don’t have to, but they got rid of the don’t be evil motto.
I made sure to go leave Google maps a 1 star and tell them they're nothing but bootlickers for bowing to a man/country that's the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
No, so when you view it as a location (?) like I'm doing in the image that's what it shows, but when you don't do any search and just go and look at it it shows Lake Ontario, it's super weird.
They removed "Don't be Evil" from their code of conduct in 2018, immediately after getting military AI contracts and deals with the US DoD (Project Maven)
Honestly, it was the most stupid motto ever anyhow. Why would you draw so much attention onto the idea of not being evil, unless you were trying to hide the fact that you are indeed quite evil?
"Don't be evil" was marketing gloss from Google's 2004 stock launch, that basically amounted to: 'we won't flood the site with so many ads that it might scare off users and hurt shareholder revenues'. It was never about morality or the public, it was about easing investor concerns due to the search engine market still being competitive at the time.
Now that Alphabet has market dominance in search engines (Google), browsers (Chrome), e-mails (Gmail), video-sharing (YouTube) etc., they no longer have to care about whether being "evil" towards users affects their dividends, so they discarded it.
Hmm it depends if people go vote the other way or his followers get the trump dynasty forever (some "conservatives" literally talk about wanting Barron as president and the sister of a senator who died just won the primary to a senate seat just for being his sister I'm not even kidding)
Yes it is a problem because corporations have a choice, if a system becomes corrupted you can change it, this is not a difficult concept for Google to grasp.
On a side note. The way the chump is drawn reminds me of those calvin and hobbes sticker with calvin peeing on something. I'm imagining the chump peeing on america.
When it takes you to the lake, select the Hamburger menu on the top left, by the search box
Select "Edit the map"
Select "Your opinions about maps"
In the new pop-up, select "Report an issue"
In the dropdown, select "Fix incorrect information on maps"
In the text box, kindly explain to Google that the lake is named "Lake Ontario", and since the President lacks the authority to unilaterally rename it, labeling it as anything else is incorrect.
They were first to change the gulf of Mexico to America. Just saying. About once a day I am reminded of the weird corporate worship you guys practice there.
You know, Canada could declare that America is now named "South Canada". It would be both a hilarious trolling and a demonstration of how stupid the concept is.
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u/Toonwatcher 18h ago
The acronym for remembering the names of the Great Lakes was H.O.M.E.S. (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior). Now it's S.H.A.M.E.