User reports Google Maps proposed a sponsored detour to a trip

elfio@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.world – 190 points –
Diego DNM :questified: (@Dnmrules@paquita.masto.host)
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Original toot in Spanish says: "OK, so I need some alternatives to Google Maps, because I just decided seconds ago to stop using it after I got proposed a trip with a completely unnecessary detour which adds two extra minutes just because it pass by a gas station that sponsors this trip."

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Might be. It's indeed hard to tell by the picture, but the user seems to knows the place so I don't know. What seems about right is the title is misleading so I'm going to change it.

The picture shows the "eco" route which is a setting you can turn on/off that selects gas saving routes even if they add some minutes to the trip

Please change "added a sponsored detour" to "proposed a sponsored detour" and it won't be as misleading anymore