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Google has now renamed Lake Ontario for US users. They don’t even show the real name in brackets.
I used a VPN to compare: Apple hasn’t renamed it (at least not yet), nor has Dutch service Here WeGo or OpenStreetMap.
Yet another reason to ditch Google, and US tech more broadly.
#tech #lakeontario #canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #digitalsovereignty
When I opened it this morning to check, it said "Lake Ontario" when I first looked at it and then changed to "Lake America" a few seconds later.
Watching the cache refresh in real time was interesting but seriously fuck them.
@parismarx ditched them too lang ago to make a stand on this.
Servi sciocchi.
E manco ve la traduco, yankee; la "fatica" di centrare il campo semantico dovete farla voi, se vi va e se ne siete capaci.
@parismarx Btw, while looking at all 4 interfaces, I was stunned by how clean and minimal Apple’s map looks, despite having the same information.
Apple really cares about design.
@parismarx I was seeing Apple users complaining they had renamed it even before I saw Google users say it. Which just shows no matter how high the pedestal, corporations are corporations in the end.
@parismarx
#ArtificialStupidity : Lake renaming edition
@parismarx this is how it looks from Germany
When murderous petrostate despots co-opt ... ahem,... "invest" in American tech companies, the outcome is obvious.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/jared-kushner-mbs-khashoggi-murder-trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mbs-jared-kushner.html
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500
The corporations then align themselves with other murderous fascist dictators & their enablers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/11/jared-kushner-paramount-warner-bros-deal
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-s1-5761206/how-saudi-arabia-shaped-silicon-valley
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