Capitalism views sustainable business models as a failure. Milking the same cash cow forever is Not Growing. The pursuit of endless growth must squeeze blood from every stone. Slaughter the golden goose or get sued by shareholders.
I'm sad to see Google go the way of all capitalist businesses. It was extremely useful. The downslope from the peak is unlikely to be fun.
Google moved "maps.google.com" to google.com/maps so if you deny location information to Google (for ad tracking) it breaks google maps.
I was reminded of this because Google's main search page is now one of those "endless scroll" things, and I thought about disabling javascript for the site to see if I'd get pages back, but that would break all the other google services monopoly-leverage bundled into the big hairball just like Microsoft did putting Word in Office and Explorer in the OS.
@landley but why would anyone use google maps when https://www.openstreetmap.org/ exists? 🙂
@eliasr because open street maps doesn't tell you what hours a store is open? Which is 90% of what I use it for?