DeGoogle Yourself

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

Organic Maps:

Even in the UK they have put Gulf of America.

The UK Government doesn't recognize that name and have officially stated they wont (at least in the short term)

Planet America, orbiting the American sun, in the galaxy called America

No better time than the present to switch to OpenStreetMap

For Android, I use OsmAnd~ which uses OpenStreetMap data and allows you to download maps to calculate routes offline, something Google Maps couldn't do for routes by foot and by bike last time I tried.

It also has better coverage for some small paths in natural areas like forests. Give it a try!

Using the website from outside of the US shows it with its proper name, but then the asshat version in parentheses.

Degoogled since 2018

hardcore mode, google domains blocked by DNS

YouTube scrap data

GrapheneOS with used Pixel

It's not google's fault. It was told to do so and has. Does anyone seriously expect them not to have done this?

Every American company, or company doing business in America, needs to toe the line of an unpredictable and vindictive president, especially one as fat and tempting as Google.

Now there'll be a disconnect in mapping between what some sources say and what others do, but anyone with a little history knowledge knows this isn't the first time.

Time for a repeat comment: Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions), and is FOSS. Please encourage places to contribute business information to Open Street Maps.

America is so fucking weird!

In Taiwan it says:

Gulf of Mexico(Gulf of America)

Meanwhile in the UK

This is pathetic and reeks of insecurity big time. Hope that this debacle improves your QoL, Americans.

Fuck Google and Samsung and everyone else who is preinstalled on my phone from the factory. I switched my phone OS to an AOSP GSI without the Google mobile services. Will probably be switching to WordPress from Blogger.

“There's no saving America -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. Burn it down! And from the ashes, a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed!”

— Senator Armstrong.

IIRC Google shows different names and borders depending on the location you're accessing it from. They just follow whatever the local government thinks is right.

Just checked. You can even select it, but cannot report an error at that location. But you can leave reviews, so…

I'm trying to, but Proton made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Now I have the option to do everything I was doing, but poorly AND spread across 3 vendors.

To be fair:

I'm American and my phone is set up in the US with region being the US.

Something adjacent to degoogling: I am concerned that Microsoft would collaborate with the Trump Regime. I never used Linux before, but I am now downloading Ubuntu. It feels like that I should do a dual-boot setup and get ready to abandon Windows if I hear about MS HQ in Washington having a DOGE presence.

Here's hoping that Europe and the Blue States are watching Microsoft for anything weird.

Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn't passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they'll take for this?

I just did literally the only thing I CAN do, which is rate it 1 star and call out their spinelessness. I'm sure this token, irrelevant act will be ignored at best or manually removed at worst. But until they drag me off to the gulag I'm absolutely not going to shut up and play along.

Fuck Trump, Musk, their MAGA cult, and anyone who enables or colludes with them or fails to fight back.

I wonder how location dependent it is?

Google goes full mask off. What a terrible look. This is it, this is what I needed to see to make the final push to move away from Google. My next phone will probably be an iPhone, and I'm not excited about it. I've almost completely degoogled my android device, I'm testing immich right now and the only things left that I rely on are maps and YouTube. I also buy a lot of my ebooks and comics from Google, but never again. There's no way I'm buying a phone that's supported by Google after this change. There's no way I'm spending any amount of money on Google play at this point, or any other Google owned platform. Zero. And it really sucks, because android is the closest thing we have to an open phone platform. Maybe someday a GNU/Linux phone will actually be viable, but today it isn't and that only leaves me running to Apple as a savior. It's too bad that Google can't compete on a technology level, instead of gargling Trump's balls.

No bad ideas, right? How about the United States of Mexico?

Where are you located? I'm still seeing the correct name and I'm in the USA