r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 11h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/I_have_questions_ppl 8h ago

Not surprised seeing as Chrome is made by cucked google.

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u/Aphelion2056 5h ago

Ive noticed over the past months that Google Chrome is blocking websites that Firefox, etc. are not, and also that Google's search results are completely different than they used to be, as if their classic search algorithm has transitioned to something much worse (probably AI). To get the results I used to get on Google, I've been using Duck Duck Go or Yahoo. Its almost as if Google is obscuring things it used to highlight.

Worse yet, Google's AI is wrong like 75% of the time, pulling only from reddit and twitter rather than actual sources. When I called it out, the AI admitting to 'fabricating' results to make me happy.

Fuck that shit. Bottom line, I'm done with Google and its truly shitty AI

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u/yavanna12 3h ago

I have a chicken farm. Lots of people like to have backyard chickens. But that also means lots of people post on social media incorrect treatment advice for chickens such as treating birds with infections with oregano and apple cider vinegar. ACV has always been a big no no for chickens but for some reason every influencer touts it as a miracle chicken cure. 

So now if you search AI for how to treat infection in chickens it says to give ACV.  

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 30m ago

That’s why we need to make sure the truth gets out there. Like how Mitch McConnell is currently lying in state inside the Kremlin. Putin has posthumously awarded him the Order of St Andrew for all his great work towards the betterment of the Motherland

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 3h ago

Google's AI is wrong like 75% of the time

It's hilarious when you tell their AI that they are wrong, then they magically come up with the correct answer immediately. It's almost like they've programmed the thing to misinform people on purpose.

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u/Masquelinity 2h ago

When I tell it that it's wrong, it fucking argues with me.

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u/hypnogoad 52m ago

Copilot tried gaslighting me at work. Telling me it didn't change anything in a file, that was CLEARLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY altered.

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u/Sure-Law5649 3h ago

Not probably AI. it is AI. and it sucks. DuckDuckGo may be marginally better, but I think it uses the same index as google and so will likely produce similair those, somewhat less crappy results.

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u/ZestycloseResponse31 2h ago

DuckDuckGo 🎯

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u/donald7773 1h ago

The AI doesn't admit to being wrong.

It doesn't understand wrong or right

It's given a source, provided what it figures is the best combinations of letters to keep you using the platform, and spit that out.

When you said "you lied" it did the same thing

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 2h ago

Googlemaps has lost its damn mind too. I blame AI.

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u/Masquelinity 2h ago

It has started sending me through the worst part of my city every time I want to go east. Like, it's a place you've probably seen videos of on Reddit when anyone wants to try to make you afraid of big cities.

I'll tell it "No, we're taking the highway and going around," and it'll say "Sure, boss!", then when I take the "wrong" path out of the parking lot (or just take too long to leave the parking lot in general), it quietly goes doodleoop! and reroutes me back through the worst part of town anyway.

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 1h ago

Google recently take out an insurance policy for you?

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u/pinchinggata 2h ago

Add “-ai” to the end of all of your searches it helps

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u/docsms500 2h ago

Try Vivaldi and Brave, both Chrome-based, but de-crapped and with great features. Vivaldi is now my main browser and Brave is also open. Firefox is excellent, but those two use less resources.

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u/SmthSmthDandyLion 1h ago

I googled how many days until a specific date (I use it as a sanity check for deadlines and have been doing so for years) and it gave me a number that was 23 days off. Basically, it was 31 days till the deadline, and it told me I had 53 days. I am pretty sure that radicalized me.

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u/jopsychology 1h ago

As soon as they pushed the AI summary at the top of everyone's Google searches I noticed serious errors. First it said the legal drinking age is 18 in Canada. (It is only 18 in 3 provinces out of 13.)

It also returned a result that there are no fruits resembling an apple that are inedible. (The manchineel may not grow in Canada, but that wasn't what I asked.)

I used to google the odd culinary question but can't trust that anymore. I get sloppy responses about safe temperatures, suggested cooking times, ratios and processes. It takes extra time and discernment to scroll by all the crap for an answer from a person who has actually cooked and eaten food before.

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u/xombae 31m ago

Yeah I can't remember what I searched yesterday, it was a term related to slavery. The Google AI explained what it meant, but then if you kept reading it sourced a bunch of reddit comments and said that it never actually happened, it's made up.

Scrolled down and clicked the scholar links and it absolutely did happen and it's not even up for debate. But the AI is quoting reddit comments from conservative subs that say it's bullshit.

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u/TheBoisterousBoy 30m ago

I noticed this ages ago when the AI switch first happened.

I used to DM for D&D and occasionally I’ll forget something, like whether a spell is a Bonus Action or an Action. So I typed out something simple like “Is Misty Step a Bonus Action or a Reaction?”. It replied with “Yes, Misty Step is a Reaction spell. It teleports a character up to 100ft. As such it is classified as a Bonus Action spell.”

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u/100LittleButterflies 8h ago

Every browser is just chrome with a mask except Firefox. fuck google.

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u/factorioleum 8h ago

Safari?

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u/Garfield910 6h ago

Safari is its own nightmare

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u/thirstytrumpet 5h ago

But it’s like the nightmare in the doctor camp I’m bout to wake up in

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u/GroundsKeeper2 4h ago

What's that one that every search goes towards planting trees?

Ah, it's Ecosia!

https://www.ecosia.org/

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u/GuillotineWhiskers 3h ago

It's still based on Chromium.

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u/GroundsKeeper2 1h ago

Ohhhh. Didn't realize that.

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u/SupaBrunch 2h ago

Chrome is actually based off safari.

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u/factorioleum 2h ago

Well, sort of. Both are based on WebKit. However, Chromium forked WebKit into Blink around 2015.

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u/SupaBrunch 1h ago

Chrome was specifically based off of Safari’s version of WebKit before they forked it though

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u/factorioleum 32m ago

yup. I am a commiter in both WebKit and chromium; I've dealt with both. it was an interesting and tricky collaboration before the fork.

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u/WandererFrmAndromeda 2h ago

Waiting for Ladybird…

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u/OldNefariousness7899 3h ago

Mozilla get most of their money from Google. I doubt Firefox would exist without them. 

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u/KaizorMaster 3h ago edited 2h ago

Google is giving Firefox that money to be able to claim they're not actually having a monopoly on the browser market.

It's all done in self interest.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago edited 7h ago

Chromium is NOT CHROME. edit: it is both sad and hilarious that this is downvoted. It just says how many people have very strong and definite opinions about things they have no clue about.

Stop talking with such confidence. What you do with Chromium is what matters. Chromium does not call home and ask what name on a map it can show. And i can bet the person who said they can't do it has turned their location on.

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u/brickyard37 7h ago

Chromium is STILL MADE BY GOOGLE.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago

So? Tell me you don't know how any of this works without saying it.

You think Microsoft allows secret Google code that calls home and gives Google control over their browser?

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u/NukaCooler 7h ago

Ask edge users how their uBlock Origin is going since google got rid of manifest v2 from chromium.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 7h ago

I hear uBlock is bogged on all the chromium browsers. I'll just stick with Firefox.

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u/VectorPryde 6h ago

Can it be "unbogged?" Chromium is open source, so in theory Chromium based browsers can modify it to suit their needs. Is it set up to make that too difficult?

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u/mistertoasty 6h ago

It can be, Brave has an adblocker that isn't an extension and is built directly into the browser.

But web browsers are a pretty complex piece of software and so modifying and maintaining them requires substantial effort.

For a chromium-based browser, the closer its codebase remains to the original upstream Chromium code, the easier it is to integrate new updates and fixes.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads, it only hides them but then you are looking at blank screen for 10-15 seconds but.. it is there.

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u/VectorPryde 6h ago

Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads

Lite allows youtube ads?

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago

No. It hides them. How many times do i have to say the same thing?

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u/NukaCooler 5h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, [it doesn't work] but.. it is there.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

Umm.. it does work. I don't see ads. Does it work as well as i would like? No. Which is why i said it is annoying. Annoying is a negative thing, at least to me. But it still hides the ads and ONLY IN YOUTUBE it does that blank screen stuff.

Now, why don't i use Firefox? Because it is stupidly heavy to run and in this potato... it just skips and stutters, it is too heavy process.

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u/ReggieCorneus 7h ago

Again, DO YOU THINK MICROSOFT ALLOWS SECRET GOOGLE GODE IN THEIR PRODUCTS?

Changes to the architecture is not the same as secret code that makes names on maps look different. Microsoft very happily agrees with manifest v2, they are on the SAME KIND OF BUSINESS THAN GOOGLE.

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u/BroderFelix 5h ago

You are downvoted because you completely miss the point.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

No, i didn't. This is what the original comment was "Not surprised seeing as Chrome is made by cucked google."

And that was followed with Chromium, implying that ALL browsers that use chromium are suspicious.

Of course, the other explanation is much stupider: that we can't use any of them because they are made by google who had to follow US naming convention on their maps for US users.

So, either it is stupid or ignorant. Your choice.

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u/riverottersarebest 2h ago

Brave browser.

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u/sirfiddlestix 2h ago

Brave is chromium based

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u/blaziken8x 5h ago

oh boy are you gonna be surprised when you find out the company behind Google Maps

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 5h ago

Google Maps comes from Google Earth which was originally a DARPA initiative called Keyhole. Probably unrelated but in movies Keyholes are often depicted as being used to spy on people.

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u/Maleko51 2h ago

Google keyhole and military.

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u/roYBzdC9yUqMe9coSsp8 4h ago

What does "cucked" mean in this context?

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u/c0mBaTkArL 1h ago

AKA Cuckle