Every time you open Google Maps, it logs where you are, what you searched, and where you went next.

[techlore@social.lol]

Every time you open Google Maps, it logs where you are, what you searched, and where you went next.

We interviewed the co-founder of Organic Maps, an open source app that collects none of that. New Techlore Talks out now on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XCzVQKLBkhM

Watch it on PeerTube for a Google-free viewing experience of all our content: https://techlore.tv/w/jEZcCtq1Hk7UF1jBJj8Tkd

Or listen on your favorite podcast app via audio: https://share.transistor.fm/s/83bd3292

[lenni@fosstodon.org]

@techlore Do you know about @CoMaps and why it was forked from Organic Maps?
https://www.comaps.app/
https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/

[irfan@social.lol]

@Lenni @techlore Knew about it. Hadn’t read it. Thanks for sharing.

[niavy@masto.bike]

@techlore
Good.
But CoMaps is better (governance transparency)
@organicmaps