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Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

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[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmings.world 29 points 5 months ago

That's what happens when MBAs start to weasel their way into any business.

[-] SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee 30 points 5 months ago

Heard someone assert that MBA's have ruined the world. Seemed a hyperbolic statement at the time. Though casting my eyes around an ever more enpoopified landscape, it's tough to disagree.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Having taken some "Business for IT" courses.... It's buzzwords all the way down. The buzzwords are defined with buzzwords that are defined with buzzwords that...

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

MBA are stupid people who think they're intelligent. I have my M.S. in CS earned summa cum laude and some of these business idiots think their grad degree was even remotely as difficult as mine.

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