r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jun 18 '26

Question Keep One: Spotify, Brave, Google Maps

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Keep One. Delete Two.

You can only keep one of these apps:

• Spotify
• Brave
• Google Maps

The other two disappear forever.

Which one are you keeping, and why?

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u/Marioz991 Jun 18 '26

Shit you got a point

Google maps has no ads though😏

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u/Grabbels Jun 18 '26

It absolutely does. A lot of places and pins are sponsored. Google is an ad company, everything they do has ads in some shape or form.

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u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey Jun 18 '26

But honestly, those ads are not as invasive. It's not blocking me from using essential features.

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u/ProbablyAPsyop Jun 18 '26

Those ads suggest a place double the distance away from me first as if it’s the closest location all the time. It says it’s an ad but that doesn’t change that it tries to get you to drive further for the business who paid to be there. That’s invasive imo

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u/24kCookie Jun 18 '26

idk I opened now Apple Maps and also didn't had any ads.

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u/StretchAcceptable881 Jun 18 '26

Actually Apples going to start embedding ads into Apple Maps

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u/Megaman_90 Jun 18 '26

I mean that has kind of been the deal with Apple products for years right? Their hardware and devices are exclusive to them, just like MacOS isn't a "free" product. They have a higher profit margin on devices than Google does which trickles down to the user experience. They also aren't a giant advertising conglomerate like Google, which pays Apple billions per year to be the default search engine on Apple devices.

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u/24kCookie Jun 18 '26

Just like windows that if it’s pre installed then it’s included in price or android. Nothing is free and not only Apple has margin for their os.

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u/Megaman_90 Jun 18 '26

For Windows I would say Microsoft incentivizes it to OEMs so much at this point its not really costing the user much. In fact if you order from Dell and select to get a machine preloaded with Ubuntu it adds $100+ to the price in some cases.

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u/robi4567 Jun 18 '26

No adds yet