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Smart Move, Google

Nov 24 2022

For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain
for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this
domain to use the location services of my browser.

Yesterday I was asked to allow the usage of location services for
Google Maps seemingly out of nowhere. Of course I accepted. After
all, I just wanted to check a route to a local business and I was in
a hurry. Back home I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that
the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles
services hosted under this domain. So far I only identified Google
Flights to have made the same switch (google.com/flights), though I'm
sure they're just beginning to transfer their services to the main
google.com domain.

Congratulations, you now have permission to geo-track me across all
of your services.

Smart move, Google.

This is post 043 of #100DaysToOffload.

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