[isoos]

To be fair, waze is perfectly usable without using any account.

[nicce]

I stopped using it because it was not usable because of the ads.

[firesteelrain]

I just used it twice for a 12 hour trip couple weeks ago and had no ads.

[mft_]

I use it periodically (in Europe) and haven't seen an advert yet?

[nicce]

It depends on where you are driving. If nobody buys ads in your area, then you are probably not seeing ads.

For me the most distraction were the branded pins on the map. Literally ads which hide other places and are distracting.

[dizhn]

Does it keep a local search history without logging in? Google Maps doesn't. I guess it takes too much storage. :)

By the way, most of the western world are missing out on the best navigation app which is Yandex. Unfortunately it's only available in a few countries.

[stjohnswarts]

Doesn't mean that google won't kill it out of the blue after they've extracted they wanted from it to put in their own app. I think that's the real possibility here