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by burnerthrow008 693 days ago
> it doesn't even have to link to the correct place.

That's an obvious DMA violation. You can't preference your own service over others, like when you link to the exact pin on your service but just the general area on another.

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They already commit a DMA violation by showing any google map at all then. It's not rocket science to conform to the spirit of the law, if they offer a simple API for other map providers to provide their own strings to google it will be solved in a day. They clearly just don't want to actually advertise other mapping providers for free which is something I understand fully btw. But the way they are currently doing it is actively hurting them because I hate how I can't jump to any map from the searc results now.