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by cheschire 615 days ago
This was a “feature” in Waze in which you would be rewarded (with “candy”) for accepting non-standard routes. It helped them find alternative paths to recommend.

Google has since purchased Waze and now recently merged the teams.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/google-waze-maps-merge/i...