[hellcow]

They tried to put ads into Organic Maps, and they only backed down because CoMaps sprung up in response.

Others in the thread highlighted other issues, like Organic Maps' proprietary license for some parts of the repo: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/DATA_....

[dzogchen]

‘Ads’ is a bit of a stretch. They put opt-in referral links.

[ihatehn]

I don't think there was an opt-in, at least at first. The Kayak links were there and they had a generic OM referral code attached so they got the credit

[sysworld]

Please no. This is why I left Maps.me, every time I opened maps.me I'd have to click through ads.