[madez]

Google can be hacked or forced by public authorities to enable or to do nefarious things. I know, godwin’s law, bla bla, but look what happened during the second world war to german companies. There are more examples.

I’m not okay with being tracked, and I don’t care whether the tracker swears to be or not to be evil. And no, this is not negotiable.

[Aoyagi]

I'm especially not OK with being tracked when it has absolutely zero benefit for me, long or short term. UI is getting worse (for all these megacorps that harvest all the "automated feedback" they can) and I don't consume advertising and even if I did, the "targeted ads" are irrelevant pretty much all the time.

[danmaz74]

Tracking is the only way for Google to get traffic data; you could still not find that reason enough to get tracked, but it's not "zero benefit" for users.

[Aoyagi]

I'm quite sure they, and other map providers who have live traffic info (including HERE), get the data primarily from infrastructure managers.

[danmaz74]

I don't know if anything changed recently, but I'm sure that at least until a couple years ago they got the traffic info from their own app.