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There are lots of good experiences from ads in maps:

- I search for "restaurants" and someone is having a special

- A trampoline park opens near me, I'd like it to catch my eye

- I've been googling chocolates recently, so populate the map with chocolate shops

- Maybe I'm bored as a car passenger and watching the map screen so my attention is free anyway

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> Maybe I'm bored as a car passenger and watching the map screen so my attention is free anyway

I'm glad there are always ads available to stop my mind from wandering.

genuinely the worst opinion I’ve seen on HackerNews

there are such better ways to enable these experiences without introducing the zero-sum, scam-inducing, corporate fuckery game that making it a pay-to-win ad-driven experience gives you

I’m also concerned that boredom makes you want to see ads

That sounds absolutely awful, honestly. I wouldn't want to see any of those things mess with the "natural" order of search results for whatever I've explicitly searched for.

I don’t want my phone to consume any of my “free” attention, ever, but holy cow especially not while driving.

> as a car passenger

Sometimes the driver looks at the map screen too. That's most of the reason it's there.

The 1st and 3rd are better served by Apple choosing the best result rather than who's paid for an ad.

I do agree with you in theory, though their 'attempts' at this kind of thing are comical if not absurd (witness the organic search results in the App Store).

I want to challenge the idea that any of these is an unqualified "good experience". I desire none of this.

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