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I've completely migrated recently from using Google Search, and use DuckDuckGo exclusively, even if sometimes I get results of lower quality. I'm willing to compromise for better privacy.

I have a sneaking suspicion that once finally I replace Google Maps with OSM there won't be any compromises to be made.

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Out our firm, we do a Navigation system specialized for bikes, and TBH, for little side-roads and everything that is not the main roads, OSM seems to win.

I would say that where some services are lacking in that regard is geocoding, the spelling correction at Google is pretty hard to beat, addresses are incredibly hard to parse and Google has definitely and edge in that sense.

I still use Google maps and search, I just do it in my main browser (FF natch) which has a cookie whitelister that rejects Google cookies.

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