6th Gen navi require subscription?

At least in the context of an iPhone, Google’s prying eyes are held at bay just by not having as much permissions by default - unless you select for Google Maps to Always have your location.

Apple Maps, at least as of writing, is superior to Google Maps privacy-wise - this isn’t meant to prove everything but Apple did put in effort to chop up routing data so they know less and have been leaning on it as a differentiator.

That same effort went into the Find My network and many other things are kept local on the device like where you’ve been - if it’s enabled. (bonus points for the end-to-end iCloud encryption option, etc.)

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigation-privacy/

Of course, policies, implementation, laws may vary over time, but it’ll probably be up to us to see when the wind blows differently.

Personally, I still make use of Google’s generally superior POI database and toll estimation but prefer to route via Apple Maps in general use. Still appreciating my Garmin though.

If I had an Android phone, it would ideally be de-Googled and I would be using HERE Maps for navigation and Google Maps for POI’s like currently.

But since everyone’s use case is different, everyone gotta make sure they can still get around.

In unrelated news, I just bought a road atlas!

 

Super good point about mental health. The personal data stream we generate every day gives advertisers, newsfeeds, social media networks/apps, and search engines an extremely powerful way of figuring out what we will “engage” in. All google and such care about are clicks (essentially), because that’s what they use to ultimately sell advertisement or influence.

I had to quit newsfeeds like apple news because they figured me out. The algorithm found out what I would click on, which was usually things that would piss me off. After a while, all I got on the newsfeeds was rage bait.

If you aren’t careful and aware of how this business works, it’s very easy for google, facebook, etc, to create extremely narrow toxic versions of realities for each individual user.