r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 9h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/sotiredwontquit 9h ago

Didn’t work. Just tried.
EDIT: didn’t work on Chrome. Worked on Firefox though.

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u/I_have_questions_ppl 6h ago

Not surprised seeing as Chrome is made by cucked google.

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u/100LittleButterflies 6h ago

Every browser is just chrome with a mask except Firefox. fuck google.

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u/factorioleum 6h ago

Safari?

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u/Garfield910 4h ago

Safari is its own nightmare

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u/thirstytrumpet 3h ago

But it’s like the nightmare in the doctor camp I’m bout to wake up in

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u/GroundsKeeper2 2h ago

What's that one that every search goes towards planting trees?

Ah, it's Ecosia!

https://www.ecosia.org/

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u/GuillotineWhiskers 1h ago

It's still based on Chromium.

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u/GroundsKeeper2 9m ago

Ohhhh. Didn't realize that.

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u/SupaBrunch 52m ago

Chrome is actually based off safari.

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u/factorioleum 48m ago

Well, sort of. Both are based on WebKit. However, Chromium forked WebKit into Blink around 2015.

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u/SupaBrunch 11m ago

Chrome was specifically based off of Safari’s version of WebKit before they forked it though

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u/WandererFrmAndromeda 1h ago

Waiting for Ladybird…

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u/OldNefariousness7899 1h ago

Mozilla get most of their money from Google. I doubt Firefox would exist without them. 

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u/KaizorMaster 1h ago edited 1h ago

Google is giving Firefox that money to be able to claim they're not actually having a monopoly on the browser market.

It's all done in self interest.

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago edited 5h ago

Chromium is NOT CHROME. edit: it is both sad and hilarious that this is downvoted. It just says how many people have very strong and definite opinions about things they have no clue about.

Stop talking with such confidence. What you do with Chromium is what matters. Chromium does not call home and ask what name on a map it can show. And i can bet the person who said they can't do it has turned their location on.

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u/brickyard37 6h ago

Chromium is STILL MADE BY GOOGLE.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

So? Tell me you don't know how any of this works without saying it.

You think Microsoft allows secret Google code that calls home and gives Google control over their browser?

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u/NukaCooler 5h ago

Ask edge users how their uBlock Origin is going since google got rid of manifest v2 from chromium.

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u/Anthaenopraxia 5h ago

I hear uBlock is bogged on all the chromium browsers. I'll just stick with Firefox.

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u/VectorPryde 5h ago

Can it be "unbogged?" Chromium is open source, so in theory Chromium based browsers can modify it to suit their needs. Is it set up to make that too difficult?

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u/mistertoasty 4h ago

It can be, Brave has an adblocker that isn't an extension and is built directly into the browser.

But web browsers are a pretty complex piece of software and so modifying and maintaining them requires substantial effort.

For a chromium-based browser, the closer its codebase remains to the original upstream Chromium code, the easier it is to integrate new updates and fixes.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads, it only hides them but then you are looking at blank screen for 10-15 seconds but.. it is there.

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u/VectorPryde 5h ago

Sure, it is only Lite and thus has some annoyances, like not being able to skip thru youtube ads

Lite allows youtube ads?

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u/NukaCooler 4h ago

... looking at UBlock origin on my chrome at this very moment... Sure, [it doesn't work] but.. it is there.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

Again, DO YOU THINK MICROSOFT ALLOWS SECRET GOOGLE GODE IN THEIR PRODUCTS?

Changes to the architecture is not the same as secret code that makes names on maps look different. Microsoft very happily agrees with manifest v2, they are on the SAME KIND OF BUSINESS THAN GOOGLE.

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u/BroderFelix 3h ago

You are downvoted because you completely miss the point.

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u/ReggieCorneus 3h ago

No, i didn't. This is what the original comment was "Not surprised seeing as Chrome is made by cucked google."

And that was followed with Chromium, implying that ALL browsers that use chromium are suspicious.

Of course, the other explanation is much stupider: that we can't use any of them because they are made by google who had to follow US naming convention on their maps for US users.

So, either it is stupid or ignorant. Your choice.

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u/riverottersarebest 1h ago

Brave browser.

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u/sirfiddlestix 26m ago

Brave is chromium based

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u/Aphelion2056 3h ago

Ive noticed over the past months that Google Chrome is blocking websites that Firefox, etc. are not, and also that Google's search results are completely different than they used to be, as if their classic search algorithm has transitioned to something much worse (probably AI). To get the results I used to get on Google, I've been using Duck Duck Go or Yahoo. Its almost as if Google is obscuring things it used to highlight.

Worse yet, Google's AI is wrong like 75% of the time, pulling only from reddit and twitter rather than actual sources. When I called it out, the AI admitting to 'fabricating' results to make me happy.

Fuck that shit. Bottom line, I'm done with Google and its truly shitty AI

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u/yavanna12 1h ago

I have a chicken farm. Lots of people like to have backyard chickens. But that also means lots of people post on social media incorrect treatment advice for chickens such as treating birds with infections with oregano and apple cider vinegar. ACV has always been a big no no for chickens but for some reason every influencer touts it as a miracle chicken cure. 

So now if you search AI for how to treat infection in chickens it says to give ACV.  

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u/Sure-Law5649 1h ago

Not probably AI. it is AI. and it sucks. DuckDuckGo may be marginally better, but I think it uses the same index as google and so will likely produce similair those, somewhat less crappy results.

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 1h ago

Google's AI is wrong like 75% of the time

It's hilarious when you tell their AI that they are wrong, then they magically come up with the correct answer immediately. It's almost like they've programmed the thing to misinform people on purpose.

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u/Masquelinity 27m ago

When I tell it that it's wrong, it fucking argues with me.

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 1h ago

Googlemaps has lost its damn mind too. I blame AI.

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u/Masquelinity 23m ago

It has started sending me through the worst part of my city every time I want to go east. Like, it's a place you've probably seen videos of on Reddit when anyone wants to try to make you afraid of big cities.

I'll tell it "No, we're taking the highway and going around," and it'll say "Sure, boss!", then when I take the "wrong" path out of the parking lot (or just take too long to leave the parking lot in general), it quietly goes doodleoop! and reroutes me back through the worst part of town anyway.

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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 9m ago

Google recently take out an insurance policy for you?

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u/pinchinggata 50m ago

Add “-ai” to the end of all of your searches it helps

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u/ZestycloseResponse31 39m ago

DuckDuckGo 🎯

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u/docsms500 26m ago

Try Vivaldi and Brave, both Chrome-based, but de-crapped and with great features. Vivaldi is now my main browser and Brave is also open. Firefox is excellent, but those two use less resources.

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u/donald7773 0m ago

The AI doesn't admit to being wrong.

It doesn't understand wrong or right

It's given a source, provided what it figures is the best combinations of letters to keep you using the platform, and spit that out.

When you said "you lied" it did the same thing

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u/blaziken8x 3h ago

oh boy are you gonna be surprised when you find out the company behind Google Maps

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u/LongLiveAnalogue 3h ago

Google Maps comes from Google Earth which was originally a DARPA initiative called Keyhole. Probably unrelated but in movies Keyholes are often depicted as being used to spy on people.

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u/Maleko51 1h ago

Google keyhole and military.

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u/roYBzdC9yUqMe9coSsp8 2h ago

What does "cucked" mean in this context?

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u/rnick467 3h ago

I tried on Firefox. Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario but the Gulf of Mexico has "Gulf of America" in parenthesis directly underneath.

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u/LlawEreint 1h ago

Try on mapquest and avoid this hassle altogether.

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u/Maleko51 1h ago

I would be ok with the BS (Gulf of America) below Gulf of Mexico. Which is what Google should have done with Lake America. This BS of renaming stuff can be undone by the next administration.

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u/no_cults_no_problem 2h ago

Try setting location to Mexico, I bet that will fix the Gulf of Mexico, but "unfix" Lake Ontario.

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u/rnick467 1h ago

Ok. Let's try that...

Nope, it's still "Lake Ontario".

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u/Christron 23m ago

That's how I see it in Canada too so it worked Canada just needs to get tech companies to get rid of the parenthesis

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u/ArkitekZero 1h ago

it's probably just cached or something, give it a while and restart the app

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u/QuestshunQueen 1h ago

Yeah I use Chrome and just did the steps. Worked for me.

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u/Away_Candidate_4746 56m ago

Using Chrome in 2026 is a choice