- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
I just found out that the latest upgrade of magic earth no longer works in the car, it now requires a subscription. Still works on the phone, but having it in the car display is just better.
So is there an alternative that does what waze/magicearth does that you know of? I’m thinking about the real time traffic and hazards update mostly.
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Requiring a subscription for a service that costs money to provide is NOT enshittification.
You either have to pay with your wallet or your data.They took away functionality and locked it behind a subscription. How is that not enshittification?
I was providing data. Now I’m not.
Good app, but it doesn’t have live traffic data I’m afraid.
it now requires a subscription.
I think that’s wrong. I only see a one-time payment on https://www.magicearth.com/pricing .1 year fee of 6 Euro, then 15:
That said, they might shoot themselves in the foot with this. For those who don’t know: The company’s business model is or used to be to sell their services to car infotainment and similar industries. The free version for phones was their way to gather a big user base that contributes traffic and incident data.
Maybe their industry customer base collapsed. I don’t know but with this move there is serious risk they’re chasing away users and therefore the quality of the data decreases.
They’re chasing me away. I’m not interested in paying but I was willing to contribute data in exchange for using it. That’s the deal most people have with Google anyway.
Luckily I could disable auto updates in time.
Well they’ve lost me as a user. Shame as I really liked it.
Same. I managed to get about a dozen people to install it, too.
No FOSS one afaik. There’s some other freemium apps listed on alternativeto.net
I had just signed up via the mobile app a couple weeks ago for the free trial, renewing at $1/year thereafter. They sent several notifications (or emails, can’t remember) about the price going up soon. Hopefully the old pricing will be honored unless cancelled.
I had been looking for a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Maps / Apple Maps that has real time traffic info. Hopefully, as @woelkchen@lemmy.world suggested, the quality of that data doesn’t degrade too much due to chasing away users / their data sources.
