i don’t think business hours and reviews are the main google maps has a monopoly. as someone who occasionally uses both google maps and openstreetmap, the main reason i use google maps is because it’s just more reliable - some points of interest aren’t on openstreetmap, and its search doesn’t work consistently. i rarely actually use google maps for business hours, and never reviews.
this isn’t practical. we can disable some javascript but disabling it entirely would prevent us from using almost all websites, many of which we’re forced to by our employers, governments, etc
This is a really cool idea, and I’ve seen some similar ones before but nothing this concrete. Though, I do think blackbrook’s comment makes a good point that a hierarchy of categories might be the wrong approach. Would a tag-like system be possible instead? Looking at the list, I’m thinking many sites span many of these categories.
It reminds me of my own project, https://detailed-game-search.com/, which uses tags organized by applicability and an entry can have any number of tags, but there’s many tricky edge cases that I’m not sure how to solve.
I think they’re talking about taking down Flock cameras (spyware installed in public places by some for-profit corpo)