Christopher Barker
The fact that Fred's Appliance has paid so much to Google to take up so much space on Google Maps in a huge font that obscures the details of our neighborhood and makes it seem like one of the most important places within a mile radius actually makes me never wanna shop there again. The presumptiveness to pay for an add on digital cartography is beyond insane, but paying to magnify its label to look larger than all the other place labels (when there are schools and parks in that same vicinity) gives the feeling that consumers are being lied to about yet another aspect of our ability for perception.
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The fact that Fred's Appliance has paid so much to Google to take up so much space on Google Maps in a huge font that obscures the details of our neighborhood and makes it seem like one of the most important places within a mile radius actually makes me never wanna shop there again. The presumptiveness to pay for an add on digital cartography is beyond insane, but paying to magnify its label to look larger than all the other place labels (when there are schools and parks in that same vicinity) gives the feeling that consumers are being lied to about yet another aspect of our ability for perception.