>Run ads in a privacy-first environment that respects your customers, who already trust Maps. No tracking — just helpful discovery.

Interesting to see their privacy talking point targeted at businesses, which certainly do not give a shit.

>Privacy. All mapped out.

I guess it is for consumers viewing this page

I don't understand how these ads would be helpful for the business—I don't really understand it for regular products either, though I've heard it's effective at scale. This is not at scale, and seeing a company's ads lowers my opinion of it. I would actively avoid any business that shows up on Maps as an ad.

▲ k310 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I get "helpful discovery" from Duck Duck Go. So, I can be looking for some bit of cosmology and get a search result indicating the nearest brew-pub among the scientific results.

I live and drive by myself. This is not an ad. It's a threat.

Whatcha going to do?

  Ads that have no information about me other than location are useless garbage.    
  Ads that know about me are hated intrusions of (what used to be) my privacy.

Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it -- George Monbiot (2011) [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/24/advert...

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Cider9986 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> This is not an ad. It's a threat.

That is ridiculous. Many people that go out to drink take ride-share.

	▲	k310 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I live really alone in the woods. The population is so damn sparse that I have one or two friends in town, 12 miles away, whom I can never find, nor would I pay for a 17 mile drive back and forth to the "nearest" brew pub. This ain't Sunnyvale.