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davel [he/him] to Apple@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months ago

Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

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Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps

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davel [he/him] to Apple@lemmy.mlEnglish • 11 months ago
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Apple Maps launches on the web to challenge Google Maps | TechCrunch
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Apple Maps is now available on the web via a public beta, which means you can now access the service directly from your browser.

https://beta.maps.apple.com/

It doesn’t seem to support Firefox, or not yet at least.
Maps on the web is compatible with these web browsers

On your Mac or iPad

  • Safari
  • Edge
  • Chrome

On your Windows PC

  • Edge
  • Chrome
  • @bartleby1@lemmy.ml
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    Many people have had easy success with Firefox by spoofing a “Chrome on Windows” user agent; you can use an extension like this one to do so.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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      Seems easier to just not use Apple Maps tbh

      • @bartleby1@lemmy.ml
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        true. Also: not commenting is easier than commenting

        • 𝚝𝚛𝚔
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          Ironic

    • @Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml
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      Apple Maps online already existed on DDG and has broad support

    • @drspod@lemmy.ml
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      • go to about:config
      • type general.useragent.override
      • if the key doesn’t exist yet, select the String option and click + button
      • enter the useragent, eg. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 for Chrome/Windows
      • @milo@lemm.ee
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        Don’t do this. It will override the user agent for every site you visit which will cause a lot of problems, like failing most captchas and breaking a lot of websites.

        You should use an extension (like this one) to change UA on a per site basis instead.

        • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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          Or do the sane thing: close tab on any site that refuses to support Fx

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