Google vient de rediriger maps.google.com sur son domaine principal, à l’adresse : google.com/maps. De ce fait, quand on donne une autorisation à Maps, on donne désormais l’autorisation à tout Google.
Smart Move, Google
▻https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google
For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this domain to use the location services of my browser.
Yesterday I was asked to allow the usage of location services for Google Maps seemingly out of nowhere. Of course I accepted. After all, I just wanted to check a route to a local business and I was in a hurry. Back home I opened Google Maps again, and noticed that maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps. This implies that the permissions I give to Google Maps now apply to all of Googles services hosted under this domain. So far I only identified Google Flights to have made the same switch (google.com/flights), though I’m sure they’re just beginning to transfer their services to the main google.com domain.
Congratulations, you now have permission to geo-track me across all of your services.
