• gian
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    11 hours ago

    Looking for an alternative to Google, this reminded me to look into Waze. And, wtf, I was not aware of the history of waze. I feel like I’ve caught an unregulated Wikipedia edit, too.

    Everything else aside, did not Google acquired Waze in 2013 ?

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      They did. Given light of recent events showing how deep and far back the ties go, I’m not going to be convinced it’s a clean break. It’s a subsidiary, and seems to still be based in Israel.