>Google is ditching a planned feature for Maps following criticism on social media. The update was tied to directions and displayed how many calories you'd burn if you were to walk to your destination. >But, its attempt at promoting a healthy lifestyle didn't go down well online. A number of people lambasted the feature on Twitter, claiming it would "shame" and even "trigger" those with eating disorders. >Taking note of the negative reaction, Google is now dumping the experiment. It confirmed to Engadget that the update was briefly tested on iOS, and has been abandoned based on user feedback.
I understand why they'd remove it. I think it could still be a cool default-off feature, but you have to admit that it's pretty hideous to think that it could enable people with eating disorders who were just looking for the best way to get to the grocery store. Alphabet's gone full-Orwell these days and trying to overly humanize + personalize a location tool is just another prime example. (This post was brought to you with the help of Google reCAPTCHA and Google Analytics)
Isaac Lewis
Just don't use the feature if you don't like it, wtf. People in wheelchairs don't demand bike shops be closed because it "triggers handicapped people".
Owen Young
We live in a world where people are actively looking to get outraged
Josiah Myers
So what's wrong with showing calories??
Grayson Gray
If the idea of expending energy triggers you, how the fuck do you survive?
Oliver Johnson
I hope people in wheelchairs actually do that
Michael Allen
CALORIES ARE EVIL, TRIGGERING AND A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Bentley Reyes
Why?
Ayden Baker
I can't wrap my head around this either, i don't see why it couldn't be an option you could check if you were curious, people who bitch about completely neutral informational gimicks like that just because it reminds them what wasteful, lazy fat fuckaroos they are should be removed from our society.
Aiden Reed
I doubt it would be accurate, but this was a great feature. Fuck her. Why does she have the blue tick next to her name?
Lucas Foster
what a world
Colton White
Seems like a cool feature. Doubt it would have been accurate, but still interesting.
Joseph Wood
>it's bad to encourage healthy behavior Better not trigger them by saying its better to take the stairs than the escalator
Tyler Reed
She makes some good points, and she's not a fatty, so I can't find a reason to disagree with her
Joseph Davis
Fatties in problem glasses are triggered by the reminder that calories is a thing instead of it all being a conspiracy by PLUMBFT and muh russians that's the root cause of their corpulence.
Kayden Gray
I don't think it's such a big deal as the fatass makes it into. But the feature is stupid. I'd be fine with an opt-in, default-off feature that shows calories burned for walking, biking. But to show cupcakes, mini cupcakes, is gay. And I think maps should be for directions first and motivation second. I personally hate when apps add shit that has nothing to do with what I need it for and there's no way to choose otherwise.
Don't be intrusive, Google. Be expandable, sure.
Levi Morales
The only good point there is the one about cupcakes.
David Kelly
I don't get google. They are very close to being the 'god' of this world, controlling pretty much everything we use day to day on the internet, but they SJW have such a big influence on the company. Hell they hire probably the smartest people on the planet and can't deal with sjw shit
Tyler Cook
>Implying a nap calorie counter is going to lead to exercise >Implying fatties aren't going to use this to justify eating more cupcakes
I'm all for fitness and health, but holy shit you people are retarded when it comes to UI and ux. The key to not being a fat ass is diet and actual exercise, not meme walking or riding your rascal. With Google's cupcake calorie counter, ham planets would now walk the rough estimate calorie count of a cupcake and then use that to justify eating actual sugar packed cup cakes, and thus get enabled to become even fatter.
Eli Diaz
you sound [triggered] brah, it has nothing to do with fitness, it's the fact that google would give two fucks about some sjw whale.
Nicholas Mitchell
I think they should just make it an option you can select instead. Then the fatties have nothing to bitch about. It's actually a really neat idea, as inaccurate as it might be without it taking height, weight, bodyfat, speed, etc. into account.
Henry Morris
Mini cupcakes are weird until of measurement. Still mad that they removed it.
Noah James
there's a difference between being nerd smart and chad smart.
Brody Hill
Because it takes nothing to Get verified
Joshua Lee
Nah, the lack of accounting for height/weight is also a sound argument. Those calorie estimates will be wildly inaccurate for the people who need them most (fat as fatasses).
Asher Taylor
they don't survive for long
Ian Perry
i'm recovering from an eating disorder and i think it's easier for me to keep eating enough if i'm not thinking about the # of calories.
Jackson Adams
Women are a mistake.
Christopher Bell
>triggered heuheuheuheuheuheuheu
Ryder Howard
if you think that's triggered you need to reread my post man
Hudson Cox
OH MY GOD GOOGLE LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK LIKE OH MY GOD
Lucas Baker
If I were Google I'd add fat shaming metrics to every service, whether they were relevant or not.
Leo Powell
I think they meant the opposite form of eating disorder.
Justin James
let me tell you about
Ryan Diaz
google won't let me google chubby porn. I habe to use bing
Jaxon Rogers
Kill yourself
Benjamin Martin
Christ, how out of the loop can you still be? Google is owned by two Jews, don't you fucking get it? The owners and employees of the company are all SJWs, always were.
Camden Collins
>I am offended by facts Well then we are all fucked then aren't we.
James Nelson
>Alphabet's gone full-Orwell these days and trying to overly humanize + personalize a location tool is just another prime example. You have it completely backwards
Not wanting this feature to exist is literally hiding facts from the public because of a minority who want to control a political agenda. The totalitarian regime in this scenario are the fatties.
Nathan Ramirez
It's terrorism.
Benjamin Hall
Google IS the SJW. It's just that SJW among themselves don't always know what's acceptable and what not, and easily turn on each other for the slightest imaginary infraction of someone's """rights""" (read: feelings).
Facebook ads are targeted depending on what websites you visit so this slag is clearly looking at diet websites or always looking at foodporn
Isaiah Gomez
OC gents
Luis Wright
...
Lincoln Moore
>Google beta tests their new features on iOS over their own actual Android platform honestly this is the most hilarious thing to me from this
Nicholas Lopez
holy FUCK, shit like this makes me seethe. at this point i just avoid any news website or social media because all this identity politics culture fucking depresses me. doesn't help that the right is equally extreme and retarded in their own autistic way.
Adam Green
Yeah identity politics is terrible. Apathy party when?
Ethan Green
Thank you kind user; that phrase has made my day. I pray to god nothing bad ever hsppens to her; she'll run out of words to describe it if weight loss= terrorism.
Christian Sanders
What the fuck does walking have to do with eating?
Connor Lee
Those estimates also make zero assumptions about her health in the first place. It's just objective information without any context. Why the fuck am I even mad at this shit anymore.
Evan Sanchez
>Why the fuck am I even mad at this shit anymore Because you browse a website that curates the worst of this shit for (you). I have no idea who this person is or why she's relevant. I don't like her justification but it's a stupid feature. I use Google Maps almost every day to make deliveries and I don't need it to help me lose weight or socialize or find new restaurants. Just fucking take me there.
Ayden Johnson
lmao
>not using extra calories burned as an excuse to eat bigger to get bigger >not burning 2k cals in cardio daily so that you can put in that GOMAD and stay shredded >not being a winner
ITS A MINDSET
Joseph Gomez
>tells you the calories burned in mini cupcakes
Pretty cute desu. Although I don't know how much use this feature will see, if I'm googling directions it's because the place is 30+ minutes away by car.
Camden Peterson
For lulz
Oliver Ross
It would be a great way to satirize how this victim culture is eating itself. I'm sure "able bodied" people join the cause without a trace of irony.
Jace Ortiz
why are we enabling weak people with disorders again?
Lincoln Torres
I'm supposed to be on a cut but any mention of calories sends me into a feeding frenzy
Grayson Barnes
Holy duck, this makes me mad. When do we start genociding fatties?
Lincoln Sanders
*fuck
Sebastian Rogers
That's the irony of reality: we don't have to. They are doing it to themselves
Elijah Ortiz
At least all the degenerates will be dead by the time they're 30 I suppose. I like how it's a bunch of fatties talking about "eating disorders" like the anorexic or bulimic crew are going to be having panic attacks when what they mean is that people who are lazy and eat too much are going to be made to feel bad about their shitty life choices.
Zachary Brown
For the most part its a gimmick. Most people don't know what calories are and displaying some kind of average based on walking is practically useless.
Elijah Barnes
It can honestly trigger people with an eating disorder, but most of the people complaining are fatties who get triggered just by the suggestion that moving their lazy asses burns calories.