Google cancels fitness app among contraversy

>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.

engadget.com/2017/10/17/google-maps-calorie-ios-test-dump/

How does this make you feel, user?

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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.
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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".

We live in a world where people are actively looking to get outraged

So what's wrong with showing calories??

If the idea of expending energy triggers you, how the fuck do you survive?

I hope people in wheelchairs actually do that

CALORIES ARE EVIL, TRIGGERING AND A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

Why?

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.

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?

what a world

Seems like a cool feature. Doubt it would have been accurate, but still interesting.

>it's bad to encourage healthy behavior
Better not trigger them by saying its better to take the stairs than the escalator

She makes some good points, and she's not a fatty, so I can't find a reason to disagree with her

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.

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.

The only good point there is the one about cupcakes.

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

>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.

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.

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.

Mini cupcakes are weird until of measurement. Still mad that they removed it.

there's a difference between being nerd smart and chad smart.

Because it takes nothing to Get verified

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).

they don't survive for long

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.

Women are a mistake.

>triggered
heuheuheuheuheuheuheu

if you think that's triggered you need to reread my post man

OH MY GOD GOOGLE LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK LIKE OH MY GOD

If I were Google I'd add fat shaming metrics to every service, whether they were relevant or not.

I think they meant the opposite form of eating disorder.

let me tell you about

google won't let me google chubby porn. I habe to use bing

Kill yourself

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.

>I am offended by facts
Well then we are all fucked then aren't we.

>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.

It's terrorism.

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).

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Facebook ads are targeted depending on what websites you visit so this slag is clearly looking at diet websites or always looking at foodporn

OC gents

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>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

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.

Yeah identity politics is terrible. Apathy party when?

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.

What the fuck does walking have to do with eating?

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.

>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.

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

>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.

For lulz

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.

why are we enabling weak people with disorders again?

I'm supposed to be on a cut but any mention of calories sends me into a feeding frenzy

Holy duck, this makes me mad. When do we start genociding fatties?

*fuck

That's the irony of reality: we don't have to. They are doing it to themselves

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.

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.

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.

Is there a way to turn it on?