Google is hilarious, I can’t think of a company that tries to drive me to violent terrorism on a more frequent basis
Just because a boot liker calls something by a name, does not make it so, if anything, when you hear someone say “THe guLf of aMericA” you know on the spot, you don’t loose anything by stopping the conversation right there and then.
Something like this happened in the recent past and now Mexicans are starting to call it the Rio Grande instead of the Rio Bravo
They need to keep Daddy Orange happy to keep the administration friendly to their corporate excesses.
Google couldn’t wait to roll it out… Fuck those fascist ego strokers.
Not even a bit of pushback. Dead silence from a them, just straight up compliance.
It’s almost as if Alphabet/Google and the tyrant oligarchs are one and the same. That would be preposterous, though, right?
Why would they push back? there is nothing in it for them, and their shareholders
Edit: It’s Lake Ontario. It’s always been Lake Ontario. Sorry Canada, for our moron-in-chief.
USA tech needs to be avoided as much as possible, people need to want change.
As of 2026-08-30:
Are you viewing this from America? Because Google changes the names of things based on the country you are in.
I’m in the USA and GoogleMaps shows Lake America right now.
Apple Maps shows Lake Ontario
It’s gonna take me a long time to call it that.
I still call them the Edmonton Eskimos
It’ll always be the Skydome to me
I refuse to call Mac’s stores the circle k
Lake Ontario in Australia
Sorry, can’t find where to upload an image in Summit
Yeah, Google has done this for at least 15 years.
If you view the Ukrainian border in Russia, it’s different than if you view it in a NATO country
Same for the border between India and China depending on which side you’re on
Same for the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America
If you view this in the US, it’s America, if you view it in Canada it’s Ontario.
They change the map to match whatever the country you’re viewing from says it is
State-affirming propaganda. Got it.
Australia?
pretty much
If google maps is unable to properly label the names of cities, lakes, etc, then it shouldn’t be allowed to operate.
Block google maps in Canada, problem solved
It is labeling them properly though? In the US it’s called Lake America which is now the official American name for it. In the rest of the world it’s named Lake Ontario.
Thing is, it’s not unusual for bodies of water to have different names depending on where you’re from. What we call Läänemeri (Western Sea), the Germans call Ostsee (Eastern Sea). You likely know it as the Baltic Sea.
But it’s not called that, and it’s not the official name.
Naming shit isn’t a presidential power. His declaration has no more weight than if he announced that from now on your legal name was Vicky.
It’s silly and stupid, but also genuinely dangerous when groups with as much power as Google has declare that they’re willing to let a madman dictate how they describe reality.
block google everywhere out of the usa
Never ever forget this disgusting capitulation. Might legitimately be the worst thing they’ve done, for an audience of one.
Only in the US though
It still shows Lake Ontario for me (I’m in the US), but I may not have all the latest Android updates.
It doesn’t depends on a update but as the official name of it in the country you are located. Gulf of Mexico is still Gulf of Mexico everywhere but the US. Lake Ontario is going to keep being Lake Ontario everywhere but the US.
google maps, from australia
A lot of time without checking out, but is the same in Brazil
This is what I see, too. I’m in South America with my location turned off and a VPN running on my device with a US IP address.
It would be hilarious if it showed as Lake Ontario for Canadians and only Lake America for USAians.
That is how it has always worked. Most of the rest of the world sees Gulf of Mexico and will see Lake Ontario.
There are a lot more disputed and conflicting geographical names than these two. Google has a system in place that aligns naming by country.
I’m in Denmark and Google maps has Gulf of America in parenthesis. Lake Ontario is still just Lake Ontario, though.
google maps, australia
In Canada, they put
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
Pretty sure that’s what it is, no sarcasm
Alright then, hilariousness confirmed! 🤣
OSM looks great. Why would anybody use anything else?
