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Hiding images, reviews, and more.

If you're not signed into your Google account, Google Maps will now hide reviews and other info from you. Google Maps is quietly becoming a lot less useful if you're not signed into a Google account.

Google Maps limited view mode hides reviews and pricing for logged-out users. Full access now requires signing in.

Google Maps users are noticing that they are no longer able to view more than one image of a destination when logged out.

Google may have just proved how important consumers are to its ecosystem. In a bid to enhance the reliability and integrity of its platform, the company has announced new measures to combat fake ...

Amid backlash for updating its maps to show “Gulf of America” in place of “Gulf of Mexico,” Google Maps has started to both block new reviews of the location, as well as deleting recent negative ...

Google Maps reviews are a valuable resource, but the service is losing the ability to store drafts of a review in progress. Writing a review on Google Maps is often a very quick process, but some ...

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