Hi
Sorry but I’m not sure how this is related to my plugin?
We dont serve ads through the plugin at all.
Hi,
thank you. By now I found out, that there are privacy issues with google maps in general. Google allows the usage of its google maps services for free, as long as it is used confirming to the API without custom modifications.
The reason is that google collects the information of the users that browse google maps and all pages that use google maps plugins. No matter if you currently are logged in to a google account or of you’re an anonymous user that is just identified by IP, OS, Browser, etc. – google collects information about the sites with google maps plugins and other google services you browse and the places that are shown on these maps.
This information is used to “improve your user experience”. In fact it is used to improve the effectiveness of ads you will see on other pages.
So yes – embedding a google maps plugin on any webpage will help google collect information that are used to personalize ads. Your wordpress plugin is no exception.
That’s not a problem in general because it is the way the users ‘pay’ for being able to use the free map service. But it’s good to know that this is happening.
(Measurements to prevent a maps plugin from collecting this information are a violation of googles terms of service.
https://developers.google.com/maps/terms )
