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Google Backs Down On Maps Redirect

Posted by samzenpus on from the on-second-thought dept.

Dupple writes "A few days ago Google blocked access to its maps on Windows Phone 8, claiming that it 'worked best' on WebKit-based browsers — effectively excluding WP8 users. This, despite Google Maps working fine on desktop versions of IE that use the same rendering engine and users being able to spoof the user agent string on their WP8 devices to gain access. Now it appears that Google has backed down and is now allowing WP8 users access."

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  1. Re:Don't be evil by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They want to remove the crap API code and the easiest way to start that was denying access when using Internet Explorer.

    Except they didn't deny access when using IE. They denied access to anything with "Windows Phone" in its User-Agent string.

    And what is the "crap API code" in question? Especially given that, once you spoof the UA string, maps work just fine in IE10 on WP8?