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Wanted Drug Kingpin Keeps Exposing His Location in Mundane Google Reviews (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you are a Google Maps Contributor, you get points for submitting reviews and photos. Points increase your level. The higher your level, the more free stuff you get. At level 6, I got free socks.

The reviews often included photos of the restaurants, which sometimes featured photos of the Irish drug lord himself.

Gonna bet this guy is way high of a level to keep outing himself.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What?!? I'm level 7 and I didn't get any socks. How did you get free socks?

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it's not a thing anymore. being a maps contributor in the past put you into a little club where you got rewards for reaching guide levels. they used to give away Google drive space , invites to socials, and the socks mentioned in this thread. unfortunately it went away since it's not a novel feature where they need to drive people to be contribute.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Shoot. I never looked at those emails because they sent so many. Free drive space, pins, Google Play Cash. All expired now. oh well.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm making a bunch of assumptions but I'm guessing US-specific offer, and maybe I did a wide range of activities? I was in-between jobs in 2017 and scored a lot of points around that time from my wandering.

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are they nice socks?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I think so. As good as any fancy $10 socks.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Trying to get the elusive pin

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

The King pin? 👉😏👉