u/mostly_a_lurker_here

Navigating to a grocery store here in NYC. While half a mile away from there, the left half of the Google Maps screen is overtaken by a modal window, where it says: "Navigate to Walgreens? (Promoted)", or something like that. It suggested to add a stop to a Walgreens in the way, and showing how the route would look with that stop. This would not go away until I tapped on "No".

Who would ever think this is a good idea? FFS.

Sorry I couldn't safely stop to get a screenshot / pic of it... There are articles around about similar "features" where a popup appears in the bottom, but I gotta say that my experience was much more intrusive than those.