Back in September 2023 they did something similar and erased the small democratic of Artsakh of Google Maps, bc someone in the early 1900‘s decided the area belongs to Azerbaijan even so there lived more people of Armenian origin. Drawing borders / re-naming places is just wrong - imo.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://eff.org) has a free tool you add to your browser to block trackers that follow you across the web and collect info such as the ones used by G**gle. I use it and like it. It's fascinating to see how many it locates and blocks. It's available at https://privacybadger.org
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We created them and made them powerful. If we don't use them, we take some of that power away.