I found new Google Maps slow, useless (routes with only two points) and wrong. Is there any way, I can turn it off completely and go back to favored old Google Maps? Or is this — as with everything in Google — one way trip?I found Google Help text on this matter, but it seems useless. I have the feeling, that it discuss something completely different. It says about lite indicator in bottom-right corner. I don't have something like that. And provided links, that should switch new Google Maps engine between WebGL and canvas-based, simply doesn't work. All of them opens new window with annoying advertisment about new maps.I even tried pasing part of URL, they're talking about (force=canvas) into any URL that my new Google Maps uses. Of course without any luck.So... is there any way, I can get rid of new Google Maps, once and permanently?UPDATE: In these days (April, 2015) Google has announced, that soon new Google Maps will be the only one available. To my extremely negative surprise, this question will become invalid soon! :(
Permanently turn off new Google Maps and go back to old one
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Google has made it clear that they were going to completely phase out the Classic Google Maps (Q2 2015). The vast majority of feedback has been negative towards the new Maps (I have yet to see a single positive comment), but per their history (and company policy?), they have no intention of listening to user feedback, so all methods of accessing the old Maps have stopped working.No URL query term, no cookie, no user-agent hack, or browser extension can be used to access it anymore because they completely removed it now (think they fixed the loopholes that allowed people to access the old version).There are innumerable people complaining about this in countless threads on more sites than there are stars in the sky, but if Google keeps with its tradition of ignoring user feedback, then all of the petitions in the world wont get them to bring it back. The best you can hope for is to send feedback about very specific issues and hope they actually bother to read it.