# My google earth has been hijacked by flightwise.com

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010 "2010-04-14T01:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010/1 "2010-04-14T01:49:12Z")

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What happened to google earth?

Some crappy site called flightwise,com comes up and the maps are worthless.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010/2 "2010-04-14T02:07:53Z")

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[Check this out](https://fboweb.com/google_earth_flight_tracking.html#bugs)

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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010/3 "2010-04-14T04:16:35Z")

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Thank you, but is there some way I can get rid of flightwise and get back to just plain old google earth?

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**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-google-earth-has-been-hijacked-by-flightwise-com/536010/4 "2010-04-14T15:36:16Z")

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On the left hand panel under “Places” or something like that, you have a link for a flight (probably an old one). Find which one it is, and delete it out. That will turn off the Flightwise overlays.