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- uan6
Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019
- https://wordstream-f…dbloc
- Right to the Google Graveyard!utopian
- I thought they were already doing thatcannonball1978
- yep, they told in nov2018. now they published how to download your content before it goes dark.uan
- Bennn2
"Google's Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers"
Link: https://gizmodo.com/googles-plan…
''The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking extensions,”''
''The proposal would leave functional basic filters employed by Adblock Plus, which, the site noted, Google has reportedly paid to whitelist its own ads.''
- Time to reinstall IE?
j/kKrassy - Nice of google to help out firefox like thatmonNom
- I'm glad I switched to Firefox 2 or 3 years ago now.Bennn
- If ad blockers ever stop working on every browser one day, I'll freak out! I haven't saw ads since years!Bennn
- I don't know how people look at sites with the ads on. There's a new browser out that removes all the bloatware now I think.PhanLo
- This is the one
https://brave.comPhanLo - @PhanLo thanks for this. Have you used it?Krassy
- My friend recommended it to me, he said the speed of loading was quite noticeable compared to Safari. I've been too lazy to switch over.PhanLo
- IE is using Chromium going forward so if it's good I'll dump Chrome but they really need to get their shit together with dev tools.Boz
- I just reinstalled Netscapeutopian
- every browser launches as being the fastest ever, then gets bloated, then some new guy launches as being the fastest ever. rinse and repeat.inteliboy
- https://brave.com is the real deal. My default browser for over a year now. Built by Mozilla founder and creator of Javascript. Built in ad/tracer blockers.rabbit
- Mobile and desktop. No ads since.rabbit
- Brave still uses Chromium though, which would need hard forking, and anyway has a dubious funding / ad-blocking philosophy.Nairn
- Firefox is great - I never really stopped using it (ok, i went to Chrome for about 6-12 months when FF got slow decade or so ago).Nairn
- I can't get my head around people trusting Google with their holiest of holies - their entire interactivity with the internet via the browser, web tools, etcNairn
- firefox is great! love the sync with bookmarks and all the taps over all platforms! its also very fast these days. ad block+ is a musthave.api
- i'm using uBlock Origin. I have no ads.Bennn
- Time to reinstall IE?
- chukkaphob2
Thousands of Google staff around the globe stage mass #MeToo walkout over tech giant's $90m payout to sex-pest executive plus a $14m loan to buy a beach estate in Japan
- https://www.youtube.…lvl_13
- lolchukkaphob
- Leave Michael Keaton alone!_niko
- MICHEAL KEATON! LOLpango
- ^ Lmaokgvs72
- LOL @ Michael Keatonchukkaphob
- BTW, is he wearing the latest Google Glass styles?chukkaphob
- I just have to say that I'm crying at Michael Keaton comment :) :). Good job! :)Boz
- chukkaphob1
Google shifted $23 billion to tax haven Bermuda
- uh ohchukkaphob
- you learn what a “Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich” is :Dsted
- ^ hey that's Olivers :) LOLhelloeatbreathedrive
- @sted now I have to use Google to gooogle that. LOLchukkaphob
- Alexandra Ocasio Cortez will take 70% and give it to her corrupt party members. She didn't even sleep with bezosHayoth
- @Hayoth lol! right?chukkaphob
- drgs2
I googled opening hours of the grocery store in my neighborhood I use to visit
Google shows me:
"Your past visits: You visited 6 days ago · Edit
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 10PM"I click on Edit next to my past visits
There is a timeline with detailed route map of where I have been for every day of the month
The light blue lines = walking
Dark blue = by car/busThey are probably able to do this because I have a Google Pixel phone, but didn't even know it had this feature.
Just to make it clear, I stopped caring about these things a while ago- Is your GPS always on?dmay
- Must be, I don't notice it on battery lifedrgs
- *hunts drgs*Nairn
- It's totally because you have a Pixel. My work phone is a Pixel and it's all about tracking my every move and habit. Pretty creepy.monospaced
- Google has probably mapped your behavior and DNA and created a cloned version of you in a secret lab somewhere by now. Your fault for not opting out :/yuekit
- its ON on every phone having Goole Map and a Google account logged in i think. You have to go to your Google pref to disable this.Bennn
- I would care if I were doing illegal shit. It's not the case.Bennn
- Bennn. It doesn’t have this level of access on iPhones and other devices. Even when signed into each app it’s not even remotely close.monospaced
- FYI iPhones do this as well, they call it "significant locations" and can be turned on or off but it's on by default and turns back on every couple of updates.zarkonite
- they send out this info even if you have it switched off. I'm going to make a switch away from Andriod/IOS hopefully next yearmugwart
- What OS ? mugwartBennn
- to windowssted
- this is real bad, should be a clear "opt in" for protecting all the users.api
- You can open out gps historypango
- That's why I disable everything when I get an I phone and Google phonepango
- I wish I could see a history of my phone’s movementimbecile
- you live in norway?ArchitectofFate
- detritus2
I've often accused Google of being duplicitously stupid on here, for presumed nefarious purposes I can't quite work out.
Now I'm just thinking it's fucking stupid.
I've just noticed a wee thing at the bottom of my Google Search results that states my location, at least as best as Google can work it out.
Now, bear in mind I've many times confirmed my login on this computer, at this address for the last at least two years continually now - London, England. I can understand perhaps a little confusion arising from broad-area IP geo-location, and have in the past seen my position as a satellite town about 15 miles away. Not great, but understandable.
Now, for some reason, Google is confinced I am in fact in Pitlochry, a small town in the heart of Scotland I once ivisited when I was 9. It's 470-odd miles away.
I have never expressed any interest in Pitlochry or much else of Scotland beyond the cities and the occasional family house via Google, so I've no idea what the stupid fucking thing's thinking.
I really need to start using Bing. At least I expect fuck-all from Microsoft, so could rarely be disappointed... .
- Why does this bother you?face_melter
- Why in turn does my irritation bother you? I've catalogued my ire with G here already - this is just the cherry that makes me wonder if it's simply crap.detritus
- G touts itself as being some AI-driving wunderkind that can sort out our lives for us. If it can't work out wtf I am based on x years use, then it's just crap.detritus
- Whenever location services are enabled it doesn’t seem to have any issues that I’ve seen. I imagine they can pinpoint most people yikes.monospaced
- Detritus still thinks he's living in london with his make believe girlfriend, bless him. YOU'RE IN A HOME IN PITLOCHRY. YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 2 YEARS, REMEMBER?set
- I just learned golf apps can find your location accurately enough to tell you how many feet you are on the course from the hole. Kinda cool, kinda creepyformed
- COOKIES!imbecile
- Bing? DuckDuckGo.i_monk
- pablo28-2
Google is shutting down its beleaguered Google+ social network after it discovered a software bug in March that gave third-parties access to private user data, the company writes in a blog post.
- oh ... THAT's the reason? I suppose it had nothing to do with the fact nobody used it thenmonospaced
- great attempt at a Facebook alternative though, keep trying.fadein11
- i loved it. less poisonous than facebook and twitter but never used it.Hayoth
- i wanted it to be great. it was not.sarahfailin
- but it's interlinked with your youtube channel / user account. How's that gonna play out?shapesalad
- ^ They just have to eliminate that column and run a migration, nerd.Maaku
- no, I mean currently to change your youtube user name - you go to go to your google+ account and change it there. As it's linked.shapesalad
- Good riddance. Google+ sucked.NBQ00
- @shape - you go to google accounts to change info/passwords, it's not google+fadein11
- google suck. fuck 'em.hans_glib
- I wanted to love it, too. I'll cheer when Facebook finally meets its demise.formed
- I had it onceoey
- utopian1
- funny... I just watched that this morning over breakfast.shapesalad
- How does it turn out? I got really bored.fadein11
- set-1
There are ads that look like an email in my Gmail app on my phone now. Fuck you Google.
- oh no... where? hasn't hit mine yet.fadein11
- Was one on one of my lesser used accounts. Haven't seen it on my two main accounts which is odd. Literally at the to of the email list looking like an emailset
- Not seeing it again now though anywhere. Oddset
- sounds you have you have malware installed in your browser or something...zarkonite
- I do notset
- Well it's not a google ad product.zarkonite
- Also, why do you have ads turned on in your gmail?zarkonite
- What are you talking about you cunt?set
- dbloc0
Google is officially testing ‘more results’ button to load more search results
- Everyone gets first page resultsdbloc
- So they are trying the infinite scrolling in 2018, cool.Maaku
- exactlydbloc
- Works for meset
- Why even bother with a button. Just lazy load an infinite scroll FFS.Hayzilla
- Lazyload is bad.zarkonite
- why is lazy load bad?dbloc
- Keeps changing the length of the scrollbar amongst other things.zarkonite
- detritus1
Fucking Google.
"The device you're attemptIng to log in from is not recognised"
No?
IT'S THE SAME FUCKING COMPUTER ON THE SAME STATIC IP, FROM THE SAME EVERYTHING I'VE BEEN USING EVERY FUCKING DAY FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, YOU FUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT.
Thing is, I don't for one second believe you're that stupid and have somehow forgot, so why do you put me through this rigmarole every 4 months or so?
- ugh, don't get me started on goggle. utterly evil/incompetent wankstains on the trousers of humanityhans_glib
- Krassy1
"Google has succeeded where Genghis Khan, communism and Esperanto all failed: It dominates the globe."
- detritus2
Thanks, Getty, for making it so that my I now can't just click 'View full image' in Google Image Searches any more. Excellent stuff.
- just wow. checked and confirmed. then puked a little.helloeatbreathedrive
- tho right clk open img in new tab still woiks.
wasn't that the same thing?helloeatbreathedrive - ^ this shows the scaled down version, not link to the full scale image as beforeGnash
- got it. obv innovation never sleeps :|helloeatbreathedrive
- i_monk0
Thanks, Getty, for getting rid of that useful "search by image" feature in Google Image Searches results. Excellent stuff.
- (You can still search by image from the main search bar, but not from an image result anymore.)i_monk
- fuck gettyGnash
- someone has already made a work-around
https://d3vr.github.…Gnash - oops meant to post that link in previous postGnash
- _niko0
todays google doodle : the reason why if you say burnt toast around a Canadian, they'll ask you if you're having a seizure lol.
- detritus1
er.. WTF? Google Earth Pro just installed itself on my computer without any input from myself!
When did that become acceptable?
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/…
Really, fuck Google.
- I saw the icon on my desktop and wondered WTF, right-clicked to check filepath and creation date and.. it's all legit. Well, completely illegit.detritus
- http://www.dslreport…detritus
- just boycott it as much as you can. okay easier said then done!mugwart
- Resistance is futileset
- ^^ never!
Just longer search times!mugwart - innovation never... oh, waitGnash
- sarahfailin0
Google sent me a free Home Mini because I bought a Pixel 2.
...i imagine it's not good enough quality to use for music. if it works the same as my phone, why would I not just use my phone?
Should I sell this thing or try to take it to best buy for store credit before i open it?
hello wiretap?
- Imho, sell it. Sell it now.detritus
- I’d be getting suspicious if I got something for free from google. bury it in the backyard.pressplay
- wait a minute... almost every service from google is for free. I got to bury myself now...pressplay
- Got one too, if you're into the whole voice interface thing it's neat. You can have fun with it if you have a nest or a chromecast... I sometimes ask it tozarkonite
- google stuff, not terribly useful... yet.zarkonite
- it's designed to listen better than your phone, especially in an open area like your livingroom ... you don't need to be very close to it like with the phonemonospaced
- Best buy said I couldn't exchange it for store credit. ...jerks!sarahfailin
- give as a bday gift to someoneGnash
- ^best idea so far.sarahfailin
- ...someone you don't like.detritus
- if you own a phone you're already wiretapped. mess around with what it can do!scarabin
- i use those shits err'dayscarabin
- Sell it before it becomes sentient. Also absolutely do not give it a name!!pango
- lol pangomonospaced
- it's coming for your cock!!
https://i.imgur.com/…pango