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- utopian3
Google Says It Bans Gun Ads. It Actually Makes Money From Them.
The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
- i_monk3
- I started seeing that, too, a couple of days ago. Gave my screen the finger, killed the pop-up, and went right on watching.Continuity
- Switch to Bravepablo28
- I'm with Continuity, shouting at screen is the new shouting at clouds.MrT
- "Signs Your Getting Old"Continuity
- fuck off googlehans_glib
- WHAT?? I had to disable my ad blocker!! What you you guys using? These ads are driving me nutsProjectile
- Stop being poor. Get YouTube Premium.NBQ00
- @Projectile, I use a combo of AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, and EFF Privacy Badger.Continuity
- YouTube Premium really isn't that much.formed
- I like Premium. No ads (especially good when on mobile app) , no bitching & it comes with YT Music. Plus I can watch/ listen to videos when phone screen lockedNBQ00
- I paid for YouTube Premium ages ago to prevent ads and didn't even know I was getting the music. It's my main listening these days.CyBrainX
- utopian3
Don't Be Evil Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt quietly created a company called White Stork, which plans to build AI-powered attack drones.
- shapesalad-1
- If only Google would ever focus on Search!utopian
- "now"
"pixel 6 coming soon"kingsteven - Not very good marketing. When I Google "Original Chips" it doesn't come up.dbloc
- sorry shape, but maan I'm dving this crapgrafician
- https://m3.material.…akiersky
- watdrgs
- i_monk0
I wish you could add permanent filters to your searches, like -amazon -pinterest, so you don't have to add them each time.
- _niko0
stupid question, I don't think it's possible, but maybe it was in the past or with 3rd party software but client is insisting that they had this information in the past.
Can you track where a user goes after leaving your site, or where they were just before they hit your site? I'm not talking about links on other sites to yours or links from your site to others, just what they type in the browser.
I'll say 100% no, but let me know if I'm wrong.
- Nomort_
- Possibly in the past before browsers saw it as a privacy exploit.mort_
- you used to be able to buy it but https by default ended that functiontrooperbill
- ok thanks figured._niko
- I'd say it depends on what trackers you add to your own site. For instance, if you and the previous/future siterobotinc
- All had facebook's pixel (or something similar) then yearobotinc
- grafician-2
- straight to https://killedbygoog…grafician
- https://www.theverge…grafician
- Maybe they can now focus on Search!utopian
- Did they even try with this shit? There was a huge launch, and then nothing. I'm on all the video game sites, and haven't seen anything in years.section_014
- i_monk0
Have they ceded the image search market to Yandex? GIS only seems capable of recognizing simple nouns now.
- NBQ00-1
Did the Google cunts really remove the reverse image search function on mobile?
It's nowhere to be found. Normally there was an icon in the search bar when visiting Google images page for uploading. But no more.
The closest thing I could find is Google Lens function but that only finds shopping items and is not real reverse image search.
- oey_oey0
Does anyone know how to change age of person in Google search findings?
One client of mine noticed that his age is displaying wrong in Google Search result, somebody made a mistake many years ago for their bands website.He has a Google Account but it doesn't work like that,
Any ideas?- Ummm, post his correct age somewhere and link to it. This is really a non issue also. Who cares.monospaced
- I did that. Even in clinet's page. Not working. Client cares. Seems to be important.oey_oey
- Start a thread in qbn with his picture and age. it'll help with SEOshapesalad
- update it on Wikipedia and Google will crawl it eventually?spot13
- Ok boomer.monospaced
- nb0
TL;DR: Gmail spam filter is shit. What should I switch to?
I’m slowly moving away from google Search. Very easy to set Safari to DuckDuckGo. This is mostly a privacy thing but also a “I want to see if the results are different.” (So far they are, but not perfect. DDG needs to figure out proximity prioritization.)
Anyway, for months I’ve noticed that gmail spam filter is brutal. I didn’t notice until I started applying for jobs last year. Tons of interview offers and other important emails went to spam. In many cases, these were direct emails from people I had already emailed and in a few instances they were replies to my emails!!!
During those months, I had to manually check and clear my gmail spam filter every day. It felt like 2002. Gmail put about 80-100 emails per day in there, and about ONE IN FIVE emails related to my job hunt ended there. !!!!!
Should I run my own email server? Sounds exhausting. Get a werido paranoid service like @protonmail? Back to hotmail?
Who is doing email right?
- if you have a portfolio website, surely you have setup an email address with your domain? Use that for jobs, but don't post it directly on your site - you'llshapesalad
- attract spam bots scraping for email address. Setup spam filters as you wish in cpanel if your host has that.shapesalad
- also the more you filter your spam and tick the 'not spam' thing, the more gmail learns what is and isn't spam for you.shapesalad
- https://www.hey.com/…grafician
- using the same gmail for like 13 years and yes I click “not spam” and try to teach google. It hasn’t learned yet? This is bullshit garbage technology.nb
- I can’t imagine how many emails I lost because I wasn’t meticulously combing thru my spam filter. I thought google was supposed to be good. Lolnb
- hans_glib2
so has google banned firefox? just tried to sign in to my account and it says my browser isn't safe so tough shit.
these cuntish tech companies really are the new fascists
- and maps is still borkedhans_glib
- weird - it works fine on an old copy of brave.hans_glib
- ahah - goggle thinks i'm on a phone for some reason...hans_glib
- cleared the cache and cookies and all was back to normal.hans_glib
- cleared the cache and cookies and all was back to normal.hans_glib
- still - fuck you googlehans_glib
- lolGuyFawkes
- Try this for google services: https://github.com/E…
For everything else Firefox or brave?grafician
- hans_glib0
wtf has goggle done to maps? streetview, soom buttons all gone.
fucking arseholes - they just can't stop borking their maps- soom? zoom. i blame googlehans_glib
- You may need gogglesnb
- depends how you arrive at maps from a search query.shapesalad
- Nairn1
Client sent an .ai file via Google Drive.
I can see it - it's right there in the middle of the browser window - but I can't download it. There's no fucking download option, and I can't cheat by clicking Print and sending it to a PDF as the Print option is ghosted. Great stuff. Right-clicking does nothing, so all I can do is just sit here like a spazz.
I presume it's because I'm a) not logged into Google's ecosystem and b) using Firefox, but .. well, quelle surprise.
Die, Google, Die.
- have you tried Googling it? Most issues can be solved by Googling them hahaIanbolton
- Sorry, I'll leave.Ianbolton
- I think it's because they have to grant permission. I run into this ALL the time, even though I set it to EDIT for all shares. Super annoying.formed
- All of the "sharing" services are annoying, imho.formed
- Is there a download icon in the upper right corner (down arrow) perhaps?monospaced
- It's German for "The, Google, the"nb
- No, mono, there is not. Some credit, please! (It's had one in the past when I've been linked to someone's drive, but here, nup).Nairn
- if you have browser dev tools installed - can you right click - inspect source - copy PDF url and paste in browser tab?hotroddy
- Google and chrome hate me and I hate themmisterhow
- Sorry! It’s hard to know exactly what you’re seeing.monospaced
- What are you fighting against? Register at Google alreadydrgs
- It's annoying because sharing isn't always conditional with other apps and sites, and lol spazz.MrT
- whatthefunk-3
- Same with Apple. Everything fatter. more colors.
The reaction against clean minimal design is completedkoblesky - I coudln't give two figs about Google, but I've always quite liked their GMail logo and its loading anim. Can't see how this improves, beyond unitingNairn
- Aw man, the conspiracy theorists who thought the Google Mail icon was some satanic mason apron will be messed up now it's a blobby rainbow.PhanLo
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- Google has to keep up with the design trends. Google has to be enough like Apple to confuse people that there is a differencedkoblesky
- I know we always talk shit on new logos and icons, but these are garbage compared to what they're replacing. I don't mind Gmail, but the others. Oof.section_014
- But they can't seem to make Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive or Meetup or Youtube work properly.utopian
- They work properly. Issue is you can’t make them work properly.monospaced
- Same with Apple. Everything fatter. more colors.
- renderedred1
finally! google search has a dark theme now!