Stört sich

trends.google.com

nur an meinen Cookie- und Trackingeinstellungen, oder ist es nicht möglich, sich die Trends für den Suchbegriff "Generalstreik" anzeigen zu lassen?

https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-discriminating-against-custom-rom-users

Sinds eergisteren ben ik #metavrij, komende week eens kijken hoe ik mijn mailadressen van #Google naar een normale service kan verhuizen. #DigitaleHygiene #googleisevil Daarna is Apple aan de beurt.

Was kann schon schiefgehen, wenn eine EvilCorp. deren Geschäftsmodell auf Werbung beruht, Gewalt über das meistgenutzte Interface fürs Web erlangt?

https://www.heise.de/news/uBlock-Origin-Die-Abschaltung-von-Manifest-V2-hat-begonnen-9985221.html

Firefox hat so seine Quirks, aber dank UBO bleibt das Netz nutzbar.

Since I disabled History in youtube, I am seeing a steady stream of far-right propaganda pieces in the recommendations.

This is obviously by design.

The algorithm has been massaged.

Google's online search monopoly is officially illegal.

This is the most important pro-consumer tech news I've seen in ... a while.

"Google is a monopolist"
Other monopolists still facing trial: Meta, Amazon, & Apple.
Regulators have asked for "structural relief" (i.e. breaking Alphabet into, e.g., letters).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6mge3o

In the never ending #GoogleIsEvil and #GoogleIsSpyware series:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

Glad the author informs us about Ggle's latest shit, but WTAF how anyone can be so naieve:
"[All your msgs] will be sent to the cloud for processing ...—albeit anonymized"

AFAIK you need 7 or 12 data points to de-anonymize data.

If someone fscks you over 300 times, why do you think attempt 301 will be any different?

Stop giving Ggle the benefit of the doubt!

#Privacy

h/t: https://mastodon.social/@Privacymatters/111840850741878518

“[H]aving the world’s biggest advertising company make the most popular Web browser [is] about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop.”
@washingtonpost

@geoffreyfowler explains why the “#Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.” He recommends #Firefox. (My pick is Safari first, then Firefox.)

DYK? “Google quietly began signing Gmail users into Chrome last fall.”

#GoogleIsEvil
#Google
#GiftLink #GiftArtcle

https://wapo.st/3SaZkYH

OLD ARTICLE
Missed the date. Sorry!

#Google's #WEI isn't (just) about blocking adblockers. That's just a 'minor' consequence.

This is about a fight against Open Computing in general, where YOU no longer get to decide what and how you use your devices to access what you want in the way that you want, but Ggle/M$/Apple.

See f.e. https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/26/Vendor-purpose-OS.html

Ggle wants to turn the whole internet into their walled garden. So yeah, they're just copying Apple's playbook.
Much innovation, such wow

IIRC some time ago the idea was floating around to create a new HTTP status/error code: 666

That was for the previous horrible thing that Ggle did.

How about we implement it this time around? Something like:
- If UserAgent = Ggle/Chrome/Chromium/etc then return 666 with
"This page was written for the Open Web, but your browser is against that, so we can't serve you this page.
The fix is to switch to #Firefox.
Or circumvent this simple attestation by changing your UserAgent"

Remember that horrific Web Environment Integrity proposal?

Well, Ggle listened to the feedback!
So it's coming to #Chromium in 117.0.5902.0 and later.

LOL, wait. You didn't think they'd listen to anyone outside of their bubble, right?

So I fully agree with
https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/110780501463438740

"Every programmer has a private responsibility regarding their complicity in writing and shipping harmful software."

"... the fact remains that Google Chrome is the arbiter of web standards"
"Ggle's deprecation of the JPEG-XL image format in February in favor of its own patented AVIF format ... does highlight, once again, the disturbing amount of control it has over the platform generally."

"There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG-XL."

"ecosystem" = Ggle interest

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/googles-decision-to-deprecate-jpeg-xl-emphasizes-the-need-for-browser-choice-and-free-formats