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  1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 02:31:30 EST Ji Fu Ji Fu

    ♲ @fodworeq@social.re:

    Spread the love?

    If I am going to use non-free #closedSouce gratis services is it better to commit to just giving my data to one company like


    #google or is it better to try to spread it out to more?

    Tags:
    #apple #Android #sns #SaaS #Facebook #Samsung #bing #microsoft #meta #sxm #spotify #pandora #YouTube #privacy #FreeSoftware #opensource #foursquare #linkedin #LIVEJournal #waze #maps #ford #amazon

    via dandelion* /people?q=dandelion00@diasp.org client (Source) https://github.com/gsantner/dandelion

    In conversation Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 02:31:30 EST from libranet.de permalink

    Attachments

    1. gsantner/dandelion
      from GitHub
      a diaspora* client for Android. Contribute to gsantner/dandelion development by creating an account on GitHub.
  2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 04:54:03 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Emergency update for #Google #Chrome browser. https://nu.federati.net/url/291535

    Being exploited in the wild, so patch now.
    In conversation Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 04:54:03 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Critical Google Chrome Flaw Exploited: Here's What You Need to Know Now!
      from TimesNow
      A critical security vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser has been exploited in the wild, triggering emergency patches. Is your digital life at risk?, Technology & Science News, Times Now
  3. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:10:42 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( #CFPB ) head: #Apple and #Google are chokepoints, hindering financial innovations. https://nu.federati.net/url/291484 [finance yahoo com]

    A lot of Yahoo articles are only there for a limited time period, so if you're seeing this months or years later, the link may error.

    2023-09-08
    In conversation Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:10:42 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Apple and Google are ‘choke points’ to equitable payment system: CFPB’s Chopra
      from Yahoo Finance
      Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Rohit Chopra said Thursday that tech giants are cutting off innovation in the US payments system.
  4. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 04:26:46 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    • Economics of the US Economy
    I somehow missed this: Newspaper giant #Gannett sues #Google over advertising monopoly https://www.reuters.com/legal/gannett-sues-google-alleges-it-monopolizes-online-ads-2023-06-20/ [www reuters com]

    #anti-trust #monopoly #online_advertising #lawsuit !econusa #usdoj #newspapers
    In conversation Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 04:26:46 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Gannett sues Google, alleges online ad monopoly
      from Reuters
      Gannett , the largest U.S. newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, on Tuesday sued Google for trying to corner the market for online advertising by monopolizing ad technology.
  5. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 12:08:38 EDT Ji Fu Ji Fu
    I never thought this day would come where I prefer and trust #Microsoft more than I do #Google
    In conversation Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 12:08:38 EDT from libranet.de permalink
  6. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 13:05:28 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Forty US states get almost $400,000,000 in #Google location #privacy lawsuit https://nu.federati.net/url/288931 [www thecentersquare com]

    They spin this as a win, but (1) it wasn't the states' privacy that was being violated, so why is all the money being split by the states?, and (2) it says Google will make its settings more clear, but it does not say that location tracking and data sales will be OFF by default (which is how it should be).
    In conversation Wednesday, 14-Dec-2022 13:05:28 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Invalid filename.
      Forty states win $391.5M privacy suit against Google over location data sold to advertisers
      from The Center Square
      (The Center Square) — Forty states won a combined $391.5 million settlement with Google over location tracking practices.
  7. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Sep-2022 00:52:33 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #Google will start allow-listing political spam this month https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/19/23362054/gmail-political-spam-fundraising-email-campaign-google [www theverge com]
    In conversation Friday, 23-Sep-2022 00:52:33 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Gmail will start spam-proofing political fundraising emails this week
      from The Verge
      Great news for people who love spam
  8. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 23:09:44 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #Google #Chrome and all other browsers based on #Chromium will get some changes to their extensions API which will reduce the ability of ad-blocking extensions. #Mozilla #Firefox is rejecting that part of the change, so Firefox and other browsers based on their code will retain superior ad-blocking capabilities.
    In conversation Sunday, 12-Jun-2022 23:09:44 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink
  9. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 20:00:29 EDT Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Removing just GMail from your Google Account

    Lately I've been receiving a new kind of spam on my #Gmail email address that I was forwarding to my FastMail inbox for a few years. People have been using my Gmail address to fill in contact forms on various French and German websites, and I was receiving the contact reception confirmation.

    Thanks to this handy how to, I was able to remove my GMail address without deleting my #Google account that I sadly need to keep around, maybe it will help you too.

    www.howtogeek.com/671066/how-t…
    In conversation Monday, 09-May-2022 20:00:29 EDT from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  10. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Apr-2022 21:33:31 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Someone pointed out that Google is not really a search engine any more. It is an AI machine that tries to interpret your meaning rather than search for what you ask for. As such, there are sites that are very likely to be part of their index, but which appear to be impossible to pull up in a search. Even using quotes, the plus sign, the minus sign, and site won't be enough to overcome its guess about what you really meant to search for.

    All of that matches my experience, but I don't believe that makes #Google not a search engine, even if it makes them not very good at search.
    In conversation Friday, 08-Apr-2022 21:33:31 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink
  11. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 11:19:27 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Search engines with their own indexes: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html

    #YaCy: slow, with mostly irrelevant results

    Very true, but the second part, mostly irrelevant results is a matter of degree. #Google's results were once fantastic, but these days, a big chunk of the first five pages of a search are irrelevant results, often SEO'd into high positions and knocking relevant results lower.

    #Bing (and #Yahoo, #DDG, and others who use Bing's results) are also described with increasing accuracy by "mostly irrelevant results".

    But yes, YaCy's results are even worse. I want to set up another YaCy instance, just to crawl sites of interest in various topics. I know there's a major software change needed to get the most improvement in search results, but having the right information in the global index is a necessary precursor to producing good results.
    In conversation Saturday, 26-Mar-2022 11:19:27 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. A look at search engines with their own indexes
      from Seirdy's Home
      A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
  12. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 18:54:25 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    More #Google data-collection: https://shitposter.club/objects/8892f630-e064-4f72-933b-20c552b8126c

    (Note: someone speculated that this is probably a requirement of all telecom providers, so switching to #Apple phones would not change things.)
    In conversation Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 18:54:25 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink
  13. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 19:49:16 EDT lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://global.royole.com/us/rowrite-2-smart-writing-pad

    I know this means I'll have to add a #Google account to my new A7 Lite tablet. (I'm sure this only talks to their own app, which I'm almost 100% sure is only in the Play Store.)

    But I've been wanting a handwriting-based notes and drawings app for a while. I sent one to my #SoCal home and one to #sonTwo, so I expect to have a full "this is what works well, this is what works not so well" rundown before I ever open the box.
    In conversation Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 19:49:16 EDT from nu.federati.net permalink
  14. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 10:40:21 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://briarproject.org/news/2022-briar-removed-from-google-play/

    #Briar removed from #Google’s Play Store, expected to return soon.

    This is a bad time for such situations; people in certain European countries should be using such #peer-to-peer technologies for their communications, to reduce the chance of interception.
    In conversation Monday, 28-Feb-2022 10:40:21 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  15. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Feb-2022 20:53:57 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    From 2021 July: Mermaid spammers using Danish .DK domains near top of #Google search results in #Norway. https://alexskra.com/blog/the-mermaid-is-taking-over-google-search-in-norway/ [alexskra com]

    I don't know where I found the link, but the content was interesting.
    In conversation Friday, 25-Feb-2022 20:53:57 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway - ALEXSKRA
      By Alex from ALEXSKRA
      The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
  16. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 19:48:48 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    A lot of us are concerned about #Firefox, about #Thunderbird, and about #Mozilla itself. The trouble is, most of the seeds of Moz's current affliction were planted early on, when the #Google search deal was first signed.

    They received an unimaginable amount of money, and being good people, they decided to pour it into becoming the Web's advocate and (later on) the Web's privacy advocate.

    They built a large organization, with some very high salaries at the top, based on the revenue they received from a single customer. And then that customer launched its own browser, #Chrome, in part because Firefox was going slower than Google desired because so many resources were going into other projects and because Google's plans were not always aligned with what Mozilla believed was best for the Web.

    It was always an unsustainable situation, and when things changed due to cooperation being replaced with coopetition, they started a panicked grasping for other revenue sources.

    Now, they've cut actual developers, which makes it even more difficult to keep up with Chrome / #Chromium (and the many browsers derived from it). And because they need to find other revenue sources, they keep looking for ad deals ... which runs crosswise with its core users, who want to block ads.

    So, yeah, I don't see a way out that leaves them as anything other than a niche product produced by a small team of mostly volunteers.

    I do think _personalization_ as a differentiator is going to flop, if they're thinking about color schemes and superhero logos. A big chunk of what people did with XUL (the former technology, and what made it so customizable) was produce ad blockers, script blockers, embedded-media blockers, pop-up blockers, cookie and tracking blockers, proxy tools, and web development tools (webdev toolbars, xml toolbars, json tools, css and xsl tools, sqlite tools). I just don't think that the ability to make your browser look like the Spiderman t-shirt you bought last week is going to win over a lot of people who are using Chrome/Chomium/Edge/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave/Iron.

    Now, maybe if they make it the most secure and private browser right out of the box, with ad blocking, script blocking, and so on, plus make it faster than the Chromium family while consuming less RAM and crashing less often, then adding the ability to dress the browser up as Dora the Explorer will total enough advantages to make a difference.
    In conversation Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 19:48:48 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  17. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 18:10:11 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    #Samsung and #Google announce unified watch platform, merging #Tizen and #Android based #WearOS. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440483/samsung-smartwatch-google-wearos-tizen-watch [www theverge com]
    In conversation Tuesday, 01-Feb-2022 18:10:11 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen
      from The Verge
      This is a huge deal for the Android smartwatch world.
  18. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2022 10:25:52 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    Today is a very slow day. Ordinarily, I'd be using the company-paid #LinkedIn / #LockedOut Learning subscription to learn more about #MSAzure, #AWS, #PowerShell, or even #PHP.

    I take courses on both #Microsoft and #Amazon clouds, but never #Google, #IBM, #CenturyLink / #Lumen clouds. I need to look into those clouds.
    In conversation Tuesday, 25-Jan-2022 10:25:52 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  19. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Dec-2021 20:40:32 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    in reply to
    • lnxw48a1
    I do disagree with this, in that #Bing's search results aren't just bad because they can only crawl 90% of the sites that #Google can. Bing's results are bad because their ranking algorithms fail to put the information people are searching for at the top of the results. If one clicks through 9 or 10 pages of results, one might find something relevant, which was probably why #Yahoo and #DDG used to deliver better results than Bing, while sourcing most or all of their results from Bing.
    In conversation Monday, 27-Dec-2021 20:40:32 EST from nu.federati.net permalink
  20. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Dec-2021 20:35:29 EST lnxw48a1 lnxw48a1
    https://nu.federati.net/url/284139 [www abc net au]

    Could #Australia build a national search engine to compete with #Google?
    In conversation Monday, 27-Dec-2021 20:35:29 EST from nu.federati.net permalink

    Attachments

    1. 'Only a knucklehead would take on Google': Why building our own search engine is so hard
      The cost of building a search engine to rival Google may number in the billions of dollars — but that's not the only challenge to competing with the tech giant.
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