Interesting (and awful) article on fascist and extreme-right content on #Youtube, and how the Youtube algorithm gets people to watch it -- lots and lots of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
Interesting (and awful) article on fascist and extreme-right content on #Youtube, and how the Youtube algorithm gets people to watch it -- lots and lots of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
Interesting article on fascist and extreme-right content on #Youtube, and how the Youtube algorithm gets people to watch it -- lots and lots of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
My ISP wants to sell me ' #google wifi home mesh network router' , all I have to say about that is 'Fuck no'.
Je découvre https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
Est-ce que y'a des gens en France / Europe qui ont des choses dedans ? J'ai pas de compte Google je peux pas tester.
This is a couple of years old, but still 100% relevant. Thanks to @[Henry Morgan](/people/a85d7459-125c-af90-a794-e50738745359) for the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI
#facebook #google #socialmedia #machinelearning #capitalism #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #dystopia
“Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good … Yes, we use data to make products more helpful for everyone. But we also protect your information.” – NYTimes “The Privacy Project”
1. Fuck you, Sundar
2. Fuck you, NYTimes, and fuck your “privacy project”, you whitewashing muppets
#SurveillanceCapitalism #WhiteWashing #BigData #BigTech #Google #NYTimes
We produced guides that show how to minimise targeted ads on ⬇⬇
#facebook / #instagram
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2827/facebook
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2828/instagram-owned-facebook
#twitter
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2829/twitter
#google / #youtube
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2826/google-youtube
Who next? tell us: saran@privacyinternational.org https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1123927869099364352/photo/1
The #DuckDuckGo Duck versus the #Google Goose. Who would win?
We produced guides that show how to minimise targeted ads on ⬇⬇
#facebook / #instagram
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2827/facebook
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2828/instagram-owned-facebook
#twitter
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2829/twitter
#google / #youtube
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/2826/google-youtube
Who next? tell us: saran@privacyinternational.org https://twitter.com/privacyint/status/1122154936857272320/photo/1
"The only way to rein in big tech is to treat them as a public service"
"The drive for profit is behind many of the ills of #Google, #Facebook et al. #Unions and public ownership are the only way to solve this"
After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/i-hate-being-right-2.html
#google Home fait entendre sa petite musique gratuite #macg https://www.igen.fr/services/2019/04/google-home-fait-entendre-sa-petite-musique-gratuite-107579
Heh, this brings back memories of when #Microsoft went through something similar in the late 90s and early 00s. 😁 #android #google #googlechrome #eu
Times #Discord has tried to track me in the past day: 500+
Times #Reddit has tried to track me in the past day: 1000+
Times #Google has tried to track me in the past day: 2000+
Times #Mastodon has tried to track me in the past day: 0
Times #Funkwhale has tried to track me in the past day: 0
Times #Matrix has tried to track me in the past day: 0
This is why we need to leave proprietary network services. They will *always* track you. #privacy #selfhosted
We’re reaching the next stage of internet maturity; one where only large, incumbent players can truly win in #media.#privacy #future #technology #news #economy venturebeat.com/2019/04/06/goo…
Consumers will soon need to decide exactly how much faith they want to place in these companies to build out the internet of tomorrow. We need to decide carefully, too; these are the same companies that are gaining access to a seemingly ever-increasing share of our private lives.
https://hackaday.com/2019/03/13/google-communities-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ #google #socialmedia #degooglisation #gafam #informatique #internet #degafamisation #geek #geekeries
Google+ is dead. Granted people have been saying that much for years now, but this time it’s really true. As of April, Google’s social media experiment will officially go the way of Reader, Buzz, Wave, Notebook, and all the other products that the search giant decided they were no longer interested in maintaining. Unfortunately in the case of Google+, the shutdown means losing a lot of valuable content that was buried in the “Communities” section of the service. Or at least that’s what we all thought.
Thanks to the efforts of [Michael Johnson], many of those Google+ communities now have a second chance at life. After taking a deep dive into the data from his own personal Google+ account, he realized it should be possible to write some code that would allow pulling the content out of Google’s service and transplanting it into a Discourse instance. With some more work, he was even able to figure out how to preserve the ownership of the comments and posts. This is no simple web archive; you can actually log into Discourse with your Google account and have all of your old content attributed to you.
To date, [Michael] has managed to transplant over 40,000 posts and around 270,000 comments into “The Maker Forums“. With a few more weeks until the lights officially go out over at Google+, he says there’s still time to scrape more data out of the service if anyone has suggestions on maker-related content that they think is worthy of preservation. Of course, as all the code for the project as been released as open source, there’s still hope for the non-technical Communities should anyone want to spearhead the effort to duplicate those as well.
Browsing through the cloned Communities, it’s impressive how well everything has transitioned. Discourse doesn’t have Google’s Material Design flair (though whether that’s a bad thing or not depends on the individual’s taste) and lacks some features such as generating previews for links, but all the content is preserved and that’s ultimately what really matters.
When we first brought you word that Google+ was being shuttered, we were specifically concerned about the fate of the technical communities which had flourished on the platform. When companies turn their back on consumers, it can feel like we’re powerless. But efforts like this show the community can take the power back if they’re willing to put in the effort.
[Thanks to Anthony for the tip.]
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