🚨Today #Google increases prices by ~20% 🚨

❤️ While we offer 50% discount. ❤️

✅ Check out Tuta Mail & Tuta Calendar: http://tuta.com/goeuropean

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Screenshot of an article: Google: The Largest Increase of the Group Google Workspace made the most dramatic pricing move. Prices increased 17-22% across all plans, with the popular Business Standard plan rising 16% from $14.40 to $16.80 per user per month. Screenshot of info email from Google: Upcoming price changes for Google Workspace The price of your Google Workspace Business Standard subscription will be increasing on or after Jul 09, 2025

I'm bummed that #Google doesn't let #RCS messages function on #LineageOS

Folks complaining about #google AI overviews...

Why the frick are you still using google search in 2025?

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Yes, I literally turned Jackie Chan into WTF for this. You're not welcome. Apologies to Jackie.

#StartPage #DDG #Clew #Mojeek #Marginalia #ThereClapAreClapSoClapManyClapOtherClapOptionsClap

@tdp_org @richwareham

In theory, you can take all of those Google site verifications and use HTML files in the root of the served-up tree. At least, that's how I did it over a decade ago, and it seems to be still working. Which is always a plus when it comes to #Google. (-:

#GoogleSearchConsole

@nextcloud releases a new video / blogpost for Nextcloud Talk for #DataControl.

The blog post embeds Google trackers.

The video can *only* be watched on a Google surveillance platform.

The app depends on Google / Apple for notifications.

Does anyone else see the problem here? None of these are necessary.

#Nextcloud #Privacy #Google #Talk #YouTube

How about no

#AI #Google #Gemini #NoAI

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Email notification, from Google, it says "Welcome to Gemini"

⚠️Today Gemini starts scanning your phone ⚠️

We've updated this blog post with recommendations from the @Mastodon community. Learn:

👉 How to disable Gemini
👉 How to deinstall Gemini

And why @GrapheneOS @LineageOS and others are better in the first place.

Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

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Screenshot of the email Google sent with a headline "We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" next to text, "NO THANKS! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android on the Tuta blog."

On July 7 — tomorrow — Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.
https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
#GeminiAI #Google #Android #PrivacyMatters #privacy #NoPrivacy

My mum completely destroyed her Pixel 3, it’s time to get her a new phone. I am thinking about gifting her my #Fairphone5.

What should I get instead?

For sure I will have to deGoogle my new device, either installing, #LineageOS, #CalyxOS, or #GrapheneOS.

My top priorities:

1. A SMALL DEVICE AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE
2. a very good camera, ideally with 2× optical zoom
3. long-lasting battery (with a custom ROM)
4. As much stability and reliability as I can get

(note: Pixel 10 is supposed to launch in August)

#Pixel #Google #Fairphone #smartphone #Android #poll

Was nice to watch our famous @bert_hubert give a talk to my org about the dangers of putting Dutch national gov tech in American cloud platforms. ☁️

#cloud #microsoft #google #aws

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Bert Hubert in front of a room full of people, a big powerpoint next to him, giving a talk to my coworkers about the dangers of our national gov tech and data being hosted in American clouds, and possible alternatives

⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️

Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

#GeminiAI #Google #Android #PrivacyMatters

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Screenshot of the email Google sent with a headline "We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device" next to text, "NO THANKS! Learn how to disable Gemini on Android on the Tuta blog."

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

The more things change…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691

#IBM #Holocaust #BigTech #SiliconValley #Google #Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid #settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicity https://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881

@film_girl I’m not sure which service you’re referring to but for me this (~$300) is now appropriately the annual amount that #google hosted G-Suite costs my family.*

*Which had been, literally, free since joining the beta in ~2008, only recently having started the payment extortion.

“Nice family hosting domain you’ve got there. It’d be a shame should anything bad happen to it…”

After the #Microsoft frenzy last week and the #Apple disaster yesterday, on today's menu is the @EUCommission #DMA compliance workshop with #Alphabet #Google.

What should I do?

Yay #Google goes full in, claiming the #DMA would make Europeans "second class citizens" on Android 😆

And they do the same thing #Apple did yesterday: counting the number of meetings with regulators and other stakeholders in n attempt of proving good will. Still think this rather raises the question how the heck Google can still be non-compliant after all that engagement. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Blah blah blah I'm gonna spare you the list of unsubstantiated bollocks claims by #Google lobbyists like "Europeans already pay more for flights because they can't use Google to find the cheapest." or "We had 3,000 engineers working 2 years full time to be compliant." and the like rather than explaining to us why we still cannot uninstall the Chrome browser.... 🙄

Hmmm, so #Google lobbyists claim "All apps on Android can be uninstalled" but from my testing on #Android 16 with all latest updates on a #Pixel this appears to be false.

Google's own #DMA compliance report from March 2025 says this is wrong:

"Android allows to uninstall apps by: (i) fully deleting apps that are downloaded or pre-installed in the user partition; and (ii) uninstalling apps in the system partition such that they are returned into an uninstalled state."

https://storage.googleapis.com/transparencyreport/report-downloads/pdf-report-bb_2024-3-7_2025-3-6_en_v1.pdf

OK so now @beuc explicitly asks the question on the lack of uninstallation and I followed up here in the room to press #Google on how they keep on pretending disabling apps was the same as removing/uninstalling them and somehow enough for #DMA compliance.

Google's answer: Nothing in combination with lies: they say if an app is disabled, only "remnants of code" remain on the device (wrong) and that "if you remove an app from the Android system partition, the OS breaks" (also wrong). 😠

Excellent online question by @GrapheneOS calling out #Google for selling "payment integrity" as security feature while using it to achieve vendor lock-in.

Google answer: None. Again. @article19's attempt to follow up was denied for sake of time. 😠

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct

OK coffee break is over here at the @EUCommission #DMA compliance workshop with #Alphabet #Google.

Next up: #AI

Google lobbyist starts off with a just slightly off definition of what AI is: she says it's technology that "thinks, learns and takes decisions".

Sounds more like what they would *like* the tech to be capable off... 😉

#Google keeps on saying "AI is omnipresent" and "it's not going away we need to deal with it", and I want to shout IT'S ONLY OMNIPRESENT BECAUSE YOU DELIBERATELY MADE IT SO !!1! 😆

I've had admin powers at 5+ companies' Google Workspace/G Suite over the past decade or so. Every single one had groups which were misconfigured, often so anyone in the whole company could join without approval or see the message history at https://groups.google.com without being a member at all.

This is because for any sensible configuration of Google Groups when using it for email groups you have to use the "Custom" permissions mode. The default Public mode doesn't allow external people to email the group, but does allow the whole company to see all the messages. The default Team mode, has the same problem of everyone being able to see all the messages.

Also let's not forget that dangerous little "Anyone in the organisation can join" toggle at the bottom which is on by default. So any random new starter can join your confidential company directors group and get all the emails sent to it.

Giving Google the benefit of the doubt here, I think the reasoning might be that Google Groups is intended as a kind of company forum, not for private email groups. However that isn't how anyone uses it in my experience...

#security #infosec #google #googleworkspace

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Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

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🆕 blog! “Contactless Payments with GrapheneOS”

Google's monopolistic stranglehold on Android results in poor experience for power-users, and artificially restricts choice for those who have older phones. For example, Google Wallet is the de facto way to use NFC payments on Android. There's one problem though - it only works with Google's Android. If you have…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/
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#android #google #GrapheneOS #nfc

@pleaseclap The more I think about my own suggestion the more I see bad side effects like you mention.

You know who else will get caught in the crossfire? Those project maintainers. They already field “bug reports” because AI wrote code that doesn’t work and the poor vibe coder assumes it’s a problem in the project not a problem in their AI assistant.

This also demonstrates how #LLMs are an anti-innovation force in technology. If you change something that makes AI-generated code stop working (or make AI generate non-working code more frequently) you will get pressure. Users will ask you to build compatibility shims, keep old versions of API endpoints online, etc. Because people dependent on the content of the training data won’t be able to cope with life moving on and invalidating the training data.

The #LLM will hold us back technologically because it can’t adapt.

Wait until someone like #Google or #AWS tries to deprecate a language runtime like Python 3.10 or Node 20 in their serverless offerings when the time comes. There will be SO much code that LLMs generate that references the retired runtimes. And people won’t know why it doesn’t work. The tech companies will be pressured to keep old stuff online because the people whose job it is to maintain the software can’t cope with fundamental change like that

Just finished PewDiePie's latest Video: "I'm DONE with Google"

Going into it I was hoping that he discovered the Decentralized Web with things like Mastodon or even PeerTube but overall amazing video showing off DeGoogling, I do wonder if he will eventually discover PeerTube and things, along with if he does if he'd even actually host his own instance for his videos but I dealt it due to there's not really money in moving across to the Fediverse for creators like that.

I still highly suggest the video either way.

https://youtu.be/u_Lxkt50xOg?si=Tl8RQuFe4QV6gijY

#PewDiePie #Felix #Linux #LinuxMobile #DeGoogle #Google

hi #permacomputers, #hackers, #bricoleurs

Starting to tinker with old/disused smartphones to self-host. However, upon buying a couple second-hand phones, I'm often faced with Google's FRP protection: you can only use the phone by connecting to the previous owner's google account. Factory reset doesn't solve this.
Do you have any trustworthy resources on bypassing this? terminal tools? forums?
Seems essentials to increase phone's lifespan.

thankssss

#permacomputing #google #frp #postmarketOS

Always a bit nerve-wracking doing this - I had to sacrifice the contents of the SD-card which was a load of music (I have it backed up elsewhere) for the #VW #MIB2 #firmware update - but it all went through OK - it does seem Android Auto is disconnecting and resetting less on the new firmware but this might only be because I'm keeping an eye on the device battery levels - it tends to act up when the phone reaches 80% charge which I've set on "battery care" - lots of #cars have the same problem (not only VW) and neither the manufacturers nor #Google seem to be able to stop it.

I've got the car's built in #navi as a backup (but I don't get speed warnings nor real time traffic, as VW abandoned this service after 3G was ceased in many countries)

#CarMaintenance

I'm so tired of this 😒

#Google #Gemini #AIBubble

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Google saying that from now on Gemini will "help me" (fuck my life) use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp and Utilities (literal quote) "whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off".

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

There is only one Google service left that I need to replace and then I will be free of Google. And I think @jottacloud will replace that last service. I created a free 5GB account to see if the service will work for me and it's working brilliantly. Not based in the US, secure, privacy-focused, and powered by 100% green energy. I'll be upgrading to a premium plan.

#cloud #google #googlefree

Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says.

@axios reports that Matthew Prince "said Cloudflare is working on a new tool that will stop content scraping."

https://flip.it/yEnJh5

#AI #Google #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #Cloudflare #Tech #Media #Journalism

The disclosure post was published today, June 20. The intrusion was "detected" on June 12. But nowhere does it say WHEN the intrusion began. And the company probably doesn't even know that yet.

"Preliminary findings indicate that the unauthorized party used social engineering tactics to gain access to our network."

"Potentially impacted files contain claims information, health information, social security numbers, and/or other personal information, related to customers, beneficiaries, employees, agents, and other individuals in our U.S. business."

The Record: Aflac says it stopped attack launched by ‘sophisticated cybercrime group’ https://therecord.media/aflac-cyberattack-potential-data-breach @therecord_media @jgreig #cybersecurity #Infoec #Google

Posted today, Aflac Incorporated Discloses Cybersecurity Incident https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aflac-incorporated-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-302487036.html?tc=eml_cleartime

> Pixel 9, Android 16: "Do you want to merge these contacts?"

Yes, I'd like you to merge them, not simply keep the one with the least amount of data while destroying the rest.

> phone: "Google Contacts merged successfully!" 🫠

You just did the exact thing I didn't want you to do... wtf. This isn't even Gemini's fault this time, Ai tools can do this correctly, even a five line python script can do a better job than this. sed and awk can do a better job than this! 🫥

* ver: 16-BP31.250523.006
* kernel 6.1.129-android14-11-g4cadbfbbe186-ab13408047 \#1 Fri Apr 25 02:03:44 UTC 2025

#thanksIhateIt #programming #android #google #wtf #developer #beta