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Search results for tag #google

[?]☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 »
@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange

“Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s mode.

Users alleged that ’s analytics, cookies and apps let the unit improperly people who set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “ mode.”

Dirtbags

<theguardian.com/technology/202>

    [?]Niklas Pivic »
    @pivic@kolektiva.social

    When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh

    A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

    'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

    But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

    Don't use Google for search.

      [?]Niklas Pivic »
      @pivic@kolektiva.social

      @pluralistic This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:

      'Once Google stops growing, it becomes a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price. This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.

      Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth.'

        [?]omg! ubuntu »
        @omgubuntu@floss.social

        ICMYI: Google has said it is 'combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform'.

        omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/is-chr

          [?]Metin Seven 🎨 »
          @metin@graphics.social

          Interesting read…

          𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 (𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝘿𝙪𝙘𝙠𝘿𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙂𝙤)

          simpleanalytics.com/blog/googl

            Wen boosted

            [?]Jérémy -Jeey- »
            @jeeynet@framapiaf.org

            Search engines in a nutshell

            jeey.net/google.html

            Name : Google - URL : 🤬 - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : YOLO - Engine : google - Paid service : No
Name : Bing (Microsof) - URL : 🤢 - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : YOLO - Engine : bing - Paid service : No
Name : ZoTop (Zaclys) - URL : zotop.zaclys.com - Ads : No - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : google, bing, etc. (configurable) - Paid service : No
Name : Brave Search - URL : search.brave.com - Ads : No - AI : Yes - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Brave Search - Paid service : No
Name : Qwant - URL : qwant.com - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : No
Name : Duckduckgo - URL : duckduckgo.com - Ads : Yes (can be disable) - AI : Not by default - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing and others - Paid service : No
Name : Swisscows - URL : swisscows.com - Ads : Yes (not for subscribers) - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : Optional
Name : StartPage - URL : startpage.com - Ads : Yes - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Google - Paid service : No
Name : Mojeek - URL : mojeek.com - Ads : No - AI : Yes (specific tab) - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Mojeek - Paid service : No
Name : Ecosia - URL : ecosia.org - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : No
Name : Mullvad Leta - URL : leta.mullvad.net - Ads : No - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Google, Brave - Paid service : No

            Alt...Name : Google - URL : 🤬 - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : YOLO - Engine : google - Paid service : No Name : Bing (Microsof) - URL : 🤢 - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : YOLO - Engine : bing - Paid service : No Name : ZoTop (Zaclys) - URL : zotop.zaclys.com - Ads : No - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : google, bing, etc. (configurable) - Paid service : No Name : Brave Search - URL : search.brave.com - Ads : No - AI : Yes - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Brave Search - Paid service : No Name : Qwant - URL : qwant.com - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : No Name : Duckduckgo - URL : duckduckgo.com - Ads : Yes (can be disable) - AI : Not by default - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing and others - Paid service : No Name : Swisscows - URL : swisscows.com - Ads : Yes (not for subscribers) - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : Optional Name : StartPage - URL : startpage.com - Ads : Yes - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Google - Paid service : No Name : Mojeek - URL : mojeek.com - Ads : No - AI : Yes (specific tab) - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Mojeek - Paid service : No Name : Ecosia - URL : ecosia.org - Ads : Yes - AI : Yes - Privacy : Not so much - Engine : Bing - Paid service : No Name : Mullvad Leta - URL : leta.mullvad.net - Ads : No - AI : No - Privacy : Respected - Engine : Google, Brave - Paid service : No

              [?]Niklas Pivic »
              @pivic@kolektiva.social

              Google is tracking you even when you use DuckDuckGo simpleanalytics.com/blog/googl

              'Think DuckDuckGo keeps you safe from Google? Well think again. A new study shows that even with a privacy-focused search engine, Google's trackers follow you around the web (mostly through analytics, ads, and video embeds). The research by SafetyDetectives compares four countries and reveals just how hard it is to avoid Google online.'

                [?]bananabob :tinoflag: »
                @bananabob@mastodon.nz

                @billbennett @lightweight @podsrover Came across this on Mastodon. It may help.

                ioc.exchange/@Avitus/114820977

                But what alternative is there? I am no keen on Apple.

                  [?]Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ » 🤖
                  @Blort@social.tchncs.de

                  @nextcloud @petrisch @unifiedpush @Matomo

                  "We do not use Google trackers on our website"

                  I checked with uBlock origin the day I posted that, and it was blocking 2 items from Google. Checking now I see Matomo instead, so thank you.

                  "we have our eye on publishing our videos on PeerTube in the future"

                  Why "in the future"? Tilvids confirmed they'd be happy to host you. I've offered to set up YouTube mirroring free of charge. There is no cost to you beyond giving permission, and yet I've been calling with no response for years.

                  "please do share an issue on GitHub"
                  2020: github.com/nextcloud/android/i
                  2021: github.com/nextcloud/android/i
                  github.com/nextcloud/android/i
                  github.com/nextcloud/android/i
                  2022: github.com/nextcloud/android/i
                  2023: github.com/nextcloud/android/i

                  There are more.

                    [?]Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ » 🤖
                    @Blort@social.tchncs.de

                    @petrisch @nextcloud

                    Here's the thing. I don't even begrudge Nextcloud posting videos to YouTube. The part I have a problem with is that they say they're promoting decentralization, yet after all these years they refuse to post to any alternative.

                    Similarly, they provide no option to use @unifiedpush , but *only* allow Googles Firebase for notifications.

                    Using Google trackers on the website is pretty ridiculous though when such high quality alternatives exist, such as @Matomo .

                    They also never bother to explain WHY they continue to ignore all of these things that so obviously go against the values they supposedly stand for, Just crickets to any questions and more promotional videos / blog posts.

                      [?]Hippo 🍉 »
                      @badrihippo@fosstodon.org

                      @aral wow. Another reason to avoid (and related sites like that I learnt recently some people don't realise is affiliated to the genocidal advertising-centric wannabe monopoly)

                        [?]Su_G »
                        @Su_G@aus.social

                        @nixCraft

                        Oh yeah? As independently verified by whom? 😐
                        “ According to Google: AI now writes 50% of the code at 😱 ”

                          [?]nixCraft 🐧 »
                          @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                          According to Google: AI now writes 50% of the code at 😱 research.google/blog/ai-in-sof I wonder how Chromium/Chrome/Android and other software will look in 5 years ?

                          A screenshot showing AI usage in software engineering at Google which is almost 50% now.

                          Alt...A screenshot showing AI usage in software engineering at Google which is almost 50% now.

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                            [?]Spytfyre »
                            @spytfyre@mastodon.scot

                            I asked news app not to say doctor strike on their and change it to
                            And they actually did so!
                            Quickly!!!
                            If you haven't checked out:
                            ground.news/
                            yet I recommend you do
                            News aggregator (but I needed to ditch ) and it shows the bias and political leaning split of spun sources which is fun. If you subscribe the highest level does on and outlets so you know where salt pinch/mountain is a help

                              [?]Tuta »
                              @Tutanota@mastodon.social

                              🚨Today increases prices by ~20% 🚨

                              ❤️ While we offer 50% discount. ❤️

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

                              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

                              Alt...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

                                [?]GeneBean »
                                @genebean@fosstodon.org

                                I'm bummed that doesn't let messages function on

                                  [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                  @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                  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

                                    [?]Beardy Star Stuff »
                                    @dennyhenke@social.coop

                                    "The intent of proprietary computing is that everything users do should come under the dictates of the owners of the code...

                                    You can agree to your own subjugation, that’s your choice. It may seem more convenient. It may seem comfortable. It may even seem pleasurable and safe. But in the end, you’re handing over your own fate."

                                    +

                                    beardystarstuff.net/posts/2025

                                      [?]JdeBP »
                                      @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk

                                      @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 . (-:

                                        [?]Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ » 🤖
                                        @Blort@social.tchncs.de

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

                                        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.

                                          [?]Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy: »
                                          @joel@fosstodon.org

                                          How about no

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

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

                                            mhoye boosted

                                            [?]Tuta »
                                            @Tutanota@mastodon.social

                                            ⚠️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 now: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g

                                            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."

                                            Alt...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."

                                              [?]Rich Stein (he/him) »
                                              @RunRichRun@mastodon.social

                                              On July 7 — tomorrow — Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.
                                              tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g

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                                                Tommi 🤯 boosted

                                                [?]Tommi 🤯 »
                                                @tommi@pan.rent

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

                                                What should I get instead?

                                                For sure I will have to deGoogle my new device, either installing, , , or .

                                                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)

                                                Wait for August and get a Pixel 10:12
                                                Get a Pixel 9:12
                                                Wait for August and get a Pixel 9 for less money:28
                                                Get a Fairphone Gen. 6:76
                                                Other (comment below):6

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                                                  [?]Gina »
                                                  @Gina@fosstodon.org

                                                  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. ☁️

                                                  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

                                                  Alt...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

                                                    [?]Tuta »
                                                    @Tutanota@mastodon.social

                                                    ⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️

                                                    Stop now: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g

                                                    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."

                                                    Alt...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."

                                                      Aral Balkan boosted

                                                      [?]Aral Balkan »
                                                      @aral@mastodon.ar.al

                                                      “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…

                                                      huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocau

                                                      infosec.exchange/@onrust/11477

                                                        [?]Sy Taffel »
                                                        @sy@mastodon.nz

                                                        Having slogged through Google's 2025 Environmental Report, here's my summary...

                                                        (all figures are changes from 2023-2024)

                                                        Scope 2 location-based GHG emissions up from 9,252,900 - 11,283,200 tCO2e

                                                        Scope 3 GHG emissions up from 10,794,000 - 12,053,000 tCO2e

                                                        Total Energy Consumption up from 25,910,500 - 32,727,800 MWh

                                                        Total waste generated up from 52,000 - 58,500 metric tons

                                                        Water consumption up from 6,352 - 8135 million gallons.

                                                        So given that they're significantly worse on every major indicator, you might be wondering how Google spins this as 'driving sustainable innovation' (p4) and a 12% reduction in datacentre emissions (p4)...

                                                        The answer is that they're buying more electricity under Power Purchase Agreements - meaning that increasing amounts of renewable energy isn't used for decarbonisation, instead they're used to power the growth in AI and datacentre capacity.

                                                        This, alongside the focus on efficiency metrics that obfuscate the growing energy and resource demands of Big Tech needs to be recognised as corporate greenwash that is driving climate change, not fixing it

                                                        sustainability.google/google-2

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                                                          [?]sam »
                                                          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                                          Fediverse, I have a rant I need to get off my chest. Groups in Google Workspace is a security nightmare and has been for years! Why has Google STILL not fixed the glaring problems!?

                                                          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...


                                                          Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

                                                          Alt...Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for team mode

                                                          Screenshot of the default Google Group settings for public mode

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                                                            Terence Eden boosted

                                                            [?]Terence Eden »
                                                            @Edent@mastodon.social

                                                            🆕 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: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/conta

                                                              [?]Paco Hope #resist »
                                                              @paco@infosec.exchange

                                                              @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 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 will hold us back technologically because it can’t adapt.

                                                              Wait until someone like or 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

                                                                [?]Samantha Xavia »
                                                                @sam@bikersgo.social

                                                                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

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