"Google snažil uzavřít dohody s mobilními operátory, aby získal silné výchozí pozice ve smartphonech a ovládl v nich vyhledávání. Tvrdí také, že #Google platil deset miliard dolarů ročně bezdrátovým společnostem, jako je AT&T, výrobcům zařízení, jako je Apple, a výrobcům prohlížečů, jako je #mozilla aby se zbavil konkurentů a udržel si podíl na trhu s vyhledávači."

Jestli to projedou tak to možná bude poslední hřebíček do rakve pro #firefox :D

Tip for #android users:

If you search for simple utility apps on #google's play store it will almost always give you a bunch of options that contain ads or ask for unnecessary permissions.

F-Droid is an alternative app store for android devices which exclusively lists apps published under the AGPL (a #copyleft / free-software / open-source license). It's possible to install F-Droid on a normal Android OS via its APK, but that can be intimidating.

Most of the apps on F-Droid are *also* available on the play store. So, even if you aren't ready to fully switch out of Google's ecosystem, you can still use F-Droid's search as a better way to find options that are (in my experience) free of ads and surveillance.

Each app features a page which links to their source code, which usually has a README file, which usually points to their page on the play store.

f-droid.org/

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

^f-droid.org

I wish there was a decent Google maps replacement. Not just for navigation--that's fairly simple--but rather for local SEARCH. How else are you supposed to search for stuff nearby? Yelp is the only alternative I even know of and it's terrible. Nextdoor is arguably a contender but it's even worse. Nothing community driven whatsoever that I'm aware of...

#Google #degoogle #maps

Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach

Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.

Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.

Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEngines

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach

Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.

^{Vincent Schmalbach}

Leute, wenn ihr eure Privatsphäre wenigstens ein bisschen schützen wollt, dann benutzt Werbe- und Trackingblocker [3]. Gegen solche Szenarien wie »Databroker Files« [2] kann man sich schon relativ einfach schützen. [1] 👇

[1] kuketz-blog.de/android-werbung…
[2] netzpolitik.org/2024/databroke…
[3] kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…

#tracking #dsgvo #advertisingid #google #apple #android #ios

Databroker Files: Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland

Datenhändler verbreiten die Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland – teils sogar kostenlos, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR zeigen.

^{netzpolitik.org}

»Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland«. Seit Jahren erwähne ich in fast jedem Artikel, in dem es um Tracking und Android-Apps geht, dass die Google Advertising-ID ein personenbeziehbares Datum ist. Dies wurde nun erneut eindrucksvoll bewiesen. 👇

Weg aus der Misere: Verwendet googlefreie Systeme wie #GrapheneOS und nutzt Werbe- und Trackingblocker.

netzpolitik.org/2024/databroke…

kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…

#tracking #dsgvo #advertisingid #google #apple #android #ios

Databroker Files: Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland

Datenhändler verbreiten die Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland – teils sogar kostenlos, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR zeigen.

^{netzpolitik.org}

Computer hardware maker #Zotac exposed customers' RMA info on Google Search

Misconfiguration of permissions folders holding customer info related to RMAs have been indexed by search engines like #Google. As a result, it has shown up on SERPs.

Information leaked includes invoices, addresses, and contact information.

Fun fact: Security Misconfiguration is number 6 on the OWASP Top 10 Web app Security Risks.

#databreach #security #cybersecurity

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

🔥🚨 #AI energy consumption keeps rising so #Google drops claims of being carbon neutral.

At Tuta we are committed to making the web better, more #sustainable and more #private! 💪

👉 tuta.com/sustainability

👉 Read full story here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. But new research suggests that the models aren’t, in fact, very good at those things. “While models like Gemini 1.5 Pro can technically process long contexts, we have seen many cases indicating that the models don’t actually ‘understand’ the content,” Marzena Karpinska, a postdoc at UMass Amherst. TechCrunch has more: flip.it/wW5pRm
#Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Gemini

Follow @Techcrunch for more breaking tech news and analysis.

Sparito da #Google, il Caso #Tutamail e il Potere Invisibile dei Grandi e il DMA #1274 - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=_MbK03f0XZ…

#Tuta #Tutanota @Tutanota

Sparito da Google: il Caso Tutamail e il Potere Invisibile dei Grandi e il DMA #1274

Un servizio di posta elettronica criptata, Tutamail, sparisce improvvisamente dai risultati di ricerca di Google per due mesi. Come è possibile che una singo...

^YouTube

Ready to break #Google's monopoly?

#Chrome Manifest V3 is here to stop you from blocking ads.

Here are great alternatives:

✅ #Firefox
✅ #Duckduckgo
✅ @torproject
✅ More options: tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

Which one did you pick?

Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers

When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.

^Tutanota

On this day five years ago, I learned about the #Google #libcurl fork named libcrurl (!).

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/06/19…

(old blog post)

It was subsequently cancelled and never got anywhere.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Tuta Mail's #Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions

Read more:
👉 tuta.com/blog/unchecked-power-…

YouTube makes #ads unskippable!

#Google is planning to start merging ads into #YouTube before they leave the server 🙈

Is it even possible to enjoy YouTube without ads? Check out our wrap-up here 👉 tuta.com/blog/youtube-adblock-…

#adblocker #annoyingads #privacymatters

Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?

And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?

And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?

It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.

jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.ht…

"Google’s DMA compliance plan is a sham. […] If Apple’s proposal was a slap in the face, Google’s is a middle finger — both to the European Commission and to you."

proton.me/blog/google-bundling…

#Google #DMA #monopoly #gatekeeper

Google’s DMA compliance plan is a sham

Google is defying the EU Commission and refusing to give people more control over how they use their Android phones.

^{Andy Yen (Proton)}

The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine…

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome

Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

^Servo

Google operated on the social contract of providing traffic to sites in exchange for content. Now that #Google is switching to #AI answers synthesized from the content and effectively cutting traffic is there even a point in participation?

Google will keep bringing load to the sites without providing any traffic.

I suspect we are about to see first robots.txt snippets banning Google crawlers like other AI bots really soon. And eventually outright banning Google ips altogether.

I wonder whether we’re also about to see a surge of old-school search engines. With modern technology it’s feasible to run a small search engine from a living room (e. g. kukei.eu) on an off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. It doesn’t take the whole Google to operate a decade-old (feature wise) Google search engine. It might be feasible to run a good search engine on small resources that can be paid by simple ads or small subscriptions.

platformer.news/google-io-ai-s…

Google’s broken link to the web

With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background

^{Casey Newton (Platformer)}

New blog post: Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak.

A leak of all of Google’s 14,000 ranking factors recently hit the news. I go over some of the ones that people are eyeing more closely, and end with a cold shower to cool down some of the misleading hype from the SEO industry.

Excerpt:

We only have API documentation. We don’t know about any hidden knowledge, whether any of these factors have a ranking weight of “zero”, whether any of these conditionally apply, which are only used internally for testing…Serious conclusions drawn from this leak are, to some degree, speculation.

#Google #SearchEngines #Blog

Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak

My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

Thank you to whoever made youwouldntsteala.website/edito… 🙌

#Google #AI #Memes

23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️

heise.de/news/Bing-DuckDuckGo-…

#ZerschlagtDieMonopole #microsoft #google #bing #duckduckgo #qwant #ecosia #startpage

Bing, DuckDuckGo und weitere Suchmaschine nicht erreichbar

Einige Suchmaschinen, die nicht Google sind, funktionieren derzeit nicht. Betroffen sind Bing, DuckDuckGo und Ecosia.

^{Eva-Maria Weiß (heise online)}

Kleine #Erinnerung

#Google#WerbeID loeschen!

docsify-this.net/?basePath=raw…
#digitalSelbstbestimmt#digitalePrivatsphäre#Android#Smartphone

Docsify-This

Instantly turn online Markdown files into standalone Web pages.

^{docsify-this.net}

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Die #ElsterSecure - sicherer Login #App
wurde laut #Google#Play schon mehr als 1 Mio mal heruntergeladen.

Aber es scheint bisher keine einzige Analyse auf #Exodus#Privacy zu geben...

reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#digtialSelbstbestimmt#digitalePrivatsphäre#Steuer#Elster

ElsterSecure - sicherer Login – Apps bei Google Play

Mit ElsterSecure können Sie sich komfortabel und sicher in MeinElster einloggen.

^{play.google.com}

#Android is getting an AI-powered #scam call detection feature

Will be powered by Gemini Nano, which #Google says can be run locally and offline to process "fraudulent language and other conversation patterns typically associated with scams" and push real-time alerts during calls where detected red flags are present.

It will be opt-in, but Gemini Nano is currently only supported on Google Pixel 8 Pro and Samsung S24 series devices.

#cybersecurity #security

theverge.com/2024/5/14/2415621…

Android is getting an AI-powered scam call detection feature

Google is testing a new call monitoring feature that warns users if the person they’re talking to is likely attempting to scam them and encourages them to end such calls.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...

Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, **without us**. ChromeVox has barely been updated in *years*, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.

"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...

First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.

And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.

blog.google/outreach-initiativ…

#Accessibility #blind #google #ChromeOS #Chromebook #ChromeVox #GAAD

How we’re building accessibility into our Chromebooks around the world

Read about our partnerships in Kenya that bring Chromebooks to low vision and blind children, and learn more about new Chromebook updates for Global Accessibility Awaren…

^{Sara Basson (Google)}

Google’s Gemini AI is coming to #Gmail, whether you like it or not. 🤖

Will you use this new feature - at the price of giving #Google all your data?
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai…

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@invidious

For reference - below are Invidious main links and the different usages that I give to people as 'better links' thank the advert-using youtube.com youtu.be etc - people get a message from me with some of these links to start better advert-free practices with same exact video but no adverts:

redirect.invidious.io

= Advert-free Servers / Choose Geographic Regions (some show most popular videos on landing page and search box):

or redirect example for video:

redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=…

or individual instance example for video:

yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=MFu97l2uvH…

or channel example :

yt.cdaut.de/channel/UCnrIeerJC…

Enjoy ! #NoAds #Adverts #Google #YouTube #Video

Roger Hallam

Hi. I'm Roger. I'm a farmer turned revolutionary. I co-founded Extinction Rebellion, Burning Pink, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil in an effort to save our society from collapse.

^Invidious

Sh*tf*ck 😳🔥😔

#ChatGPT consumes 25 times more #energy than #Google

"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (#AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
brusselstimes.com/world-all-ne…

ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google

"The negative impact of AI needs to be mitigated. Business leaders should be aware of the growing environmental impact of AI and take action."

^{www.brusselstimes.com}

#XMPP at #GSoC2024

XMPP project @prav: Standards compliant #SMS #OTP based #authentication

wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Pra…

#XMPP #jabber #chat #GSOC #Google
#interoperability #standards #android #java

#XMPP at #GSoC2024

XMPP project @Monal: Media Gallery

wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Mon…

#XMPP #jabber #chat #GSOC #Google #interoperability #standards #iOS #iPhone #Apple

#EducateMePlease
When #Google says it will save your #chats, does that include chats on the other #apps on your #phone like #Viber, #Tusky, #Slack, #LinkedIn, #Instagram, #email apps, etc?

Or is it just for #SMS and Google apps?

The Man Who Killed #Google #Search.

This guy is taking no prisoners. Even though we all have a good intuitive sense as to why Google has gone to shit, there has been something slippery about it. This article makes it all more concrete.

wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…

#enshittification #SmallWeb #web

The Man Who Killed Google Search

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

Thanks to the #DMA, #Google can not get away with their anti-competitive behavior! 💪

Read the full story on Google taking away 90% of Tuta's visibility:
➡️ tuta.com/blog/google-search-pr…

And what Google has to say to this on #Reuters
➡️reuters.com/technology/google-…

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…
Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

The Man Who Killed Google Search

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}

Google is crushing Tuta via search results.

Intentional or not, as a gatekeeper #Google must offer fair competition for our private email service Tuta Mail - a direct competitor to #Gmail.

Google must stop its abuse of power which is in violation of the EU #DMA.

👉 tuta.com/blog/google-search-pr…

#sadly you're not getting a similar response here as on #x. I actually put the entire text of your #metatag description into a #google #search...

On top was a link to your #app on #googleplay 🙄

BUT... I scrolled though many results... you're #NOT there... I mean serious, just not there.

Your #Mastodon account comes up well before anything remotely #tuta...

#discrimination comes in so many forms... seems people who speak the #truth are always beat down.

#justsaying #privacy #sad

Neue Zeile in der Messenger-Matrix ergänzt: »Unterstützte Push-Benachrichtigungsdienste«. Ich habe nicht zu jedem Messenger ausreichend Informationen gefunden, daher wäre es lieb ❤️ , wenn ihr dazu Feedback abgebt. Korrekturen nehme ich gerne vor. 👇

messenger-matrix.de/messenger-…

#push #google #apple #android #ios #fcm #apn #websocket #unifiedpush #ntfy