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#xmpp #google #ios #federation #gsoc #interoperability #MACOS #GSoC2023 #standards #swift #swiftui #objc @monal-im.org

#xmpp #google #federation #gsoc #interoperability #GSoC2023 #standards #xsf

When #GooglePlay introduced privacy labels, I was very curious to see how they managed to get reliable data about the #privacy properties of Android apps. I know first-hand how difficult and time-consuming privacy audits of #Android apps can be. Now Mozilla has taken a closer look, and it seems #Google doesn't even have reliable data.

foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog…


Mozilla Study: Data Privacy Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading

*Privacy Not Included researchers find discrepancies between Google Play Store’s Data Safety labels and privacy policies of nearly 80 percent of the reviewed apps
Mozilla Foundation
#android #google #privacy #googleplay

#google #tutanota

#android #google #privacy #surveillancecapitalism

The DoJ's lawsuit against Google for illegal monopolization of digital advertising dropped last week. It's a 150-page document :allthethings: #digitaladvertising #dataprivacy #Google #techpolicy

🆕 Here's my first attempt to unpack what is probably one of the most complete antitrust cases in ad tech of the last decade. My focus? 👀 How three ad pricing manipulation schemes described in the suit hurt publishers: techpolicy.press/how-google-ma…


How Google Manipulated Digital Ad Prices and Hurt Publishers, Per DOJ

Karina Montoya explores DOJ's complaint that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of digital advertising technologies.
Karina Montoya (Tech Policy Press)
#google #dataprivacy #techpolicy #digitaladvertising

While #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Twitter & #Amazon are laying off tens of thousands of people to satisfy shareholders, #Tutanota continues to grow.

Welcome with us Wren, Johannes & Noah! 🥳

Join us if you are a developer wanting to fight for #privacy!

tutanota.com/blog/posts/team-2…


Tutanota keeps growing: Welcome Noah, Johannes and Wren with us!

New year, new team members! With the start of 2023 we continue the growth of the Tutanota team: Welcome with us Wren, Johannes and Noah. All of these talented software developers are already working on improving our encrypted email client.
Tutanota
#google #privacy #microsoft #twitter #meta #tutanota #amazon

The lead attorney for GitHub arguing that #Copilot using #OpenSource is fair use following precedent from #Oracle Vs #Google is the woman who represented Oracle and personally argued against the verdict in public on Twitter.
reuters.com/legal/litigation/o…

OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code

Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit for improperly monetizing open-source code to train their artificial-intelligence systems cannot be sustained.
Reuters
#google #opensource #oracle #copilot

Outside of Europe, #Google's monopoly gets slammed by India too. The ruling says that:

- Google must allow alternative app stores (like F-Droid or ApkPure) on the Play Store. This is really the step zero for fair competition: give everybody the same visibility, and let users pick what they like.

- Google should not force Android providers to install its own apps in order to be a certified Android provider. Step one for fair competition: competition only works if none of the involved party starts from a position of advantage.

- Google should make the Play Store available also on Android forks. Step two for fair competition: if the competitors' stores are available on your store, then your store should also be available on the competitors' forks, and users eventually will pick what they like the most. All the distribution asymmetries should be removed.

This is a good and balanced ruling that aims to create a level playing field by removing all the bumps that, as of now, strongly consolidate Google's position of dominance.

And it's going to hit Google quite badly too: India is the largest global market for Android (arguably on par with China), and Google may be on its way to lose its unfair advantage there.

9to5google.com/2023/01/20/goog…


Play Store will be forced to allow third-party app stores

A ruling in India will force the Google Play Store to distribute third-party app stores as soon as January 2023.
Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
#google

SUPL-Server nutzen Android-Systeme, um die GPS-Positionsbestimmung zu beschleunigen. Stellt sich heraus, dass die Domain "supl.vodafone.com" nur ein CNAME für "supl.google.com" ist. 🤦

Man meint also, man würde einen etwas datenschutzfreundlicheren SUPL-Server nutzen, aber am anderen Ende hockt dann wieder Google. 😑

mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?a…

#android #supl #google #datenschutz #privacy


Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email

DNS and Network troubleshooting and diagnostic tools integrated into one sweet interface.
MxToolbox
#android #google #privacy #datenschutz #supl

#google #surveillancecapitalism #conference #cfp #peoplefarming #callforproposal

#xmpp #google #Jabber #gsoc #interoperability #standards #rtc

#playstore #google #fdroid #AppStore

#android #google #privacy #googlefree #noGoogle @SHIFTPHONES

#android #google #smartphones #werbung #standortdaten

"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. But the goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results.

In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want".

Quote: Sergey Brin / Larry Page, from the seminal 1998 paper that kickstarted the #PageRank algorithm - and #Google with it (see Appendix A).

Reading the paper that started it all after so many years is a quite interesting experience. 25 years ago they knew *exactly* what a search engine may have become if it chose the path of an ads-based business model. They were very aware of the conflict of interest that arises when you have to provide relevant results to the users, but also boost those that pay your bills.

In other words, were warning us about the risks of the business model that their own company eventually decided to embrace.

infolab.stanford.edu/pub/paper…

#google #PageRank

Back to #Firefox I go! Multi-Account Containers are a killer #privacy feature that only Firefox (and maybe derivatives) has access to.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

There's some helper add-ons to further silo #Facebook, #Twitter, and #Google. (That said, I use my own containers for Google to split my accounts)

Facebook: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Twitter: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Google: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…


Facebook Container – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Facebook Container for Firefox. Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.
addons.mozilla.org
#firefox #google #privacy #facebook #twitter

#google

Do you spot the trick?

This is a cookie banner shown before using Google search in some countries.

"Reject all" is a straightforward option. It appears in the same size and color as "accept all." It uses bullets, simple and concise language, and visualization. It has links for further info. So far, so good.

But there is a trick. Do you spot what is it?

#privacy #cybersecurity #securityawarenessmonth #google

Screenshot of the Google banner.
#google #privacy #cybersecurity #securityawarenessmonth

Are you serious right now? You do know what Google is, right? You do understand what their business model is? I thought NGI/NLnet was purportedly about finding and supporting *alternatives* to surveillance capitalists like Google, Meta, etc., not trying to improve their PR by perpetuating the myth that they’re generally a force for good who sometimes (often) make silly mistakes.

Do better.

#ngi #nextGenerationInternet #bigTech #google #surveillanceCapitalism #pr #NLnet

#google #nlnet #surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #PR #ngi #nextgenerationinternet

✨ ¡Acabo de hacer algo! 🎉

Revisa mi nuevo comic web: "Contra Chrome":

👉 contrachrome.com/946

Subtítulo: Cómo el navegador de #Google se convirtió en una amenaza para la #privacidad y para la #democracia.

Con las apariciones de Shoshana Zuboff, pirañas veganas, y todo lo que siempre quisiste saber sobre #Chrome pero tuviste miedo de preguntar.

Léelo y descargalo gratis - ¡Espero que te guste! 😊

Y si te gusta, ¡Por favor difúndelo! :boost_ok:

#cómic #cómics #novellagrafica

Portada de mi cómic "Contra Chrome". Se puede ver al narrador en medio de tres paneles, dispuestos como el logotipo del navegador Chrome. Dentro de estos paneles hay motivos del cómic: pestañas del navegador, iconos y páginas web con pies diminutos que se arrastran como insectos.
Un personaje de cómic que se parece un poco a la socióloga Shoshana Zuboff.
Dibujo cómico satírico de una piraña que parece el logotipo del navegador Google Chrome. Con los ojos semicerrados, emite un globo de diálogo que contiene el sonido "¡burp!".

Contra Chrome – a webcomic

contrachrome.com
#google #chrome #comics #comic #privacidad #democracia #novellagrafica

#google #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #fight4privacy #tutanota

#google #AI #activism #israel #bigtech #military

Over 50% of my YouTube ads are now scams. Very clear scams like "I am Elon Musk and here is my new cryptocurrency" or "Earn 1000 Euro every day by doing nothing". All hosted on temporary fake/hacked domains. At first I was reporting them but now I've given up. It's clear that Google doesn't even pretend to care.

#google #scam

Fake Elon Musk ad
#google #scam

Is it me or is #Google slowly removing accessibility support from #android #aosp apps?
I'm running android 12.1 and included calendar and keyboard are no longer accessible. Keyboard is not a problem for me, as I am using 3rd party braille keyboards either soft braille keyboard or the one included within corvus suite of apps.
However I am unable to find an accessible calendar app.
Etar is partially accessible, only the agenda view is useable with the screen reader.
Simple calendar has accessibility issues.
Have you got some more tips?
#android #aosp #google

#google #gnome #GUADEC #GUADEC2022 #supportopensource

#google #privacy

#xmpp #google #Jabber #gsoc #interoperability #xep #standards

#google #News #gdpr #europe

Comparing my oldest website bihlink.com with Yahoo and Google on archive .org back in 2003...

web.archive.org/web/2003040411…web.archive.org/web/2002090107…web.archive.org/web/2003072123…
Yes, i was creating web directory for #Bosnia and other #Balkan countries similar to #Yahoo back then, but #Google started DIRTY game soon after with PR (Page Rank) system and started punishing web directories as they call it "Link Farming" back then. Soon after i realized they want to remove biggest competitors out of game.

Not that i could compete with any of these two, but if that dirty game didn't start, today BiH Link would be really really BIG thing, at list in #Europe.

I was shocked back then that Google crawled only few pages from my domain which had about 200.000 pages back tehn and it was growing to over 800.000 web pages. But i was loosing so much traffic as Google were growing their influence and years after i was so angry and REMOVED whole database, even deleted backups 😥 SAD...

F. U. Google! 🖕
I believe that #decentralization and #Fediverse is future, one way or another, because we are getting fed up with Google playing BIG BROTHER and dictating whole interent, playing US with ever changing algorithms and killing real value of interent...

Yahoo!

web.archive.org
#google #fediverse #decentralization #europe #bosnia #balkan #yahoo

#google #copyright #bigtech #digitalrights

#google #privacy #security #surveillance #encrypted

#google #youtube #censorship #lesbian

#xmpp #google #Jabber #gsoc #interoperability #xep #standards @Gajim

#xmpp #google #dino #gsoc #communication #standards #conversejs #jingle

#google #privacy #HumanRights #tech #meta #privacywashing #institutionalcorruption #CPDP2022

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