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#Digitalcourage, OG #München:
F-Droid und datenschutzfreundliche Apps

» In diesem Workshop zeigen wir Möglichkeiten, die Datensammlung auf #Android-#Smartphone|s einzuschränken. Neben allgemeinen Tipps (Abschalten der #Google Werbe-ID, Verwendung einer alternativen #Suchmaschine, Werbung über DNS- und/oder Firewall-Einstellungen reduzieren, …) wollen wir vor allem den #App-Store #FDroid vorstellen und uns über die dortigen Apps austauschen.

Montag, 26.05.2025
19:00 bis 21:00 Uhr
Jugendinformationszentrum (#JIZ)
Sendlinger Str. 7 (Innenhof)
80331 München

digitalcourage.de/treffen-vor-…

Anmeldung erwünscht: ortsgruppe@muenchen.digitalcourage.de

Gerät mitbringen!

F-Droid möglichst vorinstallieren (digitalcourage.de/digitale-sel…)

#datenschutz #digitaleselbstverteidigung #opensource #foss

I've been using #DuckDuckGo for nine years, but today I looked at European alternatives. #Qwant has almost identical results and is probably based on #Bing, as is DDG. #Ecosia has different results and does not match either #Google or Bing. Both are acceptable as search engines.

But I miss the extra features, especially the conversions. Qwant has none and Ecosia only has currencies. I miss Bang!s too.

#search #SearchEngine

Well, Apple fixed the Messages rotor in the iOS Mail app. Now, I can read threads in Mail. And yet, with Gmail, well, there is no way to quickly navigate between messages in a thread. There are always third-party apps on Android, but a new user should definitely not need a more advanced mail client to easily navigate threaded mail.

#accessibility #blind #apple #google

Request to Google on accessibility

“I’m asking this massive company to stop releasing features & products & ideas that are obvious barriers.
And I want them to stop expecting free labor from the community.
It’s tiring, frustrating, and disrespectful.”

adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-r…

#a11y #accessibility #web #Google #GoogleIsEvil

My Request to Google on Accessibility

Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request.

^{Adrian Roselli}

#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.

It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).

And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.

This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.

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so they’re pushing for #Microsoft to pick up the bill from #Google or what?

When will #fsf or #kernel.org even just adopt and fork #firefox so we can have a truly open source and maintained browser for all?

We just don’t need or should want a #Mozilla *Corp* anymore imho…

GNOME Welcomes Its Google Summer of Code 2025 Contributors!

We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of GSoC 2025!

This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!

In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.

If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.

feborg.es/welcome-to-gnome-gso…

GNOME GSoC

Participate in Google Summer of Code with GNOME

^{gsoc.gnome.org}

Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.

viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/

#accessibility #blind #ai #ViewPoint #GeminiAI #google

Ah! I am horrified by how much data Google collects! 😱🤮
Just checked it in my Google account and 𝗶𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁!
This is an amazing @Tutanota article about the hungry Google monster. Also, very good links inserted!
tuta.com/blog/what-does-google…

#Google #techgiant #GoogleAI #privacy #privacyMatters #PrivacySettings #tuta #Tutanota

Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it! | Tuta

Ever thought ‘What does Google know about me?' the short answer – A LOT. But you can stop them from collecting more, here's how!

^Tuta

🚨 Google now displays #Ads in third-party AI 🚨 Just when you thought #Google ads couldn't get more annoying, it did 😅

Learn how to s top the ads here 👉 tuta.com/blog/block-gmail-ads

Ever wondered how much #Google knows about you? 👀

Spoiler: It's more than you think. Learn how to take back your privacy and stop the tracking

👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-google…

The decline is directly related to the AI turd that is being pushed out in Google search. It is not clear when I go to a website what is AI generated, AI curated and what is written by humans. And the results are pure thrash.

Goddamit #google I am not searching on Amazon or Ebay. I do not want to purchase something. I want information. If I want to buy something I would go to shopping.google.com

#search, #googlesearch, #improvesearch

🚨 Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 🥳

1 in 10 people actively choose NOT to use #Google. What's your favorite search engine?

Read more: 👉 tuta.com/blog/google-search-do…

We ❤️ #opensource - as much as we dislike #Google

Break free from Big Tech tracking, go secure! 💪 🔒

👉 tuta.com/blog/open-source-emai…

#foss #fdroid #android #email #calendar

Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.

The Chrome browser is one example.

While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.

👉 Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

👉 And check how to stop this tracking: tuta.com/blog/what-does-google…

#google #tracking

Okay, seriously, TalkBack image descriptions are amazing with memes! On r/emulationOnAndroid there's a meme titled "new phone". It's basically an old keypad cell phone, with a game controller put onto it, so the phone screen is in the middle between the two halves of the controller. And the text below the meme says, "So what games can I run on this?"

It's a hilarious meme to me, and I doubt VoiceOver's image classification image descriptions could describe it well enough for me to understand the meme.

#ai #Android #TalkBack #Google

Fuck #Google and the garbage imitation of IMAP that they foist on users & fuck their #SecurityTheater of demanding CASA audits of every IMAP client before they allow it to do OAuth2.

If you use #GMail (or Google Workspace) you are actively supporting the enclosure of #email. Google does not want independent standards-compliant MUAs to touch their mail system. Google wants all of its users using their shit web interface or their shoddy apps. They want to own your email.

#InfoSec #Rant

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🚨 Let's break up the #Google monopoly

Now is the time to choose a #private browser because Google must sell #Chrome 🥳

👉 Check the story: tuta.com/blog/google-must-sell…

There’s something very depressingly emblematic that Chrome Dev Tools’ annoying “Ask AI” sprinkles everywhere include one that pops up and *covers* the Accessibility Tree toggle.

#google #chrome #ai #accessibility

"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

therecord.media/google-refuses…

Sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech

Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government

U.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.

^{therecord.media}

I really like the backup function in #GrapheneOS based on #Seedvault. I know it doesn't work 100%, some apps don't support it etc. But in my case >90% of apps get backed up and restored.

This is what all Androids should have. I understand #Google doesn't want to do it because for them #Android is just a gateway to their services and when you have all your data in their cloud, you don't need such backups. But other Android vendors should have it.

Nutzt ihr Antivirus-Apps auf eurem Android? Spart euch den unnötigen Ballast – sie bieten nur trügerische Sicherheit und sind oft voller Tracker. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-si…

#android #security #google #tracking #virus #antivirus #app

Trügerische Sicherheit: Virenscanner-Apps sind schlichtweg überflüssig

Die Sicherheitsarchitektur von Android/iOS schränkt die Funktionsweise von Virenscanner-Apps stark ein und macht sie im Grunde nutzlos. Schlimmer: Die vermeintlichen Sicherheits-Apps sind Datenschleudern.

^{www.kuketz-blog.de}

Substantial layoff at Google this morning, locations around the world. IT and helpdesk hit hard. To be fair, they’re hard-pressed, last quarter’s earnings a mere $26.54B, that’s a narrow 27.51% profit margin.

#google

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…

#google #chrome #googlechrome #chromium #android

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next

Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”…

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}