#Google used dark patterns!
Accepting all cookies: 1 click
Rejecting all cookies: 5 clicks

google traduttore senza javascript, cookies ed elementi traccianti? C'è SimplyTranslate!

https://translate.metalune.xyz

...cooosa?! Funziona anche via tor browser hardened? 😮

ma certo! 😎

...ma è vero che è pure decentralizzato e che chiunque può mettere su un'istanza? 😮

assolutamente si. Se è per questo, è pure software libero! 😎

😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱

#privacy #tor #translate #simplytranslate #google #simpleweb

Here's a stupid #google #spreadsheet trick.
To direct download a sheet (< 60MB) say w/CURL, you only get 1st tab.

Use preview mode to find each tab's url
http......com/spreadsheets/d/<FILE_ID>/preview

Tab 1 always ends in #gid=0 but the others end in a unique 10 digit number

ex: .../preview#gid=947121082

to select that tab, add its gid querystring arg to an export url

To get a .csv of tab 2 if tab 2's #gid=1797399507
http......com/spreadsheets/d/<FILE_ID>/export?format=csv&gid=1797399507

How a #Berlin neighbourhood took on #Google and won

When Google wants to do something, it usually gets its way. Not so in one Berlin neighbourhood. .../... the [campus] plans riled local activists and neighbourhood groups, who had concerns about gentrification and rising rents, and in some cases harboured specific anti-Google sentiment on issues such as tax and data privacy.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-campus-berlin-protests

#FuckOffGoogle #Berlin

If you believe in #privacy and understand the dangers of #Google / #Facebook / #Amazon and #GAFAM #surveillance, then you'll understand the importance of #selfhosting. Currently, #Yunohost is one of - if not THE - best option for new hosters, but they need your help. We all need to help them get easier, faster and even better for everyone. They're doing it with no commercial sponsors, so throw them a sheckle or two if you're able:
https://donate.yunohost.org/

It helps us all.

Please #boost. Thanks.

#element banned from #googleplay due to some offending content being available on the #matrix network.
Google how about baning all the Email applications from your store? I am 100000% sure somebody used Email right now to distribute offending content.
#element is trying to explain Google how #matrix works and that they are not to blame. Sorry but I do not buy into the story that people at Google are so badly informed ...
So #google, WHY did you actually ban it?

#elementbanedbygoogle

Wednesday is #Android #tracking number reset day:

Settings > #Google > Ads > "Reset advertising ID" ✅

#privacy

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

Regain Privacy – Buying Google-free Smartphones
Believe it or not, it is astonishingly easy to own a smartphone without immediately succumbing to the hunger for private data of big tech companies like Google or Apple. You only need either money or time, and the knowledge where to buy your next device. This is how you get there.
https://blog.natanox.de/150/regain-privacy-smartphones/
#Linux #Privacy #Smartphones #Google #Linux #Privacy #Smartphones #Surveillance

Finally, easier choices for us #cookie monsters 🍪 #Google offers "reject all, accept all, more options"
https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/new-cookie-choices-in-europe/

It's time to fight against #censorship by #Google and #Facebook. Read and distribute this call for a #coalitionagainstcensorship by the #WSWS
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/23/pers-j23.html

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?

Let's go back, back in time...

GOOGLE IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS •• when Google met Wikileaks

written in 2014 or 2015 (?)
by Julian Assange

Even though this article was written a few years a go (most of you might know what it is all about), i think it is still worth reading it.

⇨ Check out the amazing note/reverence section, just in case you want to dive into history a lil deeper...

#bigtech #google #usgov #assange #wikileaks #bigdata #technocracy #muppedshow



https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

si estas buscando alternativas a servicios de #google, echale un vistaso a #disroot https://disroot.org/

#introduction

Played #piano and #drums for over 30 years, drawn for just about as long, been painting (water color) for the last year, and gaming since the NES was the premium console. I'm into #progressive #rock, #classical, #jazz, and I'm writing a ton of original music. I'm a huge #privacy advocate and despise #amazon, #google, #twitter, and #facebook and pretty much all they stand for. My wife, daughter, and I are starting a #chicken and #goat #farm. Looking forward to my time here.

@apps is also a great example. #FediLab is a paid app on the #Google Prey store, and free on the fine #FDroid with a #GPL'ed codebase at #Codeberg ..

https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab

👋 #introductions

My day job is at #Google supporting developers who use #Flutter.

My main hobby in the past many years has been building a dungeon crawler "rendered in text". Prototype from last year: https://egamebook.com/vermin. #intfic #gamebook #gamedev

I also enjoy reading and games.

Fun fact: I was big in Japan once (http://www.philipage.com/).

I really root for the fediverse. This is what social networking on the internet *should* be like. I thought it would have come sooner, to be honest.

Thank you to Google for joining #GUADEC2022 as a Gold sponsor!

Remember, #GUADEC starts next week! Are you registered yet? Let us know you're attending: https://events.gnome.org/event/77/registrations/44/

#GNOME #Google #supportopensource

URGENTE: El Parlamento Europeo va a votar este mismo mes (26-28) la Directiva Europea sobre Derechos de Autor, que incluye los temidos #artículo13 y #artículo11, que harán más difícil emprender en Europa, dañarán la libertad de expresión y ayudarán a consolidar los monopolios digitales de #facebook (incluido #instagram) y #google - 1/4

Google Is Sharing Our Data at an Alarming Rate.
It transmits our locations and browsing habits 70 billion times a day to advertisers 😲

https://web.archive.org/web/20220624084652/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-16/privacy-google-transmits-our-personal-data-70-billion-times-a-day

#Google
#Privacy

Just #Google

When consulting with a doctor,
he is obliged to keep your secrets.
When consulting with #Google,
it is obliged to sell your secrets.

Want to know more about my writing? This is where it all begins:

Synergy Of Hopes

They have nothing in common but a will to survive.

‘Location Unknown. Searching for Star Fix...’

#scifi #adventure #novel

#kobo #applebooks #nook #amazon #google

https://edwindownward.com

Official #fediverse #introduction post!

My name is Kellyn Delgado and I am the admin here on friendo.space. I am a total #computer nerd. I've been tinkering with computer software since I was 6. I'm not a developer but I am brushing up on my #bash and #html skills.

My passion is helping people explore the wonders of new #technology, whether that is from #google, the #floss community, or others. I plan to blog about them soon.

I also like #pokemon, #digimon, #socialism, #gemini, #music, etc.

The #XMPP Newsletter for June '22 is out!

Read about the #Google Summer of Code 2022 XMPP projects, client & server updates and of course the latest updates on our #standards!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

https://xmpp.org/2022/07/the-xmpp-newsletter-june-2022/

#jabber #xep #interoperability #gsoc

Google may be breaking the law when it convinces you to sign up for an account

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-account-sign-up-gdpr/

#Europe #Google #News #gdpr

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20030404115253/http://www.bihlink.com/links/https://web.archive.org/web/20020901070931/http://www.yahoo.com/https://web.archive.org/web/20030721230258/http://www3.google.com/
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...

“[A]s recently as June 23, Google was sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned Russian ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank, according to a new report provided to ProPublica.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-russia-rutarget-sberbank-sanctions-ukraine

#google #russia #ukraine #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

As interesting as Georg Riekeles' recount of #BigTech lobbying in Brussels is, it's very sad to see him paddle the myth of "well-organised citizens' groups" & #DigitalRights orgs allegedly orchestrated by #Google in the context of the EU #Copyright Directive.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/i-saw-first-hand-tech-giants-seduced-eu-google-meta

I have been testing for the past few days three replacements for #Google's #Firebase notifications: #ntfy, #Gotify and #NextCloud's Unified Push project. A few observations after a bit of tinkering:

1. The idea behind #UnifiedPush is amazing. An open protocol to share push notifications over any asynchronous channel (websocket, Redis, MQTT etc.) is what open-source apps have needed for years. Sure, there will always be those who say "push notifications are a distraction, and I'm happy to ditch them". But individual choices/behaviors shouldn't shape the development of a technology - especially when people want a genuine open alternative to something that they like/need to use.

2. UnifiedPush support from individual apps is still scarce. So far I've only found the NextCloud app itself (which only supports UP-NextPush), #Fedilab and #Element. Support on #Tusky has allegedly been implemented in the latest release, but I haven't yet managed to make it work. Let's roll up our sleeves and make sure that more and more of the apps that we like support open notification services!

3. The notification providers' client apps themselves are still quite buggy, and documentation still very sparse. I have used UP-Example from F-Droid to test the UP services. Only ntfy managed to deliver notifications end-to-end to my devices. Gotify reported an "unknown error" without many details from the logs. UP-NextPush is still very unstable both on the client and server side and I couldn't manage to deliver any notifications.

4. The protocol (and the apps that implement it) needs to slowly be extended to cover as many as possible of the features that have been implemented in the past decade. Action buttons, icons from URLs, custom background images, updates to existing notifications etc.: a couple of these features have been (partly) implemented by 1-2 providers, but we need open standards (especially for action buttons and gestures) if we want to ensure inter-compatibility.

Related:

Normalize using end-to-end #encrypted (and ideally, ephemeral) communications.

Normalize not telling #Google everything you think, do, and say.

Do it now.

#privacy #security #surveillance

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/abortion-clinics-providers-digital-privacy-roe-overturn-rcna30654

Do you use #FDroid on de-googled or stock #android?

#gafam #google #privacy

Content warning: Erotophobia of corporate web Reveal/hide

Apple tracks you, even if you don't have Apple devices

iOS sends the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location. Users have no opt out from this and currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing this data sharing.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

#privacy #iOS #apple #google #GAFAM

The #XMPP Newsletter for May '22 is out!

Read about the #Google Summer of Code 2022 XMPP projects, the big @gajim update and and of course the latest updates on our #standards!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

https://xmpp.org/2022/06/the-xmpp-newsletter-may-2022

#jabber #xep #interoperability #gsoc

Welcome our Google Summer of Code contributors!

- Patiga will work on more flexible file transfers in #Dino https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/projects/z9ixHTWZ
- PawBud will work towards adding support for A/V #communication via #Jingle in #ConverseJS https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2022/projects/0nRwZN19

#XMPP #GSoC #Google #Standards

Well it’s always good to know what the privacy-washers are saying. Know your enemy and all that.

Also good to know who doesn’t mind having their legitimacy in privacy and human rights used to launder the likes of Google and Meta.

All very enlightening.

#privacyWashing #cpdp2022 #privacy #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #google #meta #tech

#Google does not fund research groups if they'd work on software licensed under #AGPL.

Use the AGPL to incentivize people not to get funded by Google.

Také jste museli přejít z G suite zdarma na vlastní doméně na placený Workspace a pěkně vás to naštvalo? Tak mám dobré zprávy, nyní to lze zvrátit a pokračovat zdarma - právě úspěšně vyzkoušeno. https://www.root.cz/zpravicky/google-necha-g-suite-pro-osobni-pouziti-zdarma-vcetne-vlastni-domeny/ #Google #Gsuite