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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.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
#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:
➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-problem
And what Google has to say to this on #Reuters
➡️https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-rival-tuta-complains-eu-tech-regulators-about-de-ranking-2024-04-24/
Google Search Is A Problem: How Google Is Crushing Tuta.
Google stopped showing our website in its search results, possibly in violation of the DMA.Tutanota
Hmpf, dass #Android bei der Standard UI (Pixel 6a, Stock Launcher) oben Timer anzeigt ist ja nett, insbesondere da ich sehr viel mit Timern arbeite (ADHS, yay), aber dass diese willkürlich sortiert sind versteh ich nicht.
Dass in 12 Stunden ein Timer ausläuft ist nett, aber mich interessiert gerade der, der in drei Minuten bimmelt. Der sollte zuerst angezeigt werden.
Kann man da bei #Google einen Feature Request einreichen? Müssen effektiv ja nur ein sort() machen 😅
offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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 went from search engine to apps developer to mobile & cloud tech pioneer to now #MILITARY CONTRACTOR.
the minute they did that, their CEO ceased being a business man and is now a politician.
to demand workers to not speak about politics when THAT'S NOW YOUR BUSINESS MODEL is pathetic at worst, ignorant at best.
one could say Google and every #tech company pivoting to military contracting have deceived their workers into believing they are not military sub-contractors.
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.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-problem
Google Search Is A Problem: How Google Is Crushing Tuta.
Google stopped showing our website in its search results, possibly in violation of the DMA.Tutanota
#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. 👇
https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix.html
#push #google #apple #android #ios #fcm #apn #websocket #unifiedpush #ntfy
Messenger-Matrix • Kuketz IT-Security Blog
Gegenüberstellung sicherheits- und datenschutzrelevanter Eigenschaften von Messengernwww.messenger-matrix.de
Ok wtf. So you're telling me that #Google #Chrome's #V8 #JavaScript engine was more #insecure than #Mozilla's #Spidermonkey after all these years? Because I'm pretty sure SM has been already doing plenty of the things mentioned in this article (I've touched on SM code plenty of times, so much more than I wanted because I worked on separating Spidermonkey from the monolithic #libxul, it's still hurting my brain...), even before the #Quantum rewrite. So even #PaleMoon which has been commonly trashed for being "old and insecure" is apparently more secure than Chrome, but most crucially it also disproves the long-standing blind belief by security freaks out there that Chrome is "more secure" than #Firefox when it's the other way around on many fronts...
https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/google-chrome-adds-v8-sandbox-new.html
#web #webbrowser #browser #browsers #openweb
Google Chrome Adds V8 Sandbox - A New Defense Against Browser Attacks
Google tackles Chrome security with new V8 Sandbox. This aims to stop memory issues from spreading, protecting your browser experience.The Hacker News
As Snikket is still not available on the #Google Play Store, we've published a longer blog post about the situation, how to work around it using #FDroid, and the long path of stupid Google review responses that led us here.
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-google-play-removal/
Snikket Android app temporarily unavailable in Google Play store
Google have removed the app, citing lack of a privacy policy. This post provides details and a workaround.snikket.org
Just a heads-up that #Snikket #Android has been pulled by #Google from the store. We'll work on restoring it once we figure out their (as usual) nonsensical complaints. Apologies to everyone affected. Please look at #FDroid and free yourself.
Today's excuse for delisting yet another #XMPP app?
"Your app is uploading users' Image information without posting a privacy policy link or text within the Play Distributed App."
Funny. What's this then?? 👀
Adminoval jsem novy Google Workspace a vsimnul jsem si dvou zajimavych, ehm, UX vychytavek.
- Google si nikdy nerozumel s nativnim Mac keychainem. Ted se zda dovaril zabu uplne, password pole se s keychainem vubec nebavi a heslo tedy nejde vygenerovat. Tusim, ze budou nabizet vlastni cool keychain.
- Nejde vlozit cislo karty do formulare pri registraci. Pritom jejich zapamatovani karty v pohode funguje. Co dela navic mimo copy & paste?
Tyhle internety lidi jenom otravuji!
🚨 PRIVACY WIN 🚨
#Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode 💪
Because #privacy matters.
Read more on the court ruling:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-incognito-lawsuit
Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode
If you thought Google’s Incognito Mode was private, you’re one of the billions around the world blinded by big tech’s privacy illusion.Tutanota
⚡ Watch out: #Microsoft joins #Google & #Facebook with its focus on ads first. ⚡
When creating a test account, #Outlook informed us of 813 data sharing partners! 🫢
Plus, the "new" Outlook app is quietly storing your data in the cloud, including your passwords.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft
Emails, Contacts, Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Shares It All With Microsoft Putting Your Security At Risk
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows shares all your data with its severs - and with up to 813 partners.Tutanota
I think this #xz thing is gonna go down as the day #FLOSS officially lost its innocence.
You know what I hope comes out of this moment of sincere sadness for those who care about this stuff?
A sense that we will no longer be abused by Megacorps who build on the backs of our work but can't be arsed to help fund that work despite the fact that literally THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF THEIR BUSINESS depends on it.
Do you think #google, #amazon or #facebook could exist in their current form without oodles of super high quality free software to run their server swarms on?
Because they can't. For those of us old enough to remember, just imagine "the cloud" if every virtual server required a Solaris or SCO license.
If you've given all you can give, walk away. Open source is wonderful and amazing but you are human and your health and well being is more important. I don't care what falls down as a result.
Just got registered with a local GP in Ireland¹ and their first email states that all their staff are “formally trained in GDPR procedures and any information you give will be used in the strictest confidence.”
Their email address is @gmail.com
🤦♂️
¹ This, in and of itself, is a bloody miracle these days, apparently, and only happened because it’s a new practice that’s just opening up.
#ireland #gp #doctors #gdpr #gmail #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming
It's 2024 and #Google is now requiring bulk #email senders to use DMARC, SPF, & DKIM when emailing #Gmail users. 👍
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-introducing-new-security-requirements
This is a great step, BUT why did they allow bulk senders to send #spam emails without proper #security standards until now? 🤔
Google introduces new security requirements for bulk email senders - but should have done so years ago.
Google and Yahoo! will require the use of DMARC, SPF, and DKIM in an attempt to crackdown on spam and phishing. It is surprising that these features were not already a requirement.Tutanota
Android Accessibility: A Blueprint for Google in Spring 2024 and Beyond, in 10 Items - Accessible Android
-- Poem written by GPT-4 and Microsoft Copilot.Amir (Accessible Android)
My current half a year lasting experience on centralized #google drive service:
Ready to be freaked out? 😲
Here's everything #Google knows about you: https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me
Good news: We also explain how to stop big G from tracking you. Go #private! 💪😎
Everything Google knows about you and how to stop it!
Ever thought ‘What does Google know about me?’ the short answer – A LOT. But you can stop them from collecting more, here’s how!Tutanota
“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/
Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.
Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.
#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine
Google Protest At Tech Conference Over Israel Contracts
Google engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)
Anyone else having trouble updating the @IzzyOnDroid #IzzyOnDroid repository ?
#fdroid #droidify #android #appstore #google #grapheneos #repository
Brave Search is the only free private search engine that can challenge Google when it comes to search results.Brave has its own index that doesn't depend on Google or Microsoft Bing.
#XSF Announcement
We are a Google Summer of Code 2024 umbrella organization!
Project idea 7 of 7:
@prav App - Standards compliant #SMS #OTP based #authentication
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Gsoc2024/Prav.app/Standards_compliant_SMS_OTP_based_authentication
#XMPP #jabber #chat #GSoC2024 #GSOC #Google
#interoperability #standards #android #java
#XSF Announcement
We are a Google Summer of Code 2024 umbrella organization!
Find our participating projects here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024#Project_Ideas
#XMPP #jabber #chat #GSoC2024 #GSOC #Google #interoperability #standards
* Facebook has AI.
* Google has AI.
* Microsoft has AI.
* Reddit has AI.
* Tumblr has AI.
* WordPress services on their DOT Com has AI.
In 2024, you must assume, any service you cannot download and install yourself, will have AI and will use whatever you write to train an AI.
Yep, cool feature! Try it out when you get it! #accessibility #andorid #ios #google https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111996735554779021
4) Last October, Google launched Lens in Maps (formerly Search with Live View). This feature uses AI and augmented reality to help you find information about nearby stores. Now, this feature has been upgraded with screen reader support, so you can point your phone’s camera at your surroundings and have TalkBack read the place’s information out loud.(3/7)
Today’s find: An amazing listing of existing search engines: those using #Google & Bing’s indexes & many more.
“The 3 dominant English search engines with their own indexes are Google, Bing, & Yandex (GBY). Many alternatives to GBY exist, but almost none of them have their own results; instead, they just source their results from GBY.
“With that in mind, I decided to test & catalog all the different indexing search engines I could find.”
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/?ref=404media.co
h/t https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.Jason Koebler (404 Media)