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3 votes
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A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
8 votes -
'F--- You!': Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders and break a cardinal rule at the company
12 votes -
Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China
11 votes -
Google Needs To Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
16 votes -
Giving up on privacy
I have been an advocate for privacy for a long time, but recently I don't even know why I am doing this anymore. I do most of my browsing through TOR, and that has made me give up a lot of...
I have been an advocate for privacy for a long time, but recently I don't even know why I am doing this anymore. I do most of my browsing through TOR, and that has made me give up a lot of conveniences. And that's what I miss. I miss not having to think about privacy. I also miss not feeling like I am being spied on. Now I am torn. I don't like companies like Google mining my data, but I also think I am being paranoid (the people in my life have shared this sentiment). I don't want to leave a permanent cache of my mind. But I also feel like doing so won't really affect me. Not to mention that I despise the predatory nature of advertisers, and I hate giving them even more info about me.
What do I do, Tildes? Have any of you felt this way? How do you balance running from Google while still staying sane?
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
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Google adds warning for users searching for Fortnite in Play Store, could lose $50 million or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing it
18 votes -
Android 9 "Pie" launched today
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Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
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Fortnite for Android may not be on play store, presumably to avoid Google's 30% cut
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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Google in potential cloud services talks in China, with Tencent and others
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US Lawmakers pressure Google over "deeply troubling" China censorship project
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Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
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Google open sources "Filament is a physically based rendering engine for Android, Windows, Linux and macOS"
9 votes -
Zooming out on Google Maps now reveals a globe
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Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
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"Don't Be Evil, Unless It's Worth Untold New Riches": Whistleblower Reveals Google Plan to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
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Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
18 votes -
Inside the life of the world's first self-driving teen
8 votes -
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
16 votes -
Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
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Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
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Google hit with 4.3bn euro Android fine from EU
31 votes -
Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google
8 votes -
Why Google won't break a sweat about EU ruling
3 votes -
Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
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Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to every tech company
21 votes -
Firefox and the four-year battle to have Google treat it as a first-class citizen
17 votes -
DeepMind AI’s new trick is playing ‘Quake III Arena’ like a human
11 votes -
Tech’s ‘dirty secret’: The app developers sifting through your Gmail
11 votes -
Report: Google courting developers for coming game-streaming service
11 votes -
The Real Reason Apple and Google Want You to Use Your Phone Less
14 votes -
Elixir community's Google Summer of Code 2018 projects
6 votes -
Wikipedia makes the case for Google and Facebook to give back to the Commons, rather than just take
11 votes -
Apple, Google and Silicon Valley love to say they're ethical. But what do they really mean?
8 votes -
My Google One just got activated, check yours to redeem $5 Google Play credit
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Google update aims to show you how it uses your data
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Alternatives to Google as a Search Engine?
Looking for something along the lines of DuckDuckGo and other privacy focused search engines. Any Tildoes have a go-to, non-censored, privacy focused search engine?
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Banking by smart speaker arrives, but security issues exist
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Google's top global lawyer warns Australia against a tech backlash
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Why does Google have nine messaging services?
A sentence from this article on Ars Technica about the new Android Messages web interface really jumped out at me: Android Messages started as a simple SMS app, but, with the Web client, it is...
A sentence from this article on Ars Technica about the new Android Messages web interface really jumped out at me:
Android Messages started as a simple SMS app, but, with the Web client, it is turning into Google's ninth messaging service after (deep breath) Google Talk, Google Voice, Buzz, Google+ Messenger, Hangouts, Spaces, Allo, and the Slack-like Hangouts Chat.
Nine different chat services from a single company is just wild. How did Google let such an important aspect of the Android platform become such a mess, and what should Google do about it?
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You can no longer book Uber rides inside Google Maps
7 votes -
Google removes the option of installing Chrome extensions via remote sites
11 votes -
Australian High Court allows Milorad Trkulja to sue Google for defamation over images linked to crime bosses
8 votes