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7 votes
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Secure, open-source alternative to Google Keep
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any...
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any suggestions? Also I'm on Android btw.
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Battery saver had been turned on for a lot of Pixel users unintentionally, according to Google employee
21 votes -
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
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Google employees are reportedly resigning over China search efforts
30 votes -
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here
14 votes -
Inbox is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Gmail
36 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Google and Certbot: Let's Encrypt not renewing certs for sites Google flags
17 votes -
Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default approach to building webpages. Tell them no.
66 votes -
Ajit Pai does ISPs’ bidding, pushes for tighter rules on Google and Facebook
16 votes -
Google AMP can go to hell
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Chinese company says they are bringing Google Cloud to China, then swiftly denies the news
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Website Admin Question: How to Block Google?
I have a personal website, and while I don't mind it showing up in SERPs for DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. I do not want it showing up on Google at all. Google doesn't send traffic my way, I pay for my...
I have a personal website, and while I don't mind it showing up in SERPs for DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. I do not want it showing up on Google at all.
Google doesn't send traffic my way, I pay for my site out of my salary from my day job instead of running ads, and preventing Google from indexing my site seems like the best form of nonviolent direct action I can take to protest their continuing dominance and their "embrace, extend, and extinguish" campaign against the Web.
I figure the easiest way to do this is to add the following to my site's
.htaccess
file since I don't have access to the server config file:X-Robots-Tag: googlebot: none, noarchive, nosnippet, notranslate, noimageindex
Are there any downsides that I should know about besides not showing up in Google results?
11 votes -
Patent Examiner sides with inventor who claims Google is trying to patent his work he dedicated to the public domain
20 votes -
$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
16 votes -
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
26 votes -
While Google is attacked over privacy concerns and perceived bias, DuckDuckGo raised $10M
44 votes -
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance
17 votes -
Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show mostly negative stories about him
32 votes -
Google Cloud grants $9M in credits for the operation of the Kubernetes project
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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
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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
22 votes -
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
30 votes -
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
16 votes -
A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
7 votes -
YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
46 votes -
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
9 votes -
Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
26 votes -
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
7 votes -
Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
8 votes -
"Don't Be Evil, Unless It's Worth Untold New Riches": Whistleblower Reveals Google Plan to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
22 votes -
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
35 votes -
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
7 votes -
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