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16 votes
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Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Alphabet-owned Google for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results
4 votes -
Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted
21 votes -
Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is actually a failure.
12 votes -
After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
34 votes -
Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
19 votes -
The rise and fall of rationality in language
7 votes -
“Imagine if doctors relied on Google as much as programmers do”
10 votes -
Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero
6 votes -
I just want to serve 5 terabytes
10 votes -
Google's Tensor inside of Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro: A look into performance and efficiency
6 votes -
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts
3 votes -
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
9 votes -
Google, Apple remove Alexei Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
13 votes -
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
22 votes -
Youtube screws me over for three years and counting
2 votes -
Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
16 votes -
Google co-founder Larry Page gets New Zealand residency
13 votes -
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
Apple, Google and aligned incentives
7 votes -
The Google Olympics doodle contains a pretty entertaining game today
google.com - Should be on the main page, click, watch (or don't) the cute little opening cartoon, enjoy various games across an island with various stories behind each area.
18 votes -
Authenticated brand logos in Gmail will roll out over the coming weeks
8 votes -
Google's 'hypocritical' remote work policies anger employees, after a senior executive announced he's moving to New Zealand in what some workers consider special treatment
13 votes -
Google Search has an unfair performance advantage in Chrome (on Android)
10 votes -
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
14 votes -
Why Google Play’s APK replacement is scaring some security experts
15 votes -
Differential privacy code removed from Chromium
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February. I haven't seen any...
In a discussion on Hacker News, Jonathan Mayer pointed out that the differential privacy code was removed from Chromium. It looks like they finished doing this in February.
I haven't seen any announcement, discussion, or explanation of this based on a brief web search, so I figured I'd note it here.
At about the time this process finished, there was a Google blog post about how they're still using it in other products.
We first deployed our world-class differential privacy anonymization technology in Chrome nearly seven years ago and are continually expanding its use across our products including Google Maps and the Assistant.
(If you read this quickly, you might think it's still used in Chrome.)
Reading between the lines, I suspect that some folks at Google are still advocating for more usage of differential privacy, but they lost an important customer. Why that happened is a mystery.
11 votes -
In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
9 votes -
US Democrats circulate draft antitrust bills that could reshape Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google
15 votes -
DeepMind reportedly lost a yearslong bid to win more independence from Google
8 votes -
Why does a completely local, self-contained html file need to access gstatic.com?
So, I'm a privacy advocate (or paranoiac, depending on your perspective). I run both uMatrix and NoScript plug-ins (among others) in my Firefox browser, so I can see when and where websites send...
So, I'm a privacy advocate (or paranoiac, depending on your perspective). I run both uMatrix and NoScript plug-ins (among others) in my Firefox browser, so I can see when and where websites send calls out to other locations, and block the ones I want ... google analytics, google fonts, google-apis, google tag manager, and gstatic are all ubiquitous out there, probably 99% of websites use at least one of them (PS: Tildes is in the 1%; yeay, Deimos).
And note ... there may well be nothing at all wrong with any of those sites/services ... but Google has a global all-encompassing Terms and Conditions policy that says, you use anything of Theirs, and They are allowed to harvest your personal data and make money off of it.
And I do not accept those terms.
Okay, that's the prologue. The deal is, I have a small piece of documentation, just basic "how to use this" info, for a WordPress plug-in. It is in .html format, with bundled bootstrap and jquery and a few other assets.
Nothing, anywhere in the entire folder, references gstatic. And yet when I open this local, on-my-computer-only html file ... my browser tells me that it is trying to connect to gstatic.com.
Anyone happen to know why/how that is happening?
4 votes -
Google AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
14 votes -
Google I/O 2021: The fourteen biggest announcements
6 votes -
Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
13 votes -
Android Automotive OS review
4 votes -
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
11 votes -
Carbon emissions and large neural network training
5 votes -
Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC
8 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again
23 votes -
Rust in the Android platform
7 votes -
Supreme Court of the United States sides with Google over Oracle
@SCOTUSblog: BREAKING: In major copyright battle between tech giants, SCOTUS sides w/ Google over Oracle, finding that Google didnt commit copyright infringement when it reused lines of code in its Android operating system. The code came from Oracle's JAVA SE platform. https://t.co/vAK7jMPa8e
46 votes -
Chrome's address bar will default to HTTPS
10 votes -
A look at search engines with their own indexes
26 votes -
Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea
31 votes -
Ubuntu sends http requests to Google cloud, here’s a fix
Ubuntu has this package installed by default: network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu It's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to...
Ubuntu has this package installed by default:
network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntuIt's only purpose is to provide settings for NetworkManager to send requests to connectivity-check.ubuntu.com , and based on the result (AFAIK) detect redirection by captive portals and open an ISP's page (think public WiFi, or hotel rooms, where you need to authorize to access the net).
Well, connectivity-check.ubuntu.com is hosted on Google cloud (you can check that by running:
dig connectivity-check.ubuntu.com whois [the IP from previous query]
), so by default Ubuntu sends requests to a Google cloud page.
I don't say Google counts daily active Ubuntu users (because many of those have the same IP), or that Google actively logs and analyzes that data. But some of you guys may not like that behavior.So what's the fix?
Purge the package
sudo apt purge network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu
If you do need a captive portal detection, create your own config file to query some HTTP (not HTTPS) page of your choice, in the example below I have a Debian page used for the same purpose. Use your favorite text editor to create and edit /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/90-connectivity-custom.conf :
[connectivity] uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm
Restart NetworkManager
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
If you run an Ubuntu derivative, please report if you have network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu installed in the comments.
11 votes -
Data Transfer Project
6 votes -
Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
29 votes -
Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
7 votes -
How Big Tech helps India target climate activists: Companies such as Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian environmental campaigners
6 votes