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173 votes
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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
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YouTube is now rolling out disabling videos after detecting adblockers
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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
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How you use YouTube in desktop and mobile devices. YouTube to limit usage of ad blockers soon.
YouTube limits ad blocker usage in new test YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking (Update) So its clear now that YouTube is going to limit the usage of Ad blockers in the...
YouTube limits ad blocker usage in new test
YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking (Update)
So its clear now that YouTube is going to limit the usage of Ad blockers in the coming future
I use Ublock Orgin with Firefox which basically used to block all ads and on mobile device I use NewPipe110 votes -
YouTube’s anti-adblock and uBlock Origin
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Google begins their push for WEI in Chromium
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Google promises unlimited cloud storage; then cancels plan; then tells journalist his life’s work will be deleted without enough time to transfer the data
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After two decades the dominance of Google Search comes into question
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The man who killed Google Search
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Sync for Lemmy now available on Play Store
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Google-owned YouTube makes millions from channels pushing climate disinformation: Analysis
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Boost for Lemmy has been listed in Play Store
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YouTube anti-adblock detection is illegal in the EU
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Who killed Google Reader - a ten year anniversary retrospective discussion
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Firefox outperforms Chrome in speed for the first time according to a Speedometer assessment
75 votes -
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
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How do I migrate almost twenty years of email off of Gmail?
I have followed numerous discussions on here lately regarding extracting oneself from being Google-reliant, and they've all deeply resonated with me. For years now I've been slowly migrating...
I have followed numerous discussions on here lately regarding extracting oneself from being Google-reliant, and they've all deeply resonated with me. For years now I've been slowly migrating numerous Google-bound things over to my own self-hosted alternatives. I've moved my storage, contacts, documents, and some (but sadly not all) of my calendars to home solutions, fairly easily too.
But the biggest hurdle I've been facing this whole time, the one I've been putting off the longest, is the act of figuring out how to get almost twenty years of mail archive and history on my primary account away from Google and into a space where I can access it separately. I have been steadily changing the main email on my more active external accounts to a self-hosted one, and now only seeing a shrinking handful of lesser-used services still attached to the old gmail. But that history is too precious to me, and I still find multiple occasions where I need/want to reference some communications from long ago.
I've tried searching the web for options, but so far all combinations of my queries are either really elementary "here's how to set up a new email" crap, or else aimed at moving from one Gmail account to another Gmail account. I've been thinking that the simplest approach might be just to set it up as a POP3 account in my mail client (eM Client, for the record), download it all, and then when I finally pull the plug just drag it into the local client archive, and then remove the account from the app. But I figure there have to be others who have done this, right?
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The people who ruined the internet
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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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Squarespace purchases Google Domains
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Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
67 votes -
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
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Google decides to pull up the ladder on the open internet, pushes for unconstitutional regulatory proposals
66 votes -
Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default approach to building webpages. Tell them no.
66 votes -
US Federal jury decides Google’s Android app store benefits from anticompetitive barriers
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Google has officially changed its mind about remote work
62 votes -
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
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Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal
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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
58 votes -
Google user data has become a favorite police shortcut
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You can tell how bad Google Searches are now when you try to search for "Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki" and it pushes you a single outdated wiki and a bunch of posts telling you to use bg3.wiki
54 votes -
Google Messages signs onto cross-platform encrypted group chat standard
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Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
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I edited the Netflix Castlevania show's first two seasons into a single, slight-over-two-hours movie
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Google seems to be running OCR on photos in my Gmail. Is this happening to you too?
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up....
This morning I was asked to find an archived email with photos of some scientific equipment. I searched "Powerlab," the name of one of the instruments, in gmail, and the email came right up. Great! But then I noticed that the word "powerlab" never appeared in the text of the email. I tried searching "ML206", an arbitrary character string from one of the photos in the email, and again, the email appeared in the search, without the search phrase highlighted in the search result, as it normally would be. I tried different phrases from jpgs in emails; not all yielded search results but some did.
I'm not happy about this. I accept some compromises to privacy when using Gmail, but sending text as an image can be a way of specifically avoiding information being harvested. All I ask for is a way to turn it off.
Can anyone replicate this? Did anyone already know about this?
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Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years
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Chrome's new forced login policy is a violation of user privacy and trust
50 votes -
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
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Google is killing Retro Dodo and other independent sites
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How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT.
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Web Environment Integrity - A Google proposal for general web drm
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SCOTUS 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
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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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YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
45 votes -
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds
45 votes -
Google killing basic HTML version of Gmail in January 2024
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Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
44 votes