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14 votes
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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
11 votes -
Google's adoption of passkeys (security blog article)
11 votes -
Google’s 80-acre San Jose mega-campus is on hold as company reckons with economic slowdown
7 votes -
Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts
11 votes -
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court
14 votes -
Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google
12 votes -
Google lawyer warns internet will be “a horror show” if it loses landmark Supreme Court case
13 votes -
Google Adsense is bringing a bunch of policy changes that affect how your sites are monetized
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the...
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the primary domains in the "Sites" section (www, etc.) won't be allowed, any existing ones will be removed and their rules will be merged with the primary domain (such as example.com).
Furthermore, what constitutes a "Site" will also change henceforth. You can only add a primary domain (such as example.com) and the subdomains which are listed on the public suffix list (such as github.io, blogspot.com, etc.). Thus, your own subdomains (such as xyz.example.com or www.example.com) won't be allowed in Adsense.
I don't know what they will achieve by doing this considering they already vet and audit each site before approving them for adsense? In any case, other alternatives to Adsense exist such as Propeller Ads, CJ Affiliate, etc. for those affected by this move but I don't know their efficacy.
3 votes -
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
13 votes -
Google announces Bard, a ChatGPT competitor based on LaMDA
11 votes -
What happened to Google Search?
13 votes -
SourceHut will blocklist the Go module mirror
13 votes -
Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
10 votes -
A gift from the Stadia team & Bluetooth controller functionality info
14 votes -
[SOLVED] Google logged my mother out of all devices and now she can't login
[SOLVED] Thank you so much for everyone's support and suggestions, it seems that I may have overreacted a little bit. One of the things that I did was send a form to Google, but the form was not...
[SOLVED]
Thank you so much for everyone's support and suggestions, it seems that I may have overreacted a little bit. One of the things that I did was send a form to Google, but the form was not really for this issue, so I wasn't hopeful at all. To my surprise, I received a message just now with instructions to recover the account and change the 2-factor phone number to my mother's current one. The cause of the issue is not clear, but whatever it was, they sorted it out. She is obviously ecstatic, when I went to her house two days ago I couldn't disguise my pessimism.
I set her recovery email to my own and will generate recovery codes shortly, so we're good for now. I instructed her on how to download all her data from Google (it's easier than I thought), just because this made her quite paranoid, and I'll take the opportunity to gradually move my family out of Google, as well as myself. Thanks for being so supportive, this was very stressful, to say the least! Sometimes it's nice to know we're not alone ;)
Original post
So, for some reason Google logged my mother of everything at once: browsers in two laptops and two smartphones (one Android and one iPhone). Trying to recover the account sends a message to a cellphone number she no longer has. I understand Google is basically unreachable, but there must be something I can do, right? We're not famous, but she does pay for YouTube Premium.
12 votes -
Try not to be evil
9 votes -
Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
14 votes -
YouTube should charge for 4K. Hear me out.
13 votes -
The Apple, Google, and Amazon-backed smart home standard Matter has arrived. So what’s next?
11 votes -
Stable Dreamfusion: An open source implementation of Google's text-to-3D synthesis
9 votes -
Stadia is shutting down
38 votes -
A Danish city built Google into its schools – then banned it
12 votes -
Ideas how to unlock Google's blocking of my YouTube RSS feeds
I subscribe to quite a few youtube channels to get notified when there are new videos posted. I've had this set up for several years. Today I tried to add a new channel I've discovered. My RSS...
I subscribe to quite a few youtube channels to get notified when there are new videos posted. I've had this set up for several years.
Today I tried to add a new channel I've discovered. My RSS reader informs me it's blocked. I check all the other youtube feeds. Every single one of them reports "Error transferring <feed url>." server replied Forbidden (201).
Update: One day later and every feed is connecting and transferring again. It seems to be a temporary block. My IP address has changed overnight though so that's still my main suspicion.
It seems like I'm not the only victim
That contains a link to the author's issue on google's issue tracker
The official response is
Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible) Unfortunately, there's nothing we could do here. Please reach out to community forum or Stackoverflow. Check out the link below:
They completely misunderstood the question - it's not asking how to find a feed, it's asking why that feed is getting blocked.
Not only this but using DuckDuckGo bangs for to search google get randomly sent to a captcha page - issuing the exact same query a second time goes through perfectly. The same is happening with keyword searches I set up in my browser. .
Any ideas what to do about this?
So sick of google's monopoly.
13 votes -
Requesting resources for de-googling
I'm starting to get tired of being complacent about the fact that I am using Google's services when I'm well beyond the 'reasonable doubt' phase of Google being evil. They're a giant monopoly and...
I'm starting to get tired of being complacent about the fact that I am using Google's services when I'm well beyond the 'reasonable doubt' phase of Google being evil. They're a giant monopoly and I want to stop making them money as much as I possibly can.
Thankfully, I'm not as badly intertwined with them as I could be; I have already downloaded all the music I bought from them and since I have switched to iPhone, I'm not reliant on too many of their services. They do have some of my old files and pictures, but that shouldn't be too hard to get out. The biggest problem I can see is my email. Right now I'm actually paying $4/mo for an Amazon WorkMail account for a failed venture (which I'm planning on getting rid of), but I'm sure there are much better alternatives out there. I'd prefer something that has good spam filtering options including custom filtering. I was also wondering if anyone would recommend Apple's email service since I'm already paying for iCloud+ to store my backups.
Another more specific recommendation I need is for a replacement to Google Authenticator that works on iPhone. It looks like there are several options but I'm frankly not sure how to evaluate them.
If you have any other resources you'd like to share, please feel free to share.
24 votes -
4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic
12 votes -
‘Pre-bunking’ online misinformation
7 votes -
A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal.
14 votes -
Reward efforts, not outcomes
5 votes -
Google’s new Play Store rules target annoying ads and copycat crypto apps
8 votes -
Google introduces Carbon, an experimental replacement for C++
11 votes -
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
25 votes -
German antitrust body launches investigation into Google Maps
8 votes -
Twilight of the libraries: What gets lost when books go off-site and online
4 votes -
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong
10 votes -
Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image model
3 votes -
It’s Warren Buffett versus Google, Facebook in latest wind-farm debate
6 votes -
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
17 votes -
Is LaMDA Sentient? - An Interview
5 votes -
Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding
16 votes -
Who made these circles in the Sahara?
16 votes -
Noto Emoji: A new black and white emoji font
19 votes -
Contra Chrome
13 votes -
Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
11 votes -
Google said Steam had arrived on Chromebooks, but now says it’s ‘coming soon’
11 votes -
Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations
12 votes -
Facebook, Google and other tech firms must verify identities under proposed UK law
3 votes -
Google search is dying: Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
41 votes -
Is Firefox okay?
25 votes -
Chrome OS Flex announced
4 votes