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30 votes
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Here’s twenty-two examples of Google employees trying to avoid creating evidence in antitrust case
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Digital apartheid in Gaza: Big Tech must reveal their roles in tech used in human rights abuses
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Is Google training AI on YouTube videos?
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Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
23 votes -
Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke
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Google must destroy $5 billion worth of user data illegally collected in Incognito Mode
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Google threatened tech influencers unless they 'preferred' the Pixel
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GitLab is reportedly up for sale
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Google Pixel 9 launch event live coverage: all the news
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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56
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Been considering cutting down on YouTube
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really...
I find myself scrolling through YT hoping to see something to play in the background, occasionally checking things like TechLinked or MichaelMJD with occasional PointCrow and Dougdoug. But really just wasting time doing nothing, just scrolling.
So I want to cut it off but I want to fill in that time with something else.
Anyone else has tried to cut off YT(Or at least minimize) YT from their life? I’m probably using YT the wrong way.
I would like some RSS feeds or podcast to make me go on YT less. Or thoughts/opinions/experiences from other people that used to have YT on almost all the time but minimized the time on YT.31 votes -
Over fifteen million passwords were temporarily inaccessible in Chrome's password manager
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Saluting the Chromecast, one of the great HDMI dongles
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Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
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Google violated antitrust laws in online search, US judge rules
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Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
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Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
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Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
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Google dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome
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Google now only search engine allowed to provide results from Reddit
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Google confirms Play Store mass app deletion based on new quality standards—now just six weeks away
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Weak security defaults enabled Squarespace Domains hijacks of former Google Domains accounts
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Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage
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The asymmetry of nudges
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Proton is launching encrypted documents to take on Google Docs
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Question about Google's Find My Device network with the new trackers
Hi everyone, Have a quick question if you have the time. I want to buy some of the new Android Find My Device trackers, have wanted to ever since destroying my Tiles when they were bought by that...
Hi everyone,
Have a quick question if you have the time. I want to buy some of the new Android Find My Device trackers, have wanted to ever since destroying my Tiles when they were bought by that scummy data-retailer.
My question is: if I buy, for example, a Pebblebee device, does Pebblebee get my location data? Google already has that; that's the deal with the devil you have to decide whether or not you want to take. But I don't want to give this information to another third party.
I've done some Googling on this but of course search is useless these days. I tried to read Pebblebee's privacy policy but gave up pretty quickly:
➜ ~ cat pebblebee | wc -w 17391
Does anyone have an authoritative answer on this? Would love to know.
TIA and thanks for your time!
ETA: I have seen where Pebblebee claims they don't sell user data; I'm not even questioning that with this post (although I do question every company's trustworthiness). This is more a question about the architecture of the Find My Device network itself.
Edit 2: I'm already carrying around a personal spy that reports everything I do to Google, I don't think it matters whether they can get my location from the trackers lol. I just wondered if I was exposing that to Pebblebee (just as an example) as well.
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Before smartphones, an army of real people helped you find stuff on Google
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Google is deprecating the Fitbit web dashboard on July 8th
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DeGoogling 2024: Replacing Photos, Gmail, and Search
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Publishers sue Google over pirate sites selling textbooks
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The leak of an internal Google database reveals thousands of potential privacy and security issues reported by employees
21 votes -
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same.
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"&udm=14" strips AI junk from Google results
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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
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Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
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Google I/O 2024
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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
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Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI
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Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
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Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
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US v. Google: As landmark 'monopoly power' trial closes, here's what to look for
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The man who killed Google Search
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Help me ditch Chrome's password manager!
I've been trying to reduce my reliance on all things Google, and one of the big ones is password management. I've tried several times to make the jump, but every time I start researching options...
I've been trying to reduce my reliance on all things Google, and one of the big ones is password management. I've tried several times to make the jump, but every time I start researching options I'm overwhelmed by the selection. There are a lot of popular options out there, and I really don't have the time/energy to endure a misstep. So without a clear idea of which manager will check all of my boxes, I end up bailing on the process and keep using chrome's built in option.
So to start, here's what I like about Chrome:
- Automatically offers to store passwords without extra clicks
- Autofills automatically where it can, and gives me an easy choice when it can't
- Works everywhere I need passwords. (basically everywhere I browse the internet since chrome works everywhere)
- Minimal overhead. This is hard to beat since Chrome just includes it, so I'm fine with a little extra setup if necessary.
I used to use keepass portable on a thumb drive (I want to say circa ~2009ish), but it became really inconvenient as my usage shifted more to mobile devices.
I see this as a first step to also reducing my reliance on Chrome so I can start to consider other browsers. Right now I feel locked in to Google's ecosystem, but I know I can break it up if I don't get too bogged down by choice. Much appreciate any help. :)
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Polish court orders Google to stop favouring its own price-comparison service in search results
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Google blocks some California news as fight over online journalism bill escalates
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With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work
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Google unveils custom Arm-based chips, following similar efforts at rivals Amazon and Microsoft
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Google is killing Retro Dodo and other independent sites
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Wikipedia "AI" Chrome extension
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