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28 votes
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Rethinking open source: The challenges behind establishing a modern emulator
21 votes -
Nifty US govt chemical disaster investigation YouTube channel
4 votes -
Jordan Peterson announces free speech platform Thinkspot
34 votes -
Google is enabling RCS independently of mobile operators in the UK and France this month
10 votes -
Interview with Google's login chief about passwords vs. single sign-on
8 votes -
No, you don't look like that. How phone cameras alter reality.
7 votes -
The platform excuse is dying
16 votes -
Beware the Cheapfakes: Deepfakes are troubling. But disinformation doesn’t have to be high tech to be damaging.
5 votes -
The new wilderness
9 votes -
No, Elon Musk did not delete his Twitter account
4 votes -
The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
7 votes -
Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says
6 votes -
The M&A process is broken - Which is why we’re publishing the Atlassian Term Sheet to fix it
5 votes -
In court, Facebook blames users for destroying their own right to privacy
19 votes -
"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
25 votes -
VHD in the USA: Failure to Launch
4 votes -
The Patreon-like subscription platform that XOXO and Kickstarter were collaborating on has been canceled, due to being unable to find a way to make it a sustainable business
11 votes -
Copyright in the age of Youtube
7 votes -
You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA
26 votes -
I believe Google search is restricting what articles I can see in my searches, based on my location. What can I do?
Whenever I search for information about something - especially about a news event - Google returns me a lot of results from Australian sites. Any foreign sites come further down the list,...
Whenever I search for information about something - especially about a news event - Google returns me a lot of results from Australian sites. Any foreign sites come further down the list, sometimes even on the second page of results. I've never really paid much attention to this behaviour, beyond some occasional mild frustration at not being able to find local sources.
However, this came to a head this week when I was searching for a local US-based news article about something I'd read in an Australian news site, so I could post that local US article here on Tildes (I always try to get as close to the source as possible). But, try as I might, I just could not find any good non-Australian articles about this news! It was almost like Google was deliberately blocking my attempts to read non-Australian sites. I mean, it's possible that this news wasn't reported outside Australia, but that's unlikely, seeing as it was Uber's announcement about trialling electric aircraft in Texas and Victoria. That had to get American coverage. But I struggled to find it in my searches.
I then noticed something I've never noticed before: at the bottom of my Google searches, there's a small line which tells me my current location. It's as specific as my local council area, not just my state or the country.
Is this location affecting what Google shows me in my searches? If so, how do I remove this restriction?
For context: I use Chrome, but I only sign in when I'm accessing a Google service (usually the Calendar). After I've finished with the service, I sign out. So Google isn't tracking me as a person, it's just tracking my browser's search activity.
EDIT: Thank you all. I've already set up DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, and am trying it out.
16 votes -
No, you’re not addicted to social media: What many commentators describe as an addiction is actually a powerful social norm at work. The distinction matters.
18 votes -
Amazon created an exceptionally-detailed virtual clone of a neighborhood to train and test its delivery robots
7 votes -
8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
13 votes -
Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
23 votes -
Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
18 votes -
Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
8 votes -
Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
5 votes -
WeChat is watching
8 votes -
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it
12 votes -
Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
8 votes -
Telegram founder points to China hacking attack during Hong Kong protest
7 votes -
Spotify begins testing curated podcast playlists
10 votes -
Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
8 votes -
Branding the Decentralized Web
6 votes -
San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes
11 votes -
YouTube without all the crap?
I'm a pretty regular YouTube watcher but if I accidentally glance down at the comments section, I know my night is going to be ruined. I wondered if there is any kind of YouTube app or service...
I'm a pretty regular YouTube watcher but if I accidentally glance down at the comments section, I know my night is going to be ruined.
I wondered if there is any kind of YouTube app or service that lets you watch and search for videos (even access my subscribed channels) but with less of the crap, ie. the comments and related videos, which just take you down a YouTube rabbit hole that you won't get out of for hours.
Cheers!
19 votes -
The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
6 votes -
DJI’s newest drone is a $499 tank meant to teach kids how to code
4 votes -
Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
24 votes -
Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) - Taking back control using open software
10 votes -
The experience of working on a thirty-year-old Macintosh SE
6 votes -
Fan fiction writers are better than tech at organizing information online
12 votes -
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
7 votes -
Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
8 votes -
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
37 votes -
Diminishing differentiation: Are all our gadgets making each other redundant?
15 votes -
Firefox: The evolution of a brand
13 votes -
Dropbox's desktop app is becoming a "workspace" with organization and collaboration tools, including integrations with Slack, Zoom, and Atlassian
7 votes -
Introducing Study from Facebook
14 votes