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8 votes
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Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
25 votes -
German antitrust body launches investigation into Google Maps
8 votes -
Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image model
3 votes -
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
17 votes -
Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding
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 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 -
New Chrome 0-day bug under active attack
12 votes -
Shortwave wants to bring back Google Inbox
3 votes -
Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan
16 votes -
Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Alphabet-owned Google for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results
4 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 -
“Imagine if doctors relied on Google as much as programmers do”
10 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 -
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 -
Authenticated brand logos in Gmail will roll out over the coming weeks
8 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 -
Google AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
14 votes -
Google I/O 2021: The fourteen biggest announcements
6 votes -
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
11 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
Rust in the Android platform
7 votes -
Supreme Court of the United States sides with Google over Oracle
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