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@jakob 🇦🇹 ✅

Eben. Chrom(ium) ist die Pest in Sachen #Datenschutz. Voll die Datenschleuder - wie alles von #Google 🤦

@alfredb

#Datenschutz #google @jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ @alfredb

Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act now to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice: https://u.fsf.org/40a #EndDRM #Enshittification #Google #WebStandards #DefectiveByDesign

"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet | Defective by Design

u.fsf.org
#google #enshittification #webstandards #endDRM #defectivebydesign

In my work with #FDroid I've discussed our work with gov regulators for South Africa, UK, EU and Japan as well as competition litigators from multiple US States and the EU. From this, I'm starting to see a picture of #Apple's and #Google's semi-related strategies of making "sideloading" (installing apps outside of their #gatekeeper control) look bad as a way to keep their monopolies in the face of #DMA and other regulatory actions. I'm still looking for data about the actual real world risks 1/
#apple #google #Fdroid #dma #gatekeeper

This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.

This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.

#tech

Screenshot of YouTube homepage bothering users to disable ad blockers so that they can monetize them with intrusive advertisements.
#peertube #google #tech #youtube

Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method — I urge you NOT to use it! – Lauren Weinstein's Blog

lauren.vortex.com
#google

Unfassbar - diese Kommission soll den nächsten Chef der irischen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörde empfehlen, die Google und Meta kontrollieren soll. A&L Goodbody ist die Kanzlei, die Google in Rechtstreitigkeiten u.a. mit der Behörde vertritt.

thx @maxschrems #dsgvo #meta #google #datenschutz

Liste der Ausschussmitglieder, die eine Empfehlung zur Besetzung der irischen Aufsichtsbehörde geben sollen, thx Max Schrems
#Datenschutz #DSGVO #google #meta @Max Schrems

#Google: Here’s a new and easy way for you to share your browsing interests with advertisers.

#Firefox: *rolls out a TLS extension to hide the websites you visit from your ISP and anyone else sniffing your traffic*

See the difference? Choose wisely.

#privacy #googleChrome

#firefox #privacy #google #googlechrome

A new low, even for #Google. Giving Google permission to share information about you with third-party websites is being falsely advertised as an "ad privacy feature". This is privacy washing at its most extreme. But it gets even worse.

There is a dark pattern on the second screenshot. It isn't just informing you about the fake privacy features. Clicking on "Got it" actually turns on these features that allow Google to use your recent browsing history for ads on third-party websites:

A screenshot of the Google popup asking you to turn on their "ad privacy feature".
A screenshot of Google's "other privacy ad features" popup.
#google

You need to stop using Chrome NOW. It’s not hyperbole: Google just rolled out a change to Chrome that tracks the sites you visit, builds a profile, and shares that with any page you visit that asks.

This is real. It’s not tech bro conspiracy shit.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome

#privacy #google #chrome


Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
Ars Technica
#privacy #Chrome #google

If you’re switching to #Firefox, remember Firefox is not private by default. Consider the #LibreWolf fork, which is. Otherwise, go into your settings and adjust its tracking features (like having #Google as the default search engine), turn off telemetry, “experiments”, etc.

(Also, if you all switch and Google goes bankrupt, #Mozilla will go bankrupt too because they exist thanks to half a billion dollars a year from Google. So remember Google must survive for Mozilla to survive.)

#chrome

#firefox #Chrome #google #mozilla #librewolf

If you have been following us for a while, you know that we like to speak up against unethical practices.

Let's be frank: spying on people's behavior is wrong, and #browsers should not #track or #profile its users. Period. :tony_unhappy:

If you agree with us, know that there are alternatives. Our mission is to stay true to our users and respect their privacy, and that's why we have disabled #Google #Topics API and made sure it doesn't work in Vivaldi. 🔥

Read more👇
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/


Alert: No Google Topics in Vivaldi Browser

Spying on people’s behavior & profiling them is wrong. That’s why we have made sure that Google’s Topics is disabled in two separate ways in Vivaldi browser.
Vivaldi Browser
#google #track #browsers #profile #Topics

Pretty good article about attestation on the web and what effects it could have when (not if) #Google #Chrome introduces WEI https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
httptoolkit.com
#Chrome #google

Google's Software Is Malware

"Back Doors

2020-04

The Google Play Terms of Service insist that the user of Android accept the presence of universal back doors in apps released by Google."

Source: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html

#Malware #Google #FreeSoftware

Back Doors 2020-04 The Google Play Terms of Service insist that the user of Android accept the presence of universal back doors in apps released by Google. Source: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html

Google's Software Is Malware - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

www.gnu.org
#freesoftware #google #malware

Did a web search on GDPR lawyers in a given city. Only one apparently relevant result led to a law office specializing in #GDPR. And that website was a tor-blocking #Cloudflare site.

Then I searched for a #humanRights lawyer.

1st hit: tor-hostile website

2nd hit: tor-reachable website but lawyer’s email address resolves to #Google.

I’m not joking… can’t make this stuff up. Society is drowning in #hypocrisy but no one sees it because most people don’t know how to look for it.

Perhaps we need tools to make it easy for normies to be more informed. Tools exist but they are for advanced users.

#GDPR #google #Cloudflare #humanrights #hypocrisy

"Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting #Google, #GitHub and #Facebook for starters but may modify the list later on)."

https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si


Authentication on meet.jit.si

What’s going on? Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook […]
Emil Ivov (Jitsi)
#facebook #github #google

Since it seems #Google has decided to uni-laterally force through their new anti-#adblock #DRM euphemistically named "Web environment integrity", I decided to add a little bit of code to my website that blanks out the page and displays a protest message with a link to the firefox download page when you visit it from a browser with this DRM feature. Here's the source inside one toot, feel free to copy and put it at the end of your website's <body> before the closing tag:
#google #drm #adblock

A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team; handy for sharing with your entourage, to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser :

* The "Manifest v3" sabotage of content blocking extensions: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/23131029/mozilla-ad-blocking-firefox-google-chrome-privacy-manifest-v3-web-request
* The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-jpeg-xl-photo-format-that-could-save-phone-space/
* #WebEnvironmentIntegrity a.k.a. #DRM for whole websites would hurt the web, #opensource browsers and OSes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Chrome Banishes JPEG XL Photo Format That Could Save Phone Space

Adobe, Intel, Shopify and Facebook like the new JPEG XL standard, but Google has dealt it a severe blow.
Stephen Shankland (CNET)
#firefox #Chrome #google #opensource #web #drm #browser #Chromium #jpegxl #webenvironmentintegrity #googlechrome #epiphany

Bad news

#Google finally released more info about their new #GooglePlayPolicies:

Personal accounts must give Google legal name, legal address, email and phone number.

Google will publish legal name, country and email for developers.

Organization accounts must give the above info and a D-U-N-S number.

Google will publish legal name, address, email and phone number for organization accounts.

Google is effectively going to dox every single trans dev on #GooglePlay.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13628312
New developer verification requirements from August 31, 2023 To boost trust and transparency on Google Play, we're expanding developer verifications as part of our Play Console requirements policy. To create a new Play Console developer account for an organization after August 31, 2023, you'll now need to include: - A D-U-N-S number for your organization: Provided by Dun & Bradstreet, a D-U-N-S number is a unique nine-digit number that is used globally to identify businesses. Google will use your D-U-N-S number to verify your organization. - A contact phone number and email address for Google Play users: These will be shown on Google Play so that users can contact you. You'll need to verify them by receiving a code. To help you prepare for these changes, we recommend reviewing your Dun & Bradstreet account to make sure that it's up to date with the latest information about your organization. Developers with existing Play Console accounts will also be required to provide this information soon. We'll give existing developers plenty of notice to verify their accounts, and we'll send an update about these requirements later this year. Creating a developer account for an organization When creating an organization account, you must provide the following information: - Developer name; can be different from your legal name - As per your linked Google Payments profile: D-U-N-S number, Organization name, Organization addres - Organization phone number - Organization website - Contact nam - Contact email address - Contact phone number - Developer email addres - Developer phone number Your developer name will appear on Google Play and can be changed any time. Your organization name and address is taken from the Google Payments profile that you linked to your developer account during account creation. You will need to verify these identity details before publishing on Google Play. To help improve transparency and user safety on Google Play, Google will display your legal name, legal address, developer email address, and developer phone number on Google Play. Your contact email address, contact phone number, developer email address and developer phone number must be verified using a one-time password and remain operational for the duration of your developer account.
Creating a developer account for personal use When creating a personal account, you must provide the following information: - Developer name; can be different from your legal name - Legal name - Legal address - Contact email address - Contact phone number - Developer email address - Developer website Your developer name will appear on Google Play and can be changed any time. Your legal name and address will be taken from the Google Payments profile that you linked to your developer account during account creation. You will need to verify these identity details before publishing on Google Play. Google will display your legal name, your country (as per your legal address), and developer email address on Google Play. If you decide to monetize on Google Play then Google will display your full address. Your contact email address, contact phone number, and developer email address must be verified using a one-time password and remain operational for the duration of your developer account.
#google #googleplay #googleplaypolicies

#google #classroom #Teams @marcin mikołajczak @McGramat #PL2050

What happens if #Gmail decides only #Chrome users can access it? Well, that's what #Google's new API would do if its new DRM for the #web moves ahead.

@markhachman covers it on @pcworld ⬇️
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2009730/vivaldi-mozilla-warn-of-googles-proposed-drm-for-the-web.html

Vivaldi, Mozilla raise alarms over Google's proposed 'DRM for the Web'

Google's proposed Web Environment Integrity would allow web sites control over which browsers access them, drawing fire from smaller browser makers Vivaldi and Mozilla.
Mark Hachman (PCWorld)
#Chrome #google #web #gmail

Repeat a 1,000 times: #Google is an #advertising moloch and #Chrome browser monopolist, NOT your friendly free service provider!

Google is about to smack down on the #OpenWeb, killing it with their so-called "Web Environment Integrity API" #DRM proposal.

"Wanna watch those #Netflix or #Youtube vids? Better have Chrome without #AdBlocker then"

"Here's plenty #ads. Now hand over your #PII so we can grow our #SurveillanceCapitalism empire"

#GiveUpGoogle #DitchChrome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305
A paintbrushed mural made by activists showing the Google logo with the O's replaced by surveillance camera's.

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
#Netflix #Chrome #SurveillanceCapitalism #google #drm #youtube #openweb #ads #advertising #adblocker #pii #giveupgoogle #ditchchrome

Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c
#google #web #drm #bigtech #standards #siliconvalley #peoplefarming #w3c #evilasaservice #DigitalImperialism #webstandards #adtech

#Google is trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.

Using the proposed "Web Environment Integrity" means websites can select on which devices (browsers) they wish to be displayed, and can refuse service to other devices. It binds client side software to a website, creating a silo'd app.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

This penalizes platforms on which the preferred client side software is not available.
#google #openweb #kill

I will only access #Google products when I must, and then only in a dedicated container in the desktop version of #Firefox
#firefox #google

This standalone #Google error page is absolutely hilarious to me:
If clearing your cache and cookies doesn't resolve the problem, try adjusting your browser's privacy settings. If your settings are on high, manually add www.google.com to your list of allowed sites.

Huh, I wonder why they would have a problem with browser #privacy settings being set to high. 🤔

https://accounts.google.com/CookieMismatch
#privacy #google

#newpipe has been removed from #google search recently. The homepage https://newpipe.net is not listed in Google search results anymore. This is due to a #DMCA. For now, only our landing page is affected.

More info in our blog post:
https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/

newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing.
NewPipe
#google #dmca #newpipe

Logged on #Facebook with my partner's credentials to handle Marketplace orders (for my LEGO sets) while she's away at a work conference, then browsed to an Instagram reel for completely different reasons, and #Instagram shows me a banner prompting me to log in as my partner's account.

IT ISN'T THE SAME FUCKING WEBSITE! 🤬

I do understand #Google cross-login between apps because they're all under the same google.com domain, so cookies can work across apps, but between facebook.com and instagram.com? I hate it.
#facebook #Instagram #google

Google wants to track you - no matter what. Now it is threatening to take down Invidious, a popular platform on which you can watch YouTube videos without being tracked!

https://tutanota.com/blog/google-youtube-invidious-privacy-alternative

#google #business #data #legal #privacy #opensource #foss

Google Threatens to Kill Open Source YouTube Front-End Invidious for Letting You Watch Videos without Tracking or Ads

Invidious is well known as a privacy-first platform to watch YouTube videos without ads or tracking. Now Google wants it to shut down.
Tutanota
#foss #privacy #google #opensource #business #legal #data

We've been told Google Play transparently shows what data is collected etc, right? And whether an app has Ads? Well, dream on. I've just checked an app to see if it would fit my repo. Below is what Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.isaakhanimann.journal) says about it (no "Ads" marker), then the results from my library scanner.

Careful what you believe and whom you trust.

#Android #apps #Google #GooglePlay
"Data Safety" section of the app on Google Play, saying "No data shared with third parties. No data collected"
For the very same app: Results by my library scanner, showing the app contains libraries of 2 Analytics frameworks (Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics) plus Google Ads. This must mean that Google is no "third party" and doesn't collect any data. And the pope is muslim I guess, or so.

PsychonautWiki Journal - Apps on Google Play

Substance Journaling
play.google.com
#google #Android #apps #googleplay

Prasówka 2-9.06.2023

Weekendowa Lektura: odcinek 522 [2023-06-04]. Bierzcie i czytajcie | Zaufana Trzecia Strona

Anna Wasilewska-Śpioch (Zaufana Trzecia Strona)
#GDPR #twitter #microsoft #apple #Instagram #TikTok #Amazon #AI #google #youtube #bigtech #CSAM #si #openai #inwigilacja #rodo #UE #chatbot #prawo #sztucznainteligencja #ePanstwo #Prasówka #Cyberbezpieczeństwo #ePrawo #RCB #eUE #Chiny #YT

Muszę się pochwalić #kuchenne rewolucje prawie ale #google rewolucje zaczynamy trzymajcie kciuki
#google #kuchenne

#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.

This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!

If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.
#Video #media #google #youtube #history #television #homemovies #archives

FTR - #Google sat for 9 years on the .zip TLD before now deciding to actually market it. That’s 9 years of time to make sure that the expected abuse gets managed. They simply didn’t care, it seems. The first obvious scam sites are already popping up. Le sigh.
#google

Simple Mobile tools

Simple Mobile Tools

Simple Mobile Tools
#OSS #foss #notes #art #privacy #music #google #opensource #clock #app #Android #draw #calendar #keyboard #contacts #launcher #foss_android #SimpleGalleryPro #SimpleContacts #SimpleTools #calculator #gboard #musicplayer #flashlight #camera #messages #filemanager #gallery #dialer

ICD #34 - Co jeśli nie Facebook, Instagram i reszta? Fediverse!

Content warning: #aplikacje #apple #bezpieczeństwo #big #czas #działać #facebook #fediverse #firefox #google #internet #kontrola #korporacje #linux #media #mozilla #nowoczesne #opensource #Podcast #prawa #privacy #prywatność #security #social #tech #technologia #technolog

#fediverse #security #apple #internet #linux #facebook #firefox #privacy #technology #media #podcast #google #tech #opensource #web #social #mozilla #www #users #kontrola #prywatność #bezpieczenstwo #technologia #aplikacje #big #czas #działać #korporacje #nowoczesne #prawa #technologie #webowe

@ROOTBLOG
Jako następny proponuję temat "Strona rootblog,pl udostępnia google, disqus historię odwiedzanych przez Was stron. Bez waszej zgody. Wiemy, jak to wyłączyć, ale nie chcemy!"

Analiza strony przy pomocy pluginu #rentgen od @Internet. Czas działać! 🇺🇦 :

screenshot - analiza prywatnosci strony rootblog.pl wtyczką rentgen

#google #disqus #prywatność #rootblog

#google #prywatność #rentgen #rootblog #disqus @Internet. Czas działać! 🌎 @ROOTBLOG

So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec
#technology #google #tech #infosec #Android #business #enshitification @Cory Doctorow @Technology

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