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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.
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
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.)
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
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
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
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.
"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)
* 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)
#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
@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)
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
Careful what you believe and whom you trust.
#Android #apps #Google #GooglePlay
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.
@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! 🇺🇦 :
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
From WaPo:
"Meanwhile, we found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian state-backed propaganda site; breitbart.com No. 159, a well-known source for far-right news and opinion; and vdare.com No. 993, an anti-immigration site that has been associated with white supremacy.
"The top Christian site, Grace to You (gty.org No. 164), belongs to Grace Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in California. Christianity Today recently reported that the church counseled women to 'continue to submit' to abusive fathers and husbands and to avoid reporting them to authorities."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/
#technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #Google #tech #news @technology @politics #trans #lgbtqia #lgbtq
![Screencap: "When we rely on ever larger datasets we risk incurring documentation debt, 18 i.e. putting ourselves in a situation where the datasets are both undocumented and too large to document post hoc. While documentation allows for potential accountability [13, 52, 86], undocumented training data perpetuates harm without recourse. Without documentation, one cannot try to understand training data characteristics in order to mitigate some of these attested issues or even unknown ones. The solution, we propose, is to budget for" and footnote 18 "On the notion of documentation debt as applied to code, rather than data, see [154]."](https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/110/067/706/634/894/053/original/6c6969c1be15c411.png "Screencap: \"When we rely on ever larger datasets we risk incurring documentation debt, 18 i.e. putting ourselves in a situation where the datasets are both undocumented and too large to document post hoc. While documentation allows for potential accountability [13, 52, 86], undocumented training data perpetuates harm without recourse. Without documentation, one cannot try to understand training data characteristics in order to mitigate some of these attested issues or even unknown ones. The solution, we propose, is to budget for\" and footnote 18 \"On the notion of documentation debt as applied to code, rather than data, see [154].\"")
![Screencap "As a part of careful data collection practices, researchers must adopt frameworks such as [13, 52, 86] to describe the uses for which their models are suited and benchmark evaluations for a variety of conditions. This involves providing thorough documentation on the data used in model building, including the motivations underlying data selection and collection processes. This documentation should reflect and indicate researchers’ goals, values, and motivations in assembling data and creating a given model. It should also make note of potential users and stakeholders, particularly those that stand to be negatively impacted by model errors or misuse. We note that just because a model might have many different applications doesn’t mean that its developers don’t need to consider stakeholders. An exploration of stakeholders for likely use cases can still be informative around potential risks, even when there is no way to guarantee that all use cases can be explored." 2nd-4th sentences highlighted in blue.](https://cdn.masto.host/daircommunitysocial/media_attachments/files/110/067/719/287/396/201/original/8014264a9bfb0028.png "Screencap \"As a part of careful data collection practices, researchers must adopt frameworks such as [13, 52, 86] to describe the uses for which their models are suited and benchmark evaluations for a variety of conditions. This involves providing thorough documentation on the data used in model building, including the motivations underlying data selection and collection processes. This documentation should reflect and indicate researchers’ goals, values, and motivations in assembling data and creating a given model. It should also make note of potential users and stakeholders, particularly those that stand to be negatively impacted by model errors or misuse. We note that just because a model might have many different applications doesn’t mean that its developers don’t need to consider stakeholders. An exploration of stakeholders for likely use cases can still be informative around potential risks, even when there is no way to guarantee that all use cases can be explored.\" 2nd-4th sentences highlighted in blue.")
Nowa strona i profil na mastodonie - o anonimowości i prywatności w sieci: prywatnie.eu .
Ale czemu tak ? @prywatnie.eu
Edit: na początku była w tym tekście zachęcająca łapka w górę. Niestety watek rozwinął się w taką stronę, że obecnie łapka wskazuje... 👎🏾
#prywatność #gafam #google #GA
2. Click/touch paw icon
3. And then anywhere else onscreen
4. You're welcome. #Google #cat #shenanigans
(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
#google #alphabet #go #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #privacy #development #dev #software
telemetry in the Go toolchain · Discussion #58409 · golang/go
How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry, which means software sending data to ...GitHub
If you don’t want to limit your speakers to those who are fine with surveillance capitalism, please don’t make your call for proposals require an account with a surveillance capitalist.
#conference #callForProposal #CFP #google #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming
Their answers went to #Facebook and #Google.
Read the full findings with @STAT at https://mrkup.org/telehealth. #MedMastodon
“Out Of Control”: Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive Health Information to Big Tech Companies – The Markup
An investigation by The Markup and STAT found 49 out of 50 telehealth websites sharing health data via Big Tech’s tracking toolsmrkup.org
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.
“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”
#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Google’s Quest to Digitize Valuable Military Tissue Samples
Staff at the DOD’s Joint Pathology Center have thwarted Google’s efforts to digitize priceless data from veterans’ tissue samples. The tech giant might win anyway.ProPublica