Tag Archives: Google

Pluralistic: You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly (05 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Posted on March 6, 2024 by David K.

That’s why the only serious competitor to Google is Bing, another Big Tech company (Bing is also the primary source of results on Duckduckgo, which is why DDG sometimes makes exceptions for Microsoft’s privacy-invading tracking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies Google tells us that … Continue reading →

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Reddit Knows Programmers

Posted on February 26, 2024 by David K.

I “use” Reddit to look at subs for ESO and Fallout 76. That’s it. When I’m bored, I sometimes click over to the “popular” tab, and just have a look. It’s more of an anthropological experiment than an interest in … Continue reading →

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Concerns over Cryptocurrency Mining and the Environment

Posted on November 2, 2023 by David K.

When BitCoin prices were spiking a year ago, people concerned with such things started pointing out that the energy required to perform all the mining could power a small country, and lamented the implied acceleration of the destruction of the … Continue reading →

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Spam at Google

Posted on December 4, 2021 by David K.

As a programmer, who maintained his own email server, directly on the internet, from his home, for many years, I understand the problem of spam better than a lot of other people. It’s tricky. I get that. But, come on, … Continue reading →

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Google and “Privacy”

Posted on March 16, 2021 by David K.

After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.⁰Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search … Continue reading →

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Google eyes privacy-friendly substitute to cookies – Axios

Posted on January 26, 2021 by David K.

Tests show advertisers can expect at least 95% of conversions per dollar spent on ads, compared to cookie-based advertising, Google said. Source: Google eyes privacy-friendly substitute to cookies – Axios I don’t even need to read the article to know … Continue reading →

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Google Outage, from “Hacker” “News”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by David K.

That last line, though…

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Google And Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court : NPR

Posted on October 7, 2020 by David K.

Source: Google And Oracle’s Decade-Long Copyright Battle Reaches Supreme Court : NPR I don’t want Oracle to win on the basis of software copyrights, but I do want Google to lose, and get hit with an astronomical penalty. I also … Continue reading →

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Amazon and AI/ML

Posted on April 15, 2020 by David K.

At this point in our glorious capitalistic society, it’s the companies who are running the country, and they’ve got us by the short hairs. Who could have guessed, even 25 years ago, that the American public would literally fall over … Continue reading →

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ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen at Never Is Now 2019 – YouTube

Posted on November 22, 2019 by David K.

It’s time to regulate Facebook, Twitter, Google, et. al. I love just about everything about this, but the money quote, for me, is this, at 15:40… “… when discussing the difficulty of removing content, Zuckerberg asked “where do you draw … Continue reading →

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