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Re: Fook Google and its fookin' sheet
It’s a quiet day at the forum today and for some strange reason I was thinking of WP which for the first time, I realised that it has become no different to Google or Facebook.
- Their site is one of the most visited sites in the world
- They offer a free hosting platform that uses an excessive number of trackers that monetise the hosted sites and their visitors, to pay for the infrastructure, and possibly more.
In general, their practice has transformed into a mere open access one, which in reality it is not free, and is as far away from the open source ethos as it can get. Maybe we are lucky that we did not have to make those very difficult decisions.
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a Daring Fireball post
an inside look at how surveillance advertising makes creepy connections
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“Newly unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Google reveal that the company’s own executives and engineers knew just how difficult the company had made it for smartphone users to keep their location data private.”
what a clusterfick
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bici wrote #330333:
“Newly unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Google reveal that the company’s own executives and engineers knew just how difficult the company had made it for smartphone users to keep their location data private.”
what a clusterfick
Yes, yes, Android’s data gathering practices (and G’s) are are a marvellous thing.
A few days ago, all over the Europress (Elpais, lemonde, …) there was an item about the COVID exposure notification system leaving data (logs) accessible to system apps. G’s answer? oh, nothing just an important bug. won’t fix. (here).
(and some people want to trust vague promisses by G that their cohort profiling system –FLoC– only works when using G ads…)
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“Amazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company’s plan to fix connection problems for its smart home devices.”
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bici wrote #330337:
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“Amazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company’s plan to fix connection problems for its smart home devices.”
This is how skype worked since day one. It is getting worse!
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Add Bing AKA “Big Brother” to the mess that has become the InterNyet
“Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for “Tank man,” even when searching from the United States. The apparent censorship comes on the anniversary of China’s violent crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.”
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#99 2021-06-11 06:27:26
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Re: Fook Google and its fookin' sheet
About FLoC, ad tech firms already found ways to connect personal data to FLoC.
“The more signals we have, the more accurate we are, and FLoC IDs will be among signals we use,” said Mathieu Roche, CEO of identity tech firm ID5.
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#100 2021-06-11 06:56:21
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element wrote #330425:
yes, both sides of the fence are discovering the sometimes large (loop-)holes in Floc. And it is not pretty, altogether.
Eric Rescorla (Mozilla Foundation) today posted Privacy analysis of FLoC an article that takes a careful look at FLoC from the privacy watcher’s side.
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#101 2021-06-22 21:47:28
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#102 2021-06-23 02:27:45
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bici wrote #330621:
Just came here after using Brave Search
How does stack up compared to DuckDuckGo? (assuming that is what you use… else, compared to your “normal” search engine).
From a quick look, I am not liking too much that you have to chose Dark Mode if your OS is already in Dark mode. Their theme selector then sets a cookie. Also, the fact that their analytics are opt-out at the moment makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. I see both as privacy violacions. The analytics is luckily clearly mentioned upfront, and as part of a Beta program might be halfway OK.
(offering a theme selector is not wrong, but if the browser broadcast a preference –Dark or Light mode– that should be respected automatically).
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#103 2021-06-23 02:33:00
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i tried it out for a few searchers. But i prefer DuckDuckGo
a review
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#104 2021-06-23 02:34:10
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Meanwhile, google has some more anti-trust problems.
In the UK, CMA to have key oversight role over Google’s planned removal of third-party cookies the competition watchdog is uncomfortable with the current incarnation of Google proposed Privacy sandbox (including FloC). Other parties are afraid of not having the same access to tracking data as Google.
The EU also opened an anti-trust investigation on the same issue: Antitrust: Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the online advertising technology sector. Article on this at Ars Technica, EU launches antitrust probe into Google banning third-party cookies in Chrome
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#105 2021-06-23 06:23:37
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bici wrote #330623:
i tried it out for a few searchers. But i prefer DuckDuckGo
a review
Interesting review, thanks for that. Brave search is interesting so far, although much more per-country oriented than DDG. A search query in Spanish which should return at least two articles at the top first show me 3 or 4 barely related articles in US (En) based publications. DDG does better at that. Need to play more with it…
I also have to agree with that article, without an ad-blocker the top results for some more commercially oriented keywords in DDG are more often overtaken by “sponsored” content.
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