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Google is Evil


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2015 Jul 7, 1:54pm   77,636 views  482 comments

by Patrick   ➕follow (61)   💰tip   ignore  

Goddamn it, i want to keep google out of my life entirely, but now my employer uses gmail, so have to use it, and my employer put my first and last name on it: first.last@mycompany.com

To view my work calendar on my phone i have to add that account, so google knows my phone now too.

Even viewing a youtube video at work i noticed that they have me logged in to youtube (which google owns). if i log out, i can't read my email...

Google is the worst thing ever to happen to privacy.


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169   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2021 Aug 30, 12:17pm  

Patrick says
This is one reason I never use Google: extremely dishonest results, all selected to suit their agenda.

The other reason is that using Google is devastating to your privacy.


here is the craziest thing I just sort of realized.

When Feds wanted to sell propaganda to Cuba IIRC they made a website called something like "Twitter" in Spanish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZunZuneo). And they used it to push propaganda there. It's same name as Twitter, which basically is a left wing propaganda social media. Makes one wonder if there is a connection.
171   Patrick   2021 Sep 1, 9:52am  

https://nationalfile.com/facebook-and-google-partner-compiles-report-on-how-to-manipulate-people-to-get-the-vaccine-using-their-reputation-public-image-shopping-habits-religion/


A Facebook and Google partner that uses artificial intelligence to compile data from tracking people’s web history has put together a report that outlines ways to mentally program people to get the Coronavirus vaccine. NATIONAL FILE has obtained a copy of the cynical report from Resonate, a company based in Reston, Virginia in the Washington, D.C. area that goes out of its way to denounce “racism” and employs executives who previously worked for the Washington Post, AOL and other corporations. The report is called Moving The Needle: How To Reach The Vaccine-Hesitant And Resistant. The report gives tips on how to manipulate people’s values of “safety,” “reputation and public image,” “social clout,” and even their religion and shopping habits to coerce them to get the vaccine. The report explicitly states, “DRAW THEM TO VACCINATION SITES BASED ON THEIR SHOPPING PREFERENCES.” The report also compiles information on the children of vaccine-hesitant people and vaccine resisters.
Resonate’s listed partners include Facebook and Google. Resonate acknowledges that its data collection allows its clients to “gain a deeper understanding of every consumer who engages with your digital media presence across all platforms including Facebook, Linkedin, etc.” This Facebook and Google partner has used people’s personal information to build an extremely creepy profile of the “Vaccine-Hesitant” community. And Resonate makes it clear that they are tracking people’s “web traffic” in order to build their research. Here are some screenshots from Resonate’s website describing how they get their information from “web traffic” and how they partner with Facebook, Google, Oracle, and others.
174   richwicks   2021 Oct 20, 11:25am  

just_passing_through says
https://lulz.com/community/thread/social-experiment-duckduckgo-hiring-racial-discrimination/

Well, DuckDuckGo (DDG) can eat a bag of dicks too.


Believe me, it's a self correcting problem.

I first stopped using Google because as a company, they pissed me off. NOW I don't use Google, because I can't easily find what I'm looking for when I use their piece of shit search engine.
175   Patrick   2021 Oct 20, 12:09pm  

I'd gladly switch to Yandex from Qwant, but I can't figure out how to get Yandex to stop presenting about half of the results in Russian.
176   Bd6r   2021 Oct 20, 12:30pm  

Patrick says
I'd gladly switch to Yandex from Qwant, but I can't figure out how to get Yandex to stop presenting about half of the results in Russian.

they have language selection in their options
177   Patrick   2021 Oct 20, 12:37pm  

@Bd6r Do you have to be logged in to see those options?

I already have EN selected in the upper right:


178   Bd6r   2021 Oct 20, 1:11pm  

after your search, click on thing to right of Search orange button
languages appear below
click on English





@Patrick
179   Patrick   2021 Oct 20, 2:48pm  

Bd6r says
after your search, click on thing to right of Search orange button
languages appear below
click on English


Ah, thanks @Bd6r

That does seem to have fixed it, even for subsequent searches, but only until I then close that tab.

OK, now I'll set Yandex as my default search engine in Brave and try that for a while.
180   richwicks   2021 Oct 20, 2:57pm  

Tenpoundbass says
Remember when Google's motto was "Do no Evil"?
Then they decided, that dropping acid would make their company smarter. But I think they all dropped so much Acid, they became demented and deranged.


I've said this multiple times before, but I'll say it again.

It is an open secret that Google is funded and supported by the intelligence agencies. Their "parent" company in 2015 became "Alphabet". Somehow, Google, which was founded in 1998, became the child company of Alphabet in 2015. Alphabet as in alphabet agency.

It's OPENLY broadcast. It was discovered that NSA had a secret room inside of Google. There have been SEVERAL whistleblowers. They are 6 miles from where I live.

When engineers in Silly Con Valley tell you this shit, BELIEVE US. Facebook is no better, Twitter is OBVIOUSLY in the pockets of the government.
181   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 20, 2:59pm  

You can't find shit with Amazon anymore.

It's amazing that Amazon is LESS useful a decade on. Until you consider it is purposeful - to drive people to their Chinese Knockoffs.
182   Patrick   2021 Oct 20, 3:19pm  

richwicks says
Alphabet as in alphabet agency.


Lol, I had not considered that. FBI CIA NSA
183   richwicks   2021 Oct 20, 4:18pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
It's amazing that Amazon is LESS useful a decade on. Until you consider it is purposeful - to drive people to their Chinese Knockoffs.


When you're searching for something, do a search for the word "sponsored" and click "highlight all" on your browser. You can then quickly identify what is being pushed, instead of what is being searched for, and more quickly skip over those.

Yes, Amazon is purposely broken - eBay is as well.

It must have been determined that NOT showing exact searches increased sales. I remember the good old days when what I searched for is what I got to their best of their ability, then from there, it was advertisements in hopes that it was close enough to what I was looking for. Now results are obfuscated. I think that is true of the Google search engine itself, or it seems that way. That's what made Google great, it reduced time wasted.
184   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 20, 4:33pm  

Google is so full of shit. You can use every keyword and add "negative keywords" to anything remotely political, and guaranteed to get factchecked Bullshit or SPLC or whatever.
185   richwicks   2021 Oct 20, 5:08pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Google is so full of shit. You can use every keyword and add "negative keywords" to anything remotely political, and guaranteed to get factchecked Bullshit or SPLC or whatever.



Yeah, just move beyond it.

Instead of complaining about Google's bullshit, just recognize they are now bullshit.

To find videos on youtube of which I know the EXACT TITLE of, I have to use yandex to do it. For example, for this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8a2g6tTp0

Here's the search from youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Joe+Biden+brags+about+having+%E2%80%9Cthe+most+extensive+and+inclusive+VOTER+FRAUD+organization%E2%80%9D+in+history.

now from yandex:

https://yandex.com/search/?text=Joe+Biden+brags+about+having+%E2%80%9Cthe+most+extensive+and+inclusive+VOTER+FRAUD+organization%E2%80%9D+in+history.+site%3Awww.youtube.com&lr=102749

In yandex, it's the first result for me.

Deal with it.
186   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 20, 5:11pm  

Yes, I had that with S2 Underground. Youtube is actively hiding their videos.

I gave up on Google months ago and esp. Facebook years ago. Blocked on my desktop and laptop. The one thing I noticed, especially with Facebook, is pages loaded much faster despite that being the only change I made.

Next and last phase is Pinephone.
187   Patrick   2021 Oct 27, 12:56pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/almost-all-of-the-senators-funded-by-google/


October 27, 2021
Almost all of the senators supposed to be holding Big Tech accountable are bankrolled by Google
11 of the 12 senators at this week's subcommittee hearing are accepting cash from Google.
189   Patrick   2021 Nov 18, 5:29pm  

Added image to OP to make it easier to find in a visual scan.
190   GreaterNYCDude   2021 Nov 25, 8:08am  

Google is horrific. It's a sad irony that we're looking at Russia for reliable search engines. To all you smart people out there... how hard would it be to create a reliable search engine that gives good results and dosen't sell you out?
191   Blue   2021 Nov 25, 8:17am  

GreaterNYCDude says
Google is horrific. It's a sad irony that we're looking at Russia for reliable search engines. To all you smart people out there... how hard would it be to create a reliable search engine that gives good results and dosen't sell you out?

@richwicks already mentioned, it’s not difficult and does not need lots of money either. It’s simply environment around doesn’t allow to do it and run sustainably.
192   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 5:28pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-censors-shopping-searches-for-kyle-rittenhouse-t-shirts/


November 27, 2021
Google censors shopping searches for Kyle Rittenhouse t-shirts
A search in the shopping tab shows zero results.
By Cindy Harper

The phrase “Kyle Rittenhouse shirt” has joined Google Search’s list of banned shopping search terms – this is despite the fact Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges filed against him.

On the “Shopping” tab of Google Search, “Kyle Rittenhouse shirt” does not bring back any results. The results page displays a message stating: “Your search – Kyle Rittenhouse shirt – did not match any shopping results.”

Since Kittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, which included first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide, the sales of shirts showing support for Kyle Rittenhouse and self-defense have sky-rocketed. ...

As noted by The Blaze: “Google has no issues selling shirts with serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, the cannibal sex offender who killed at least 17 men in Wisconsin, John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of murdering at least 33 young men and boys, and Ted Bundy, who raped and murdered at least 20 young women and girls.

“On Google shopping, you can purchase clothes featuring Che Guevara, a homophobic and racist Marxist revolutionary; Pol Pot, leader of the Marxist Khmer Rouge that killed more than 1.7 million people through work, starvation, and torture in four years; Joseph Stalin, the Russian communist despot believed to have killed 20 million; and Chairman Mao, the Chinese communist tyrant that killed 45 million in four years.”

“Kyle Rittenhouse shirt” has only been banned on the shopping tab.
193   richwicks   2021 Nov 27, 5:53pm  

Blue says
GreaterNYCDude says
Google is horrific. It's a sad irony that we're looking at Russia for reliable search engines. To all you smart people out there... how hard would it be to create a reliable search engine that gives good results and dosen't sell you out?

@richwicks already mentioned, it’s not difficult and does not need lots of money either. It’s simply environment around doesn’t allow to do it and run sustainably.


@Patrick,

Social scores are fucking evil, but what if you can make multiple identities and create entirely new ones at will? You can start over whenever you like, but you're back to being a newbie.

On the early internet were people trying to make themselves visible so in order to get noticed, they would have a bunch of unrelated but popular search terms placed on the page on white and white text, or black on black. I have a method to make it impossible to allow such bullshit, and allow it to be called out. Not have central authorities call you out as a bad actor, but good actors do it.

I think generally people are good people, and there's a few bad apples - but the good people, they just don't believe there's bad apples.

Multiple identities are necessary anyhow. Friends my not necessarily mix with families, and they may not mix with work, or groups you're a part of. Even your child's interest in video games and music shouldn't be associated with their (nascent) political views and schoolwork.
194   AmericanKulak   2021 Nov 27, 6:12pm  

Patrick says

The phrase “Kyle Rittenhouse shirt” has joined Google Search’s list of banned shopping search terms – this is despite the fact Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges filed against him.


I got results:




Pretty sure they are overweighting the anti-Kyle shirts.
195   Patrick   2021 Nov 27, 9:14pm  

I'd check myself, but I don't want to use Google at all on my computer.
198   HeadSet   2021 Dec 16, 6:28am  

Patrick says
Google Will Fire Unvaccinated Employees

Ad revenue from Pfizer et all must be at stake.
199   Booger   2021 Dec 21, 4:22am  

Another reason to refer to them as Jewgle:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze?source=patrick.net
200   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Dec 21, 9:57pm  

HeadSet says
Patrick says
Google Will Fire Unvaccinated Employees

Ad revenue from Pfizer et all must be at stake.


They use it as excuse to get rid of people they don’t want. A lot of companies are posturing this bullshit.
203   Booger   2021 Dec 25, 2:59pm  

I have not tried this myself yet:

https://returnyoutubedislike.com/?source=patrick.net

Browser extension that lets you see YouTube dislike counts.
204   Patrick   2022 Jan 1, 9:19pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-google-manipulated-mass-formation?source=patrick.net


How Google manipulated "Mass formation psychosis" search results after the Malone interview
Wow. Mass formation in action. Google caught red-handed manipulating the narrative.
205   HeadSet   2022 Jan 2, 7:59am  

Patrick says
Google caught red-handed manipulating the narrative.

It is the only tool in their box.
206   Patrick   2022 Jan 2, 10:30am  

https://thelibertydaily.com/google-and-duckduckgo-handle-dr-robert-malones-claims-about-mass-formation-psychosis-very-differently/?source=patrick.net


But instead of linking to the video of Dr. Malone, any of the stories that dive into the phenomenon, or even reaction videos that expand on the concept, Google decided to promote some random dude’s minute-and-a-half video “debunking” it when people search them for “mass formation psychosis.”

Google has now made this random guy’s video attacking Dr Malone on Mass Formation Psychosis the top result when you search for it

On DuckDuck it comes right up at the top pic.twitter.com/5uVRs100KB

— Mass Formation Poso (@JackPosobiec) January 1, 2022
208   Misc   2022 Jan 3, 5:29pm  

There is a reason that historically Businesses have stayed out of politics.

When the other side gets in power, they tax the ever living shit out of the businesses that supported the other side.

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