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Google is Evil


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2015 Jul 7, 1:54pm   77,997 views  482 comments

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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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213   Booger   2022 Jan 8, 5:28am  

Youtube now censoring videos by falsely claiming they contain copyright music.
214   AmericanKulak   2022 Jan 8, 6:09pm  

Ok @googlenest you’ve gone too far. Since you bought Nest the product has deteriorated but I was already bought in so I accepted it. Now you feel it’s your place to unilaterally decrease my temp settings? IN A CHICAGO WINTER?? Replacing your (not really “my”) thermostats today.

— Joe Pilot, MD (@JoeSilverman7) January 8, 2022
215   Patrick   2022 Jan 8, 8:21pm  

Booger says
Youtube now censoring videos by falsely claiming they contain copyright music.


This tactic is used all the time to shut down sites that don't even have anything copyrighted on them.

https://revisionlegal.com/copyright/suing-for-false-fraudulent-dmca-takedown-notices-the-actual-knowledge-requirement/?source=patrick.net

I myself got a false DMCA takedown notice because I simply linked to this site:

https://www.primitivelogic.com/?source=patrick.net

It took a while, but I got it reverse because it was SO blatantly illegal. And so I'm linking to them again now, just because I can and they don't want me to. They are shit, don't buy anything from them.
217   Patrick   2022 Jan 21, 1:00pm  

Google is evil, but maybe not all the shareholders are.

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-shareholders-demand-censorship-disclosure/?source=patrick.net


January 21, 2022
Google shareholders push for the company to disclose Biden censorship demands
The group wants to know the extent of the censorship President Biden has asked for.
218   Patrick   2022 Jan 25, 7:58pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/google-tracking-users-without-permission/?source=patrick.net


4 AGs Sue Google for Tracking Users Without Permission
Attorneys general from Washington, D.C. and three states on Monday sued Google, accusing the tech giant of deceiving consumers about the security of their location data in order to boost its digital advertising profits.
220   Patrick   2022 Feb 1, 1:19pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-bipartisan-bill-aims-to-break-up-googles-ad-dominance/?source=patrick.net

February 1, 2022
New bipartisan bill aims to break up Google’s ad dominance
The bill is gaining support.
221   richwicks   2022 Feb 1, 1:20pm  

Patrick says
New bipartisan bill aims to break up Google’s ad dominance
The bill is gaining support.


Google is owned and run by the intelligence agencies, just as congress is. This is just political theater.
222   Patrick   2022 Feb 1, 1:26pm  

I'm afraid you're probably right.

It's the woke plus the oligarchy against the people.
223   Patrick   2022 Feb 11, 3:16pm  

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/google-secretly-tracked-people/?source=patrick.net


Four attorneys general have sued Google for its deceptive practices in collecting location data from the public.
The separate lawsuits allege that Google continued to track location data of its users even after they had disabled location tracking.
Google’s misleading claims to users regarding privacy protections available in their account settings have been ongoing since at least 2014.
The attorney general for the District of Columbia launched an investigation into Google after a 2018 AP News report revealed Google was tracking people’s movements even when they’d opted out of such tracking.
The suits allege that Google’s products are designed to pressure users to allow location tracking “inadvertently or out of frustration,” in violation of state consumer protection laws.
224   Patrick   2022 Feb 12, 1:20pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-analytics-in-its-current-form-is-a-privacy-law-violation-france-rules/?source=patrick.net


February 12, 2022
Google Analytics in its current form is a privacy law violation, France rules
Google tracking scripts on websites are scooping up data on visitors.


Google spyware is on more than half the sites on the internet. But not this one.
225   richwicks   2022 Feb 13, 3:07am  

Booger says
I have not tried this myself yet:

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

Browser extension that lets you see YouTube dislike counts.


@Booger - I've tried it, it works. The White House youtube channel still has a 10 to 1 dislike ratio.
226   Bd6r   2022 Feb 17, 12:16pm  

This real:


227   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 17, 1:06pm  

Bd6r says
This real:


"Guys, guys, stop fighting the culture war guys. Let's talk about legalizing weed and cutting taxes."
228   Patrick   2022 Mar 8, 5:49pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/google-is-deliberately-skewing-the?s=r&source=patrick.net


The White House should be very proud of the job Google and YouTube are doing.

Google executives are swallowing the government narrative 100%, and not asking any questions. They are ignoring any facts that show the government is lying and they are not willing to listen or have an open discussion with their own employees or any outside experts who disagree with the safe and effective narrative. They are doing what they are told to do.

In deliberately suppressing valuable information that can save lives, Google is doing a tremendous disservice to humanity and causing irreparable harm. And, just like lawmakers, they will not be held accountable to anyone who dares to question their policies.
231   Patrick   2022 May 3, 6:24pm  

https://strongandfreecanada.org/iron-will/our-online-identity-is-under-attack-how-to-protect-it-oliver-ross/?source=patrick.net


The first thing that everybody should take away in general, there’s two things…please stop using Gmail, Google and Google Chrome. Stop using their services. On top of that, you should stop using Microsoft Edge and any of the Microsoft services or Safari, but Google is particularly bad because of all the systems that they have intact and together. I would say for easy internet use, Brave browser is the best one to start with, it’s very similar to Google Chrome. It’s built off the chromium backbone, but it is more private than Google Chrome. There’s no affiliation and you can select the search engine in the browser. Sometimes when you install Brave, it has Google as the pre-set search engine, but you don’t have to keep it.
232   SunnyvaleCA   2022 May 3, 7:17pm  

There’s no affiliation and you can select the search engine in the browser.

I think all the browsers allow this. I've been using Bing as my default search engine on my main-duty browser. I don't think there's any advantage to Bing other than the pretty background pictures and the knowledge that I've traded in the #1 most evil company for one merely in the top 10!
233   Patrick   2022 May 4, 12:56pm  

https://blog.google/products/search/new-options-for-removing-your-personally-identifiable-information-from-search/?source=patrick.net

I think you have to give up personal info to use Google's tool for removing personal info though...
234   Patrick   2022 May 8, 9:14am  

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/04/21/google-funded-prominent-lab-leak-denier/?source=patrick.net


Charles Calisher – professor of microbiology at Colorado State University and the top of nearly 30 individuals who signed the Lancet letter – received funding from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the tech behemoth, for a paper from June 2011 published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
236   Patrick   2022 May 27, 2:02pm  

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/05/allan-stevo/the-wrong-reasons-to-hate-google/


Google’s original algorithm, written by Larry Page as a student, is brilliant. It uses math to ask and answer this beautiful question: “How do I give the person searching exactly what that person wants?”

What a powerful question.

That is a question that empowers the individual.

Change is not bad. It is bad change that is bad.

And somewhere around 2015, Google, as an organization, abandoned that powerful mission when that question was supplanted at Google by a faction seeking to ask a different question: “How do I give the person searching exactly what I want him to see?”
237   richwicks   2022 May 27, 2:08pm  

Patrick says
And somewhere around 2015, Google, as an organization, abandoned that powerful mission when that question was supplanted at Google by a faction


The "faction" you are talking about is the intelligence agencies.

It's no coincidence that Google's "parent" company Alphabet which was founded in 2015, when Google, the "child" company was founded in 1998 is named "Alphabet".

Engineers tend to be arrogant (I am one!) and will pass off clues to people as a joke. Alphabet is part of the alphabet agencies - FBI, NSA, CIA, etc. Google is intelligence.
238   Patrick   2022 May 27, 2:10pm  

richwicks says
Alphabet is part of the alphabet agencies - FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.


Ah, had not considered this. If true, they are really rubbing our noses in their shit.
239   richwicks   2022 May 27, 2:20pm  

Patrick says

richwicks says
Alphabet is part of the alphabet agencies - FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.


Ah, had not considered this. If true, they are really rubbing our noses in their shit.


You're an engineer too. I used to pull this kind of subversive shit early in my career. There's some enjoyment in coding, but it's kind of fun to make up a reason to make a function or structure named "Ahol", "LSD", etc. Do you really think "Plain Old Telephone System" wasn't created just to form the acronym "POTS"? If they weren't fucking around it would have been "Original Telephone System" - OTS.
240   Patrick   2022 Jun 10, 10:17pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-tells-congress-the-proposed-antitrust-bill-would-hinder-its-censorship-efforts/


Google tells Congress the proposed antitrust bill would hinder its censorship efforts
Google is appealing to Democrat lawmakers.
243   Patrick   2022 Aug 20, 4:59pm  

https://freebeacon.com/media/union-petitions-google-to-suppress-results-for-pro-life-pregnancy-centers/


Employees at Google's parent company are urging the search engine to suppress results for pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, according to a petition sent Monday by the company union to Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai.


Google search results are wildly biased, not at all objective.
246   richwicks   2022 Aug 23, 11:43pm  

Patrick says


https://www.rebelnews.com/google_fellowship_imposes_quotas_on_white_and_asian_men


This is just the death of Google. They're an evil company anyhow - the more mistakes they make, the better. They are already one of the worst search engines, and youtube is just for mindless entertainment now. Don't complain that they are opening the field for competition. Competition is good.

The REAL threat would be if they didn't go into suck. Imagine if their search engine was still amazing, and there was no censorship on youtube, and they STILL controlled "the narrative". Then they would be dangerous.

I hope they continue to hire substandard people for entirely superficial reasons.
247   Patrick   2022 Aug 26, 5:28pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-c-sam-lockout-scanning/


Google is withholding access to people’s emails, contacts, photos, and documents when its AI falsely accuses of them of a crime


No sympathy. If you are stupid enough to make your life dependent on Google, you deserve it.

No one should ever use any Google product under any circumstances.
248   Hircus   2022 Aug 26, 10:21pm  

Patrick says








This is a great idea for a browser extension.
249   Patrick   2022 Sep 8, 9:35am  

https://babylonbee.com/news/youtube-accidentally-executes-chinas-political-prisoners-due-to-algorithm-mishap


SAN BRUNO, CA - YouTube has apologized after an algorithm error caused the video sharing site to execute hundreds of people critical of China.

The unintentional programming error caused YouTube executioners to hunt down and kill the political enemies of the Communist Party of China. From political prisoners of the regime to people who said negative things about China's government, hundreds of people were executed before the error was discovered.
250   Patrick   2022 Oct 17, 11:12pm  

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker


The Internet operated for many years without touching the mass advertising business. That giant would eventually be felled by Google, but initially the company refused on moral principle to make money from advertising. In a 1998 paper, the company’s founders wrote that search engines funded by ads “will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Instead, Google sold licenses to other companies to use its search technology. But amid the pressures of the dot-com bust, the company would backtrack and pursue a new revenue stream based on targeted search ads, launching Adwords in October 2000.


Hypocrites from the start.
251   richwicks   2022 Oct 17, 11:18pm  

Patrick says

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker



The Internet operated for many years without touching the mass advertising business. That giant would eventually be felled by Google, but initially the company refused on moral principle to make money from advertising. In a 1998 paper, the company’s founders wrote that search engines funded by ads “will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Instead, Google sold licenses to other companies to use its search technology. But amid the pressures of the dot-com bust, the company would backtrack and pursue a new revenue stream based on targeted search ads, launching Adwords in October 2000.


Hypocrites from the start.


It's a problem from being a publicly traded company on the stock market. You are legally required to increase profits, over anything else.

If you want to make something good and great, you stay private, forever.
252   1337irr   2022 Oct 18, 2:58am  

richwicks says

Patrick says


https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker




The Internet operated for many years without touching the mass advertising business. That giant would eventually be felled by Google, but initially the company refused on moral principle to make money from advertising. In a 1998 paper, the company’s founders wrote that search engines funded by ads “will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” Instead, Google sold licenses to other companies to use its search technology. But amid the pressures of the dot-com bust, the company would backtrack and pursue a new revenue stream based on targeted search ads, launching Adwords in October 2000.


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