patrick.net

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/googlegov-part-1-33f?publication_id=323684&post_id=135470658&isFreemail=true

The company is basically the Eye of Sauron, having expanded into services far afield from search while assembling the greatest surveillance network the world has ever seen. Even the consumer profiles acquired by Facebook pale in comparison with those maintained by Google, which is collecting information about people 24/7, using more than 60 different observation platforms—the search engine of course, but also Google Wallet, Google Maps, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Chrome, Google Docs, Android, YouTube, and on and on. Few Gmail users are aware that Google stores and analyzes every email they write, even the drafts they never send—as well as all the incoming email they receive from both Gmail and non-Gmail users.

According to Google’s privacy policy — to which you assent whenever you use a Google product, even when you haven’t been informed that you’re using a Google product — Google is entitled to share all the data it collects about you with almost anyone, including the federal government. But never with you. Your privacy is not the priority. Google’s privacy, however, is sacrosanct. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/04/google-doj-search-trial/

Judge clears way for DOJ’s antitrust case against Google to go to trial
The government’s case alleging Google has an illegal monopoly in the search engine business will go to trial in September

Fake news.

I'd like to believe that the DOJ will actually act against Google, but that is equivalent to the Democratic Party acting against the Democratic Party. Won't happen.

Maybe Google will change something cosmetic, that's all.

I am not a robot.

I've read that Google's ReCaptcha spyware does some analysis of your mouse movement into the box as well. Humans tend to move the mouse a certain way.

I don't think it can get all your browsing history, but what it could do is look up which sites you've recently been on which also some Google spyware installed. Which is quite a lot of all websites, maybe half. This is why Google gives out "free" access to, say, javascript libraries and css files for people to use on their sites. Each page load collects data about users without telling them.

I have all Google domains (that I know of) blocked on my laptop with Little Snitch:

https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

One result of this was that when I hit a ReCaptcha and tried to turn off Little Snitch to use that ReCaptcha, it would always deny me access because I had no history of using sites with Google spyware. It figured anyone who hasn't used any Google-infested domains lately must not be human, lol. At least that's my best guess.

Patrick says

It figured anyone who hasn't used any Google-infested domains lately must not be human,

Must not be useful.

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/googlegov-part-2-64f?publication_id=323684&post_id=135470756&isFreemail=true

Technology has consequences, and these consequences are beginning to manifest as undetectable and untraceable manipulations of entire populations by an unholy alliance between corporations and government to not only monitor what we do, but invisibly influence knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Even for those who make a conscious effort to “live off the grid” and decline to use social media and smartphones, it’s getting to the point where it’s all but impossible to operate in day-to-day life without consenting to data harvesting by entities looking to control and profit off of us. It is Orwellian to the maximus.

We’re talking about power on a level unprecedented in human history—virtually untraceable and well beyond the scope of existing regulations and laws. The biomedical tyranny carried out under the auspices of the pandemic was just the next logical extreme. As progressive internet “hacktivist” Aaron Swartz once said about Big Tech, “They have no constitution to answer to. They’re not elected. They have no constituents or voters. All of the protections we’ve built up to protect against government tyranny don’t exist for corporate tyranny.”

https://newsdetectives.substack.com/p/new-internet-censorship-tool-unleashed

I can recall many people had high hopes that the “open source” business model (like WordPress) would lead to a better world.

Google has since abandoned their “don’t be evil” slogan to become one of the most fascist players on the digital stage, practicing censorship with no shame thirteen years later.

Maybe that’s why nobody is talking about Google’s new global internet censorship tool just introduced last week? ...

If your website or blog or Substack criticizes or questions topics like:

Covid-19 statistics

vaccines

the World Bank

Big Pharma

a one-world global government

climate change

then your website will be prevented from being found in Google search results.

So don't use Google.

Ever.

Patrick says

So don't use Google.

Ever.

There's two types of people.

People that recognize that a platform engages in censorship, prevents you from talking to people, prevents you from talking about subjects, prevents you from openly discussing ideas, right or wrong and accepts it all. These are cattle.

And people that go to other sites.

I no longer give a shit about the cattle. For 3 decades we tried to help, they are hapless by their own choice. They won't listen, they continue to obey, they will NEVER object. I'm about to become something I never thought I would become, I'm going into the predator business. If these stupid assholes want to be stupid, maybe they should be taken advantage of.

richwicks says

I'm going into the predator business. If these stupid assholes want to be stupid, maybe they should be taken advantage of.

This is what I believe happens to politicians who actually believed in helping the people but after a few years at the state or national capital, they get tired of the cattle supporting predators and even blocking the good guy's efforts. This is another reason for term limits.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/commenting-wednesday-august-16-2023

At a time when excess deaths are skyrocketing from a wide variety of baffling causes like turbo cancer, it seems like an appropriate time to lock down people’s ability to trade treatment tips. Great idea.

The part of the policy I found most comical was this nugget: “Videos are not allowed to discourage viewers from seeking professional medical treatment.” Haha! So, not only can’t folks post videos about non-pharma remedies, they aren’t even allowed to criticize the medical-industrial complex.

It seems like there are some options to YouTube out there. It might be time to start looking into them.

https://www.rt.com/news/581881-google-censors-republicans-rfk-websites/

Google hiding websites of Trump and other Biden challengers – report

Searching ‘presidential campaign websites’ returned incumbent Joe Biden’s webpage and several inactive Democrats

Google is suppressing the 2024 campaign websites of all serious challengers to Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden, a report from the Media Research Center claimed on Thursday.

Searching the web for ‘presidential campaign websites’ using Google returned results that did not include a single Republican candidate on the first page the day before the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 season, according to the MRC.

Not even former US President Donald Trump, who is polling neck-and-neck with Biden, appeared in the first few pages of results, the media watchdog observed.

Nor did Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief threat to Biden’s candidacy from within his own party, appear in the results at all, even though a recent poll had him at nearly 20% in a matchup against Biden.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/youtube-demonetizes-channel-video-democrats-challenging-election-results/

YouTube Demonetizes Channel Over Video of Democrats Challenging Election Results

YouTube has demonitized a channel over a video for the crime of making Democrats look like raging hypocrites.

A journalist named Matt Orfalea, who works with Matt Taibbi, created the video which intersperses clips of Trump questioning election results with Democrats doing the exact same thing.

Someone at YouTube clearly thought this was a problem and yanked the monetization for the entire channel. ...

So what kind of video could spur YouTube’s censors to declare Matt Orfeala, or “orf,” a single independent video journalist a “violent criminal organization”?

One that pushes back against the totalitarian left’s current narrative that Trump is the only person to have ever challenged states’ slates of electors, of course.

We can’t have Trump’s jurors seeing this!

YouTube is telling people that they can make money only through some political speech — political speech that serves the Democrat Establishment and Tech Oligarchy.

The tech censorship never ends. ...

https://www.racket.news/p/youtube-hits-orf-again-as-censorship




As you will see if you click now, the above video, as I argued to Google, could not possibly be violative of any “misinformation” guideline, as it was comprised entirely of “real, un-altered clips of public figures making public comments.”

My mother had spasmodic dysphonia.

The only thing doctors did for her was the botox injection, and it didn't help at all.

From a complaint I have about the Covered California site:

In the HTML which defines the page, we see:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans%3A400%2C600%2C700%22 rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=onloadRenderRecaptcha&render=explicit%22 async defer>

The first tag, the "link", gets CSS files from Google servers, to aid in formatting the page. This service is "free" to the creators of https://apply.coveredca.com/ for the sole reason that Google can use it to collect information about the people using it, for example, the fact that they are applying for coverage. Simply loading those CSS files not only lets Google know the URL, IP address, and browser type of the user, but for people who have Google accounts, it also will transmit a "cookie" to Google which allows Google to exactly identify the particular person applying for coverage.

But CSS files the smaller invasion of privacy. The larger invasion is the second line, where a javascript script is loaded, because that invades the privacy of everyone who uses the application for coverage, whether they have a Google account or not, and irresponsibly gives Google unlimited powers of surveillance and control over the page.

When javascript is loaded from a 3rd party server (1st party is user's browser, 2nd party is coveredca.com, 3rd party is Google), that javascript is automatically entrusted with 100% visibility and control over the page. This is simply how all web browsers work. So Google could easily use its javascript to:

1. read everything the user types, including the password, and report it back to Google
2. alter any of the text on the page to say anything Google wants
3. alter what the user is trying to say to coveredca.com without the user or coveredca.com being aware
4. block the page from loading, if Google wants

This is all well-known to javascript programmers who have had sufficient security training. So, for example, no bank will ever include 3rd party javascript on a login or account page for the reasons given above. Sadly, most javascript programmers have not had sufficient security training, and are easily tempted to use the "free" services from Google without consideration as to Google's motive for providing these services. The programmers care about their deadlines for providing the functionality they were tasked with. If they can speed up their work by using Google services, they will do it. They usually either do not even consider the danger to privacy, or just don't care. It is typically only the banks which care, because of the real threat of financial loss and lawsuits.

Even the FBI's "anonymous" tip web page gives an open door to Google to read and write anything in this way, and to identify the tipper. Any tip reported there to the FBI is also visible to Google.

I would be delighted to help more, because this is a serious issue affecting perhaps half of all websites, and it is very difficult to get any attention for it.

Patrick

https://notthebee.com/article/academics-created-a-google-doc-of-students-who-showed-support-for-hamas-as-a-record-for-future-employers-but-google-deleted-it

Someone created a Google doc of students who showed support for Hamas as a record for future employers but Google deleted it

Patrick says

Someone created a Google doc of students who showed support for Hamas as a record for future employers but Google deleted it

I don't believe in blacklisting. Do you?

I had plenty of dumb stupid ideas at 25, didn't you? Didn't you think that Obozo would be better than Bush? If you did, that was a stupid idea...

I used to think that Democrats were the anti-war party, that was a stupid idea. I think it's important to allow people to make errors, and see their errors.

I don't like blacklisting, but find it hilarious that the very students who are so much into cancelling people are themselves getting cancelled.

Patrick says

I don't like blacklisting, but find it hilarious that the very students who are so much into cancelling people are themselves getting cancelled.

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

When X does a bad some thing, this gives Y the excuse to do the same thing targeting X, and Z smiles, because they want to do that thing.

Kids are propagandized, can't you realize YOU were? I can certainly recognize I was. Takes some time to come out of it.

The point of free speech isn't just to identify and find good ideas, it's also to find bad and insane ideas. You can only recognize the true nutcases with free speech.

richwicks says

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

I do not think anyone is saying the blacklisting is from the left, just that the students who are so quick to cancel others are being cancelled themselves.

In my opinion, those doing the canceling are corporate leaders who have more allegiance to Israel than they do to the United States.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

I wouldn't be too quick to ascribe this blacklisting to be from "the left".

I do not think anyone is saying the blacklisting is from the left, just that the students who are so quick to cancel others are being cancelled themselves.

In my opinion, those doing the canceling are corporate leaders who have more allegiance to Israel than they do to the United States.

Beautiful

Mutually Assured Destruction created Freedom of Religion

Now it will restore Freedom of Speech

This is what Libertarians and "Principled Republicans" don't understand. The cure is MAD, not expecting tolerance to be returned.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-friday-the-13th

Seriously, this is how I found out about a former Hamas leader calling for a “Day of Jihad” on Friday the 13th.




At first, I wasn’t sure if it was fake news… So, I googled Day of Jihad on Googlenet news - this is what I got.




Nothing - main stream media (MSM) and the Googlenet is not reporting on it. “A Day of Jihad” is evidently not a worthwhile news story.

OK then.

But is the statement real?

This is the problem with censorship and selective news reporting. Where does it end?

So, I googled “Hamas, Jihad” on the Google News. That search pulled some local news stories about local and state police forces getting ready.




Again, nothing from MSM.

With the exception of Newsweek, which did actually report on this story. Newsweek choose to run a hit piece on “Maga” in the context of the Hamas statement. Wait, what? They then asserted that the “day of Jihad”, actually just meant a day of protests…

I had to use Yandex (hat tip @richwicks) to find the hamas proclamation video (I suppose I should capitalize hamas to avoid the red squiggly underline, but I do not dignify that which I hold in contempt).

stereotomy says

I had to use Yandex (hat tip richwicks) to find the hamas proclamation video (I suppose I should capitalize hamas to avoid the red squiggly underline, but I do not dignify that which I hold in contempt).

People need to stop using Google.

Using google is like using information that is exclusively sourced from the CIA.

For details of how the leak works:

https://patrick.net/post/1313537/2018-02-02-fbi-leaks-all-tips-online-to-google

Eric Berg has popular videos on YouTube. Check them out, you might find info that could help your health.


What I really think about YouTube's new rules by Annette Bosworth, MD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3I6_sQ7W4

YES, Yandex is better than Google, in my personal experience with using both Google search and Yandex search.
And protonmail is an awesome alternative to gmail

I agree. Yandex images is particularly good:

https://yandex.com/images/

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-verdict-monopoly-google-play

Three years after Fortnite-maker Epic Games sued Apple and Google for allegedly running illegal app store monopolies, Epic has a win. The jury in Epic v. Google has just delivered its verdict — and it found that Google turned its Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service into an illegal monopoly.

After just a few hours of deliberation, the jury unanimously answered yes to every question put before them — that Google has monopoly power in the Android app distribution markets and in-app billing services markets, that Google did anticompetitive things in those markets, and that Epic was injured by that behavior. They decided Google has an illegal tie between its Google Play app store and its Google Play Billing payment services, too, and that its distribution agreement, Project Hug deals with game developers and deals with OEMs were all anticompetitive.

https://notthebee.com/article/googles-dei-training-calls-white-anxiety-a-public-health-crisis-and-compares-voting-for-republicans-to-being-addicted-to-drugs-

Google's DEI training calls "white anxiety" a public health crisis, compares voting candidates who will "bring back those jobs" to being a junkie

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages ...

But Bard will also analyze the private content of messages “to understand the context of your conversations, your tone, and your interests.” It will analyze the sentiment of your messages, “to tailor its responses to your mood and vibe.” And it will “analyze your message history with different contacts to understand your relationship dynamics… to personalize responses based on who you're talking to.”

And so here comes the next privacy battlefield for smartphone owners still coming to terms with app permissions, privacy labels and tracking transparency, and with all those voice AI assistant eavesdropping scandals still fresh in the memory.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/02/26/new-amazon-apple-google-eavesdropping-threat-should-you-quit-your-smart-speaker/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/a-new-hopium-sunday-february-18-2024

Speaking of Death Stars, state-affiliated Google can be as fascinating as it is frustrating. While the search engine slyly suppresses the national conversation, it teaches us through its omissions what the directors of the censorship regime fear the most. For instance, this morning Google pretended not to understand my simple request for a picture of a group of people together lifting a car. Ironically, I found it on TikTok.

Here you go, today’s thematic illustration :

We are far stronger together.

Patrick says

We are far stronger together.

That is what I was saying to Rich Wicks as far as small towns and communities working together and innovating together. That is a way to address and mitigate effects from large-scale dilemmas like currency devaluation.

Its like one tree stick can be easily broken. Then have a bunch of sticks and tie string around them; they cannot be broken as easily as the single stick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy

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