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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.

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.

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.

This real:

Bd6r says

This real:

"Guys, guys, stop fighting the culture war guys. Let's talk about legalizing weed and cutting taxes."

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.

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.

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!

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...

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.

https://nitter.net/daphnehk/status/1527289020643803137#m

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?”

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.

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.

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.

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.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/06/28/gop-trying-to-stop-google-from-sending-republican-campaign-messages-to-spam-n1608918

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.

https://www.rebelnews.com/google_fellowship_imposes_quotas_on_white_and_asian_men

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.

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.

Patrick says

This is a great idea for a browser extension.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hypocrites from the...

Like Cargill!

just_passing_through says

I just tried the rumble app on my roku. It sucks. I can't even read the black text on a white background.

They did in fact improve on this quite a bit.

just_passing_through says

I just tried the rumble app on my roku. It sucks. I can't even read the black text on a white background.

Don't use apps. Why would anybody use an app when it works within a browser? NOTHING is better "with the app", ever.

Because I have a fukt back and very comfy furniture downstairs with a 77" TV and surround sound. Why would I want to sit in front of a computer an additional period of time after coding genetics analysis software all damn day? Plus a nice kitchen with beers down there with a great view of the TV.

just_passing_through says

Because I have a fukt back and very comfy furniture downstairs with a 77" TV and surround sound. Why would I want to sit in front of a computer an additional period of time after coding genetics analysis software all damn day? Plus a nice kitchen with beers down there with a great view of the TV.

You don't need an application to cast a video to your television in my recollection. It's been a while since I've casted to a television, because I just did it as an example a few years ago, at a friend's house. I've not owned a television since 1993 but unless they've changed the underlying Android system it should work.

I would NEVER own a smart television. The main purpose of that is to monitor you. Main purpose of every damned thing..

richwicks says

I would NEVER own a smart television. The main purpose of that is to monitor you. Main purpose of every damned thing..

Yeah, well when I bought this one 14 months ago I plugged it in, got updates then unplugged it from the interwebs. Maybe I'll get updates someday again, I don't know, I don't think I need to.

Maybe you don't know what a roku is? It's not a smart TV.

Casting is janky I've tried it. WTF would I want to sit on my zero gravity chair fumbling with a laptop instead of an intuitive remote I've cut the microphone on? Maybe you didn't notice I said I've got a fukt back? Hell no.

Yeah, roku spies on me, rumble (so far I trust) spies on me so what. I'm not doing anything that would get me into trouble watching finance videos or political videos on it through a VPN.

Hell amazone probably knows about the movies I watch for free using a firestick, VPN and kodi build but my internet company doesn't.

just_passing_through says

Maybe you don't know what a roku is? It's not a smart TV.

They are the people that produce a box for NetFlix. They are located, I think, technically in Los Gatos, but it's really just on the outskirts of Campbell, CA.

just_passing_through says

Casting is janky I've tried it. WTF would I want to sit on my zero gravity chair fumbling with a laptop instead of an intuitive remote I've cut the microphone on? Maybe you didn't notice I said I've got a fukt back? Hell no.

Laptop?

I have a different setup than you do. I have a huge monitor, and with VLC, I can control it through my phone if I want to watch a film. I'm just fundamentally different, in that I don't really "watch" anything anymore, I listen. 99% of what I consume is audio information. Video requires too much attention. Right now I'm listening to this:

https://cozy.tv/dawson/replays/2022-10-19

(first 9 minutes is an annoying intro) I grabbed the audio and placed it on my phone.

just_passing_through says

Yeah, roku spies on me, rumble (so far I trust) spies on me so what. I'm not doing anything that would get me into trouble

This is the wrong attitude.

Today it's "I don't mind" but tomorrow is "what do you have to hide?" if you want privacy.

1984 is so fucking easy to implement. You get 1% back on a credit card, and in exchange for that, you abandon all your privacy, and allow tracking of everything you do, and all corporations do is jack up the price by 1% to pay for it. People who demand privacy, they are taxed. You're not getting a rebate.

just_passing_through says

Hell amazone probably knows about the movies I watch for free using a firestick, VPN and kodi build but my internet company doesn't.

Don't you ever wonder why a VPN costs, like $1.50 a month? How do they make money doing that?

They don't. It's to monitor you, but they're not going to do anything and demonstrate that's what they are doing.

I work in this area. The purpose of NEST wasn't to control the temperature of your home, the purpose of RING isn't to provide YOU with convenience and the ability to monitor. It's to monitor you.

Consider this, there's a program called Telegram, it's a free "end to end" communication program. How do they make any money with this? Who funded the development of it? They SAY they are end to end encrypted, but how do you know? Somehow, telegram will not allow users to pass on certain URL's - how do they know what you're sending if it's end to end encrypted?

I throw my hands up. People have been warning for DECADES about this, if you still don't know, good fucking luck.

I work on this shit and all I get is "oh, you're being paranoid".

OK, believe whatever happy horseshit you want to believe in, as we go into the dystopian future, because paying $10 for a communication program that would work for... ever, that's too expensive compared to "free".

richwicks says

I can control it through my phone if I want to watch a film.

Janky. There are remotes you can get as well to control when casting. Also Janky.

richwicks says

I have a huge monitor,

I have 3 huge monitors and a very nice stand sit workstation in my office. I still don't want to be in there after a long day. I work very hard. Notice I never post during weekdays during the day?

richwicks says

I'm just fundamentally different, in that I don't really "watch" anything anymore, I listen.

Not really, I'm the same. But when I want to watch I want to watch.

richwicks says

Today it's "I don't mind" but tomorrow is "what do you have to hide?" if you want privacy.

1984 is so fucking easy to implement. You get 1% back on a credit card, and in exchange for that, you abandon all your privacy, and allow tracking of everything you do, and all corporations do is jack up the price by 1% to pay for it. People who demand privacy, they are taxed. You're not getting a rebate.

Yeah, I get all of that. I've said the same to others in the past. Right now I don't care.

richwicks says

The purpose of NEST wasn't to control the temperature of your home, the purpose of RING isn't to provide YOU with convenience and the ability to monitor. It's to monitor you.

I would never EVER have cameras inside or outside of my home that I didn't have full control over unless I had tape over them like my work computer. For security there are some you can buy that don't connect to the interwebs.

richwicks says

I work on this shit and all I get is "oh, you're being paranoid".

Never said that, perhaps you are? You brought it up. All I said basically is that at this point in time, I don't care. Sure bugs the hell out of ya haha..

richwicks says

Don't you ever wonder why a VPN costs, like $1.50 a month? How do they make money doing that?

They don't. It's to monitor you, but they're not going to do anything and demonstrate that's what they are doing

Another thing, I understand many if not all do this and often lie about logging. If this is true then using a web-browser only isn't going to help all that much even with a Tor browser.

Why not just get yourself a radio?

So back to google is evil and using rumble as a replacement for youtube before someone went on the war path. There has been some discussions about I-bonds on patnet in the past. I bought some last year and this year and thought I was basically maxed out at 20K (unless I wanted paper delivery of the bonds and had 5K each year I could use from tax returns - yuck). Well, last night I watched this:

https://rumble.com/v1on56x-adam-taggart-wealthion-blew-my-mind-wthis-powerful-investment-strategy.html

Hot dog! I am going to load up for the short term!

Hey, I know Adam Taggart back from when patrick.net was mostly about the housing market.