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- chukkaphob2
Thousands of Google staff around the globe stage mass #MeToo walkout over tech giant's $90m payout to sex-pest executive plus a $14m loan to buy a beach estate in Japan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
- https://www.youtube.…lvl_13
- lolchukkaphob
- Leave Michael Keaton alone!_niko
- MICHEAL KEATON! LOLpango
- ^ Lmaokgvs72
- LOL @ Michael Keatonchukkaphob
- BTW, is he wearing the latest Google Glass styles?chukkaphob
- I just have to say that I'm crying at Michael Keaton comment :) :). Good job! :)Boz
- drgs2
I googled opening hours of the grocery store in my neighborhood I use to visit
Google shows me:
"Your past visits: You visited 6 days ago · Edit
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 10PM"I click on Edit next to my past visits
There is a timeline with detailed route map of where I have been for every day of the month
The light blue lines = walking
Dark blue = by car/busThey are probably able to do this because I have a Google Pixel phone, but didn't even know it had this feature.
Just to make it clear, I stopped caring about these things a while ago
- Is your GPS always on?dmay
- Must be, I don't notice it on battery lifedrgs
- *hunts drgs*Nairn
- It's totally because you have a Pixel. My work phone is a Pixel and it's all about tracking my every move and habit. Pretty creepy.monospaced
- Google has probably mapped your behavior and DNA and created a cloned version of you in a secret lab somewhere by now. Your fault for not opting out :/yuekit
- its ON on every phone having Goole Map and a Google account logged in i think. You have to go to your Google pref to disable this.Bennn
- I would care if I were doing illegal shit. It's not the case.Bennn
- Bennn. It doesn’t have this level of access on iPhones and other devices. Even when signed into each app it’s not even remotely close.monospaced
- FYI iPhones do this as well, they call it "significant locations" and can be turned on or off but it's on by default and turns back on every couple of updates.zarkonite
- they send out this info even if you have it switched off. I'm going to make a switch away from Andriod/IOS hopefully next yearmugwart
- What OS ? mugwartBennn
- to windowssted
- this is real bad, should be a clear "opt in" for protecting all the users.api
- You can open out gps historypango
- That's why I disable everything when I get an I phone and Google phonepango
- I wish I could see a history of my phone’s movementimbecile
- you live in norway?ArchitectofFate
- chukkaphob1
Google shifted $23 billion to tax haven Bermuda
- uh ohchukkaphob
- you learn what a “Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich” is :Dsted
- ^ hey that's Olivers :) LOL********
- @sted now I have to use Google to gooogle that. LOLchukkaphob
- Alexandra Ocasio Cortez will take 70% and give it to her corrupt party members. She didn't even sleep with bezosHayoth
- @Hayoth lol! right?chukkaphob
- Bennn2
"Google's Plan to Limit Ad Blockers on Chrome Riles Developers"
Link: https://gizmodo.com/googles-plan…
''The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking extensions,”''
''The proposal would leave functional basic filters employed by Adblock Plus, which, the site noted, Google has reportedly paid to whitelist its own ads.''
- Time to reinstall IE?
j/kKrassy - Nice of google to help out firefox like thatmonNom
- I'm glad I switched to Firefox 2 or 3 years ago now.Bennn
- If ad blockers ever stop working on every browser one day, I'll freak out! I haven't saw ads since years!Bennn
- I don't know how people look at sites with the ads on. There's a new browser out that removes all the bloatware now I think.PhanLo
- This is the one
https://brave.comPhanLo - @PhanLo thanks for this. Have you used it?Krassy
- My friend recommended it to me, he said the speed of loading was quite noticeable compared to Safari. I've been too lazy to switch over.PhanLo
- IE is using Chromium going forward so if it's good I'll dump Chrome but they really need to get their shit together with dev tools.Boz
- I just reinstalled Netscapeutopian
- every browser launches as being the fastest ever, then gets bloated, then some new guy launches as being the fastest ever. rinse and repeat.inteliboy
- https://brave.com is the real deal. My default browser for over a year now. Built by Mozilla founder and creator of Javascript. Built in ad/tracer blockers.rabbit
- Mobile and desktop. No ads since.rabbit
- Brave still uses Chromium though, which would need hard forking, and anyway has a dubious funding / ad-blocking philosophy.Nairn
- Firefox is great - I never really stopped using it (ok, i went to Chrome for about 6-12 months when FF got slow decade or so ago).Nairn
- I can't get my head around people trusting Google with their holiest of holies - their entire interactivity with the internet via the browser, web tools, etcNairn
- firefox is great! love the sync with bookmarks and all the taps over all platforms! its also very fast these days. ad block+ is a musthave.api
- i'm using uBlock Origin. I have no ads.Bennn
- Time to reinstall IE?
- uan6
Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019
- https://wordstream-f…dbloc
- Right to the Google Graveyard!utopian
- I thought they were already doing thatcannonball1978
- yep, they told in nov2018. now they published how to download your content before it goes dark.uan
- Nairn0
https://redalemeden.com/blog/201…
"The dominance of Chrome has a major detrimental effect on the Web as an open platform: developers are increasingly shunning other browsers in their testing and bug-fixing routines. If it works as intended on Chrome, it’s ready to ship. This in turn results in more users flocking to the browser as their favorite Web sites and apps no longer work elsewhere, making developers less likely to spend time testing on other browsers. A vicious cycle that, if not broken, will result in most other browsers disappearing in the oblivion of irrelevance. And that’s exactly how you suffocate the open Web."
- But, in theory chrome / Firefox use the web standards. That was not the case with ie and safari a few years back...Salarrue
- Average person doesn't care about any of this, unfortunately. Hopefully people will go to Firefox when Google disables adblockers in chrome.section_014
- i dumped chrome a while ago for ff. in fact i've pretty much dumped goggle.hans_glib
- netscape hereGnash
- this happened with iOS in the beginning, but things eventually evened out with Android, mostlymonospaced
- I'm using Vivaldi since two days at work, built on Chromium engine. Very nice! All the features from Chrome and Firefox are there. It uses Chromes's addons too.Bennn
- https://vivaldi.com/…Bennn
- hans_glib, are you using Gmail?Bennn
- The sidebar to watch for example Youtube while srufing the web is very nice on VivaldiBennn
- “Favorite websites no longer work elsewhere”... seems like a stretch. Standardization between browsers is good enough these days that most sitesyuekit
- that work properly on Chrome will display the same (or almost the same) elsewhere, no?yuekit
- Anyway there are lots of iOS users out there who will continue to use Safari by default.yuekit
- there needs to be a standard, so one browser or multiple browsers that work as expected. browser specific fixes shows browsers haven't been sorted correctlyimbecile
- there are international standards they must all meet, but each one of course has to innovate on top of that, to differentiate and attract usersmonospaced
- there are only suggestions set by the W3C, if all browsers do not adhere to those, there are not standards. no need to argue.imbecile
- Thank Zeldman for things being a million times better than they were 10 years ago.
Personally I rarely notice any major bugs when testing these days.fadein11 - Chrome and Safari behave virtually identically.fadein11
- I wasn't arguing, just saying that they meet a set of standards. Thanks for pointing out they aren't required to adhere (even though they all do). :)monospaced
- The W3C is the more purist version. There is a second standards group composed of people from the big tech companies which tries to agree how to implement theiryuekit
- ideas, and it then gets built into the browsers. So at least they try to work together rather than crush their opponents like Microsoft did back in the day.yuekit
- many js plugins/libraries are shit on safarihotroddy
- Bennn5
Google Stadia, the future of gaming. I'm really impressed.
- Basically, you dont need a console ot computer, its all streaming. You can play on any screen you have. AAA games full 3D infinite possibilities.Bennn
- I think its the most impressive tech i've seen in a long timeBennn
- Foldable phones arrives at the right time for thisBennn
- they're gonna take a healthy chunk of the gaming industry billions. if not most of itGnash
- You can litterally watch a video game trailer on Youtube, hit the PLAY NOW button at the end and start playing in 3sec. a game that would take 4 hours to downloBennn
- download on Steam.Bennn
- Not clear what games... PC games only? Will they be competing with PS Now?drgs
- You can play on your phone, TV, laptop, tablet, cheapass PCBennn
- Possibilities to have ultra massive multiplayer like 1,000s of players at the same time. No latency.Bennn
- 1080 & 4KBennn
- I guarantee there's a monthly subscription fee though, and since it's for virtual content, there's no way you could ever pay for itmonospaced
- ^ oh, snap!Gnash
- I'm just playin' ... I think this is really cool and definitely the future.monospaced
- Interessant********
- fantastic, game changer (no pun intended).fadein11
- Streaming is the future of gaming. And how you will be able to finally have AAA games on mobile. 5G will be great for this.NBQ00
- Its a glympse on the future of computers in general. All you'll need is screens, everything will be streaming, the OS, the programs, the games... etcBennn
- Hi hackers! Cyber-War is coming.Bennn
- Sounds awesome, but I don't want to deal with latency, ever. The fact that this is Linux based is very promising tough.section_014
- Great for casual, same old streaming shite for decent lo ping multiplayer.
It's Google, so a) It's Google, b) It'll get cancelled when they change their mindNairn - Meh, just another subscription service like Adobe's. I ain't paying a monthly fee just to play a couple of games, that's a ripoff.zarkonite
- i dont know, maybe you'll have to pay the games individually. Like on any consoles.Bennn
- @section_014 Thats one of the main thing of it, there's virtually no latency at all..! 60FPS all the time.Bennn
- oops, I missed the all-important word in my whinge - 'latency'.Nairn
- haha, too late.
I'm curious to know how they can sustain a constant 60fps across the board, across all reasonably-common connectionsNairn - The one use for HD game streaming I always thought would be neat was as far-off backgrounds in otherwise-local FPS games.Nairn
- watch the announcment, lots of technical details in itBennn
- I'm sure, but I'm also more familiar with my shitty home broadband connection than Google is.Nairn
- Given how copyright law works and this is a streaming service, there's little chance game devs are going to agree to sell their games.zarkonite
- It's very likely to be a subscription service.zarkonite
- i demand launch date and list of gamesdrgs
- As soon as someone else in your house starts watching a make up video on youtube, expect the game play to be lagging...shapesalad
- didn't Sony and Valve/Steam already attempt this?inteliboy
- https://en.wikipedia…inteliboy
- color me impresseddee-dubs
- inteliboy: the difference here is that google built a crazy ass network + server farms to make it work.zarkonite
- Comcast has a 1GB monthly cap, if I streamed all the hours I played games I'd blow through that way quicker than I already do.evilpeacock
- of course, you'll need unlimited internet, I already have it since a few years since we're streaming video like crazy in here.Bennn
- bennn: pay monthly for software to earn $$$: fuck no! pay monthly to play video games : take my money!! I need a bennnsplanation on this one.dyspl
- plus adobe cc is too expensivemonospaced
- Here's an article resuming for those interested: https://www.theverge…Bennn
- Exciting! I look forward to playing Tetris and Chess on Stadia!!!Krassy
- nvidia has this for years alreadymekk
- if it work, it would be amazing. "if"pango
- w about privacy? G does only things if they can collect data. i am sure there will be a microphone in any device like in nest. google is a heavy data collector.api
- Ya mics are already in controllerspango
- and in-game advertisingemphor
- Bennn3
this is the only hardware. But you'll be able to use your own controllers if you want. No need to buy this one.
- sarahfailin0
^ ^
- renderedred1
- I don't think i've actually laughed out loud over a video in a while but holy fuck that was funny, I think I woke up the whole family!_niko
- and welcome to the new pronunciation of Google lol_niko
- i know man :) gooloogooloo to you toorenderedred
- ahahha :Dsted
- utopian1
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license, forcing it to use open source version
- utopian1
Intel and Qualcomm reportedly join Google in Huawei ban
- Innovation Never SleepsHayzilla
- China needs more for China...robotron3k
- sted-1
google image search started to die, now they are filling the gaps with text menus...
why?i think yandex and duckduckgo started to beat google in the actual search playground, showing better and more variable results.
- those still go to more images though.dbloc
- Haven't used G Images in a year or so. Coming from a designer that does 200+ image searches a day...grafician
- I also didn't use that social network crap G tried to pull on us, then it died...grafician
- Duck all the way...altho' pretty sure it uses Bing as a source, so...grafician
- Nairn-4
I have a link to google maps in my email signature, and a client's email scanner has pinged it as a threat, haha
"MailScanner has detected definite fraud in the website at "www.google.co.uk". Do not trust this website"
- Quite right, downvoters! I should have a link to OpenStreetMap in my email signature. Well done both of you, you have my heartfelt thanks.Nairn
- Nairn0
Fuck Google.
https://www.theguardian.com/tech…
"Google made $4.7bn in advertising from news content last year, almost as much as the revenue of the entire online news industry."
- fuck google! fuck content creators! fuck employing people! we should redistribute $$ to qbnners. we deserve it more!hotroddy
- erm, if you read the article or paid any attention to what's been happening for years, you'd realise that Google is effectively stealing from 'content creators'Nairn
- I mean, that was kind of the fundamental point of the article I linked. I find it hard to understand how you could miscomprehend it so thoroughly.Nairn
- I stand corrected.hotroddy
- I didn't read the article in haste to respond. I can get behind fucking google but what's stopping content creators from using a different ad platform?hotroddy
- @hotroddy lol, what other ad platforms? You basically have 2 choices: fb for social media (fb + insta) and google for the entire wwwgrafician
- that's my point. what is stopping the NYT from selling their own ad space? Like they do in print?hotroddy
- The backend I suppose.monospaced
- drgs0
For those with gmail-accounts:
https://myaccount.google.com/pur…- ?Krassy
- Google keeps a list of things you buy even after you delete the emailsdrgs
- ah ok, mht ay list was empty; i've never bought anything using Google payKrassy
- do you delete e-mails?renderedred
- The purchases that showed up on mine weren't bought with Google Pay.PhanLo
- Yea, it does that
https://www.cnbc.com…drgs - Drgs what about your dildo collection?utopian
- Which one, strap-ons or cornbrator ones?drgs
- same as https://www.google.c…SlashPeckham
- 5 gal elmers glue. Hmm.timeless
- Beeswax2
Did you guys switch to Brave browser yet?
It's faster, you can use chrome extensions and it's not Google.
- Yep.nb
- It's Chromium, so may as well be Google, and it fucks over content producers ability to generate revenue and profits 5% of that.Nairn
- imo, firefox with privacy dialled up and uBlock installed is by far the better choice.Nairn
- I really like FirefoxBennn
- I might give FF another try, but it became suck a hog last time I was using it.dbloc
- if you're on a mac, dbloc, the new version released the other day has been honed to run better on macs.Nairn
- drgs0
https://arstechnica.com/tech-pol…
The original lead plaintiff in the case, first filed in 2015, was a 60-something man named Robert Heath who says he was deemed a "great candidate" by a Google recruiter. The lawsuit said that in 2013, the median age of Google employees was 29, whereas the typical computer programmer in the US is over 40, according to several different measures.
During the interview process, Heath received a technical phone interview with a Google engineer. Heath alleged that the engineer had a heavy accent, a problem made worse by the engineer's insistence on using a speakerphone. When Heath was working through a technical problem, he asked if he could share his code using a Google Doc. The interviewer refused, Heath alleged. Instead, Heath had to read code snippets over the phone—an inherently error-prone process. Heath argued that the interview process "reflected a complete disregard for older workers who are undeniably more susceptible to hearing loss."
Heath also said that the interviewer assumed that the word "byte" meant eight bits. In his view, this also revealed age bias. Modern computer systems use 8-bit bytes, but older computer systems could have byte sizes ranging from six to 40 bits.
Heath and Google settled their claims in December, but the larger class-action lawsuit went forward with another lead plaintiff—Cheryl Fillekes—who is in her early 50s and joined the case in 2016. She says she interviewed for engineering jobs at Google four times but was never offered a position.During one interview process, Fillekes says, a recruiter requested that she submit an updated résumé that showed her graduation dates for college and graduate degrees. When Fillekes asked why this was required, she says the recruiter responded that it was "so the interviewers can see how old you are."
Of the $11 million payout in the settlement, $2.75 million will go to lawyers representing the class, Bloomberg reports. Fillekes will get an extra $10,000 as the lead plaintiff. The remaining cash works out to around $35,000 per plaintiff.
- drgs0
Google has a Pixel TV in the making
https://twitter.com/androidtv_ru…- (Maybe)drgs
- They already have their software in TVs, so chances are they don't bother making the sets themselves.monospaced
- So people will upgrade their TV every 2 years now?Bennn
- Software can be updated by firmware updates, but usually, it gets outdated and isn't a problem.monospaced