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Equifax seems to be doing alright. Sony hasn’t failed yet. I don’t think your opinion matches with reality.

The difference here is that Google found this problem itself, and evaluated with high confidence that it was likely unknown to anyone outside that audit. That means that Google was…

Yeah. That’s what the adults were talking about. We can’t trust the supply chain.

Being the best in the market isn’t an antitrust issue. There isn’t any credible alternative to Google because they’re head and shoulders above everyone else. There are other search…

Except that the entire reason most sites are searchable is because of the analytics includes on every single page, everywhere. So, literally every click you make is trickling data …

What now? https://developers.google.com/custom-search/json-api/v1/usin...

I’d say google learned from Gates and Zuckerberg getting grandstanded at.

Not the second time, and that’s really the important part.

This isn’t a feature to authenticate the account. This is to identify the person using the account. They’re tying the person using the account to a phone number that person apparen…

10 year old accounts get hijacked all the time.

You don’t think there is a system for network providers to identify customers to each other? How about to law enforcement?

Except that with the advent of mobile billing, and the like, any phone service provider can pull your info from pretty much anywhere in the world. Which is why Google is asking for…

Most of the tracking in your google account is to give you the answers you’re looking for, not because it’s of any benefit other than providing a better service. Like when I search…

This is an anti-spam and anti-abuse requirement, not because they need you to tell them your phone number. They’re on most of the phones in the world, and have access to all the bi…

It’s a security measure FOR THEIR SECURITY, not for yours. It’s an anti-spam, and anti-abuse measure. So they’re not giving away free resources that get used to harass their users.…