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throwawaygoog10

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About throwawaygoog10

Anonymous Google Engineer

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    Comment #24147947

    You seem to be missing what differential privacy is. It's not about collection of data, it's about the _use_ of that data. It's no secret that Google has an incredible amount of lo…

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    Comment #19917659

    It isn't truly an oversight, it's an abuse of the fact that Docs/Sheets/Slides are not counted toward your quota. Their storage model is a little more complicated than a standard s…

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    Comment #19917639

    Should you want to move from Google services, the best way of ensuring you keep your data is to use Takeout [1], which exports your documents as both doc and html files. [1] https:…

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    Comment #19539894

    When we turned down the G+ API we injected synthetic errors in increasing fractions of requests a few days ahead of the actual turndown to alert users. I'm not sure if its the same…

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    Comment #19533802

    What exactly is it that you believe is the truth then?

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    Comment #19532689

    Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on DNS or Gmail. > Now, Google does claim they don't track DNS requests. But consider why that is? Once upon a time they didn't scan Gmail co…

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    Comment #19179758

    I'm sorry your efforts failed internally. Our infrastructure is somewhat ossified these days: the new and exotic are not well accepted. Other than Spanner (which is still working t…