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I'm tired of Google's business products
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Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that Google engages in and facilitates privacy invasion shouldn't need proof at this point. https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/gmail-snooping/ Can you prove or show anything in their terms of service or privacy policy that legally prevents it? Being a profit driven company, the only reasonable assumption is that anything that can be used to increase profits will be used.
Of course both the privacy policy and TOS are very explicit about this. https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US > We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos. https://workspace.google.com/security/ > Google does not collect, scan, or use your data in Google Workspace services for advertising purposes and we do not display ads in Google Workspace https://workspace.google.…
We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos.
LOL! Everything from Google must be carefully and legally parsed.
No, they don't show ads *from Drive, GMail or Photos* --- these services are ad free. They do show ads *from the web* --- based on your personal profile and data collected from multiple sources. Nothing here rules out using data from Drive, Gmail and Photos to profile you.
It's been proven that they scan, collect and save purchase receipts and access/scan web links contained in Gmail documents. Why do you suppose they do this?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-...
Regarding your *Workspace Premier* terms --- The document you quote is not current but paid services do have different TOS. This is not a major source of their income.
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#103Drive is incredible…ly terrible. Our non-technical staff (and some good technical people too) are always losing track of where files are. They write a doc then can’t find it later. The desktop tool (so you can use it like Dropbox) keeps getting confused and disconnecting on the Mac. I’m also part of a scout troop that uses google to organize its activities. In the troop’s Drive I’ve found doctor’s patient records, th…
Drive's organization is a usability nightmare and I hope someone at Google has a plan for this. Shared with me is a graveyard, file permissions are a nightmare to manage, and repairing mistakes is painful to impossible.
> usability nightmare and I hope someone at Google has a plan for this
One of the things I love about HN is the humor.
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#104I created a small ad campaign to advertise a side project. The projects makes no money, has no plan for monetization, does not use passwords. The only personal data it collects is an email address. I bought $50 worth of ads using my credit card. My account was immediately suspended for suspicious payment. I appealed, noting the card was mine, and I bought the ads. The appeal was rejected. I have occasionally tried to…
For whatever reason, if you post and it goes viral on twitter or reddit they tend to notice and comply....
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
And docs shared with me can’t be moved into my filesystem
Whether you can make a snapshot copy depends on permissions I think. But, yes, what I'd really like to do in many cases is to basically create a symlink to documents I know I'll be referencing/working with somewhere that they aren't mixed in with all the shared meeting presentations and the like I'll never look at again.
Indeed because a snapshot loses the shared editing, which is only sometimes what you want.
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#106I hate Google Workspace so much. Not because of the product, which seems fine. But because 10 years ago I signed up for google apps. It was marketed as a way to have a vanity gmail domain. Free forever up to 10 users. I thought it was cool, was a huge Google fan at the time, and created a custom domain for myself and another one for my grandparents. Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a…
> All I ever wanted was my own Gmail domain You don't need Workspace to use the Gmail UI with your custom domain. All you need is a regular free @gmail.com account. First switch your domain to an email hosting service that provides SMTP and IMAP, you probably get one free from your domain registrar. In Gmail settings for your @gmail account, add your custom domain as an alternate address for sending mail, using your…
Is there an in-depth howto guide to do this?
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#107I created a small ad campaign to advertise a side project. The projects makes no money, has no plan for monetization, does not use passwords. The only personal data it collects is an email address. I bought $50 worth of ads using my credit card. My account was immediately suspended for suspicious payment. I appealed, noting the card was mine, and I bought the ads. The appeal was rejected. I have occasionally tried to…
For whatever reason, if you post and it goes viral on twitter or reddit they tend to notice and comply....
I've noticed this trend. However, this is not a solution. There are many people with similar problems who cannot win the viral lottery.
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#108I created a small ad campaign to advertise a side project. The projects makes no money, has no plan for monetization, does not use passwords. The only personal data it collects is an email address. I bought $50 worth of ads using my credit card. My account was immediately suspended for suspicious payment. I appealed, noting the card was mine, and I bought the ads. The appeal was rejected. I have occasionally tried to…
For whatever reason, if you post and it goes viral on twitter or reddit they tend to notice and comply....
Be required to burn your 15 minutes of fame to get a reply from a company whose services you're paying for isn't worthwhile.
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#109> their support is almost nonexistent
This is the critical bit. If you're happy with a vanilla product where you essentially search for how to access every feature ("how do I make a pivot table?"), Google Suite is for you. I use it for just low-value bags of documents, nothing critical in it at all. I never have a need for special features, and anything I do need I'm confident is actually there because I only use spreadsheets for totally vanilla stuff. I also don't depend on anything being available, so I avoid the pain every time there's an outage.
I think for that kind of service, a few bucks a month is about right.
For anything that needs a higher level of service, you don't really want to rely on a business whose strategy revolves around minimal customer interaction.
Re: I'm tired of Google's business products
#110Drive is incredible…ly terrible. Our non-technical staff (and some good technical people too) are always losing track of where files are. They write a doc then can’t find it later. The desktop tool (so you can use it like Dropbox) keeps getting confused and disconnecting on the Mac. I’m also part of a scout troop that uses google to organize its activities. In the troop’s Drive I’ve found doctor’s patient records, th…
I'd rather pay to use Dropbox than have 50GB+ free on gDrive.