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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
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Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
#42> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs! Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
Interesting observation: As soon as you right click on a link, it switches from that to https://www.google.com/url?...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google and the rest of the billionaire class thank you for ensuring everyone is too divided by red/blue tribalism to ever have enough unity to mount a fight against them. Well done!
Exactly. It is like Google has only emerged during this administration with their shenanigans.
It seems to be very popular on this site to condemn surveillance capitalism and billionaires. But who built and still maintains the basis for their power, misusing it and the billions. So-called smart engineers like many of HN readers. If they rated morale higher than their personal 100Ks we would not need to wait for a government to stop the misery (in vain).
Yes, I have worked for 400,000 employees corp, then for a 70,000. For the last 15 years I have staid under 100. The pay is less, but it's easier to look into the mirror each morning.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Politicians are also humans, everyone working for De Beers are also human... Please stop justifying egregious behavior from company who is destroying the fabric of internet with too many useless ads....And it isn't first time they are doing it, these "engineers" were the one who removed mv2 without better ad blocks in mv3.
1. ads are not useless. 2. without ads, there would be significantly less free content for people to read. 3. politicians are human too, but not the best of us except a few. Yes. It's hip to say ads make things worse, but reality is often much more nuanced. My original point being, many times an external person may think something is intentional when it may very well be a bug or may be there for a good reason. I have…
I don't think anyone is denying the value of advertising to Google or its advertisers.
But with fewer ads influencing their spending, readers might have more disposible income left over to fund content.
Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
#46> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs! Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
they do that because they added this dark pattern on gmail almost two decades ago and absolutely nobody ever complained.
why wouldn't they expand it?
Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
#47> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs! Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
Remember AMP? Baby steps and they’ll try again.
they don't have to! they remembered they control all browsers. much easier for the same goals they had with amp
Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
#48Just another reason to stop using chrome and it's related browsers.
If you don't want to hand the biggest ad company a monopoly over web-browsing, start using a gecko based browser like librewolf, zen, mullvad or firefox.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Corporations are not, they're made of humans but they behave worse than an individual.
Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal, even when that goal is flimsy or bad.
Yes, but the worst human in an org, has the potential to drag the whole org down. Further, people are not aligned, so groups may disagree with an act, but each lack a majority to effect change. And group infighting may mean no cooperation.
We see this in politics. Orgs are political too.
(no "political" doesn't mean US Left/Righr here. It means simply "political" which can have nothing to do with government or party politics)
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