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Over an hour into the outage, still no word at all from Google on the status page apart from "We're investigating"
Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird little feature, etc. I can do it. I'm kind of an optimization / performance nut too, so they all run uber-fast, no perceptible delay from click to page / screen loaded (Sqlite is great for these kinds of things). Data is totally private and under your control. It's really nice.
However, calendar was complicated enough that I just use Google's. Might be time to rethink..
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I used to work at Google. Its a big company, composed of almost 10^5 employees today. In my experience, they can be trusted to adhere to the letter of their agreements; no more and no less. That's not as bad as it might sound. Plenty of companies consider their contracts to be far more mutable than Google did while I was there. But it does mean that you can't take any individual employee's word about what they are do…
So unless you are acting in an official capacity to speak for the gmail and calendar teams, you should hush. https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
It's not necessarily that I doubt you, it's just that the press release is pretty specific that consumer GMail isn't going to be used for ad customization from now on, and it seems like if it was everything in G-Suite that would be mentioned somewhere.
I don't suppose there's a list Google maintains anywhere online that shows which of their own products they use to aid with ad targeting?
Non-technical user here: why does Google make me use Captcha if it doesn't work? Error 503, etc. afterwards.
Probably a lot of users are trying to refresh calendar right now (which will probably hit the calendar service).
If they put ddos protection in front of it, it won't hit the calendar service but the ddos-protection-service.
I moved off to Radicale years ago: https://radicale.org/ I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones) I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit. Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfile…
I'll add that Microsoft Outlook calendar works really well. or $69/year, Microsoft will sell you an Office 365 account, Outlook email and calendar, all their apps on-line, two desktop-installable licenses for their Office Suite, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage. It's a great deal.
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I work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. About 2yrs ago I booked a flight to my relatives for a Christmas trip and pasted the info into my Google calendar. Within hours, I got google calendar notices about not having confirmed my hotel reservation. It was VERY annoying as it was borderline deceptive, presented as if I'd already gone through the whole reservation process but failed to confirm. It was definitely a Google noti…
Over an hour into the outage, still no word at all from Google on the status page apart from "We're investigating"
They provide updates to customers, but I'm under NDA with them.
This is especially chaotic for business GSuite users. Wonder if there's an offline/local cache service available for cloud-hosted systems, that would be a good middle-ground between local control and cloud-backed scale.
Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on. Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird…