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Why I’m done with Chrome

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Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by zavi »

noncoml wrote: post #425
partiallypro wrote: post #248

Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then. Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting…

I stopped trusting Google the day they announced they would use Gmail email content for displaying ads. Sometime in the late 00’s it was I think.

Do they really use email content for ad targeting or are you spreading misinformation?

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by earenndil »

freyr wrote: post #533
colordrops wrote: post #526

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that MS was only hated by nerds, whereas Google is hated by everyone on earth.

I don’t know anyone who actively hates Google. Most people don’t even think about it, even though they’re constantly using it in one form or another. People hated Microsoft. Remember blue screens of death? Clippy? Developing for IE?

I actively hate google, but I don't know anyone else who does.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by jrockway »

I think it's interesting that this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Chrome already handled cookies for every website that you viewed, but now that it says "and I'm going to use them to log into Google outside of a tab" everyone freaks out.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

briandear wrote: post #470
partiallypro wrote: post #248

Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then. Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting…

> it sucks it leaked to nutty Brietbart and not a real news organization. That right there is the issue. “Real” news organizations share ideological views and their choice of what to investigate is a result of that ideology. When a newsroom cheers or is despondent over an election result, it’s unrealistic to expect them to provide hard-hitting coverage that potentially undercuts their own biases. The coverage of Russ…

Two things:

I'd love to see specific sources that back up your claims about Hillary Clinton's 'secret meetings'.

And, on a more general note, I'm pretty astounded that you spend so much time railing against the bias of what we are obviously meant to infer is the left wing media without even acknowledging the existence the right wing media machine. And no, it isn't Brietbart and only Brietbart.

>Keith Ellison a congressman with multiple, credible sexual assault accusations against him gets a pass in the media despite

a) There are definitely some inconsistencies in the stories about what he did/did not, and after reading through a few articles on the subject, it doesn't exactly seem like there's very much concrete evidence at all. AND EVEN THEN, the allegations are not as far as I can in any way sexual assault allegations. And furthermore, I found a litany of sites discussing the situation on both side of the traditional spectrum.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by nadont8 »

clarkmoody wrote: post #408
partiallypro wrote: post #248

Google started going down the path I would describe as an "evil" path years ago. I'm glad people are starting to notice. I used to be a huge Google advocate, up until about 2008. So many things have changed since then. Adsense was the first breach in trust for me, when they banned my account for no reason and ruined any chance of every monetizing my content...since they are basically a monopoly in that area. Getting…

Search for "gun rights" in Google, and the Wikipedia feature box on the top-right of the results page is the Gun Control article. I've noticed the straight search results making a marked decline in quality over the past few months. If one of the keywords within your search is anything remotely profitable, it will drown out all other terms. Then the search results ended after ~4 pages. Definitely changed from the Goog…

Search for "american inventors" if you want to have some laughs.

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by the_new_guy_29 »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #539
tananaev wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll add my very recent negative experience with Google. I have a couple of apps on the Google Play that use Firebase analytics and crash reporting. This weekend both apps were removed by Google without any warnings. The issue was that apps were in "Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID" because by default Firebase collects Advertising ID. I don't really need Advertising ID in my app or my analytics and there…

We (software agency) had the same problem, a simple app with just basic Google libraries was violating their own privacy rules.

Any examples of those rules and how they were violated?

Im just curious

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by Daniel_sk »

the_new_guy_29 wrote: post #576
Daniel_sk wrote: post #539

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We (software agency) had the same problem, a simple app with just basic Google libraries was violating their own privacy rules.

Any examples of those rules and how they were violated? Im just curious

Some more details - https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/9gqr6y/anybody_.... The emails from Google Play are never very specific so you can only guess what's wrong :-).

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by DoctorOetker »

>The extreme version holds that I ought to be using lynx+Tor and DJB’s custom search engine, and if I’m not I pretty much deserve what’s coming to me.

What is this "DJB’s custom search engine" ? I fail to find it with both DuckDuckGo or google..

Re: Why I’m done with Chrome

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Post by namdnay »

zavi wrote: post #571
noncoml wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped trusting Google the day they announced they would use Gmail email content for displaying ads. Sometime in the late 00’s it was I think.

Do they really use email content for ad targeting or are you spreading misinformation?

They did, for a few years. It was a bit scary, but also really good. It was really easy to test, if you sent an email discussing a weekend trip with some friends you'd immediately get hotel and flight ads for that destination. Actually quite useful...
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