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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.
Do you mean other than the ads inside gmail?
Even ads in gmail are not based on gmail data anymore.
Google Calendar Is Down
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#92I 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 work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.
Reminded me of Microsoft ad back when they introduced Office365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x4_dozWkq0
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Also, accurately reporting about an arbitrary source of downtime means you're smart enough to avoid the same sources of downtime. Not that this can't have been an obvious reason (deleting all the servers in a datacenter or similarly trivial but severe) but it's likely impossible to ensure status page accuracy.
You could just ping the servers once a minute and tell if they're up or not. No need to know why they've gone down.
That only indicate the frontend of the service is up and potentially running. Being about to respond to ping and being able to serve HTTP request are two different things, and being able to serve HTTP request vs a fully functional website are two different things. Think about wrong SSL certification, wrong domain mapping between frontend/backend, broken JS/CSS etc.
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#94Just got 4 calls from different departments and two people coming here saying the internet is broken ("Google calendar is broken company wide!"). (Please introduce more meaningful error messages, Google)
It spits a 404 for me haha, and an ugly 404 at that ( https://twitter.com/omarbaqueiro/status/1140991483740336128 )
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#95I 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 work at google. I am pretty sure google calendar data is not used for ads targeting. The same is true for gmail.
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 doing today. Individuals change. Managers change. People come and go. A fundamental part of the company mythos is that you as an individual know more about what goes on in the company than you really do. So unless you are acting in an official capacity to speak for the gmail and calendar teams, you should hush.
If the letter of their agreements permits GOOG to use your data for purpose, then as a user of the service you should assume that they are.
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#96I 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 did the same, but I use Sandstorm Oasis to host it ( https://sandstorm.io/); saves a lot of time spent sysadmining things.
Your link mis-linked. Should be https://sandstorm.io
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#97Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?
It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.
Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?
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#98This is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there? Previous one was only 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
> What is going on there?
Nothing but anecdote, but a lot of my friends at Facebook and Google are eyeing the exits.
They’ve made good money and can afford to go somewhere better aligned with their values. They’re also each remarkably talented.
These outages may be a reflection of that exodus. (Counterfactual: we started our careers at the same time and are nearing a natural switching point simultaneously.)
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#99Came here to confirm it's not just me! Still down.
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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.
Has Google made any public statements about whether or not calendar data is used for ad targeting? Gmail was used for ad targeting until mid-2017[1] but I haven't seen anything about calendar. [1] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Afaik, it was never used for ad targeting so there was no announcement to make. Just think about it for minute.
What percentage of people actively use Google Calendar? Out of those what percentage put useful information in there? How much commercial value does this information have?