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VLC is not updated anymore on the Google store.
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages won't exist anymore. See https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/.
The author put thoughts into caching webpages. Each link should have metadata associated to it: a favicon or an image, a description and the main language of the page.
They are already many projects for it.
Maybe some tools to remove these watermarks will be developed soon.
the company announced today it’s not going ahead with the proposed API.
See the first question heading of https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/increasing-trust-for-embedded-media.html?m=1
About a downfall of Google
Even if the subscribing form includes non-binary participant , advertisers have in contrast an "Unknown".
While Google doesn’t allow ads to exclude men or women from jobs, housing, or financial products, they did allow advertisers to exclude the “unknown” category, leaving those outside of the gender binary excluded as well.
Just the way this data gets labeled already shows how much of an afterthought gender diverse people were.
#idea #project: create many categories that fit better than male, female and "unknown". A better list?
If we don’t include and prioritize people from minoritized groups in our design and tech practices, we risk not only collecting incomplete or incorrect data, but also processing and using it in biased and harmful ways.
Achter des chromebooks qui s'arrêtent de fonctionner après 3 ans.
planned obsolescence is the right term for it.
A Google spokesman said the death dates have an important purpose: Chromebook laptops receive regular software updates — including for security — and older devices often cannot support the upgrades.
Yeah sure of course...
Rapport complet: https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/PIRG-Chromebook-Churn-Full-Report-May-1.pdf
and in some, it make sense.
The error was to think every data given to a GAFAM is here forever.
un règlement record de 391,5 millions de dollars à une coalition de procureurs généraux de 40 États pour des accusations selon lesquelles la société aurait trompé les utilisateurs en leur faisant croire qu'ils avaient désactivé le suivi de localisation dans les paramètres de leur compte, alors même qu'elle continuait à collecter ces informations
Dark patterns 🍿
« Ils nous forcent essentiellement à passer à quelque chose de payant après nous avoir rendus dépendants de ce service gratuit », a déclaré Dalton, qui a d'abord mis en place un e-mail professionnel Google pour son entreprise, Your Score Booster, en 2008.
Tout les libristes sont surpris #ironies
« Est-il possible de paramétrer l’outil Google Analytics de façon à ne pas transférer de données personnelles hors de l’Union européenne ? »
Réponse de la CNIL : « Non. »
« Un récente étude estime qu'en Europe, nous sommes géolocalisés plusieurs centaines de fois par jour. Un chiffre inquiétant, mais largement en dessous des résultats américains. »
En moyenne, l’oncle Sam a droit à 747 requêtes RTB [real-time bidding] liées à la géolocalisation chaque jour, soit un peu plus d’une fois toutes les deux minutes.
Surtout qu’il [le RTB] n’est pas anodin : une fois croisé, l’ensemble des données récoltées peut avoir un impact significatif sur l’internaute, qui est alors plus apte à cliquer sur une offre promotionnelle en rapport avec ses intérêts et son quotidien.
Une bonne action !
Reminder: Google is not a search company but a tracking one.
"I don’t care if they make money off me since the service they provide is so good."
Counter-arguments:
Google doesn’t want you to learn and grow: it wants you to keep on clicking. It’s embedded in their design.
It creates an Internet bubble for each user:
This sort of curation has spread all across the internet, creating bubbles of single individuals and an illusion of connectivity rather than actual empathy, compassion and connection to the world.
This sort of curation has spread all across the internet, creating bubbles of single individuals and an illusion of connectivity rather than actual empathy, compassion and connection to the world.
If almost literally everyone uses Google, then any project, person or company that wants to succeed must abide to Google’s rules.
From Yuval Harari writer in sapiens:
“One key rule is that if you get my data, the data should be used to help me and not to manipulate me. Another key rule, that whenever you increase surveillance of individuals you should simultaneously increase surveillance of the corporation and governments and the people at the top. And the third principle is that — never allow all the data to be concentrated in one place. That’s the recipe for a dictatorship.”
Un exemple