ZURICH - FUCK OFF GOOGLE !!!! @FuckOffGoogleZurich@mastodon.social

What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely

“It's just one reason why it's so important that we fund and develop human-scale small tech as an alternative to the stranglehold of big tech on our lives." – some guy who goes on about this stuff a bit

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-after-years-2020-10

HT @robby

#Mobilizon v1 is available 🎉

It is an online tool to help manage your events, your profiles and your groups.

More: https://framablog.org/2020/10/27/photo-novel-guided-tour-of-mobilizon/

You can find an instance thanks to the picker: https://instances.joinmobilizon.org/instances

Their account on Mastodon @mobilizon

Zoom is deleting events that criticize Zoom censorship... 🤨
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/zoom-deleted-events-censorship

This is aimed at enhancing user privacy. It's just laughable.

“The search giant (Google) also announced earlier this year it was planning to kill off all third-party cookies by the end of 2021, as has already been done by Safari and Firefox. Though it will still retain first-party cookies and, it seems, give its own sites special preference in Chrome.”

Source:https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/google_cookie_wipe/

Big tech accused of avoiding $2.8bn in tax to poorest countries https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/26/big-tech-accused-of-avoiding-28bn-in-tax-to-poorest-countries

Holy shit. 14-21% of Apple's annual profits comes from Google paying them to be iOS' default search engine https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html

Amazon to escape UK digital services tax that will hit smaller traders https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/14/amazon-to-escape-uk-digital-services-tax-that-will-hit-smaller-traders

Google Responds to Warrants for “About” Searches https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/google-responds-to-warrants-for-about-searches.html #nationalsecuritypolicy #Uncategorized #EdwardSnowden #surveillance #searches #privacy #Google #NSA

FSF boycotts Amazon not just because of their #DRM but also because we are a small publisher -- we urge you to ignore #PrimeDay too. If you don't, you can still redirect some money by selecting FSF as your charity at smile.amazon.com.

Jeden dritten Donnerstag im Monat treffen wir uns in Zürich zu einer gemütlichen Runde. Neu in der Bitwäscherei, mit thematischem Input und Übertragung ins Online-Pub.

Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2020:
Netzpolitischer #Stammtisch zur #vorratsdatenspeicherung

https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2020/10/11/netzpolitischer-stammtisch-zum-thema-vorratsdatenspeicherung-donnerstag-15-oktober-2020/

Work at Google. Work at Facebook. Work at Palantir. Heck, work at Phillip Morris or Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. But don’t you dare be proud of it. And don’t you dare tell me you’re working to bring about a better world for everyday people. Don’t you fucking even dare.

Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/unredacted-suit-shows-googles-own-engineers-confused-by-privacy-settings/

The EU wants to limit which #apps #Apple and #Google pre-install on your #phone

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tech-giants-face-curbs-on-data-sharing-digital-marketplaces-under-draft-eu-rules-2020-9

So for anyone who wasn't following, Google pressured a bunch of #fediverse app developers to do an impossible thing and in the end they had to delete their app off the Play Store

Here is a good synopsis by @SubwayTooter
http://subwaytooter.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2020/09/01/161533

mxrch/GHunt

🕵️‍♂️ Investigate Google Accounts with emails. .

I did not try this yet, but this sounds like madness.. then again its Google madness..

https://github.com/mxrch/GHunt

“The official reason given by Google for the removal of #Fediverse apps is that these apps can be used to access […] content which are dedicated to hate speech.”

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/google-is-removing-fediverse-apps-from-the-play-store-because-they-can-be-used-to-access-hate-speech/ (hat tip to @Rigby_Koyaanisqatsi)

Somehow this doesn't motivate removal of other apps from Google's app store. What could explain this difference?

A better explanation, from @pluralistic: https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

“The more freedom you have to leave Google, the bigger a risk you pres­ent to Google.”