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  1. The profit imperative means monopoly and then fucking us ever harder is inevitable. I'm all about a bit more socialism but ultimately we need a cultural embrace of sustainable market practices that support families and communities. Just big enough to do the job for your customers and the people who work there. Obviously no billionaires.

    #DontBeEvil #Google #CraftBeerCapitalism

  2. The profit imperative means monopoly and then fucking us ever harder is inevitable. I'm all about a bit more socialism but ultimately we need a cultural embrace of sustainable market practices that support families and communities. Just big enough to do the job for your customers and the people who work there. Obviously no billionaires.

    #DontBeEvil #Google #CraftBeerCapitalism

  3. The profit imperative means monopoly and then fucking us ever harder is inevitable. I'm all about a bit more socialism but ultimately we need a cultural embrace of sustainable market practices that support families and communities. Just big enough to do the job for your customers and the people who work there. Obviously no billionaires.

    #DontBeEvil #Google #CraftBeerCapitalism

  4. 'Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users'

    reclaimthenet.org/google-broke

    Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.

    The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.

    #reCAPTCHA #Degoogle #DontBeEvil #FOSS #InternetPrivacy

  5. 'Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users'

    reclaimthenet.org/google-broke

    Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.

    The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.

    #reCAPTCHA #Degoogle #DontBeEvil #FOSS #InternetPrivacy

  6. 'Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users'

    reclaimthenet.org/google-broke

    Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them.

    The requirement forces Android users to run Google’s proprietary app framework version 25.41.30 or higher just to prove they’re human.

    #reCAPTCHA #Degoogle #DontBeEvil #FOSS #InternetPrivacy

  7. Degoogle friendly organizations that I have found to be as useful resources: #FDroid, #GitHub, #Disroot, and #Monocles.

    Here are some apps that I have found useful on my degoogled devices:

    These are some of the basic apps I use. I do use other apps. This is just a general list of the apps I like that I can share. Everyone has different needs and how they use their device.

    #DeGoogle #AndroidApps #AltApps #AppList #FOSS #DontBeEvil

  8. If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so.
    “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
    #Google #Malware #DontBeEvil #LLM
    thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

  9. If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so.
    “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
    #Google #Malware #DontBeEvil #LLM
    thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

  10. If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so.
    “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
    #Google #Malware #DontBeEvil #LLM
    thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

  11. If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so.
    “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
    #Google #Malware #DontBeEvil #LLM
    thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

  12. If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so.
    “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.”
    #Google #Malware #DontBeEvil #LLM
    thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

  13. @wdlindsy

    I'm sure I've read that Bill Gates was already looking to put computing behind the walls of Intellectual Property when he was still studying. That'd be the 60s or 70s?

    And leaving the decades of bastardisation of domestic and non-corporation-backed PC users by Microsoft out of an account of how the tech world turned evil makes the account unbelievable.

    The Microsoft business model was evil.
    Google started off with the vision of, "Don't be evil".
    The rot set in early.
    #DontBeEvil

  14. @wdlindsy

    I'm sure I've read that Bill Gates was already looking to put computing behind the walls of Intellectual Property when he was still studying. That'd be the 60s or 70s?

    And leaving the decades of bastardisation of domestic and non-corporation-backed PC users by Microsoft out of an account of how the tech world turned evil makes the account unbelievable.

    The Microsoft business model was evil.
    Google started off with the vision of, "Don't be evil".
    The rot set in early.
    #DontBeEvil

  15. @wdlindsy

    I'm sure I've read that Bill Gates was already looking to put computing behind the walls of Intellectual Property when he was still studying. That'd be the 60s or 70s?

    And leaving the decades of bastardisation of domestic and non-corporation-backed PC users by Microsoft out of an account of how the tech world turned evil makes the account unbelievable.

    The Microsoft business model was evil.
    Google started off with the vision of, "Don't be evil".
    The rot set in early.
    #DontBeEvil

  16. @wdlindsy

    I'm sure I've read that Bill Gates was already looking to put computing behind the walls of Intellectual Property when he was still studying. That'd be the 60s or 70s?

    And leaving the decades of bastardisation of domestic and non-corporation-backed PC users by Microsoft out of an account of how the tech world turned evil makes the account unbelievable.

    The Microsoft business model was evil.
    Google started off with the vision of, "Don't be evil".
    The rot set in early.
    #DontBeEvil

  17. @wdlindsy

    I'm sure I've read that Bill Gates was already looking to put computing behind the walls of Intellectual Property when he was still studying. That'd be the 60s or 70s?

    And leaving the decades of bastardisation of domestic and non-corporation-backed PC users by Microsoft out of an account of how the tech world turned evil makes the account unbelievable.

    The Microsoft business model was evil.
    Google started off with the vision of, "Don't be evil".
    The rot set in early.
    #DontBeEvil

  18. Panic?
    Oh... kay #Google !

    Dear deep #Privacy watchers:

    I don't understand half of this, & generally avoid Google products if I can; don't do cloud, and stay un-logged in when possible.

    I haven't enjoyed/respected Google since the genocide of the beloved #GooglePlus community, and the repeal of #DontBeEvil ...

    BUT... even as a non-paranoid, non-Google-platform user who studies #media & #words ... Is this not ominous?

    #technology #tracking #data #PID #security #icloud #telemetry

  19. En el futuro se preguntarán cómo #Google pasó de su lema #DontBeEvil a ser abiertamente malvada. Yo tengo clara la fecha y fue en 2013 cuando anunciaron el cierre de #GoogleReader. Ni olvido ni perdón.