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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Gazpacho posted:

otoh, i don't think google plus ever had a data privacy scandal

err... what?

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infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
was that sarcasm?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Gazpacho posted:

otoh, i don't think google plus ever had a data privacy scandal

it’s easy to do when you don’t have any data

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Gazpacho posted:

otoh, i don't think google plus ever had a data privacy scandal

lmbo

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Gazpacho posted:

otoh, i don't think google plus ever had a data privacy scandal

that's one of the main reasons why they've shuttered it lol

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Last Chance posted:

that's one of the main reasons why they've shuttered it lol

ah yeah, i forgot that lol

url
Apr 23, 2007

internet gnuru

Gazpacho posted:

otoh, i don't think google plus ever had a data privacy scandal

e;fb multiple times

they were a big part of the aurora thing a while back too.

Resting Lich Face
Feb 21, 2019


This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.
Google itself is basically a data privacy scandal.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

yeah

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
anyway rss is good and if you're doing a web thing you should support it

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




at least the deceased homosexual forums are still active

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

at least the deceased homosexual forums are still active

ehhhhhhhh, weak

Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.

rotor posted:

anyway rss is good and if you're doing a web thing you should support it

Don't forget to disable the GDPR cookie warning on your RSS url.

So many sites stopped working because feed readers can't do cookies.

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

rotor posted:

anyway rss is good and if you're doing a web thing you should support it

:hmmyes:

Doofus McPaddleboat
Oct 29, 2003
This means they're bringing back Orkut, right?

url
Apr 23, 2007

internet gnuru
I'm guessing probably not.
(i'm assuming your referring to the pedophile thing?)

if not:


two+ years to do anything about it.

Classy! I don't think I'm alone in saying google are well overdue their day.
I'm hoping when it goes down, the poo poo that MS & FB and other have been through is made to look like child's play by comparison.
(it won't - they are too deeply integrated at this point)

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
facebooks stuff is probably worse. ms might be able to save face

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

Scroogled!

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




first the newsgroup goes down and now this

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

shut down linkedin next

url
Apr 23, 2007

internet gnuru

Silver Alicorn posted:

facebooks stuff is probably worse. ms might be able to save face

tbh, I wasn't really concerned about the pedo stuff - that's a surface level deceit against the societies they operate in.
it's obviously beyond awful, but it only really speak to one area of their awfulness (in that they obviously don't give a poo poo what happens on their platform as long as they exist and make money).

I was really more concerned and their penetration of and integration into the US government at scale and their (it seems likely) huge influence over policy of the departments they have captured.

Where Amazon were trying to be the sole liaison point for the US Govt procurement, they really were very late to the game.

tl;dr:
it seems likely the US govt seems hostage to the G-MAFIA (lol funy acronym)

apols for boring up a fun thread

GATOS Y VATOS
Aug 22, 2002


BONGHITZ posted:

shut down linkedin next

:yeshaha:

I liked plus because around 12 people who left here used it and we communicated there and it was good to keep in touch without the usual facebook neo-nazi stuff coming up.

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)

BONGHITZ posted:

shut down linkedin next

yeah. nü facebook is dumb.

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

TOOT BOOT posted:

I remember when Google Wave was supposed to revolutionize everything and then it didn't do jack and google killed it

I got interviewed on the radio about it

my prediction: would be poo poo

Kempy
Dec 15, 2009

do not shut down gmail

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

Kempy posted:

do not shut down Google Fi

Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006

Kempy posted:

do not shut down gmail

with the enormous amount of user data they can collect through that there's no risk

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

suffix posted:

wave was a good idea

bonelessdongs
Jul 17, 2019
Panoramio never forget

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

google lives by ABLINCP

Always
Be
Launching
Incompatible
New
Chat
Protocols

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
g+ was good, y'all

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




yeah rip

PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


rotor posted:

g+ was good, y'all

funny post in the funny computer forum

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

rotor posted:

g+ was good, y'all

I guess I'd agree with "If g+ were the dominant social media platform rather than Facebook and Twitter the world might be marginally less-poo poo" and "The features g+ had at launch were interesting and, in some ways, still not yet beaten by the dominant social media platforms"?

Like, the circles thing was really good?

:shrug:

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Schadenboner posted:

"If g+ were the dominant social media platform rather than Facebook and Twitter the world might be marginally less-poo poo"

how do you figure?

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine

infernal machines posted:

how do you figure?

Facebook is loving terrible, based on the combined total of ~3 hours I spent on g+ it seemed slightly less awful?

Maybe they would have expelled the Nazis? Although: :google: so probably not?

:shrug:

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
the platform that approximately no one used was probably less toxic than the de facto social communication platform for the entire world, yes. i'm not sure how you decided that means that if it were the de facto communication platform for the entire world it wouldn't face the same issues as facebook and twitter

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
i mean, if approximately no one used social media the world would be better off, probably. but i don't know that it makes a difference what platform they're not using

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Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

by Shine
Circles was a really intuitive way of managing access levels, tho.

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