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parme-tan · 7 months
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PSA
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mlembug · 7 months
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EDIT: Check out the linked thread, OP made some clarifications. It seems he added what he thought was a bookmark inside Google Search app, but it was a collection instead.
This makes it a problem of "confusing UI" and also whether collections that are not shared with anyone should be subject to moderation too. Which is still a problem, but of a lesser magnitude. --END OF EDIT
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obsidiannebula · 4 months
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Lmao one of Google's witnesses fucked up and leaked the exact percentage of Google's revenue that it shares with Apple in exchange for default search enginge status, a number that has remained redacted up until now
I cannot stress enough that he DID NOT HAVE TO tell the world the Google shares
36
Goddamn
Percent
of its revenue with Apple in order to maintain default search engine status
Since we know that Google paid Apple $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine on Apple products, that means Google made 73 BILLION DOLL-HAIRS from its default placement agreement with Apple ALONE, which is more than 1/3 of its total search engine ad revenue, which as you can imagine is a huge part of its overall revenue
The same guy also tried to argue that monopolies are somehow good for competition. He didn't even deny that Google has one. Said they should be allowed to expand it, even. You can't make this shit up lmao
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jessiarts · 1 year
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Hey, PSA:
On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID
Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)
Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to '+ See all activity controls'> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too)
Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.
Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.
These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they've buried these settings in your phone to help others.
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fixing-bad-posts · 7 months
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[Image description: A screenshot made to look like a Google Chrome browser notification. Transcript is below.]
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We at Google think you're fucking stupid
We're launching new privacy features. You are cattle to us. Soon you will have more choice over the ads you see.
Our services are free to use because you are the product we sell. Chrome notes topics of interest based on your recent browsing history. Chrome wants to make you a fatter hog for our advertisers. Sites you visit can determine what you like. If we don't know what you like, we can't strangle you for money. Sites can ask for this information to show you personalized ads. This is a privacy feature. Yeah, of course it is. What are you talking about? Just believe us, you idiot.
We know most of you will not even stop to read this. Thank god.
Did you know we removed "Don't be evil" from our code of conduct in 2015?
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girlfoxcock · 2 months
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hey just a heads up if you’re using any adblock right now, the entire website of youtube will run insanely slow for you where it’s basically unusable.
No, it’s not your PC acting up. I have only noticed this on youtube specifically. it was unusable until I disabled my adblocker. many people are talking about this rn but it’s gotten worse the last few days.
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yeahiwasintheshit · 6 months
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yea i fucking hate this so fucking bad. this is fucking crazy! FUCK YOU GOOGLE!
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totally-bing · 17 days
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Do you and Google play chess but like giant chess with real weapons and try to kill each other and its really comedic and bloody
not yet but that sounds like an amazing idea
@the-real-google check this shit out. also fuck you and die
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radicalgraff · 4 months
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"Fuck Google"
Seen in Málaga, Spain
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tiktok-unofficial · 1 month
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@the-real-google, @totally-bing I hate you both but Google is the only one who can do a barrel roll
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leveragehunters · 6 months
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genuinely and with my entire heart: fuck google
There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad prices, and now it’s clear that Google treats consumers with the same disdain. The “10 blue links,” or organic results, which Google has always claimed to be sacrosanct, are just another vector for Google greediness, camouflaged in the company’s kindergarten colors. Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.
Please at least try DuckDuckGo
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whatarethooseshuri · 3 months
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EVERYONE
I CANT GET INTO MY REAL ACCOUNT BECAUSE GOOGLE THINKS MY EMAIL IS FUCKING FAKE. THIS IS @what-are-thooooooose
SpReAd ThE wOrD
@therealbuckybarnes @not-hawkeye @not-a-poser @yelena-belovedx @buckybarnesoffical @therealnickfury @monarch-of-wakanda @brooklynsspiderman @realamericachavez @realgodofthunder @realcaptainfalcon @real-bucky-barnes @capn-america @respect-the-hyphen @tonystark-official @jamesbuchnanbbarnes @drstrangeofficial @officialscottlang @hawkeye-jr AND EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS ALSO EVERYONE I’M FORGGETING
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silvermoon424 · 4 months
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Why the FUCK is this shit being pushed in my recommendation feed. I looked into this and it's about as racist as you would expect (basically an entire doc devoted to defending Zimmerman and villainizing Trayvon).
Maybe Youtube should sort out their radicalization pipeline algorithm instead of spending God knows how much money on slowing down videos for Firefox users and engaging in a war with adblockers.
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joyflameball · 6 months
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Making my own post abt this actually, since there is a more popular version running around that has shitty advice and I sure as hell ain't gonna manage to hijack that
Switching to Firefox: What do?
Now a lot of us are neurodivergent and have FAR too many tabs for our own good, and I can understand if you're nervous about switching because of that, since that's a LOT of tabs and you don't wanna lose them. Trust me, I relate to that immensely. I have FAR too many tabs open for my own good.
So what you should do in that case is save your tabs. I personally saved my tabs in a private Discord server, since that let me open the tabs again easily, and make categories for each type of tab, but you can use something like Notepad to save them as well. So, you copy-paste all your tabs over to wherever you're saving them (and additionally, copy-pasting all of them will allow you to see tabs you don't need and delete them, since they're no longer buried).
Once you're into Firefox and signed in, head to Settings. You should see in the general tab the button that says "Import Browser Data." You'll see a dropdown arrow that will let you pick whatever browser you wanna import your data from.
That easy! From there, pull up ALL your tabs and you're good to go!
Simplified explanation:
Save all your previous tabs, maybe in Notepad (I personally used a private Discord server, for the reasons I explained).
Once in Firefox, head to Settings and import your Chrome data.
Pull up your tabs that you saved, and you're in!
Settings
So, you're in the general tab with your data from Chrome imported. Now, keep going through the Settings, because there's a LOT more you can do, and Firefox's settings are fairly simple to navigate. I can't give you any advice for the general tab, that's all for you to handle.
Head to Home, and this is where you'll need to start changing some stuff. I recommend disabling "Recommended By Pocket" for the safest experience, not just because it's better for privacy, but also because the Pocket stuff is annoying. Also disable "Snippets" at the bottom.
Search
Head to Search. From here, you'll be able to disable Google as the default browser, which is good for everyone. You CAN use DuckDuckGo, which allegedly is safest, but I'm personally suspicious of that (look up "duckduckgo safety issues"). However, it is 100% safer than Google, so if you just wanna use that, go ahead.
If you wanna use a different search engine from what is shown, it's gonna be a bit more complicated to set up. In the Search tab of settings, set it so there's a search bar in the toolbar.
Go to the address of whatever new search engine you wanna use (I'm personally using ecosia.org, as it helps w the environment by planting trees, AND it's got a really good privacy policy). Let's use as example: youtube.com .
You'll see a magnifying glass with a plus sign in the smaller search bar. When you click it, you'll be shown a dropdown that says "This time, search with: [all the search engines]." Click the YouTube icon that has a plus sign next to it (again, YouTube as example).
I'm explaining this somewhat confusingly- Mozilla's website has a much better explanation.
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Head back to the Firefox settings, and set your default search engine to the new site. Bam.
(Additionally: to disable ever searching with Google, scroll down to Search Shortcuts, and remove the check mark next to Google.)
Simplified explanation:
Set it so there's two search bars.
Go to the address of whatever search engine you wanna use.
Click the magnifying glass, then the icon of the new search engine.
Head back to the Search settings, and switch to the new engine.
Privacy and Security
THIS is what you're here for. Firefox has LOADS of settings to make you more secure. My personal recommendations are:
Set enhanced tracking protections to Strict, or if you wanna customize it yourself, Custom. This will allow you to block cryptominers, trackers, cookies, and fingerprinters.
Set it to clear history when Firefox is closed.
Set it so that the search bar will not show you suggestions from sponsors, and don't allow Mozilla to process your search queries.
Under Permissions > Location, set it to block all requests to access your location. You can do the same for whatever other permissions you'd like, but especially block Location.
Block Firefox from making personalized extension recommendations, at the very least. If you don't want Firefox to use telemetry data, set it so Firefox won't send technical and interaction data to Mozilla.
Block dangerous downloads, obviously, and set it to HTTPS-Only Mode on all windows.
Enable secure DNS stuff using Max Protection. I'm personally using NextDNS (recommended by r/piracy).
Again, I'm not the arbiter of information here. You do whatever you want with your privacy and security settings. These are just my personal recommendations.
Extensions
A point of contention in the original post was how many fucking addons the OP had that essentially did the same thing, like several different adblockers when just one is enough. This is risky not just because it'll slow your browser down to hell and back, but also because it'll make you MORE traceable.
However, this doesn't mean you should go around with zero extensions. Especially since In Today's Day And Age, you WILL get ambushed with ads wherever you go. So at the very least you'll need an adblocker. However, there are extra extensions you can use to help clean up, for example, YouTube Search.
Here's my personal list of extensions, with ones that I feel you will DEFINITELY need marked in pink. I made sure these aren't redundant, or don't cover settings that Firefox already has.
I could be wrong in places, so if anyone wants to push back on this, I encourage it.
Ublock Origin: GET THIS ONE. Everyone and their mother loves this bad boy. Great adblocker that works REALLY well to clean up the web and make things less... awful. It lets you block specific website elements (so if Tumblr's pulling shit you can block it), and in settings it has a WHOLE lot of privacy/safety settings you can turn on which I won't go over, since this is a post about Firefox. The point is: GET UBLOCK. Everyone loves it, it's great, it's reliable, 10/10.
SponsorBlock: This is a GREAT addon that completely skips sponsored sections in YouTube videos. It feels kinda seamless sometimes. It also lets you skip a lot of extra unnecessary stuff as well.
Youtube Search Fixer: Unclogs YouTube's search so you won't get playlists, shorts, unrelated search results, all that fun stuff, so you can just find what you're looking for.
Youtube Shorts Block: Automatically turns YouTube Shorts into standard YouTube videos so you can get away from the fucking TikTokkification of the Internet.
Return Youtube Dislike: Remember how YouTube inexplicably removed the ability to see dislikes? This addon reverts that. You can see dislikes again.
Shinigami Eyes: Marks anti-trans sites with red, and trans-friendly sites with green (with the ability to change those colors, in case of colorblindness). It works with Tumblr blogs, Youtube, Twitter, a fuck load of sites. Great for knowing FOR SURE if a post is an anti-trans dogwhistle, and for going through gender critical blogs and blocking them on masse. It's INCREDIBLY reliable at catching transphobic sites, and finding trans-friendly ones.
Auto Tab Discard: We're all neurodivergent here and have way too many tabs, and that slows down our fucking computers. Auto Tab Discard basically puts those tabs into sleep mode- not deleting them, but making them go offline for a bit so they aren't taking up as much running time. It also lets you mark specific sites to NOT get put into sleep mode, if you need them up for whatever reason.
XKit Rewritten: Look. We're on Tumblr. We know this site's bullshit and how it's impossible to use. XKit helps fix a LOT of the bullshit on this site and adds on helpful stuff. Seriously, get XKit, they're the ones carrying this whole fucking site.
Again- I could be wrong. And I think the only one you 100% DEFINITELY NEED is uBlock. The others are just for convenience, or in the case of Shinigami Eyes, safety. You don't need to install any of these extensions except uBlock. It's just my personal recommendations.
TLDR
Get Firefox. Save all your tabs from Chrome, sync your data, do all that jazz.
Set your default search engine to anything but Google. You can do DuckDuckGo, or if you're suspicious of DDG like I am, use something like Ecosia (and you can add that as a default browser with the instructions I laid out).
USE FIREFOX'S GREAT SECURITY SETTINGS. You don't need a million extensions to do stuff Firefox already CAN do.
The only extension you 100% need is uBlock Origin, but here's my list of ones I personally recommend to help clean up the web and have a better experience.
Get off of Chrome. Google is currently on trial, brought there by the fucking DOJ, for being an illegal monopoly. The trial started about a week ago, and will last for about three months. Depending on how this goes, this could shake up Google's whole monopoly, and change the future of the entire internet.
Firefox is better in every way than Chrome. Firefox will actually try to protect you and lets you opt out of unnecessary data collection. Firefox is not based on Chromium. Firefox is open source, and its code has been scrutinized and deemed as safe. It's not perfect, no corporation is- and Mozilla is ultimately that, a corporation. But god, it's leaps and bounds ahead of Chrome. Switch to Firefox.
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smelly-fozzy · 7 days
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hi, hey, hello. So there’s an app called DuckDuckGo and it serves the same function as google but better because it blocks as much tracking as it can and it has a little duck. Again, same exact function as the zionist website, doesn’t track/sell your data, super easy to use. Make sure to turn on email privacy.
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