Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them.
Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them.
Original Toot: https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598
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Get. Away. From. Google.
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It's really that simple for much of their products. I really don't understand why people still insist on using chrome, in particular. Google is a horrible company that would literally sell you into slavery if it was legal and they thought it'd boost their ad business somehow.
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Google keeps taking L's and firefox keeps taking W's. If they keep going maybe firefox will be most used browser again
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How to make people care, though
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A few days ago, a friend asked me what browser I was using, a question he asked me in a genuine manner of getting my opinion. When I asnwered that I was using Firefox, he - again, what seemed to be genuine - wanted to know why. Knowing that he likes to use adblockers, I then told him about Google's recent attempts of attacking an open web, specificly mentioning ManifestV3 and WEI API and how they are a potential threat to his use of adblockers.
"Well, I use ublock origin on chrome and it still works, so I'll keep using that."
Apparently, I am not convincing enough.
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Unless they sort out their funding (find someone that is not Google for majority of their money), people shouldn't care.
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I hate that I have to keep chrome on my machine because some sites I visit don’t work well, or at all, on Firefox.
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I've heard a lot of people mention this recently and I must live a charmed life because I've never had this happen. There was I think maybe, once where I was having a problem with a site and it said that I needed to use a browser like chrome so I begrudgingly did and it still didn't work so I don't count that as an example and other than that, I've just never seen it. In fact I'm pretty sure it's not since about 2001 that I've seen any website give me shit with only working on certain browsers and that was sites designed to work on IE6 or something.
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Brave or ungoogled chromium are other options
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Use brave
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and here i am stuck using chrome, firefox doesn't install properly. i've tried a bunch of times. i have a chromebook.
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firefox doesn't do this
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Neither does Chrome
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For now. All it takes is a single change in leadership.
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Nah, the CEO reports to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, so just swapping the CEO will not impact their overall goals.
Besides, Firefox end-to-end-encrypts synced data. They'd have to rip out a ton of solid engineering to know what you bookmark.
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Either does Chrome probably. This is probably fake
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Are you fucking shitting me rn? I am sick of how lame this dystopian future is. Where are my neon lights and grungy underground bars? All we get in this timeline are takedown notices, corporate overreach, disappearing content and DMCA strikes.
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TBF in your grungy cyberverse the corporatocracy would simply try to kill you or turn you into a vegetable instead of sending you a DMCA violation notice by email.
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Well they do exist you just have to look for them
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Until you find out that everything is so expensive there too you'd need a corpo job's salary just to pay for cover.
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And Xs. Xs everywhere.
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Op you're so easily fooled
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Google has plenty of skeletons in their closet. OP didn't have to make up new ones.
Internet will internet though I guess
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Fake, as that site is brand new and has nothing on it.
what site is brand new?
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I think they meant the Kickass Torrents (KAT) link. It was taken down in 2016, but it looks like it's back by the original people that were running it.
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I just received that email today on a ligh novel reading site. It's real.
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Check Internet Archive. It was a torrent site.
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Now we know we’ve reached parity with Twitter, we have people sharing misinformation!
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Jesus just stop using Google. I registered my own domains (in plural yes) and nowadays I’m using them with iCloud, but I could easily change my entire emails from provider with a simple dns change.
For browser I advise using Firefox, but if you don’t like its performance Brave it’s also a good choice. (Though both have some shit going on behind curtains still far better than Google).
For password management just use either Bitwarden, Proton Pass or 1Password. It’s easy not to use Google to store your data, there’s a lot of competitors for what they do.
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Don't use Brave, it is a mess and sketchy as hell. They have been selling copyrighted material and even injected their own affiliate link when users browsed to Binance.
I do agree with the other parts! It is not that difficult to move away from Google!
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how did you register them genuinely asking.
i would also recommend keepass
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I use my own domains for email. So basically I can just use whatever mail service that supports custom domains. iCloud Plus, Proton Mail and Tutanota all support it. If I'm done with iCloud I can just switch away from it by changing DNS settings...
Yeah I also use KeePass.
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It's as simple as buying them (mind you that it's a yearly payment) on a domain platform such as Namecheap or Porkbun.
Then using them requires some setup depending on what you use. I use mine with Protonmail + SimpleLogin and they have a good guide on how to set it up.
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I am so incredibly sick of this intrusive digital dystopia.
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A natural result of unchecked capitalism
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getfirefox.com and disable google search in your preferences. F*ck google.
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I'm sorry, WHAT?
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How long until Android starts blocking access to websites.
I really do not trust these large tech companies.
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No no no you misunderstand
They're helping you avoid evil bad superungood pages that don't have the right security levels.
Maybe their SSH cert is for the wrong site!
Maybe their SSH cert is just too old.
Or maybe, heavens forbid, they dont even have an SSL cert?! Heavens to Betsy what shenanigans.
Sometimes web pages spread malware. Sometimes they even spread copyright protected materials without the the rights to do so! Maybe we should start helping you avoid copyright infringement!
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Maybe once google gets fuchsia done, and then they no longer need Android.
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Some of those people really said 💀
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People are saying this is fake, maybe that image in particular is, but I just got that email and that's annoying me so here's a pic
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Dose it means Google actually deleted it?
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From the collections yes, I can't see that item there. They are just bookmarks from mobile device though, it's been so many years I didn't even know that was there lol.
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Is this an old screenshot? The email looks like a screenshot of a screenshot, of a screenshot, etc.
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That’s not now the internet works. There was something there. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/katcr.co
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First day on the world wide web, eh?
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As people have said, this is fake, but why would you keep any important data with Google anyway?
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Good thing I've been using Raindrop.io to manage my bookmarks for years because I used to switch browsers so often. I've settled on Firefox for the most part, but am looking forward to Arc on Windows.
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guess i'm not using opera anymore, time for firefox.
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the only two things that shock me about this is
- That it took until now for it to happen
- that people are shocked by it.
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Not on firefox they're not
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Happened today for me. Did all the normal fixes up to and including uninstall and reinstall UBlock origin
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Did it persist?
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Google doing google things. Nothing to see here
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I'll switch immediately.
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immediately
ĭ-mē′dē-ĭt-lē
adverb
Without delay.
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In 2023 I have no time for people like this, unless they are over 80 and my mother.
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These MOFO's have really REALLY jumped the shark.
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Jumped the shark? They've chopped it up and turned it into sushi.
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Eat a bag of dicks google
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As if I needed any more reasons to avoid their craptacular browser like the plague that it is.
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Yeah, that's over the line.
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Nope, they just moved the line a bit further, like they always do
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Google scares me
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This is kind of amusing actually. Imagine a program that gives you a ton of bookmarks to legally questionable websites, like how that other website (used to?) automatically spam incriminating Google searches into your search history. Then watch the auto-bookmark-moderator suck it all up like a roomba.
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This is why you read the licence agreement, people!
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chrome can E2E encrypt your bookmarks, I didn't realize it wasn't used by default
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E2E encryption is only (potentially) effective if the threat is a MITM. If your threat model shows any possibility for your threats to be on either end, it is effectively useless.
Now I'm not saying that you should model Chrome as a threat, but I'm certainly saying that you also can't be certain you don't need to. The whole thing is closed source, the publisher is a Machiavellian megacorporation; and if I were Google, and had to spy on users for profit, that's certainly where I'd start. You know, as anonymized metrics, to "help improving Chrome".
Edit: oh and, I haven't checked what they mean by that, but potentially, the E2EE is meant in the context of the transit only, meaning the data at rest is not encrypted, on your computer, or on the Google servers.
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And here I am perfectly happy with using Edge.
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Might want to consider switching to a gecko based browser just to stop this shit from spreading
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It's not like this is Chromium's fault.
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conaider firefox
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it's their private property !
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Nah. If you want to be outraged at Google, at least be correct.
This has to do with Google "collections", not synced bookmarks. Afaik, collections are a thing you only access on mobile through the google app, this doesn't even have anything to do with Chrome.
If you run chrome on mobile, for example, you don't have access to the collections. It's only through the google app.
Almost certain they monitor collections because they can be shared with public.
They shouldn't be monitored either way in my opinion as it's just a bunch of links, but especially not while still private.
Ultimately I don't think it quite matters if it technically is bookmarks or "collections", they seem clearly used in the same manner in this case.
I don't care if you're mad about it like I said. I just care about accuracy. The person in the screenshot and this thread's title are both inaccurate.
They aren't. They are made from links that appear in Google search results. Google is notifying the person that the link you've saved is being removed. Therefore it will be removed from your collection as well.
Eh… the ultimate question, what if it’s a collection of CSAM links?
Some moderation is fine, especially when it can be shared pretty easily. This isn’t private bookmarks, it’s “private” bookmark collections.
Edit: For those downvoting, this is the same concept as a private Reddit/facebook community. Just because it’s “invite only” doesn’t mean it’s free from following the rules of the whole site.
I'm getting really sick at the amount of misinformation that gets spread here. There's plenty of stuff to hate Google without making shit up, and resorting to misleading titles.
Upvote this post to stop spreading misinformation please
I think you need to boost, not upvote. But I could be wrong.
Wtf is a collections?
Beats me, I only use chrome if firefox cannot display the site correctly. And it's a case to case basis at that, it has to be that I really really need to access that site.
Also i rarely use the Google apps that came with my phone. The most probably used one is Maps.
Edit : so yeah, I forgot. I'm on Android. There's that, no escaping from them on my part. I can't be bothered with using and installing my own phone OS.
Basically the Google equivalent of Pocket Reader; saves a whole bunch of links from Google News/Articles for you, Google search, and general web links. It's not the same as your Chrome bookmarks (though at one point they were considering merging them until everyone hated it).
Crazy that I had to scroll past 9 other comments to reach this one. Maybe I oughta start sorting comments by top.
My bookmarks can also be shared with the public though
I'm not aware of a way of making your bookmarks public through chrome.
Aww man, I was hoping google was gonna clean my bookmark up for me.
Anything on my computer can be shared with the public as well.
You can access through google.com/save
That's not a function of chrome though, I can do that on any browser.