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Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Jan 29, 2024

In the never ending #GoogleIsEvil and #GoogleIsSpyware series:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/

Glad the author informs us about G👀gle's latest shit, but WTAF how anyone can be so naieve:
"[All your msgs] will be sent to the cloud for processing ...—albeit anonymized"

AFAIK you need 7 or 12 data points to de-anonymize data.

If someone fscks you over 300 times, why do you think attempt 301 will be any different? 🤦‍♂️

Stop giving G👀gle the benefit of the doubt! 🙄

#Privacy

h/t: https://mastodon.social/@Privacymatters/111840850741878518

Google Update Shows How Bard AI May Work With Your Messages App

New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…

Forbes

Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Jul 26, 2023

Remember that horrific Web Environment Integrity proposal?

Well, G👀gle listened to the feedback!
So it's coming to #Chromium in 117.0.5902.0 and later.

LOL, wait. You didn't think they'd listen to anyone outside of their bubble, right? 🙄

So I fully agree with 👇
https://fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/110780501463438740

"Every programmer has a private responsibility regarding their complicity in writing and shipping harmful software."

#GoogleIsEvil #GoogleIsSpyware

Drew DeVault (@[email protected])

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd Rayan Kanso, Peter Pakkenberg, Dmitry Gozman, Richard Coles, and Kinuko Yasuda are now persona non-grata for any matters over which I have decision making powers regarding hiring, contracts, etc. Every programmer has a private responsibility regarding their complicity in writing and shipping harmful software.

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Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Jul 21, 2023

@interpeer
Not only that, but it will also force every Android user to install the proprietary G👀gle Play 'services', so that any freedom you thought you had* by Android being Open Source, becomes a total farce.

This is thus *also* about G👀gle getting complete control of every #Android device out there.

#GoogleIsEvil #GoogleIsSpyware

*) Which has always been a delusion. Abandoning Android completely is the only solution.

Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Mar 6, 2023

https://infosec.exchange/@mnordhoff/109972884075074611 is about G👀gle's #GoogleIsSpyware hypocrisy, but something else in that document actually bothers me more:
"the Chrome Root Program continues to explore introducing future policy requirements"

Since Google essentially monopolized the browser 'market', they (alone) now dictate, through policy *requirements* what is and is not allowed on the www/internet. 👀

Not 'rough consensus' among stakeholders, just them.
Was probably already the case though and I just noticed it :-/

Matt Nordhoff (@[email protected])

Google Chrome: OCSP is terrible for privacy because it sends the hostnames you visit to CAs Also Google Chrome: Enable advanced threat protection and send all URLs you visit to Google Also Google Chrome: [is the same company as Google Analytics] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-policy/moving-forward-together/

Infosec Exchange

Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Jan 4, 2023

UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
https://f-droid.org/en/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html

"A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services...
Most of them have open alternatives, but until now, the only option for push notifications was Google’s proprietary service, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).
UnifiedPush is a new alternative that allows you to get push notifications without being tied to a single company."

h/t: https://gultsch.social/@daniel/109630522775489629

#GoogleIsSpyware #UnifiedPush

UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A modern Android smartphone relies on a lot of services, from app stores andcalendars to messaging and push notifications. Most of them have openalternatives...

Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Jun 30, 2021

@yogthos
IIRC you also have to give G👀gle the PRIVATE keys used to sign the package.
What could possibly go wrong? (tm)

Oh yeah, G👀gle providing an update to your package with an appropriate backdoor.

I've tooted about this (quite) a while ago, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

#GoogleIsEvil #GoogleIsSpyware

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Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Apr 16, 2021

If you think that modifying the whole internet to #GoogleIsSpyware was teaching them a lesson, it's a different lesson then you might think/hope.
You're actually telling G👀gle you're their bitch.

And apart from the moral/practical POV, you are fighting a battle that you CAN NOT win.
I used to use #Debian's Chromium where they made a good and honest attempt to remove (most of) the spyware. But it's dependent on people noticing it, fixing it and deploying it.
You can not win that fight. 🤷

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Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Apr 15, 2021

New installment of #GoogleIsEvil 😖

https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc
Excellent write up by @plausible

"Every website and every Chrome user will be opted into FLoC by default without any say in that choice. That is a decision Google has made for us all."

G👀gle is telling you that you're all their bitch, unless you take specific actions against that. #DefaultsMatter

If you don't want your site/blog/etc to be #GoogleIsSpyware, YOU will have to modify your webserver's configuration 🖕

#FuckGoogle

How to fight back against Google FLoC

Here’s a closer look at Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer.

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Free Pietje 🇵🇸 🍉Apr 5, 2021

If you're still using anything by
G👀gle, you're sort of asking for it as #GoogleIsEvil and #GoogleIsSpyware, but JFC.

https://mastodon.social/@eff/106009067815376674
"A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web."

The whole article is full of WTF moments; WAY too many to list in the chars left in this toot 😮