L4sBotGoogle Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links
Throwaway4669332255I can’t imagine depending on Google to store anything. They shouldn’t be able to even see what links you save.
The Picard ManeuverYeah, this is incredibly intrusive
As someone who just converted from Chrome to Firefox 1-2 months ago: what alternative can you recommend to Google Drive? I wouldn’t miss everything from it, but being able to easily share data (so that they can play videos, audio files or documents without having to manually download them) is one of them.
Mega.io created by Kim Dotcom is open source.
Thanks, I will take a look.
I wouldn’t trust anything involving fucking Kim Dotcom lmao
I’ve read some concerning stuff about him. The usual counterargument was that the source code was still open/public, but I can imagine he could still do nasty stuff to the plain data if he wanted to.
Xylight (Photon dev)Proton drive gives a lot less storage for free but is known to be more secure and private
SaxobonelessFor storage, for free options I’d recommend filen.io, which gives you 10GB free. If you’re open to other paid options, proton drive and infomaniak drive seem alright.
Just skimming the alternativeto entries for google photos, the open source alternatives to Google photos look like they tend to be either paid or self hosted. Stingle Photos has a free 1GB tier you could try out. Otherwise, paid options include Stingle, ente, and seafile, and self hosted options include immich and Nextcloud (which is also a drive alternative).
Wow, thanks for the detailed answer! I wouldn’t mind a paid service as long as it’s not significantly more expensive than what Google can offer. However, I’m a bit more conscious regarding data security. I checked on mega.io and I’ve read mixed opinions.
Nextcloud has most, if not all, of the features of drive in my experience.
(Don’t everyone hit me) the snap version of nextcloud is dead simple to stand up. But if you are adamantly opposed to snap, the docker version is semi-easy to get going. Or you could just spin up a linode instance with it on there for like $5/mo.
This is all a self-hosted/self-responsible option though. So back it up etc.
This.
I invested in my personal infrastructure a bit. Bought an old retired Dell R710 server for $100, installed proxmox on it. Nextcloud is basically a one-click install using a Turnkey Linux container.
My setup clearly isn’t for everyone, but if you’ve got $100 to spare for some hardware and aren’t afraid of running your own server, proxmox is free and crazy powerful.
Thanks for the idea. I’m mainly looking for storage that I could access even if I blow up my house.
Depends on how much effort you want to put into it. Nextcloud is the closest in terms of features but you’ll need to set it up.
I have a ProtonDrive account and I like it but it doesn’t have auto upload of photos. You need to manually upload them. I’m personally fine with this since 90% of my photos are receipts and junk.
joel_feilaProtonmail has smaller cloud storage, but you have to pay for it. A thumb drive will work.
PHLAKI’ve switched over to Proton for email, calendar and drive. I still haven’t found a replacement for Google Photos but I’m looking for one.
Have you tried iPhoto with Advanced Protection enabled?
I use Sync.com for years (since 2015 after my very privacy heavy swiss cloud service shut down). It’s Canadian, the end-to-end encryption (on device,upload and cloud) is the highest I encountered and it’s extensive zero-knowledge policy was my reason to sign up.
They added some nice sharing features with quite the extensive control and easy Setup. So might be worth checking out.
And obligatory referral link for a free account 🙃:
Flying SquidMy work, which is supposed to keep things private for customers, stores so much on Gmail and Google Drive. It’s comical to me.
What type of company? I, too, find it comical. There was a lot of cloud resistance due to privacy and control issues in financial services years ago. Concerns were justified. Nothing changed except managements’ attitudes because “everybody else is doing it”.
Don’t want to say, sorry. Let’s just say it’s more industrial than financial services.
Oh in our company the CTO still has cloud resistance… But at the same time also feels comfortable sharing sensitive documents over Skype, Outlook and Teams…
Man, they really want you to use Firefox
OtterI don’t use this (Google Saved?) and I’m unfamiliar with it, is it similar to Pocket?
Is it this: support.google.com/websearch/answer/9217379
danieltonThey’re literally going through people’s bookmarks if they’re using Chrome and signed into Google.
it’s not synced bookmarks, collections are a confusingly similar service
I’m gonna give Mullvad a shot, sick of Google’s shit.
What’s wrong with Firefox?
Firefox is usable with some tweaks and not that evil, even though sponsored by Google. But many people feel that they can’t believe Firefox like 10 years ago.
Some users feel it’s so wrong that they have forked the project: LibreWolf, which seems a good option too.
Yoruyou gotta make some tweaks to LibreWolf as well to make sure it doesn’t break some websites
Mullvad browser is just a copy of Firefox that’s designed to work with their VPN.
Not entirely true. The mullvad browser adds a lot of anti-tracking stuff, which was originally implemented in the TOR Browser. So you’re definitely safer using the mullvad browser instead of plain Firefox
hardened Firefox my beloved.
It’s literally a fork of firefox. No need for obfuscation.
1984Maybe it will make people see Google for what they are. So many are stuck in some kind of illusion.
They did a lot of good for the FOSS community for many years. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.
Haui“You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain” — Harvey Dent
They’re an advertising company that tries to collect information about targets through products those targets use. That’s it
I signed up for a Google Ads account for a non-profit I volunteer with. I had to verify the organization with governing documents, okay, fair enough. They also “require” my drivers license or passport. Excuse me? We will no longer have a Google Ads account after Sept 15 (the cut off to verify my identity).
I think because the moment you admit to yourself that Google is not so good a company, you are forced to recognize most are not and that is too much for many to swallow.
kinda makes sense. it’s like if a youtube video or soundcloud track gets DCMA’d then they’re going to remove the link.
if it was you actual browser bookmark i would understand the outrage.
im still on FF tho
Just yesterday I saw a post that they did in fact remove bookmark and notified user about it with detail
KairuByteA users bookmarks on the browser, and a collection saved on google, are different things. One is private, the other can be shared.
Isn’t removing the bookmarks from people’s browser what they’re mad about? Now that Google is selling content through YouTube TV, I’ll bet they crack down hard on piracy. The old reddit /r/NFLstreams moved to a site a lot of people know. Now that Google owns Sunday ticket, I will not be surprised if it gets DDoS’d to shit this year and becomes borderline unusable. We’ll find out next week I guess.
This is from the “saved” bookmarks in the Google app.
This is not referring to actually removing a video from YouTube. If it was, removing the link from the “saved links” would be unnecessary because the video wouldn’t be there anymore anyway.
SnipingNinjaI skimmed through the article and didn’t see it mentioned, but in another post I read that this was only done for a shared collection, as in it was at least semi public if not public
yeah but it’s nice to know what has actually been removed so you can get the song/video elsewhere
And yet, I can still google torrent sites
YⓄ乙 Google search really has gone downhill. I’m using fence on my phone and it defaults to duckduckgo. Gotta say, it’s just as good, occasionally a little better.
Don’t rely on to save your stuff.
Usually a backslash (the one under the backspace key, not the one that shares a key with ”?") before a character that would usually be treated as a formatting instruction will stop it from being interpreted as such. Could be different for other machine-interpreted languages but when used this way, the backslash is called an “escape character”.
The \ key. And you might ask how I wrote that symbol without it gettting interpreted. Well, by writing \\.
Which you wrote by writing \\\\ which I wrote by writing \\\\\\\\ which I wrote by writing \\\\\\\\\\\\… help I’m stuck in a loop
But that didn’t work ``? Thank god for code tag.
How about using “<” and “>” (“<” and “>”, respectively)?
Edit: Okay, I see what you mean. That is strange. Not sure what to do about that but will look around.
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And stop using chromium browsers too!
No point in ditching chrome just to use chrome with a different coat of paint.
Yep! I use Firefox
isn’t it alright if you use ungoogled-chromium? It sends 0 requests outward so it’s completely safe.