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Summary Google has been working on a new, open-source technology to replace third-party cookies for tracking users called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC)[0]. They have launched a trial on Chrome (versions 89 and up) which automatically opts in users who sync Chrome using their Google account and have not disabled third-party cookies[1]. The trial currently only extends to users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, and the US. EFF has been openly critical of the technology[3] and just launch a site called "Am I FLoCed" to help users determine whether FLoC has been enabled on their browser[4]. DuckDuckGo has also shared criticism and updated their "DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials" Chrome extension to block the new technology[5]. Quotes My thoughts I stopped using Google Chrome (and most Google products) a few years ago because of growing privacy concerns with the company, so you can probably guess that I'm not a fan of this. This tech only benefits advertising companies like Google. They want to optimize their ads by collecting user data and using it for ad targeting. I don't feel any better having the trackers identify me as an intersection of groups instead of as an individual. The silver lining here is that other browser vendors haven't expressed any intent to implement the tech. Hopefully it doesn't propagate to other Chromium-based browsers. Sources [0] https://github.com/WICG/floc [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres [2] https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sustainability-and-the-importance-of-and/ [3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea [4] https://amifloced.org/ [5] https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/
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So I'm looking at getting an upgrade. I already have a Pixel 7, it's a good phone. However I need more storage, not cloud storage, physical storage and I can't upgrade my storage internally (easily anyway). I need help making a choice. Pixel phones for me have been old reliable. Have had 2 and been about 3 years apart. It's a good phone, just too low on storage at 128GB. The new phones have 512GB options and I would love to have a phone with half a terrabyte. However I wonder which phone is better for productivity and entertainment? I don't know much about Samsung Phones, but I have heard amazing things about the S24 Ultra being worth it. Also my phone's trade in is worth $1K but I don't know how much it is for the Pixel 8 Pro. Are there pros and cons to either phone and which one is actually just the better pick for someone who needs a phone that can do everything on an android platform. (Need an android phone cuz some of my audio files and music production mobile software is only on Android). Any tips. Advice. Specs. Or just a direction would be good. I just don't know what to get. Stay with the Pixel lineup or go big for a S24 Ultra? Mild gaming included. Emulation mostly.
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Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I just noticed that Google seems to have removed a lot of TikTok links from its search results. In the screenshots that I've attached, when Googling "tiktok" no direct link to the main website (www.tiktok.com) comes up, and in the other when searching "khaby lame" none of the results link to his TikTok profile or any of his TikToks. I'm curious if it's just me or if others are seeing this odd behavior as well?
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I live in Poland. In Adsense, you need to enter the taxpayer's details. Why are there only 2 countries listed there, America and Ireland? I heard that Andsense money is paid either from Ireland or America. What's better?
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I have a TP Link C211 camera looking at my front door and I've linked it to my Google Home account on the Nest Hub. But I only get Voice notifications, when I first set it up, the first few times it was also showing the clip of the motion at the door and what not. Now it just says there's motion at the front door but I have to tell it go to the camera screen to see it. I can't leave it running 24/7 on the camera screen because after a while it goes back to home screen. Any advice is greatly appreciated
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as the title says. i'm terrified of loosing my calendar and contacts again, and i dont trust google and microsoft to be the sole platform for my stuff. so i want to have my calendar and contacts, preferably on my unraid server synced with my google account that way i have 2 copies and if i loose one i can backup from the other. (trusted microsoft and lost everything, never again) oh and i'm not sure if next cloud has a solution but it dont work on my server for some reason so anything but that thanks for any suggestions p.s. i have tried caldav with my email address and downloading it as a backup but cant get google to see the appointments on it.
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I have a website, <removed by moderation>, and google keeps on looking for links on my website that say .bs_model. I dont know why it keeps on doing this as i dont have any links with .bs_model at the end. Not sure if this is bad or if its supposed to do this. I also wasn't able to find anything on google about it.
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My iPhone 6S from 2015 got seven major versions of iOS from iOS 9 to iOS 15, and still, to this day 8 years later, regularly receives security updates from Apple. The same is true for my iPad Air 2. Which Android phones have great long-term software support? I’m asking about phones that has a great track record historically, so Google’s claims about 7 years of updates in the future doesn’t count since Mr. Pichai breaks promises more rapidly than cheeseburgers are consumed at McDonald’s.
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I have a Google Pixel 3 XL and I would like to know if it would be better to go with a Pixel 7 or 8 as an upgrade
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Hi everyone, I am pretty new to the community and not sure if this is the right place to put this. My Pixel 6a started to randomly reboot and get stuck in a boot loop right after the android 14 update. After a couple of tries it would turn on, this repeated thrice and now it does not turn back on. To be clear I did not have a single issue with the phone before the android 14 update. After a lot of hassle their support team picked up the phone for diagnosis. They diagnosed that there is a issue with the motherboard. But I came across the november android security patch which specifically mentions this issue and aims at fixing it, have attached a link and screenshot to it below. https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/242705137/google-pixel-update-november-2023?kgs=f2ffcd4f59636a1e&shem=igass&source=sh/x/gs/m3/5 When I checked with the support team regarding this, they outright denied this and told that a software update cannot brick a phone. Even considering it was a hardware issue I was sold a lemon in the first place. They have given a repair estimate to replace the phone at full cost(360 usd approx.) and I am liable to pay the full price because my phone is a month passed its 1 year limited warranty. I am pretty clueless in what to do now, any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Hello y'all. When YouTube decided that it was over for the "sort by: oldest" feature on YouTube channels, many of us chose to download the "Sort by: Oldest" Chrome extension to return this functionality. Recently, the extension had been earmarked for end of life due to YouTube returning this functionality (seen here in the Chrome Extension page for the extension). Unfortunately, today many using the extension received a message that the extension now required permission to read website data on any website you visited. While the extension publisher notes that all data collected is for "internal clickstream use, not personal data," it is impossible to trust any closed-source platform with this data and I strongly urge anyone with this extension to delete it immediately and to not grant these permissions. If there are more updates to why this extension is overreaching its permissions, please reply to this post.
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For our youth movement we use a google group to share our agenda with everyone (about 36 members) Usually I just add them to the group and they can see and use the agenda. For some reason one of our members can't see it, I have tried removing them from the group and adding them again, I've tried removing the group from the agenda and adding it again but he just isn't able to use it. Does anyone know a possible fix or has anyone else had this experience? Thanks in advance
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Google released an OS update that causes pixel phone users (6, 7, 8, and Fold) that are using multiple profiles (a built in feature) to suddenly lose all access to either their main profile, or their entire phone altogether. Contacting support will only have them walk you through how to factory reset your device, and very rarely are they even acknowledging that this is a known bug. I had this happen to me, and ended up having to factory reset. The bug is still active and reproducible on my Pixel Fold. Steps to reproduce (and walk back from the edge) WARNING: This bug behaves differently for different pixel models, this process worked for me to confirm the bug is still active without locking up my Pixel Fold. I do not guarantee that even on a pixel fold that this process will not cause data loss to your device, so proceed with caution. 1) Verify you're updated to the latest version of Android 14. Turn on multiple profiles. Make a second profile that is NOT the built in "Work" profile. If you don't switch to the second profile at all your phone will continue to behave normally. 2) Switch to the second profile. AFTER THIS STEP DO NOT REBOOT YOUR PHONE UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED STEP 4!!! As an added bonus make sure the wallpaper is a different color than your main profile's. 3) Switch back to your main profile and lock/unlock the device, open up things like your photos app that use storage. For me, my UI started going weird. I'd unlock my phone but all the lock screen text would remain. I'd hit the home button to return home but nothing would happen until I lock/unlocked my device. Also maybe 10% of my UI elements would match the colors of my secondary profile's wallpaper, not the primary profile that I was on. IF YOU REBOOT YOUR PHONE AT THIS STEP YOU WILL LIKELY LOSE ALL DATA ON THE DEVICE THAT IS NOT BACKED UP. 4) Delete the new secondary profile that you added and then turn off multiple profiles. The phone will continue to be weird until you reboot but it should come back up normal. There's an article about how Google has told a couple users in support chats that they're "working hard on the issue" but without Google publicly stating anything I'm taking that info with a grain of salt. There are also people saying that this was being reported by Pixel 6 owners before the wider rollout started and that Google ignored the bug reports and rolled it out anyway. Sources https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/305766503?pli=1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/android-14s-ransomware-data-storage-bug-locks-out-users-remains-unfixed/
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More than a month ago, the Fairphone 5 was released. After Linus his good impression on the Fairphone 4 and his personal investment in "Framework", surely you could expect a Fairphone 5 review from him. But nope, despite all his claims that he is a big fan of sustainability, long software support and repairability, he published videos about Apples new phone, Googles new phone, A laptop on Aliexpress, game consoles with illegal game collections on Aliexpress, a Temu gaming setup, etc... If he is honestly so "invested" in a better future for consumer hardware. Why does he keep creating videos about products form companies that are mostly fishy ( Chinese webshops and their sellers ) or products from companies that already dominate the hardware space ( Apple, Google ) and not actual products that were designed to change the way consumers handle their hardware? He got the phone for free, he claims he likes products like that, but refuses to publish a video on it? The only possible explanation I have is that Framework is working on a smartphone. Or he's simply someone who just tells people what they want to hear.
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It’s been about three years since this started. I've been a Youtube Red subscriber since like day two of its release. I don't have great internet where I live so it was perfect for me to download videos and watch on my phone when I was somewhere without good connectivity YouTube premium allows you to download videos for offline use. I also use that folder to keep as a backlog of what I want to watch and everything worked fine. I could cast from that folder, add to queue and everything was good. 2020 rolls around and all of a sudden the add to queue button doesn't work from that folder. Everything else works as normal but if you click the add to queue in downloads, nothing happens. It will say that it added your queue, but they never do. I gave it a few months thinking it was just a glitch, but it never went away. I called Google sometime in 2021. They spent a week looking through this and told me it was how this was supposed to work. Functionality just gone and the ui says it is there. Felt a little gaslit, but let it go and have just kept dealing with it. Last year something changed that made that folder even worse. Now when you hit play on any video from that folder, it queues up every video in the folder from newest to oldest. For context I keep about 70-100 videos downloaded at a time and I'm downloading things that I want to watch. It's extremely stupid as if I have a bunch of older vids in a let's play series, I want to watch them first. This is a stupid way to do things. I reached out yesterday as I got tired of it again and spoke to an ai that didn't know what I was talking about. Has anyone else noticed this issue or had any luck sending this broken function to Google where they acknowledge it? I know I can use the watch later folder, but if I'm traveling and not driving it's nice to have something to watch on a plane. Would love to try and fix this since they are raising the prices of premium and this should be solved.
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Android 14 comes to pixel devices. Personally the advertised new feature list seems a bit, mild. I am still waiting for manual controls for their camera app https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23900207/android-14-update-download-google-pixel
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I'm being tasked with learning more about an issue I've never heard of before, but it's for a client, and I can't get access to her computer before I have an answer. I know - tough spot. Here's how I heard it: This individual, let's call her Sarah. When Sarah gets an email with a Google Meet link, she will sometimes be forwarded to the wrong page, a certain older Google Meet, even though the links are different. This also has happened, she claims, with Google Forms links. I've never heard of this, and I'm having a hard time finding any hints googling about it. She uses Safari on MacOS 13.x, and this is through Gmail. I'm sure she's never done any browser maintenance, and my first thought is to just clear her cache and cookies, but that's a rough solution for this type of person, for the number of things she'd have to log in to again. Any hints would be helpful.
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I have seen in several videos that LTT members use google docs. What advantage do they have? I personally only used google docs for school, for my other chores I prefer to use onlyoffice (also libreoffice) or since I go to university I've been using the office package for free as a student. In my opinion google docs is useful for those who have to make several people work on the same document, thanks to the functionality of the drive, but when I was studying it was inconvenient for me to have an internet connection in order to access all the documents. What do you think? Have they ever explained why they use google workspace? Also, if I don't remember well or I dreamed it, tell me
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Hi, I've been getting spam messages in my Gmail that don't let me unsubscribe. These emails don't have any text in them they only have a picture (not attachments just straight up picture). I can see those picture's only on my phone. When I open the mail on my PC, I get nothing. Right Now I don't have any pictures or video of the mails. Because I've been deleting them and I got the idea of asking help here only after deleting them. I'm sure those emails will come again. So, when they do come. I'll add the pictures. But I do have a picture of a filter I created to auto delete these emails. I contacted google about this but the rep told me to report these emails. What this spammers have been doing is. They have taken my mail ID. Lets say john.doe69@gmail.com is my mail ID. They send mail to john.doe69NK@aol.com, john.doe69aw@aol.com and more. Since john.doe69 is the main thing all of those spam messages come to me. Essentially these pictures have fake unsubscribe options in them but clicking on them redirects to 1xbet or some sketchy site hell once it redirected me to google.com All of this spam messages have one thing in common. They all come from accounts having the words aol.com, winkerstar.net and asahi.com in their sent from addresses. I will add the pictures. When I get them again. If anyone has gone through this in the past please help me. If anyone from LMG have look into this and help. Maybe we can put a end to this kinda crap in gmail. Thank You
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HOT TAKE: YouTube shorts broke YouTube. I'm struggling to find my LTT & other great content I curate for myself. [Think this is actually a good discussion for video] The aggressive YouTube shorts algorithm take over and auto feed addiction is impacting the existing video experience / Feed negatively. Content is being redirected towards shorts revenue which is of very poor quality and reminds me of early YouTube and not in the direction LTT & other media and content groups have spent a decade + improving quality of. I'm watching a ton of low impact latent viewing content I wouldn't naturally enjoy at this rate of consumption and am not actively engaged. My solution is to force the algorithm to think you don't want the content which is a bandaid cause there is no toggle for which feeds you want to see. Am I wrong for thinking this should be an option...to control what Feeds/Services on youtube I want to watch & have better addictive feed back potentially? This isn't about weather the content is good or bad, or of quality...but it's making me debate deleting YouTube cause it's barely useful now... Rant extended: Google search & services are over all worsening the user experience. The deal was you get large ad revenue in exchange for access to solid performing services and tools that we ENJOY using. If I'm not enjoying it anymore...at some point I'll just stop
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I have my ex landlord trying to take my bond for stuff I didn't do the house the house when by 4 land agents and two landlords and they lost a lotta of the records when it came to the status of the house. We took photo when moved in and out they are dated and tagged in my google account. without just showing them my phone or google account how can extract them with the extra metadata showing the date and time. Also note I am Australian meaning USA law doesn't apply. I'm also not seeking legal help just a way grab the photos this will very helpful if anyone replys
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Hi, I'm looking forward to buy a used phone by the end of this month and locally I can goto one of the following: Samsung Galaxy A73 5G Honor X9 5G Google Pixel 6a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G Samsung Galaxy Note20 Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro+ Samsung Galaxy S20+ I will not be gaming on my phone. It will be mostly used for day today activities such as using a couple of social media apps, checking Emails etc.. however I would like to have the best possible photo and video quality from the Primary camera to take some shots when I go out with friends. Would appreciate your support in choosing the best device for my use case from the above list. Thanks.
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Hi all, I just picked up a new Pixel 7 and loaded both my email accounts onto it. One is a gmail account and the other is through a different domain for work. I'm getting notifications just fine for my gmail account, but the other isn't working. Once I open the app and switch to that account all the notifications come at once, but never when the emails actually arrive. The account has notifications enabled and is set to sync, and I've already disabled battery optimization for the app. Any other ideas? I had no issue getting push notifications for both accounts on my old phone. Thanks!
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google Rossmann, Adalytics: Google AdSense is Scamming Customers?
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More YouTuber & Business™ news than strictly tech, but: Summary Earlier today, Louis Rossmann discussed a couple of in-depth reports alleging fraud on Google's part concerning their AdSense service. Specifically, the reports state that Google grossly misrepresented the environments in which an advertisement was served through their platform. Advertisement space that was sold as being exclusively on-platform YouTube video ads was routinely deployed as banner ads on third-party websites with minimal target interaction. If proven true once the lawyers weigh in, this will have a massive impact on AdSense and all who leverage it. Quotes My thoughts Wut the LTT gon do? Sources https://adalytics.io/blog/invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/refuting-every-lie-misdirection-non-answer-googles-response-fou