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Fuck Off Google
- alexnewman 7y agoFounder of hcaptcha.com here. We intend to give the websites control of the data we collect, not us. I wonder why google doesn't make the same pledge for recaptcha and analytics. We are trying our best to stick to DNT style operations but with the DNT standard in flux, we had to draw our own line. Learn more on our website.
- mehhh 7y agoGoogle is an advertising company first and foremost, hence collaborating with other adtech giants to ignore Do Not Track after Microsoft decided it should be enabled by default.
- reilly3000 7y agoDNT could have so easily been a protocol, instead its a sign that implores "Please don't feed the ducks"
- alexnewman 7y agoIt's not just adtech
- Exuma 7y agoThat's gonna be a no from me dawg
- STRiDEX 7y agoSame. The images on a few of the pages look like classic conspiracy theory style images. How do you even describe that style? Mashed together and annotated with lines connecting other things. https://fuckoffgoogle.de/no-tax-no-law/ https://fuckoffgoogle.de/no-tax-no-law/
- egdod 7y agohttps://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/524/tumblr_o16n2kBlpX1ta3qyvo1_1280.jpg https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/524/tum...
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- tallies 7y agoConspiratorial infographics
- hcs 7y agoWith apologies for linking to TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory
- swiley 7y agoIt doesn’t help with the tracking but you can sometimes get away with randomizing input to google’s captcha which makes it less valuable to them.
- viraptor 7y agoIf you look at the video about Google image labeler game, they list a few abuse protections. A single answer is never going to end up as a real data point, especially if you can get lots of them from different sources to validate.
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- rocky1138 7y agoThis is one of the most cyberpunk things ever
- viraptor 7y agoOn one of the graphics they label https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) with "transhumanism = inhumanism". I'd expect most cyberpunk ideas to go the other way. But yeah, otherwise it's pretty much anti-corp.
- yagodragon 7y agoIronically, this website is generated with Hugo[1], a static site generator built with Go, a language created by Google. Jokes aside, it's good that they bring up this issue that affects their local community. [1]https://gohugo.io https://gohugo.io
- alexnewman 7y agoGoogle created go? or many people who worked at google and other companies? I'd be interested to know if google primarily implemented go. They did create chromium though
- fourthark 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
- kibibu 7y agoYes. It's a Google project. There are a lot of contributors outside of Google, but it was invented at Google, and governance is by a Google team, and the top contributors are Google employees.
- alexnewman 7y agoDo you have proof that all the top contributors work at google?
- kibibu 7y agohttps://www.openhub.net/p/go/contributors https://www.openhub.net/p/go/contributors
- jks 7y agoA post about that was discussed on Hacker News a while ago: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGooglesLanguage?showcomments https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGoo... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19978200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19978200
- Smithalicious 7y agoProps to anyone sticking it to Google, but this site has too many conspiracy-sounding things: >Transhumanism is a quasi-religious belief that technology is the only way to “save” humanity. A small Transhumanist elite from the Silicon Valley believes Earth’s resources should be invested to merge humans and machines (Elon Musk’s Neuralink builds chips to inplant in our skulls) or go to Mars. Google, through its sister-company Calico, is now one of the first funders of transhumanism.
- foxfired 7y agoam I the only one who can't access the website? I get a "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
- iliketosleep 7y agoCompanies like google are indeed out of control and creating a dystopian future. Amongst other things, Google has already unleashed bots that arbitrarily destroy livelihoods (e.g. automated account terminations, in markets where there are few, if any alternatives to Google). I have found that dealing with companies like Google is eerily similar to dealing with an authoritarian government (e.g. they don't care about normal individuals), and as such companies gain more control over society (and governments) it actually becomes a major political issue, perhaps the political issue of our time. At the beginning of the Internet age, I felt that tech could provide the path to liberation, but now I fear that it also provides a potential path to supression.
- markthien 7y agoEvil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSrPeX3mvzU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSrPeX3mvzU
- creativipy 7y agoA little over the top... I mean Google is bordering on Evil but this is definitely over the edge.
- koonsolo 7y ago1st world problem if your biggest enemy is a search engine ;).
- kakwa_ 7y agoIt's quite interesting to see the evolution of Google reputation in the past years. Maybe I was in a different context being a student, but 5 to 10 years ago Google had a really good reputation, they just released Android, Chromium, Golang a few of their papers triggered important tech improvement (Map Reduce, "Big Data"), and they had the reputation of being a very nice place to work with 20% of your time allocated to side projects. They did a "little" tax evasion but just like anybody else, and maybe a few questions were asked by a minority over privacy concerns. But overall things, at least from the outside, looked really good. But starting with Prism/NSA scandal, all this has become gradaully irrelevant. Google has become just another company, with a frightening dark side because of its scale and amount of data collected. And this loss of good will and reputation is not finished yet.
- pathseeker 7y agoAgree with how quickly they lost their reputation, but FYI: they didn't do any tax evasion that we know of because tax evasion is illegal. Companies minimizing tax burdens through legal means is called "tax avoidance".