In the endless series
'Google is EVIL'
Yesterday I learned that any #COVID19 tracking app will be under full control of G👀gle and you must use their proprietary 'Play Services' to access the needed API.
And today I learned that you need to give G👀gle the PRIVATE keys to your app:
https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/104359094353659721
This means G👀gle can distribute an 'update' to your app with a BACKDOOR whenever they want.
App 'updates' were touted to p0wn your phone a while back (iirc);
this is the implementation.
Time for another installment in the #GoogleIsEvil series:
G👀gle is going to ban #android apps which allow their users to connect to instances which could have contents that they don't approve of.
That's a 'bit' too many elements of fascism for me. Time for (yet) another hashtag?
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
and @fedilab@toot.fedilab.app doing the right thing once again 😎
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104790798507608321
New episode in #GoogleIsEvil series:
If you use #Chromium Sync feature, that'll stop working as it'll become a G👀gle Chrome only feature:
https://mastodon.social/@bjoern/105586903221060361
G👀gle is consistently showing a variation of Embrace, Extend and Extinguish.
I think ethics is a purely human construct and thereby "ethical AI" an oxymoron, a second (high profile?) member of G👀gle's 'ethical AI' team is on her way out the door:
https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1351698317550432256
G👀gle and ethics are a contradictio in terminis.
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 🖕
