1) Google and other bigtech are essentially private sector branches of the U.S. intelligence community.
2) Google,Facebook and other not-so-famous companies are interested in not just behavioral analytics but also in behavior control and modification.
3) Google and Facebook can do a lot worse and get away with it,so long as they do it slowly. It's not thay they want world domination or just making more money,they're more concerned abour control. Making things more predictable,not leaving important decisions and situations to chance and free will. Of course some individuals have political ambitions (Eric Schmidt's new america initiative for example).
4) Whoever controls them,controls the country and western civilization. Even the greatest men will find that kind of power too difficult to wield without selfish and malicious intent.
It's history stuck in a for loop,rulers vs the ruled.
Wow, for once I could be a class member in a lawsuit that I'd actually like to succeed. The only problem I foresee is measuring damages, but it's California, so it might be possible to get them up to a billion. It'll take at least that for Google to give a shit.
Skimresources is probably an affiliate link thing (although they also try to sell your data to power targeted advertising), see: https://skimlinks.com/
> Until the Associated Press story on August 13, Google's policy simply stated: "You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored."
I don't have any google applications installed on the iPhone. I use the native mail application connected to gmail for looking at my mail, and the browser has google as the default search engine. That's about it
Apple Maps does of course not use Google Maps and the Google Maps app doesn’t track your location while you aren’t navigating. No app gets to track your location if you don’t allow it.
This suit is all about alleged this and alleged that and then it’s presented as the truth while there is no proof at all. Perhaps the Android part is going anywhere but my money is on at least the iPhone part disappearing rather quickly. Perhaps the idea is to bully Apple into a settlement with some negative press attention, well good luck with that.
Yeah I've only been called for jury duty once, but I noticed that any potential juror who seemed to have particular expertise or background in the subject matter of the case was dismissed with a peremptory challenge.
There’s cases where it’s distinctly slower though.
For this article, it might be due to caching strategies, but the non amp loads way faster for me (in perception about a second faster to start to read the article).
I find the mobile version of arsetechnica much easier to read than the non-mobile version. There's less crap strewn about the body of the text (random plugs for other articles, in-line links, etc)
It isn't only about the data. When people visit AMP pages from Google Search, they aren't visiting your site. They are visiting a restricted shell of it that is hosted on google.com with a left-right swipe that takes users off of your site instead of deeper inside it. It restricts your markup and monetization, and is one of the largest threats to the WWW at the moment. The web is supposed to be decentralized. Also, mobile-first doesn't mean mobile-everywhere.
Google Analytics is easily blocked while still having access to the content. Loading the full content from their AMP servers is an all-or-nothing scenario. It effectively moves Google from being a 3rd party to a 1st party and the content provider becomes the 3rd party instead
Google lock in, like Microsoft's MSN idea in 1995... Google wants you to never leave their servers, so they can track much more and much easier. Just bad for a free and open web.
Maybe so, but I think it looks better than the regular page on desktop. Instead of header and sidebar clutter, you have whitespace, and it has fewer ads.
1) Google and other bigtech are essentially private sector branches of the U.S. intelligence community.
2) Google,Facebook and other not-so-famous companies are interested in not just behavioral analytics but also in behavior control and modification.
3) Google and Facebook can do a lot worse and get away with it,so long as they do it slowly. It's not thay they want world domination or just making more money,they're more concerned abour control. Making things more predictable,not leaving important decisions and situations to chance and free will. Of course some individuals have political ambitions (Eric Schmidt's new america initiative for example).
4) Whoever controls them,controls the country and western civilization. Even the greatest men will find that kind of power too difficult to wield without selfish and malicious intent.
It's history stuck in a for loop,rulers vs the ruled.