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google's continued history-rewriting on personal assets (mastodon.social)
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content: image of google "moderating" (i.e. eliminating, permanently, without apparent recourse) an entry in a user's URL collection/bookmarks. the entry is for kickasstorrents. (archive)

I recall seeing an example of them doing something like this to people's gdocs stuff (and iirc that was on paid account, but I could be misremembering). seems like they're ramping up the where to more coverage of their services/assets

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But wasn't it closed like a decade ago? Maybe that's a malware website and Google is helping

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah! I fucking love when a corporation decides to “help” me without my prior consent and with no ability to reverse their stupid decision afterward either

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

a hellmark of so many the sfba hyperscale shitters is the intentional lack of a support department (again often paired with "visit our community forums", which I guess is a useful datapoint for inclusion in elsethread @self?)

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google might be "helping" in this instance, but the fact that they even can is disturbing. They shouldn't be snooping on your bookmarks list, period.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They snoop on way, way, way, way, way more than just this. Probably and demonstrably.

I can find you some URLs for reference later if you wish)

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, and that's not good either.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/googles-surveillance-the-shocking-truth/ was one I saw earlier, but you'll find a number of instances when you go looking

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago

clippy was also helping