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google's continued history-rewriting on personal assets (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

FYI: the post was updated with a clarification but it sounds just as bad

https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

To clarify: this is a Google Save Collection, which is one of the mechanisms Google syncs bookmarks via. They're not the default in Chrome (but accessible), but they are the only bookmark facility in the Google Search app, using the standard bookmark icon.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, I'm familiar with the mechanism, but it's still google fucking with user data under the "well, it's stored on our servers" excuse

I should see if I can find that one where goog was killing someone's stuff in their gdocs for the same reason

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

I should have said "it sounds worse", really