D was having problems with Netflix in Firefox, just couldn’t get it to work. She got it working in Safari but doesn’t like Safari. I suggested she download Chrome. She said no “Google has enough of my life”.
Good girl :)
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Google. Wrong.
Firefox. Cookies cleared on exit, Ghostery / Better Privacy / Adblock. This what Google says it knows about me.
Chrome. Used for work. Nothing cleared, adblock running for one domain. No other privacy stuff.
“Dance & Electronic Music” is right.
If you are logged in to Google, click this to see what it knows about you.
– I just asked the wife to use the same link. It got her interests, age and sex right. I asked her if this mattered to her. Nope. Just me then :)
Another Google gripe.
Why can’t the people who make GMail have a “Next Unread” shortcut? Why can’t I specify a filtered list to show just unread first? Why don’t GMail listen to the constant feedback they’ve had about this since they launched the product? “Hey, keep all your email here – but we won’t help you sort them as you wish. Oh no, we know better.” Very very irritating.
Hosts
Chrome is not obeying my hosts file. Firefox does but Chrome – in Google’s infinite wisdom – does not look there so consequently doesn’t block what I want it to. Whose machine is this?
Google (again)
I was grateful that Google didn’t own Facebook, Twitter, my WordPress site and/or Flickr. All was not lost. I was high fiving myself for having the foresight to switch my blog to WordPress.
Readable GMail svn diffs
If you have to read SVN diffs in GMail then the display is as ugly as it gets. So you then find and use the SVN Colorizer but that still leaves the print you really need to read in GMail’s default stupidly small:
So take that original script – it’s in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/some-random-sequence/1.0_0/script.js and alter line 14. Mine now says
var css = "ins { background-color: #cfc; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;}\n\n del { background-color: #fcc; font-size: 14px;}";
and I can now read what I need to faster.
Google propaganda
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Company Link
Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. TorrentFreak
Google knows best though. Oh yes.
Spin!
Go to http://google.com and type ‘do a barrel roll’ (without the quotes).
So Google stops you seeing their stuff but they’ll suck up every damn thing you ever put on the net – or someone puts about you – and they’ll never ever delete it. But hey, it’s Google and we all love them to fuzzy little bits don’t we.
Google – silently evil
The National Security Agency will get to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google.
via McClatchy blog: Suits & Sentences.
Google is not part on the internet’s solution. It is part of the problem.