#GOOGLE

[theatre-gay-they]

I told safari to tell them (and every other website I open in safari) to fuck off. I also recently saw a guide on privacy for activist types that recommends Apple Maps over Google maps (it listed another thing too that I'd assume would be better than both of them but I immediately forgot lol)

me: hmm time to google something

google every time: can i PLEASE have your location PLEASE 🥺🥺🥺 I need to know where you live so BAD 😫😫😫😫 Where do you fucking from?????? 😩😩😩😩😩😩

[greenpeathonk]

Palavras de Afirmação 💬‼️💕

Inspiração ⤵️

💬

Alimentando a comunidade de abstragedy com mais um desenho meu... E dnv, eu n sei qm é o artista do desenho, achei no Pinterest

[nostalgia-eh52]

1983 Trading Places:

Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd

[bestfictionaldinosaur]

MONONYKUS [PREHISTORIC PLANET] IS THE BEST FICTIONAL DINOSAUR!!!!!

After almost exactly 4 months, we have officially crowned the Best Fictional Dinosaur, Mononykus from Prehistoric Planet! It was by no means an easy win though, winning by only 6 or so votes (0.4%!!) in a poll with almost 1500 votes.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who voted, not just in this poll, but in every poll in this tournament! And an even bigger thank you to everyone who reblogged my polls to help spread the word; I know all of you by heart and you are all the best.

It's been fun, and I hope you all had as good a time as I did! Sadly all good things must come to and end; stick around though, if I have time I will post some tournament analytics!

I do have some ideas for my next tournament as well...

[themorphine]

for those who absolutely despise the google ai overview here's a chrome extension to remove it!! works wonders :)

[girlactionfigure]

[angstandhappiness]

Gah

It is with the deepest frustrations that I must report Microsoft has pushed out Copilot onto Microsoft Word no matter what your previous settings were. If you have Office because you paid for it/are on a family plan/have a work/school account, you can disable it by going to Options -> click on Copilot -> uncheck 'Enable Copilot'.

(Note, you may not see this option if you haven't updated lately, but Copilot will still pop up. Updating should give you this option. I will kill Microsoft with my bare hands.)

In addition, Google has forced a roll-out of it's Gemini AI on all American accounts of users over 18 (these settings are turned off by default for EU, Japan, Switzerland, and UK, but it doesn't hurt to check).

To remove this garbage, you must go to Manage Workspace smart feature settings for all your Gmail/Drive/Chat and turn them off. Go to Settings -> See all settings -> find under "Genera" the "Google Workspace smart features" -> turn smart feature setting off for both Google Workspace and all other Google products and hit save. (If you turned off the smart settings in your Gmail, it never hurts to open Drive and double-check that they're set to off there too.)

Quick Edit: I found the easiest way to get to the Smart Feature settings following the instructions above was to do it through Drive. Try that route first.

Now is the time to consider switching to Libre Office if you haven't already.

[utopicwork]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/google-ai-israel-war-hamas-attack-gaza/

(paywalled unfortunately)

[decayfromwithin]

[ggensblog]

even though i personally wasn’t affected by the ‘TikTok ban’, im still American and i can feel that the after effects of it are going to be really messy. not to get radical on main, but that’s exactly what i’m going to do because this is such a dark and scary time and people cannot just dismiss it after the problem is “resolved”

- the whole ‘we are working with president Trump to bring the app back’ message that popped up for Americans upon the app shutting down for them should have been a warning sign- no actually it should have been a slap in the face that the TikTok team was working with Trump to build this publicity stunt.

- and that’s exactly what it was: a publicity stunt. Donald Trump found a way to buy his way into painting himself as some kind of ‘savior’ of tiktok/social media/the first amendment, whatever. Donald Trump is a businessman first and foremost, he knew how to navigate and MANIPULATE not only TikTok, but the entire community of americans on the app.

- even scarier, this event- no matter how trivial it seems- can be seen as a blatant power move. a way for the government to show the American people that they can easily break apart their community by shutting down what has been a decent resource for organizing and discussing politics and word events. the fact that the ‘ban’ lasted all of 16 hours proved that it was not a national security risk- so why bother? other than to prove a point? that they have the power to do whatever they want by buying out companies to do their bidding - because money makes the oligarchy go round.

- it was never about national security. it wasn’t about national security when the presidential candidates were using TikTok not even 3 months ago for their political campaigns. it wasn’t about national security when the app was off for a mere 16 hours. it was NEVER about national security. it was, again, about the money. TikTok being a foreign application that was major competition for Facebook/Meta and Google financially- they showed us that they can buy their way into making more corporate puppets to shape the American mind.

- these are the kinds of moves that are pulled by dictators and facists. manipulating the perspective of the American people to shift focus away from large issues while still proving that they are the ones in power.

we cannot afford to dismiss how this was just an example of what can be done to what is the best way for people to stay informed. this is not to say that social media is the best news outlet, but it is objectively more accessible for the general public compared to news that sits behind a paywall in other areas of the internet.

stay alert, stay informed- and continue to inform yourselves. we are not so fortunate to live in an age where we can afford to be willfully ignorant.

[thisismyideaofhumor]

I was trying to find memes but Google told me the name of the meme dog like she’s an actress

[m0thmancore]

suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

[raddagher]

hello google chrome refugees

don't use any of these browsers, they're also chrome

Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

please get off chrome google is currently being investigated for being an Illegal Monopoly so get outta there okay love you bye

[why-ai]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]