Fuck Off Google

by stiray • 7 years ago

93 27 7 years ago

alexnewman4• 7 years ago

Founder of hcaptcha.com here. We intend to give the websites control of the data we collect, not us. I wonder why google doesn't make the same pledge for recaptcha and analytics. We are trying our best to stick to DNT style operations but with the DNT standard in flux, we had to draw our own line. Learn more on our website.

mehhh• 7 years ago

Google is an advertising company first and foremost, hence collaborating with other adtech giants to ignore Do Not Track after Microsoft decided it should be enabled by default.

reilly3000• 7 years ago

DNT could have so easily been a protocol, instead its a sign that implores "Please don't feed the ducks"

alexnewman4• 7 years ago

It's not just adtech

Exuma• 7 years ago

That's gonna be a no from me dawg

STRiDEX• 7 years ago

Same. The images on a few of the pages look like classic conspiracy theory style images. How do you even describe that style? Mashed together and annotated with lines connecting other things. https://fuckoffgoogle.de/no-tax-no-law/

tallies• 7 years ago

Conspiratorial infographics

hcs• 7 years ago

With apologies for linking to TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringTheory

swiley• 7 years ago

It doesn’t help with the tracking but you can sometimes get away with randomizing input to google’s captcha which makes it less valuable to them.

viraptor2• 7 years ago

If you look at the video about Google image labeler game, they list a few abuse protections. A single answer is never going to end up as a real data point, especially if you can get lots of them from different sources to validate.

rocky1138• 7 years ago

This is one of the most cyberpunk things ever

viraptor2• 7 years ago

On one of the graphics they label https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) with "transhumanism = inhumanism". I'd expect most cyberpunk ideas to go the other way.

But yeah, otherwise it's pretty much anti-corp.

yagodragon• 7 years ago

Ironically, this website is generated with Hugo[1], a static site generator built with Go, a language created by Google. Jokes aside, it's good that they bring up this issue that affects their local community.

[1]https://gohugo.io

alexnewman4• 7 years ago

Google created go? or many people who worked at google and other companies? I'd be interested to know if google primarily implemented go. They did create chromium though

fourthark• 7 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

kibibu2• 7 years ago

Yes. It's a Google project. There are a lot of contributors outside of Google, but it was invented at Google, and governance is by a Google team, and the top contributors are Google employees.

jks• 7 years ago

A post about that was discussed on Hacker News a while ago:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIsGoo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19978200

Smithalicious• 7 years ago

Props to anyone sticking it to Google, but this site has too many conspiracy-sounding things:

Transhumanism is a quasi-religious belief that technology is the only way to “save” humanity. A small Transhumanist elite from the Silicon Valley believes Earth’s resources should be invested to merge humans and machines (Elon Musk’s Neuralink builds chips to inplant in our skulls) or go to Mars. Google, through its sister-company Calico, is now one of the first funders of transhumanism.

foxfired• 7 years ago

am I the only one who can't access the website? I get a "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

iliketosleep• 7 years ago

Companies like google are indeed out of control and creating a dystopian future. Amongst other things, Google has already unleashed bots that arbitrarily destroy livelihoods (e.g. automated account terminations, in markets where there are few, if any alternatives to Google). I have found that dealing with companies like Google is eerily similar to dealing with an authoritarian government (e.g. they don't care about normal individuals), and as such companies gain more control over society (and governments) it actually becomes a major political issue, perhaps the political issue of our time. At the beginning of the Internet age, I felt that tech could provide the path to liberation, but now I fear that it also provides a potential path to supression.

markthien• 7 years ago

Evil In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSrPeX3mvzU

creativipy• 7 years ago

A little over the top... I mean Google is bordering on Evil but this is definitely over the edge.

koonsolo• 7 years ago

1st world problem if your biggest enemy is a search engine ;).

kakwa_• 7 years ago

It's quite interesting to see the evolution of Google reputation in the past years.

Maybe I was in a different context being a student, but 5 to 10 years ago Google had a really good reputation, they just released Android, Chromium, Golang a few of their papers triggered important tech improvement (Map Reduce, "Big Data"), and they had the reputation of being a very nice place to work with 20% of your time allocated to side projects. They did a "little" tax evasion but just like anybody else, and maybe a few questions were asked by a minority over privacy concerns. But overall things, at least from the outside, looked really good.

But starting with Prism/NSA scandal, all this has become gradaully irrelevant. Google has become just another company, with a frightening dark side because of its scale and amount of data collected. And this loss of good will and reputation is not finished yet.

pathseeker• 7 years ago

Agree with how quickly they lost their reputation, but FYI: they didn't do any tax evasion that we know of because tax evasion is illegal. Companies minimizing tax burdens through legal means is called "tax avoidance".

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