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Reminder that you should move your email archive to another provider, preferably one in Europe, and delete everything in GMail, including in the "all mail" folder.

Then cancel the account entirely if you can, or put a permanent "vacation" message saying that your clients / organizations should not use google products for security reasons.

Also be sure and delete everything out of google drive.

Even if you do cancel the acct(s), they will not delete your data immediately, or possibly ever. You need to do it yourself.

Your data is not safe with google. They have AI crawling every bit of it, and data mine for hundreds of third parties you know nothing about, including muskrat et al.

Additionally, any online service or app you use that has an option to login with google, you should replace. They are letting google data mine your info.

Time to pull the kill switch.

#Google#Gmail#Tech
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@leonido Es ist hoechste Zeit, dass man in #europa die "longstanding practice" ueberdenkt, Firmen wie #google zu verharmlosen, zu normativieren und teils sogar zur Voraussetzung zu machen, obwohl man wissen konnte, dass sie bereitwillig Propaganda jedweder Autokraten verbreiten wuerden, die sich zum Oberhaupt des Nestes aufschwingen, in dem sie residieren.

"Googlen verkko- ja mobiilikalentereista on poistettu esimerkiksi naistenpäivä, Pride-kuukausi ja holokaustin muistopäivä."
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Ei s**t*na nyt taas 🤢☠️
No niin, lopetin sitten Googlen käytön. Kokeilussa nyt Ecosia. Muitakin ehdotuksia/vaihtoehtoja otetaan vastaan...
Ja mikäs olis hyvä ilmainen sähköposti gmailin tilalle? Joku minkä tällainen boomeri osaisi ottaa käyttöön 😁
#Google #Ecosia

Yle Uutiset · Google poisti kalenteristaan naistenpäivän, Priden ja paljon muutaRatkaisu jatkaa linjaa, jossa yhtiö toteuttaa Trumpin toiveita.
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Happy #PatchTuesday from Google Chrome: Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Chrome 133.0.6943.98/.99 for Windows, Mac and 133.0.6943.98 for Linux has 4 security fixes, all 4 were externally reported:

  • CVE-2025-0995 (high) Use after free in V8
  • CVE-2025-0996 (high) Inappropriate implementation in Browser UI
  • CVE-2025-0997 (high) Use after free in Navigation
  • CVE-2025-0998 (high) Out of bounds memory access in V8

No mention of exploitation.

Chrome ReleasesStable Channel Update for Desktop  The Stable channel has been updated to 133.0.6943.98/.99 for Windows, Mac and  133.0.6943.98  for Linux which will roll out over the comin...
#chrome#google#cve

A bunch of people have suggested "inundating" #Google with reports on Maps that "Gulf of America" is an error. Don't bother. You can be sure that the decision to exclusively show the Trump wet dream of "Gulf of America" to the U.S. (while the rest of the planet sees either the actual "Gulf of Mexico" or both names) was made at the highest levels of Google, I'd assume by Trump's leashed pet billionaire Sundar himself. Oh yeah, you can make the reports, but they're just gonna end up on a spreadsheet somewhere in Google Geo where they will be ignored on orders from on high. Trust me on this.

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@petergleick I can tell you I think it is utter bullshit that I, as a Canadian, have to see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" on Google maps.

Keep that US shit in the US, please.

And someone tell that goof that America is all of south and North America, and USA is only about 1/4 of it.

This over-complying with the president's demand suggests Google is all for the change.