Imagine being such an irredeemably enshittified trillion-dollar company that makes bad products that you need to resort to dark patterns or straight out ostracism (#Immich is only the latest example, anyone remembers when they pulled K9-Mail from the Play Store?) in order to discourage people from using open-source software that competes with your products.

With all the resources it has, #Google could simply make Google Photos better.

But I guess that scaring off those who use its open-source alternatives is much easier and doesn't even cost development time.

https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

#HackerNews #Israel #Google #Amazon #Wink #LegalOrders

Imagine being such an irredeemably enshittified trillion-dollar company that makes bad products that you need to resort to dark patterns or straight out ostracism (#Immich is only the latest example, anyone remembers when they pulled K9-Mail from the Play Store?) in order to discourage people from using open-source software that competes with your products.

With all the resources it has, #Google could simply make Google Photos better.

But I guess that scaring off those who use its open-source alternatives is much easier and doesn't even cost development time.

https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

When someone cites something from an "AI" chatbot as a fact, point them to this site:

https://stopcitingai.com

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #online #Web #tips

Responding to a court order, the Google Play Store in the US now longer prohibits developers from using 3rd-party payment services and including links to download or pay for apps outside the Play Store... at least until the Supreme Court rules on an appeal. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/google-begins-loosening-developer-restrictions-in-play-store-against-its-will/ #Google #Antitrust #GooglePlayStore

Jujutsu at Google [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Ob5yPpC0A

#HackerNews #Jujutsu #Google #video #martialarts #tech #innovation

@FediTips I keep hoping the developer verification #Google tries to force on #android can still be averted. But in any case, what I would love to see as a result of this BS move is, to give the idea of #PWA (progressive web apps) a big boost. But maybe the next step is, that #Google sides with #Apple in another attempt to kill #PWA ...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/What_is_a_progressive_web_app

#FDroid #sideload #digitalautonomy #webdev #appdev

Nach Epic-Urteil: Google öffnet den Play Store in den USA

Google hat den US-Play-Store nach der Schlappe gegen Epic fristgemäß geöffnet. App-Anbieter erhalten mehr Flexibilität bei Abrechnung und In-App-Zahlungen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Epic-Urteil-Google-oeffnet-den-Play-Store-in-den-USA-10964543.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #EpicGames #Google #InAppKäufe #IT #Mobiles #Security #Wettbewerb #news

Szczerze mówiąc, działania Big Techów w ostatnich latach naprawdę zniechęcają do czegokolwiek. Tak jest też z najnowszym pomysłem Google'a dotyczącym blokowania instalacji spoza "zaufanych źródeł". Lekko, ale merytorycznie pisze o tym autor w poniższym tekście.

#Google #Android #CyberSec #Cyberbezpieczeństwo

https://www.ciemnastrona.com.pl/google/2025/10/02/google-play-store-weryfikacja-tozsamosci.html

@hipsterelectron #Google sucks. Period. Earlier this year I migrated to another, more secure and private, mail provider. That was the biggest step in de-Googling. Still have a few things left, like getting content off Google Drive and finding another solution for Google Voice. But email was the big thing.

When someone cites something from an "AI" chatbot as a fact, point them to this site:

https://stopcitingai.com

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #online #Web #tips

Google-Mutter steigert Gewinn um ein Drittel trotz EU-Strafe

Die EU-Kommission verhängte eine Strafe von fast drei Milliarden Euro gegen Google. Der Internet-Konzern verdaute die Belastung problemlos.

https://www.heise.de/news/Google-Mutter-steigert-Gewinn-um-ein-Drittel-trotz-EU-Strafe-10963990.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Börse #Alphabet #Google #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Geschäftszahlen #Tesla #Wirtschaft #YouTube #news

Szczerze mówiąc, działania Big Techów w ostatnich latach naprawdę zniechęcają do czegokolwiek. Tak jest też z najnowszym pomysłem Google'a dotyczącym blokowania instalacji spoza "zaufanych źródeł". Lekko, ale merytorycznie pisze o tym autor w poniższym tekście.

#Google #Android #CyberSec #Cyberbezpieczeństwo

https://www.ciemnastrona.com.pl/google/2025/10/02/google-play-store-weryfikacja-tozsamosci.html

Degoogle fact to ponder 5
AWS holds a 31% share of the global cloud infrastructure market, leading its closest competitors, Microsoft Azure (25%) and Google Cloud (11%) (figures as of 2023)
Three US companies control about 2/3 of the internet.
#degoogle #microsoft #google #tech #bigtech #amazon #aws

🚨 There's an enormous amount of traffic at a .su domain (old Soviet Union TLD), per #Cloudflare Radar. It's outranking every other big domain out there ( #Google, #Microsoft, #Facebook, etc.) Maybe this is related to a botnet controller and the #Azure outage, but if anyone out there in #infosec knows more, please comment. The host machine(s) are at Softlayer in Texas.

#cybersecurity #security #outage #Azure #AWS #cloud #cloudcomputing

Degoogle fact to ponder 5
AWS holds a 31% share of the global cloud infrastructure market, leading its closest competitors, Microsoft Azure (25%) and Google Cloud (11%) (figures as of 2023)
Three US companies control about 2/3 of the internet.
#degoogle #microsoft #google #tech #bigtech #amazon #aws