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Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Wheany posted:

in six months google will announce "only 0.72% of our users user a pseudonym instead of their real name" and they will conclude that "everyone actually wants to use their real name" instead of "nobody actually uses google+". also i have been posting "heil hilter 14/88" to every youtube video i have watched for the last 2 years under my real name, who the gently caress cares if i start using a pseudonym at this point.

back when they first integrated google+ with youtube they had a popup that notified you of the change and no matter what you clicked on (the options were like "ok, great!" and "ok, great! i'll set up a google+ account later" and it popped up on every drat page) it set up a google+ account for you. since it set up a google+ account for me and the link on their support site to delete your google+ profile page or whatever was loving broken i changed my name on my google account to "gently caress Google" and got a bunch of emails from old contacts that probably had me on google talk or whatever saying "CHANGE YOUR NAME BACK ITS OFFENSIVE AND AGAINST GOOGLE'S TOS"

luckily like a loving week later they fixed the link to remove all of your google+ bullshit

tl;dr: gently caress Google

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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

friend request sent

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

fits my needs posted:

lol why not just use incognito or whatever unless i guess you really want to save your porntube links in your history or whatever

i like how every time you delete your history in chrome google says "maybe you want to try using incognito mode next time" like some subtle implication that only perverts and creeps delete their history (b/c google of course wants all that history to :nsa: with)

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

the link to delete the g+ account that actually closes and deletes and salts the earth of every account you own whether it's tied to g+ or not

or was that hangouts or places or business or wave???

pram
Jun 10, 2001
you can delete google+ without it deleting anything else

pram
Jun 10, 2001
i know ive done it like 3 times when they try and backdoor that poo poo with yr youtube account

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

I wonder how much arm twisting and ball busting it took for google takeout to exist

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

you used to have to pair a youtube account to a gmail account. since i had two accounts i paired and unpaired with every sign-in. one day it decided to delete the youtube account previously paired.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

pram posted:

i know ive done it like 3 times when they try and backdoor that poo poo with yr youtube account

same but 5

Dicky B
Mar 23, 2004

pram posted:

you can delete google+
somebody should let them know

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
remember when youtube was actually about watching stupid videos of skateboarding accidents and cat videos and google didn't try to shove suggested videos down your throat

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Wild EEPROM posted:

remember when youtube was actually about watching stupid videos of skateboarding accidents and cat videos and google didn't try to shove suggested videos down your throat

i've not spent more than about 10 minutes on youtube at any one time for a while now

Dicky B
Mar 23, 2004

computer parts posted:

i've not spent more than about 10 minutes on youtube at any one time for a while now
i dont like popular bands

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

Beeftweeter posted:

back when they first integrated google+ with youtube they had a popup that notified you of the change and no matter what you clicked on (the options were like "ok, great!" and "ok, great! i'll set up a google+ account later" and it popped up on every drat page) it set up a google+ account for you. since it set up a google+ account for me and the link on their support site to delete your google+ profile page or whatever was loving broken i changed my name on my google account to "gently caress Google" and got a bunch of emails from old contacts that probably had me on google talk or whatever saying "CHANGE YOUR NAME BACK ITS OFFENSIVE AND AGAINST GOOGLE'S TOS"

luckily like a loving week later they fixed the link to remove all of your google+ bullshit

tl;dr: gently caress Google

there was a small 'x' at the top of that window which would get rid of the notification. it was the only way to get around it iirc

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Dicky B posted:

somebody should let them know

they have been made aware of the bug and will fix it as soon as possible

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Dicky B posted:

i dont like popular bands
i have a feeling that i might not like popular channel.

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011



“Typography is kind of the skeleton. It’s the unsung hero,” Matias Duarte, Google’s vice president of design, said in an interview this week. "We’re trying to give people one logical, consistent system.”

it seems like they think they're the first to think of fonts. and of course they're not designing a font, they're engineering a font. i imagine it has 50 varieties of serif being A/B tested all over *.google.com

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

also the nymag has compressed the images so bad it's useless

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
it's me i'm the google font engineer

Wheany
Mar 17, 2006

Spinyahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Doctor Rope
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial#Troubleshooting

If your code isn't working:
  • Post questions to Stack Overflow. Guidelines on how to post great questions are available on the Support page.

..bbecause google own support is a black hole

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

if you have any problems with this android library please bing it ah hahah

the bsd boys
Aug 8, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 377 days!

PleasureKevin posted:



PLEASUUUUUUURRRRE

UNNNNLIMITED
PLEAAAAASSUUUUUURRRREEE

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

:drac:

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

sec is forcing google to be more transparent about their results. gonna own for watching cpc tank every quarter

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/17/google-earnings-new-ad-details-rd-and-other-areas-to-watch/

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
more like unlimited fives

Avenging Dentist
Oct 1, 2005

oh my god is that a circular saw that does not go in my mouth aaaaagh

infernal machines posted:

no poo poo. it's actually a well documented standard implemented by multiple vendors, basically the first choice for anyone who wants multi-platform mail calendar and contact sync in an integrated system.

so of course google dropped it

google's implementation of activesync was loving dogshit and routinely gave back inaccurate results

even when it wasn't wrong, it was still stupid, like how requesting html-formatted bodies just gave you the html google throws into the gmail web ui's message pane, so if there were any inline images, you had to demunge the gmail-ified urls to get something you could actually use

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

more news from the google PR lab means its earnings day

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/google_brain

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

main takeaway from this planted story is

“Google is not really a search company. It’s a machine-learning company,”

lol

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


THE GOOGLE BRAIN

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

another quarter :xd:

Cost-Per-Click - Average cost-per-click, which includes clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our Network members, decreased approximately 6% over the second quarter of 2013 and remained constant from the first quarter of 2014. Cost-per-click for Google sites decreased approximately 7% over the second quarter of 2013 and decreased approximately 2% over the first quarter of 2014. Network cost-per-click decreased approximately 13% over the second quarter of 2013 and increased approximately 3% over the first quarter of 2014.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

prefect posted:

hey, they even have a link for opera! :toot:

doesn't look like they have the "annoyances" thing for opera, but maybe i can fiddle with the normal one

:tipshat:

opera's just chrome now so :shrug:

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

theflyingexecutive posted:

opera's just chrome now so :shrug:

you can take my opera 12 from me when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of it

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

media finally writing about it

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/technology/googles-earnings-show-its-struggle-with-mobile-ads.html?ref=technology

Zam Wesell
Mar 22, 2009

[Zam is suddenly shot in the neck by a toxic dart; Anakin and Obi-Wan see a "rocket-man" take off and fly away, and Zam dies]
hey can i export all my old gmail mail to my icloud mail in an easy manner

thx

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
yeah its called forwarding every single email one by one dumbass!

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




:smugmrgw:

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
wonder when google's gonna stop ppl from forwarding emails

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


Granbar posted:

hey can i export all my old gmail mail to my icloud mail in an easy manner

thx

ya u download it all in a mail app thing and then copy it all back to icloud mailbox

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theadder
Dec 30, 2011


http://lifehacker.com/5850859/how-to-migrate-all-your-data-to-icloud-from-google-with-minimal-fuss

this terrible website will help u

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