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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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know what i hate? when you use a facebook login for a thing and they make you choose a username and password anyway b/c they just want your facebook friend lists and poo poo like that

wtf app dudes

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Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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Cold on a Cob
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and i'm brain dead virtually

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won't matter once the antibiotic resistant bacteria kills us all

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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announcing a product after your death would be loving badass tbh

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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TORONTO — Google has been caught afoul of the law by displaying web ads linked to a person’s health history, according to Canada’s interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier.

An investigation by her office backed up a man’s complaints that he was seeing so-called behavioural advertisements based on his web browsing history. After searching for information about devices to treat sleep apnea, he began to see ads for those devices as he browsed the web.

While behavioural advertising is not illegal, Canada’s privacy law does not allow consumers to be targeted based on “sensitive personal information,” including their health.

Google’s privacy policy outlaws displaying advertisements based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health. But the Mountain View, Calif.-based company acknowledged that some advertisers using its ad-serving platform were not following the policy.

Google has pledged to upgrade the system that reviews ads for compliance, increase the monitoring of ads, and provide more information to advertisers and staff about the rules.

“The monitoring system was not tight enough, not robust enough to ensure compliance, it wasn’t extensive enough to deal with the volume of ads,” said Bernier in an interview.

“What this brings to light is the complexity of ensuring compliance in relation to online behavioural advertising and therefore the compliance mechanisms, the monitoring, the training of staff, the frequency of reviews has to be really brought up.”

The company, which declined an interview request, said it will implement the changes by June.

“We’ve worked closely with the office of the privacy commissioner throughout this process and are pleased to be resolving this issue,” said a Google Canada spokeswoman in a statement.

The complainant who spurred the investigation also noted that he only contacted the privacy commissioner’s office because he couldn’t figure out how to notify someone at Google directly about his concerns.

Bernier said she’s also pushing Google to make it easier for consumers to be heard.

“The privacy law in Canada for the private sector includes the obligation to have clear recourse, to have remedy, if there is an issue with the way your personal information is handled,” she said.

“So Google must correct this as soon as possible.”

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

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fits my needs posted:

gay broken poo poo

don't sign

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Pinterest Mom posted:

google is deprecating the URL in chrome. :rip:


wow wtf google

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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literally one of these people actually ate there and got chewed out (hehe) for being a glasshole (but they prob deserved it)

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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so, uhm. question. if i google for amanda rosenberg nudes will google dispatch a self-driving car to take pictures of my house and post them on the internet?

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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duTrieux. posted:

i wonder if they bothered with any crash testing and safety engineering on that car

i'm sure they have decent code coverage on the embedded stuff, it'll be fine

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Cold on a Cob
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yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Progressive JPEG posted:

does safari even exist on windows anymore

nope hence i'm using chrome

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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duTrieux. posted:

"Arrogant FuckOS" is also my porn name, btw
same but my operating system name

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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tbf journalists are barely journalists anymore now that fact checking and editing have been offshored

thanks new media

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Rufus Ping posted:

hip young things increasingly dont use facebook, i maintain that its stupid to insist that all your users also use facebook

i mean its not even for single sign on (which is still stupid). doesnt tinder pull your photos from your facebook photos?

does nobody under the age of 25 work at tinder or do they all have half a brain

i loving hate hate hate HATE it when an app is like "login using your facebook account" and then they make you put in a password anyway

gently caress those apps

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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cremnob posted:

reuters writes a post about how driverless cars are a PR stunt cause the only way its gonna make money is if

a. google gets into the high capex business of car manufacturing lol
b. licenses the tech to car companies (but they wont cause they're working on the tech themselves so they won't pay the google tax)

quote:

Self-driving cars can free people to do more of the things that earn Google money, such as Web search. But Urmson said Google is still figuring out how to make a profit from the technology.

lmao

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Max Facetime posted:

ah-ha, it was not the articles but the comments that caused this: a youtube-commenter wants their name disassociated from a comment and in response google blackholes the whole article

not only did google hurt the reforming youtube-commenter who's trying to pull their life back together - by risking their name to a whole lot of unwanted new exposure - they also hurt their customers by cutting the number of ad views they get and they hurt their users by making search worse

good job being petulant children about a court ruling you don't like

they didn't even blackhole the article

if you search on the public figure in the article, it still shows up in results

if you search for the name of the private individual, the article does not show up

so actually google did this 100% right but then told the article author who in turn wrote an article stating they had been black-holed when in fact they had not. this is exactly what google is hoping for, lots of FUD going around

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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graph posted:

lmao screwgle dropped hangouts for every browser except chrome

lmao no loving way

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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lol

Cold on a Cob
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they are only doing it because the eu is making them, call me when they do this in america (they won't, without a court order)

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Feb 6, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

apple should do that too

agreed


Wheany posted:

of course, but they're still doing it.

lol @ giving someone credit for being bitchslapped by the courts

do you think a child rapist that is in prison and can't rape children anymore did a good thing too?

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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ya

free
paid
one-time iap
recurring iap
subscription

something like that i dunno

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

free w/ ads should be the demo version of a paid app. then you can upgrade to the full app to get rid of ads.

then put treadmill currency games in their own section away from everything else so no one but the idiots who use those apps have to look at them.

yeah this

i've stopped even considering looking in the app store for any games because those lovely games now seem to dominate both the "free" and "paid" categories

Cold on a Cob
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pram posted:

this is the game you guys are arguing over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9773c6V29g

i'm the kim kardashian kustomization screen

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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saucepanman posted:

gently caress now instead cp'ing articles you're just pasting loving screenshots of them

lol crenmob

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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isn't this done already?

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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stymie's gimmick is that there is no gimmick

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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wtf is this poo poo, that's not a drunk post at all. stay in gimmick :colbert:

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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Smythe posted:

ive been breaking my gimmick all morning. but ill tbh, i dont really have a gimmick hehe

some gimmicks are natural

like mine

i'm naturally this annoying and forgettable

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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lmao

Cold on a Cob
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i mean yeah nothing is new and innovation is a bit of a myth but lol if they literally maybe invented one thing ever

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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good. not seeing the problem here :colbert:

Cold on a Cob
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:

i'm the database of known child pornography maintained by a googler

tbf i'm sure they just keep the hashes

didn't someone post an article about the people that work for facebook that go through all the reported stuff. sounds soul crushing :(

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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i wonder what an ethicist would say about putting incarcerated pedophiles to work processing those requests

i'm not even going to touch that one (no pun intended)

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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lol @ comparing google to berkshire hathaway, hathaway sees value where hard numbers show there is value that the market is ignoring, google does the literal opposite

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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my understanding is for most of his career buffet bought companies that, if you liquidated them, would still be worth more than their market cap

idk if that's true or if he still does that (i assume no) but still

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

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The Management posted:

Buffett invests in companies that have solid product fundamentals but have operational efficiencies to unlock with access to capital and more financially savvy management. he buys companies to keeps them running and improve them and doesn't fire employees.

this is basically the opposite of corporate raiders that want to break up a company for quick profits.

that jives with what i read about him, cool

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Feb 6, 2006

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PleasureKevin posted:

does that work in canada

officially no, but you could use the swagbucks search engine in canada to earn swagbucks :haw:

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theadder posted:

cremnob is the archetypal fallen disciple

is this a judas reference? idgi

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