Other than that I think it's great;)
Thursday, June 27, 2024
The one thing I don't like about Google is you have no privacy
The other thing I don't like about Google is you have no privacy. Say you want to post a video from YouTube on a blog or forum your whole video feed comes up but maybe you don't want people seeing you have a recommended video for natural home remedies for hemorrhoids. I suppose you could go incognito but I don't trust that. The other day I went to an Urgent Care center for a UTI. Couple days later I get a link in my email to give a review but I'd be posting publicly under my real name instead of say something like Cyclops 78. I chose not to post a review as it would then be a matter of the public record I had a UTI. Google also won't let me create my own lexicon and make up my own words. Also on more than one occasion it has ruined a text message to a friend with its spelling authoritarianism and now ai influence. The list goes on.......
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Bad for custstomer, good for them. As Al Smith used to say, "Let's look at the data" -in ten years Googles capitalized value went from $306 Billion up to $2.3 Trillion. [the 2 largest corporations in the US total a value of 16.3 Trillion: half the National Debt!] Based loosely on the book "Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus- How Growth Became The Enemy" their income is
ReplyDelete48% Data Mining
48% Advertisements
4% Customer Service
To quote Forrest Gump, that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Except for the typo - should be 7 largest corporations.
Delete(Google made me do it
At this stage of the game it's hard to say Google is not a monopoly.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing about Google is you go to delete parts of your search history and it comes up again the next day. You delete it the following day and it comes up yet again until finally one day it's gone for good but even then it might be in a cloud somewhere. You delete it and it's deleted but not deleted. Is this a quantum question?
ReplyDeleteYou go to the doctor for some issue. They take care of it and few days later in your email you get an invite to talk about your experience. You think you'll post under Funkenstein but you'll be posting publicly across all platforms as yourself.
ReplyDeleteFrank from Hoboken: "I went in for crabs and the wait time was ludicrous."
Worked with a woman out here. She had a Dr. appointment. Checked in and they put her in an exam room. "Doctor will be in soon". He wasn't she sat there in the exam room until the lights went out and she heard the door slam. Her review - You SOBs left me alone and went home. My dog gets better service at the vel. You can take your bill and put it where the sun don't shine. Oh, the one magazine in the exam room was way out of date. Thanks for nothing.
ReplyDeleteProbably having sex with a nurse in the janitors closet.
ReplyDeleteGoogle E-Mail keeps sending me cruise line ads. Adults Only - sounds
ReplyDeletetantalizingly salacious. Not to worry, I don't go far with prostate problems, unless I haul a port-a-potty on a leash.
Paul (Brando) in "Last Tango In Paris": "I have a prostate the size of an Idaho potato but I'm still a good stick man."
ReplyDeleteYahoo email keeps sending me ads for Jacuzzi Remodel. All I got is a bathtub that I use Mr. Clean Magic Eraser on once a week.
ReplyDeleteGMail just sent me a link that was all in Chinese. I don't need a sampan.
ReplyDeleteI get those too. I don't trust it.
ReplyDeleteHarley -Davidson cycles, cruises to Antarctica, new windows, and MBA
ReplyDeletedegrees by mail. Who does Google think I am?
Ever thought of using Grammarly to do your post? Like, Hey, grammarly- write a post on 'cats'. CATS is a broadway play, a term for the small domestic feline, a shortened term for Caterpillar equipment and a type of computer assisted tomography (Cat scan) For example a cat might scan a cat from broadway running from a Caterpillar. The proposition is exact, but non-sensible . Unless of course, the running cat is injured by the chasing cat and requires a
ReplyDeletecat scan. Please pay Grammarly two Walmart cards and send to Nigeria.
I only go for the free apps these days. I gotta buy cat food.
ReplyDeleteGot a big PC in the basement. Are apps mostly for smartphone folks?
ReplyDeleteDo they lure you to some site? What the heck is TEMU?
I got at least ten pre-installed game apps on my phone and I don't even play games. They call that bloatware and it comes with the package. I can even see if they pre-installed WebMD but five solitaire games?
ReplyDeleteThey do it for $$. Like hookers.
ReplyDeleteThe only way you could get rid of the bloatware is if you root your device but then Google doesn't want you bypassing their security. Catch-22.
ReplyDeleteIt's like that finance ad on TV. "I want my computer and I want in NOW"
ReplyDeleteFound out I have 6 Apps. Never used any of them, even G-Mail I made my own icon on the side bar. Lots of links there. Would they be BB-Apps?
ReplyDeleteEvery once in a while I get a reminder I haven't been using an app and I can free up space. I like having it around though. Google watching you.
ReplyDeleteZ-Man's Law of Google Boondoggle.
ReplyDeleteI used to play Google solitaire. Kept average wins (47.6%). Then they made one of their improvements. It was bad and I quit solitaire.
ReplyDeleteYonkers Archeology Dept - did you ever identify the dug up bricks out back? Keep digging, if you find Jimmy Hoffa, you can retire early.
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ReplyDeleteUsed to find Indian head pennies in the backyard. Would clean them up in a cup of vinegar. Ever go to a coin shop? For anything to be of remote value it has to be in pristine condition. Put another way finding old coins in your backyard is not a second income.
Another thing about Google. They'll make an OS obsolete the latest being Lollipop but then they make it hard to root your device. They have these rooting apps which don't seem very good and a Google warning comes up no bueno this app is no good and tries to bypass our security. Yeah Google but you took away people's operating system in this case anyone whose device ran on Lollipop.
ReplyDeleteMy approach is to avoid the root. Stay up in the high branches.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates bought the DOS operating system from some guy that was going to offer it as freeware. Paid him $50,000 then sold it to IBM for $450,000. That was 1982. Today Microsoft is worth $3.4 Trillion.
Wife's brother tried to set up a 'test group' on Goggle Mail. He's pretty sharp, but failed after 9 Hours at the key board. Sent her a message-
ReplyDelete"Bob's right about google!"
Google now has pre-made ai responses to text messages you get. A menu. It's kind of like somebody peeking over your shoulder let me help you with that.
ReplyDeleteHad a battle with Gmail today. We sent out a weekly newsletter -to Alaska, Cal, Mass, midwest, Texas, Switzerland etc. Wife's aunt complained she hadn't gotten hers since the first of June. Would have helped if she had let us know she changed her e-address! So the Mrs. tried to send some older ones on her laptop. They didn't go, so she brought the laptop down to the mainframe and I tried, but we had two mouses competing for the WI-Fi share and I got knocked off MTMI1. Warm boot, cold boot, finally got back on and my Gmail icon
ReplyDeletewas gone. For years, that is how I bring up Gmail. Couple of frustrating hours and I found out how to put a working icon back on the sidebar. Where's the Christian Bros?
You could start a YouTube tech tutorial. Most of them I don't understand.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably pick "How to insult your mother- in - law using Grammarly." or "How not to throw a hatchet"
DeleteGoogle ads still trying to sell me a Harley-Davidson, Trex decking and an accounting degree from a virtual college. They ain't exactly reading my mind, ya know?
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