I find myself treating #Google AI Overviews in Search like the obnoxious jerk kid in a high school classroom who always has some almost always stupid or intrusive personal remark to make in response to any question any other student has. That is, ignore him 100% of the time.
Em :official_verified:
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📉 Wikipedia traffic drops ~8% as users turn to AI & social media. 🤖
Wikimedia says AI uses its content without driving clicks. 🔗
Google contests this, citing stable search traffic. 🌐
Wikipedia is crafting new policies for attribution and sustainability. 🛡️
⚖️ Calls grow for fair data use & AI transparency.
#TechNews #AI #Wikipedia #Google #Privacy #OpenSource #Data #Search #Innovation #Ethics #Technology #Internet #Digital #News #AIethics
📉 Wikipedia traffic drops ~8% as users turn to AI & social media. 🤖
Wikimedia says AI uses its content without driving clicks. 🔗
Google contests this, citing stable search traffic. 🌐
Wikipedia is crafting new policies for attribution and sustainability. 🛡️
⚖️ Calls grow for fair data use & AI transparency.
#TechNews #AI #Wikipedia #Google #Privacy #OpenSource #Data #Search #Innovation #Ethics #Technology #Internet #Digital #News #AIethics
@signalapp
Signal selected Google Gmail as their email provider.
Consider asking for a public PGP encryption key if you are concerned about Google accessing the content of your message, this can provide end-to-end encryption of the message content but the metadata will be available to Google.
Signal: Please publish a key on your website.
Gmail PGP encryption options: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/114748498901944225
#Signal #Google #Gmail #Encryption #E2EE #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Mailvelope #Thunderbird
Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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I removed my YouTube account from our smart TV and only use 'guest' now - another step on the slow de-google.
Honestly there's not much difference - it shows how a non-Premium YouTube account is as ad-broken as a guest one, except that they have more info about you.
Finding some decent YouTubers on PeerTube though. Which is great...
I removed my YouTube account from our smart TV and only use 'guest' now - another step on the slow de-google.
Honestly there's not much difference - it shows how a non-Premium YouTube account is as ad-broken as a guest one, except that they have more info about you.
Finding some decent YouTubers on PeerTube though. Which is great...
Mastodon Migration
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By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/
#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon
By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/
#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon
More Google Misinformation
Enter the query:
outer limits producer
in #Google Search.
See the name "Leslie Stevens" come up. Yeah, his name is right for the original series. That's his as in he. Who is the photo of the woman Google presents next to his name? Damned if I know. Nice job, Google. Keep the misinformation coming.
Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google's AI Overviews
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/inside-the-web-infrastructure-revolt-over-googles-ai-overviews/
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AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Slop#Journalism#Media#MediaIndustry#Google#Technology#Tech
AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Slop#Journalism#Media#MediaIndustry#Google#Technology#Tech
#Google Calendar invitations are now being used to send out PayPal phishing scams. Also, about half of the phishing and gambling promotion emails I get now are being forwarded to me by Gmail even when they end up in the Spam folder in Gmail. Frankly, Gmail is showing signs of falling apart. Sure, bring AI into Gmail, and let the basic functions rot. Great work, Google.
it's hard not to think the "AI overviews" from #google #gemini are getting worse, not better...
(here it is telling me Bybit was hacked for $1.5 billion in August 2025 instead of February... this is only a few months after Gemini patiently explained to me that the US maintains an army base on the moon)
cc @davidgerard
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In May 2025, Google began to pay CA$100 million a year to media outlets in order to be exempt from Canada's Online News Act. Gretel Kahn of the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute spoke to representatives from The Logic, @thetyee, IndigiNews and The Rover about how things are going, who gets the money, and where things stand with Meta, which decided to remove all news for Canadians rather than pay up. “If companies like Google and Facebook want to play that role in being a trusted information source and they want people to come to their platform, trust it and be doing good things with circulating information, I don’t think it’s a crazy idea that they should be expected to pitch in funding journalism,” said The Tyee's Jeanette Ageson.
In May 2025, Google began to pay CA$100 million a year to media outlets in order to be exempt from Canada's Online News Act. Gretel Kahn of the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute spoke to representatives from The Logic, @thetyee, IndigiNews and The Rover about how things are going, who gets the money, and where things stand with Meta, which decided to remove all news for Canadians rather than pay up. “If companies like Google and Facebook want to play that role in being a trusted information source and they want people to come to their platform, trust it and be doing good things with circulating information, I don’t think it’s a crazy idea that they should be expected to pitch in funding journalism,” said The Tyee's Jeanette Ageson.