• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Google has the ability to stand up to trump. To destroy him, frankly.

    But they’d have to not be little bitches, so I guess they don’t.

  • canuck666777@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’d really love for someone to come up with a phone OS that I could use on my cell phone. Mine runs on Android and I want to dump all things Google! I read that they have an exclusive deal with reddit where ALL data on reddit would be made available to them for training their AI algorithms. I went on perplexity.ai to check for this and here’s the response I received to my query: The deal between Reddit and Google to share data for AI training and search purposes will likely have significant impacts on Reddit user privacy:

    1. Increased data sharing: Google will have exclusive access to Reddit’s Data API, allowing them to collect real-time, structured content from the platform13. This means more user-generated content and activity data will be shared with a third party.
    2. Enhanced user profiling: Google will use this data to improve its AI models and search capabilities, potentially leading to more accurate user profiling across Google’s services36.
    3. Potential for more personalized advertising: With access to Reddit’s data, Google may be able to create more detailed user profiles, potentially leading to more targeted advertising both on and off Reddit26.
    4. Reduced anonymity: While Reddit has traditionally allowed for relative anonymity, this data sharing could make it easier to connect Reddit activity with other online identities13.
    5. Increased scrutiny of user content: As Reddit seeks to maintain its value for AI training, there may be stricter moderation and potential removal of certain types of content or communities4.
    6. Changes to user agreements: Reddit may update its privacy policy and user agreement to reflect this new data sharing arrangement, potentially granting themselves broader rights to use and share user data6. It’s important to note that while Reddit claims it does not sell personal information to third parties, this deal represents a significant change in how user data is shared and utilized23. Users concerned about privacy may need to be more cautious about the information they share on the platform and may want to review their privacy settings regularly. P.S.: Ignore the weird numbers as those are reference links. I copy-pasted this stuff.
  • helloyanis@jlai.lu
    53·
    3 days ago

    No better time than the present to switch to OpenStreetMap

    For Android, I use OsmAnd~ which uses OpenStreetMap data and allows you to download maps to calculate routes offline, something Google Maps couldn’t do for routes by foot and by bike last time I tried.

    It also has better coverage for some small paths in natural areas like forests. Give it a try!

  • MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    I just need to use Gemini until this semester is over, then I’ll be degoogling completely. I just wish I could deapple too, but nope. Nearly every OS for mobile is built on android, browsers that are for “security” are run on chromium, safari is good for security but you have to pay for iCloud plus or whatever they call it to get the private relay option, it is infuriating that we just can’t get freedom from this garbage. Things are purposefully made to be so expensive that only huge companies can afford to run it, openAI and meta literally pirated books, articles, journals, etc and although WE don’t like it, the government doesn’t care because OpenAI and meta are big companies who can do those things; neither Trump nor Biden gave a shit about it. We need

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Apparently…

        The Maya referred to the Gulf as Chactemal, meaning “the red place,” likely referencing the reddish hues of the water at sunset or its fertile coastlines. Indigenous names were often descriptive, reflecting geographical features or spiritual beliefs tied to the environment. Unfortunately, much of this indigenous nomenclature was lost or overwritten during European colonization.

        Link. I’m sure there are better ones. Hard to find good sources.

  • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1411·
    3 days ago

    This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It’s not it’s official name or international recognized name so wtf

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
        30·
        3 days ago

        To be clear, they’ve changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump’s admin.

        • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1113·
          3 days ago

          Yeah but that makes too much sense for emotional & reactional people that don’t rely on logic

          • VeryVito@lemmy.ml
            3·
            2 days ago

            I get what you’re saying, but the renaming itself is entirely an act of emotion and reaction, with no trace of logic, too. It’s pretty much all we should expect to see from anyone for a while.

          • Kalysta@lemm.ee
            11·
            2 days ago

            They are a private organization with the right to say “lol that’s nice”, and leave it as the gulf of mexico. Executive orders direct government policy.

      • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          It’s not coming to an end as in no longer existing, but it absolutely is as a world power. Maybe it will be for the better in the long run.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      64·
      3 days ago

      The USA is now part of a list of “sensitive countries” with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government’s version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It’s only news because it’s the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

      Here’s how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

      1000019054

      Edit: undoxxed myself lol

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      38·
      3 days ago

      Distraction from:

      • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
      • cutting off funding to the universities
      • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
      • not following federal judge’s orders
      • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
      • etc.

      Edit: That’s why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

      • Mirshe@lemmy.world
        14·
        3 days ago

        No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don’t attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          3 days ago

          Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

          “The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

          So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

          “All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

          https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

    • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
      171·
      3 days ago

      I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.

      • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
        4·
        3 days ago

        Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.

    • ooli2@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).

  • SabinStargem@lemmings.worldEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    Something adjacent to degoogling: I am concerned that Microsoft would collaborate with the Trump Regime. I never used Linux before, but I am now downloading Ubuntu. It feels like that I should do a dual-boot setup and get ready to abandon Windows if I hear about MS HQ in Washington having a DOGE presence.

    Here’s hoping that Europe and the Blue States are watching Microsoft for anything weird.

      • SeekPie@lemm.ee
        9·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, it’s even better than GMaps for me, because GMaps doesn’t have bike navigation (where I live) while Organic Maps has all the bike lanes marked and navigatable.

        • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          3 days ago

          Yeah it’s way better for biking and walking. I also find the map a lot more coherent, with GMaps I often had to resort to the satellite view to see what’s going on.

      • SeekPie@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 days ago

        Seems like that it is going to be not renamed but they’re adding a “official” tagged name, which is the Gulf of America.

  • eldesgraciado@lemm.ee
    261·
    3 days ago

    This is pathetic and reeks of insecurity big time. Hope that this debacle improves your QoL, Americans.

        • irreticent@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          3 days ago

          Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Executive orders aren’t laws, they’re just memos stating what the federal government will do. Google decided to bend the knee for the new king.

          For U.S. Google Map users only, the body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico will now appear as the Gulf of America when using the navigational service.

          The change comes just several weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order for the gulf to be renamed and on Sunday declared February 9 was officially Gulf of America Day.

          Following the order, Google stated that it has a longstanding practice of implementing name changes when done by official government sources.

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Lmfao, as if Keith would dare stand up to a mega corporation, or a fascist for that matter… I give it a week, at absolute most.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    95·
    3 days ago

    It’s even weirder because America doesn’t mean just the United States

    Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

    Wouldn’t the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

    The Caribbean Sea?

    Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also “American” from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it’s all “America”

    Naming the Gulf of Mexico “America” is almost as bad as naming a country “earth”

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
        27·
        3 days ago

        Mexico’s full name is ”The United States of Mexico", I think they should rename their map’s version to Gulf of The United States just to add to the confusion and make the point these things, like all facts, are useless when people suffer no consequences from making them up.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
      9·
      3 days ago

      Question for all non-US natives. When somebody tells you they are from America do you think the continent or the USA?

        • the_weez@midwest.social
          7·
          3 days ago

          And that’s the point of my question, and this change. Trump feels like he won, because he took something away from Mexico.

          • BillTongg@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 days ago

            Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can’t win unless someone else loses, so he doesn’t understand the concept of win-win. It’s a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of ‘the art of the deal’.