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Sagar, in Can You Trust Google?

We can trust PinePhone

On, in Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless
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With the anti-trust trial going on, I think this may be an attempt to get some hype to drown out some of the bad allegations. Like last week they were called out for changing search queries. I hope they follow through but i'm not sure.

JelloBrains, in Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless
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Yeah, I don't believe it. Remember not a year or two ago they announced the monthly phone subscription for a new Pixel every year, and then just before it was time to release a new Pixel they reneged on that and said, never mind.

wolfshadowheart, in We are 3000 members!
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Is this an article focused community or are text posts allowed as well? (Within reason, of course!)

anemomylos,
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Both are allowed.

dingleberry, in The Pixel Fold’s screen repair will cost $900

That’s an expensive paperweight. You just know they’ll discontinue it in two years.

eltimablo, in Google extends Chromebook support from 8 years to 10 after heightened backlash

Software can't be supported forever...

Pons_Aelius, in Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens

Is anyone surprised that google has shit tier product support?

Anyone?

Unless you are an advertiser with a multi-million ad spend you are nothing to google.

El_Rocha,

Unless you are an advertiser with a multi-million ad spend you are nothing to google.

Even then, they’ll lie to you about your ad analytics to get more money out of you than they should.

admiralteal, in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Genuinely 1984 shit, calling something "Privacy Sandbox" which is designed to commodify and offer up your private profile to advertisers.

QualifiedKitten, in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Ugh. I got that a few days ago and was too lazy to figure out what it really meant, so I just switched my default browser on mobile to Firefox. Sounds like that was the right call!

For my work computer, I prefer to use Firefox for personal stuff, and Chrome for work stuff. Any recommendations for a browser that's not Chrome or Firefox for desktop (Windows) use? Bonus points if it has compatibility with a good ad blocker.

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You can also have different profiles in Firefox (type about:profiles in the address bar), one for work and one for personal stuff.
To easily tell apart which window is running which profile it's nice to have different themes for each of the profiles (like one with a darker theme and the other one lighter colored).
You can also make a shortcut for opening a particular profile by adding -p PROFILENAME at the end of the target command line of the shortcut icon.

QualifiedKitten,

The separate browsers thing is primarily so that I can literally just close 20 tabs worth of distractions with one click, knowing all 20 tabs will be right where I left them when I want to resume. Do profiles in FF make that easy?

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I haven't tried doing that, since I don't like configuring it that way personally, but I would expect it would be able to remember sessions too if set up that way, since all the settings are independent per profile.

I'd say that one potential disadvantage is that the icon in the task bar would look the same, and depending on the OS it might group the windows in the task bar as if they were the same app (since technically it is the same executable)

JackSkellington, in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Is it also true for company laptops that mandate the use of chrome?

riodoro1, in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

How nice of them

anemomylos,
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They do it for your privacy :)

ijeff, in Element X preview is now on Android too!
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Oh great news! Downloading it now to try!

Ferk, in Google leaks Pixel 8 Pro again with a 360-degree preview
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Is it really a "leak" when there was no intention to withhold it?

Shhalahr, in Don’t look up: Google’s meteor of incompetence will kill thousands of apps in four months

Are the regulations really disallowing ads on opt out, or just ads that track users?

anon2481, in Google kills Pixel Pass without ever upgrading subscriber’s phones

Another example never to get invested in any new google products.

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