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Started by Triple Zero, June 10, 2010, 12:39:30 PM

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LMNO

#120
January 26, 2012, 03:15:12 PM
Good point. I have a gmail account for my band, and a separate one for my own productions.

And hey! Aren't our PD.com accounts Google based?

Sita

#121
January 26, 2012, 03:27:15 PM
I try and not use gmail for anything important anyway. This also gives me even more reason to set up a new google account for something I've been thinking of doing.
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Faust

#122
January 26, 2012, 03:42:07 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 26, 2012, 03:15:12 PM
Good point. I have a gmail account for my band, and a separate one for my own productions.

And hey! Aren't our PD.com accounts Google based?

They will still remain distinct. But if you have any service linked to a gmail account through: a picasa, blogger, youtube, google+ or whatever account they are all going to roll into one, all comments you made on your blogger account will be searchable and result in say your google plus account.
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Triple Zero

#123
January 26, 2012, 09:38:40 PM
I've been using DuckDuckGo quite a lot recently. It even ships as the default search engine for fresh Opera installs.

Unfortunately I feel it's not quite there yet. Sometimes it just doesn't have a particular result, often something on a really old webpage. Thankfully DDG makes it easy to quickly try other search engines, cause "try this result on ..." is just linked above the results.

As for Image Search, I usually use Yahoo Image Search myself:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0WTb_54fc9JKnQAYZiLuLkF?p=reptoid&ei=utf-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp
there's also Yandex:
http://images.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=reptoid
which has links to Bing and "Picsearch.com" (never heard of them):
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=reptoid
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=reptoid

BTW notice how they all return very different sets of images for the same word! Which is pretty cool because sometimes you notice images from which you just know they were the first hit on Google Image Search, because you've seen them before.
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Faust

#124
January 26, 2012, 09:53:22 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 26, 2012, 09:38:40 PM
I've been using DuckDuckGo quite a lot recently. It even ships as the default search engine for fresh Opera installs.

Unfortunately I feel it's not quite there yet. Sometimes it just doesn't have a particular result, often something on a really old webpage. Thankfully DDG makes it easy to quickly try other search engines, cause "try this result on ..." is just linked above the results.

As for Image Search, I usually use Yahoo Image Search myself:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0WTb_54fc9JKnQAYZiLuLkF?p=reptoid&ei=utf-8&iscqry=&fr=sfp
there's also Yandex:
http://images.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=reptoid
which has links to Bing and "Picsearch.com" (never heard of them):
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=reptoid
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=reptoid

BTW notice how they all return very different sets of images for the same word! Which is pretty cool because sometimes you notice images from which you just know they were the first hit on Google Image Search, because you've seen them before.

That's true actually. In terms of trolling that could be very handy because I think GImages does its best to remove personal pictures.
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Triple Zero

#125
January 30, 2012, 10:19:28 PM
mwuhaha

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Cramulus

#126
February 16, 2012, 06:43:45 PM
Gmail figured out my yahoo address. It just asked me if I wanted to import all my yahoo mail into my gmail account. YEAH FUCKING RIGHT.


besides, I have a yahoo address so that I don't have to read tea party newsletters every time I check my e-mail.

Juana

#127
February 16, 2012, 11:51:53 PM
https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view?sig=ACi0TCh6z2v-h49p4nLHUJw1DbppVeHtOuCkswxvZG8tQuMLKmu54TaFjTUvZ1oTI4DBJ-A1NhglAGPW9u3kd9k-5s-CwcBjv4_6TWLD30zp4ZkUrhC1o8_RU2i9lQDgJPSZpvH0PhEhdbAocTY0D_RPAXyTQOinjg&hl=en
^I beeeelieve this lets you kinda opt out.
QuoteWhen you opt out, Google disables this cookie and no longer associates interest and demographic categories with your browser.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Cain

#128
February 17, 2012, 07:45:49 AM
Excellent.  A minor thing, but now done.

Lord Cataplanga

#130
February 17, 2012, 08:33:59 PM
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/17/140203/google-accused-of-bypassing-safaris-privacy-controls

Apparently, if you are signed in with a google account, and have 'opted to see personalized ads and other content' (that is, everyone who didn't click GARBO's link above), and are using Safari...

QuoteGoogle added coding to some of its ads that made Safari think that a person was submitting an invisible form to Google. Safari would then let Google install a cookie on the phone or computer.'

Google will not only ignore your browser's privacy settings, but actively work against it.

Luna

#131
February 18, 2012, 12:01:14 AM
According to Google, I am a 25-34 year old male.   :lol:
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If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

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I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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Don Coyote

#132
February 18, 2012, 12:06:31 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 18, 2012, 12:01:14 AM
According to Google, I am a 25-34 year old male.   :lol:
:lulz: That's like when FB thought I was a single gay christian man.

Juana

#133
February 18, 2012, 04:45:44 AM
I must have missed the facebook demographics thing. :lulz: I'm sure mine would have bee equally hilariously wrong.

Quote from: Cramulus on February 17, 2012, 03:01:24 PM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on February 16, 2012, 11:51:53 PM
https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view?sig=ACi0TCh6z2v-h49p4nLHUJw1DbppVeHtOuCkswxvZG8tQuMLKmu54TaFjTUvZ1oTI4DBJ-A1NhglAGPW9u3kd9k-5s-CwcBjv4_6TWLD30zp4ZkUrhC1o8_RU2i9lQDgJPSZpvH0PhEhdbAocTY0D_RPAXyTQOinjg&hl=en
^I beeeelieve this lets you kinda opt out.
QuoteWhen you opt out, Google disables this cookie and no longer associates interest and demographic categories with your browser.

:mittens:

THANK YOU
'Welcome!
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Triple Zero

#134
February 21, 2012, 11:00:44 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 17, 2012, 03:01:24 PM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on February 16, 2012, 11:51:53 PM
https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view?sig=ACi0TCh6z2v-h49p4nLHUJw1DbppVeHtOuCkswxvZG8tQuMLKmu54TaFjTUvZ1oTI4DBJ-A1NhglAGPW9u3kd9k-5s-CwcBjv4_6TWLD30zp4ZkUrhC1o8_RU2i9lQDgJPSZpvH0PhEhdbAocTY0D_RPAXyTQOinjg&hl=en
^I beeeelieve this lets you kinda opt out.
QuoteWhen you opt out, Google disables this cookie and no longer associates interest and demographic categories with your browser.

:mittens:

THANK YOU

Hm, I have my browser set to "delete all new cookies on exit", disabled with site preferences for certain sites so I stay logged in to PD, Reddit, HN and ProjectEuler. I just checked, those are the only ones. Also I'm blocking Google Ads and Google Analytics.js.

Still most of those "ad preferences" it fit my profile (computer stuff, mostly).

Oh wait I was logged in to GMail :)

Logged out and I see none. But then, I just deleted them all before I logged out. Oh well, I'll retry another time when I've done some Google Searches and such.

I got some interesting creepy news about Google too, which I'll post later (sorry).
Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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