• BluesF@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Yeah I’ve been migrating away steadily. And what a shame! Now Google don’t get to use my emails to train their shit AI.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    My latest day-job employer has made the switch from Apples (and s20fe) to pixels. The staff - mainly nerds - is actually generally pleased with the switch.

    If the embarrassment that is Purolator (our national postal service offshoot courier ‘service’) was adequate last week, not only would they break a 20-year streak but also I’d’ve had my shiny company pixel by now and could pepsi-challenge it against my wife’s shiny new company iphone.

    • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Yeah pixels are awesome. Call screening is my favorite feature. Someone calls and my robot assistant asks why they’re calling, and then I get a real time transcript of who they are and why they’re calling and I get to decide whether or not I pick up.

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I hate call screening. I never activate it on purpose, the phone’s screen decides to wake up while it’s still in my pocket and let my thigh press the button for some reason. Then I pull the phone out of my pocket, look at the caller ID, and see that a robot is screening an important call from my boss, and the button to actually answer the call is greyed out until the robot is done harassing my boss. Or my doctor, or my therapist, or my bank. I’ve had important people I was expecting a call from hang up because they reached a robot instead of me and assumed it was a wrong number. It’s a terrible first impression to make when I’ve applied for a job and this robot decides to harass my potential new boss.

        If they made the call screening button a slider, it would reduce the butt presses by 90%

  • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    Honestly Google Drive works great as free storage (Though for large storage there’s no guarantee they won’t accidentally delete it, it’s happened before).

    And Google Suite is good enough if you can’t be bothered to get Microsoft Office. Though they’re forcing AI into it and have some weird quirks like being unable to copypaste external text with rightclick.

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      All it should be is a goddamn mailbox. Instead it’s now an ad-fueling chunk of spyware that has fucking social media bullshit built into it. I started paying for Proton and have been emptying my Google crap

  • Roopappy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    What exactly does Google have left that people like? Gmail?

    Shhhh! Dammit. Now they are definitely going to realize they haven’t ruined it yet.

    • dellish@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      The way Gmail orders conversations/email chains makes it SO hard to figure who’s reply to what and what the latest email is. Each email in the chain contains the entire chain before it and you end up reading everything twice just to work out what the hell is going on.

    • tombruzzo@lemm.ee
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      11 days ago

      Too late. The promotions tab in the app is infested with ads. I use fairmail on my phone and do important stuff on my computer where I have adguard

  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
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    10 days ago

    What have Google developed inhouse that’s good since Gmail?

    Android and YouTube were both acquisitions.

    • off_brand_@beehaw.org
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      11 days ago

      What do you recommend? Genuine question. I tried hosting my own email and eventually its just… It’s too much. Like everything rejects you out of hand because your email servers aren’t known. I could do more research and maybe figure that hurdle out but there does end up being an upper bar of effort.

      I tried proton mail, but it’s not great. How is Yahoo or other large email providers?

  • Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

    Gmail has ads in it. They’re stealing your data and training their D-tier AI on your emails and still showing you ads and you just take it.

      • Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip
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        10 days ago

        Hey good for you, nobody should care they put ads in email because you have a temporary solution where you don’t see ads and Adblock gets your data.

        • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 days ago

          I’m not saying it’s not a bad thing, I’m just remarking it’s interesting you know in the first place. I didn’t know.

        • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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          10 days ago

          If you use a reputable adblocker, especially a well known FOSS one like uBlock Origin, you’re not the product. The way they block ads is by downloading static filter lists, not live checking by sending your queries to their servers.

          I’m not saying all adblockers won’t track you, but acting as if people are “Adblock’s product” by using adblockers is simply a misinformed view of how most adblockers operate. (I do agree that marketing adblock as a solution for a legitimate issue doesn’t negate the initial problem or its critics, though.)

    • flubba86@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      But they didn’t invent that. They bought YouTube after it was already popular. The only thing they’ve done to the platform is put in more ads.

      • corbin@infosec.pub
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        10 days ago

        YouTube launched in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. It has been a Google service for 95% of its existence. I’m pretty sure Google did other stuff in that 18 years than “put in more ads.”

        • SinJab0n@mujico.org
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          9 days ago

          I dont like youtube, im being forced to use it if i want to wach content from my favorite creators, which by the way, also ain’t exactly happy with YT. Thats exactly the reason as to why so much people try it to migrate to twich and facebook gaming.

        • tehmics@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          Liked. They make it worse every day, there’s just not a viable alternative. Without revanced and 5 different plugins on the browser, I’d have stopped using it already

      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 days ago

        Personally I’ve had the same number for years and it’s the one I give out, but as an IT professional I definitely know individual experiences vary. The main issue has been the few texting stuff that doesn’t support it. Like ubereats, which I guess doesn’t matter since I stopped using them a while ago, but there are others.

  • tombruzzo@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    I think the general rule is anything google acquired was good and anything they built themselves was bad and ended up getting killed.

    There are exceptions but some of the only decent parts of google; maps, YouTube, AdWords were all acquisitions. I think they even just got HTC to build the pixel exclusively for them

    • Midnight1938@reddthat.com
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      10 days ago

      What pisses me off is the fitfit app requiring i turn on my location to sync my flex 2 mere weeks after google buys them out.

      It doesn’t even have a screen, why do you need a location?

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Chromebooks are insanely locked down at schools. I got one on eBay for $40, installed linux, and now it can play Minecraft Java at 60 fps so that’s something.

    • skybox@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I really don’t get the Chromebook complaint. It just needs to browse the internet, and a Chromebook is damn solid at that at a super reasonable price and are rugged as hell. Yeah I wish schools didn’t hook into the g suite but like what, you want em on a windows machine to do the same things as on chrome os?

      • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        My chromebook was so bloated with the schools proctoring software that it lagged on a Google doc

        Which is like half of the things purpose

        • skybox@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Okay yeah that’s very true the proctoring systems suck entire ass.