Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Digital Chains

For some reason I can ONLY post on Blogger with the Chrome browser. Or on my phone, with the Blogger app. FireFox and Brave are both unable to log in and post here.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that Google owns both Blogger and Chrome?

Monday, January 22, 2024

New Day, New Google Problem

 For some reason as of today I can ONLY reply to comments here from Chrome. Brave (my current default browser) and FireFox both produce the following results even if I've already logged in:

And then:


My guess is that Google is getting more aggressive about forcing users towards Chrome. They're getting more evil every day. I really need to work on alternatives for Gmail, Drive, and Photos, because I'm expecting more cash grabs from Google in the months and years to come.

I'd also like an alternative to YouTube Music, but we're a little trapped in that one because we've uploaded so much of our music on it. And I created a playlist that replicated the tapes I'd recorded in the 1980s; it has nearly 800 songs on it, and took a huge amount of time to make. Although Google keeps deleting songs off that list (and others), which screws everything up.

The world needs publicly-owned, democratically-operated online services of all sorts. Big Tech needs to be demolished. They contribute nothing but problems and keep milking us for every last penny. Come to think of it, the exact same thing applies to Big Pharma!

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Google's GIANT Money Grab

I'm not sure how they did it, but overnight my Google account storage went from about 70% full to 110%. Big red warnings tell me that my photos won't be backed up and I'll soon lose the ability to receive email - unless I start sending Google money every month for more storage.

I tried deleting all Promotions emails, but after I deleted them all they were all still there and my storage was unaffected. I deleted my largest video, which in itself should have brought me well below 80%, but that too had apparently no effect.

My guess is that Google has decided that it's time for them to leverage their monopoly to just outright steal from the peasants.