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This is misleading. Not sure if by ignorance or malice, but it's very misleading.
This isn't happening with your browser bookmarks. This is Google Collections, which is a shareable bookmarking feature, meaning it can be made publicly available. That's why it's moderated. It's basically Google's version on something like Pinterest.
https://www.androidpolice.com/create-google-collections/
Even so - it's not an excuse meddle with it, whatever you call it. Fuck Google.
You should be mad about the things google does. I don’t think this particular thing is unreasonable though.
Why not?
OP claimed it's his private bookmarks not facing public
the site doesn't contain any illegal content. It's just google being overzealous and intrusive
Google Keep Notes has a sharing note feature. You think it would ok for them to sniff what you noting and delete it if they didn't like it?
one again - there's nothing illegal on that website, nor is accessing it or sharing it's address
OP is mistaken. Read the email in the screenshot.
They don't have to, they choose to. You can share bookmarks on Firefox, but Mozilla doesn't filter nor censor them Orwellian style.
Orwellian is when company does thing I don't like
No, it's when the company attempts to assume the role of a governing body and delves into the privacy of people's bedrooms.
If you're going to store something on someone else's computer (Google cloud), they have every right to control what is and is not allowed on their systems. Don't like it? Use encryption, selfhost, etc...
I would love to hear that from Google's spokesperson.
So if you have a collection with political targets and the folder is just google maps links to their houses with their names as the bookmark name google shouldn't be allowed to stop you from spreading this?
Sure google is shitty but this feature is designed to share links with other people and sometimes those links can be dangerous so imho it's absolutely necessary to moderate them at some level.
Depends if it's illegal or not. In your case it's probably illegal.
In that case they deleted a link to illegal content in their jurisdiction - so should be fine - shouldn't it?
IMO defending Google is the underhanded move.
Sharing misleading info means people are less likely to believe you on real issues.
Firefox IS better, Chrome's meddling IS a problem. We don't need to make stuff up in favor of that, and clarifying the point isn't "defending Google"
DAE GOOGLE BAD???
I don't give a fuck if you like Google or not, but spreading misleading FUD is the real underhanded move.
There are plenty of valid reasons to be critical of Google. This ain't one.
IMO targeting someone you don't like with antipathy regardless of their actions is a sociopathic move.