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| Abandoning Google |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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So either way, you come to a video and you see a bunch of "random" comments. Why does it matter to you which 10 you see? Now when I just visited youtube to see what the fuss is about, I get this video on the home page:  I click on it, and the first comment for me is by famous a.cc guy 23yrold. I'd rather see that than some comment that says "b00bies" or "first". So good job, Google, on figuring out which comment I'd like to see. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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It's supposed to be more relevant.. but like anything youtube pushes out, it shows up half done and broken. Some monkey has the first comment on that video for me. -- |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Still, whether you agree or disagree with the recent Google+ integration change, being able to block people from directly replying to the public comments you make is definitely one of the worst ideas in the history of everything. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Allegro.cc supports that. -- |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Not entirely true. A.cc allows you to "block" people from posting in YOUR threads (though you aren't supposed to abuse it). In reality, I don't think it gets used constructively very often (if ever). -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Ben Delacob
Member #6,141
August 2005
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At first I thought the reply system only had "in reply to" links requiring a total page load to see what replies to. However, this seems to only be something affecting the older comments. I was worried it was going to be almost as bad as Twitter for following a discussion. Still, I'm going to look into removing what little G+ I have. __________________________________ |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Google actually allows you to disassociate your google login from G+. But it warns that it'll delete any information/data associated with G+, which now I think includes some youtube stuff and any photos you may have stored in G+ or picassa (since picassa now stores them in gdrive/G+). That would suck for me, I have my phone auto backup my photos to G+ -- |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Get Dropbox, they were doing the auto-backup-photos thing before G+ was. I got a few GB bonus for being one of the beta testers the other year. |
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Google's giving me MORE reasons to hate them now. I just had to install the latest update for Flash, since I've got it implemented in Firefox now, and they changed the install process. Now, there's a sneaky, easy to miss checkbox on the DOWNLOAD page, not the installer itself, that asks if you want to install Google Chrome and Google Toolbar at the same time. Fortunately, it tries to download all three components at once and the Flash install was faster, so when it was done I simply cancelled the rest. Still, that's absolutely retarded. I'm constantly on the lookout for crap like that and if *I* could miss it, I'm willing to bet tons of other people already have and are still going to following this post. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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m c
Member #5,337
December 2004
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Yeah google sucks these days. Try using startpage.com as your search engine, it looks like it works like scroogle used to. My two email hosters have been gmail and uni email account. but them the uni email system was migrated to microsoft azure and accessed via live.com and then they migrated to office365 and singing in at live.com or outlook.com doesnt work and it has to be mail.office365.com So now I run my owm mail server and setup the reverse dns and the spf records and so on. I read my mail in an ssh terminal with mutt (and w3m -dump to handle text/html). Maybe I will set up a proper IMAP server so I can use a normal mail client. I tried the new version of thunderbird lately, and its completely shit. It's geared towards people using popular services like hotmail/gmail and to actually be allowed to enter your actual server connection details is more cumbersome than it should be, so I still don't know what I will go with for the long term. (\ /) |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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I have a G-mail account for now, though I am starting to want to host my own E-mail (I guess my main concern would be backups, which would not be cheap to do well). In any case, I use Mutt as my preferred client (yes, even for G-mail). I have been pretty happy since I switched to Mutt. As a matter of fact, I hate trying to compose mail from the G-mail Web interface. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Google has to pay $17 million for bypassing user preferences to block 3rd party ad tracking cookies. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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bamccaig said: (I guess my main concern would be backups, which would not be cheap to do well) Try digital ocean's $5/mo vps. -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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I ordered a Google wallet card today. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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I'm thinking about getting a bitcoin debit card. -- |
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