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Category: Linklog

Interesting articles, links, sites, whatever. And my commentary on them.

  • “Google to free G Suite users: Pay up or lose your account”

    Welp. 😶 I did some looking up and found that Apple has a similar service (Custom Email Domain) that I can just use since I’m already paying for a iCloud+ subscription.

    Sidenote:

    • From the article: “Starting May 1, Google will try to automatically “upgrade” users to a paid account if it has available billing information.”
    • People in the comments are saying that they did not get an email from Google about this (and neither did I).

    🤨

    (I don’t have any sort of billing associated with my Google Workspace account, but I wonder how many G Workspace folks are going to find out on July 1, that they were automatically subscribed to Google Workspace’s paid tier.)

  • “Some Roku smart TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV”

    In addition to boycotting the companies that do stuff like this, also think about boycotting the companies whose products are being advertised like this. Show them that this is NOT an effective marketing strategy.

    Case in point: don’t buy from Sleep Number 😤👎

    [EDIT] Wanna add that I’m ok with ads in general. But time and place. Do a commercial break. Don’t put a banner over the thing I’m watching!!! Put an ad over another ad. I don’t care.

  • Boooo, Verizon Customer Experience

    YSK That if you are a Verizon Wireless customer in the US, a new program launched today called Verizon Custom Experience. It tracks every website you visit and every app you use. The program automatically enrolls all customers, who must specifically opt out if they don’t want to be tracked.

    Can we call this for what is? ONLINE STALKING 👿

    Facebook creepily tracking you even though you don’t want to be tracked? ONLINE STALKING 👿

  • “Scientists train goldfish to drive a fish-operated vehicle on land”

    “Scientists train goldfish to drive a fish-operated vehicle on land”

    People: “We’ll have flying cars and jetpacks in the future!”

    Scientists in the future: “Hey look, we made this goldfish drive a car!!”