Thanks to Creative Video Tips which I was watching, they have some amazing DaVinci Videos!
After Google tried putting it’s own adds/screensaver into it’s YouTube app on Apple TV it seems something broke, because of late if I pause YouTube and leave the room when the screens, I have my screensaver set for 2 minutes, well if I have a YouTube video paused the video starts playing behind the screensaver EVERY TIME!
This is super frustrating! And maybe it is because I have the screensaver set to come up so quickly but I have a Sony OLED Bravia so I don’t want burn in!
yup, Google search gets worse and worse every day. And this doesn’t even get into the problems of Chrome or GMAIL.
And they have made it so no one can afford to compete with them, so no startup can even try. Of course they have been declared a monopoly in their advertising so they need to be broken up, though I doubt either Trump it Harris would every consider doing it.
With newspapers dying left and right we need some way to pump money into local news and soon, and it can’t be something like Google’s paying for it’s add browser space as that has been ruled Monopolistic. They need to pay the news agencies for that news (to make up for the 2 Billion a year in lost add revenue) and more so to keep them viable.
Of course we also need to stop the buying up of local news and TV by conglomerates. Companies like Sinclair should not be allowed to exist!
Of course none of that will happen since politicians are literally owned by corporations.
Since a Federal Judge has declared that Google is a monopoly and specifically that it paying other companies for the top search spot in browsers like Safari and Firefox is monopolistic, I see a serious unintended consequence. People are wondering what will happen to Google, but I wonder what will happen to Mozilla and specifically Firefox, which I have long considered the best desktop browser around (I specify desktop as I am forced to use Safari on my iPhone and iPad, or at least a WebKit browser).
Mozilla releases Firefox for free and the company has long struggled to make money in any way besides selling Google its prime search engine spot. And since it is likely that the Judge will stop Google from making such payments, I wonder how long Mozilla will survive.
And ironically this will also benefit Google’s chrome browser, as without Mozilla there will be so few alternatives to Chrome, especially that run their own separate engine as Microsoft’s Edge, Vivaldi, Opera and Brave are all already based on Chromium. And sure these other chromium browsers don’t all share your data with Google as Chrome does, but the internet should not all be controlled by one company! And right now there is basically chromium, Gecko from Mozilla and WebKit for Safari, so breaking this monopoly could actually leave only Chromium and WebKit left.
And I prefer Mozilla because of its customization. Unfortunately they now have the same plugin architecture, but I can still customize Mozilla much more and am not having more of my data used by Google to make money off it.
And the less competition, the less chance of google improving Chomium.
Yes yes yes! We need to save Firefox which I still find the best and most customizeable browser. And Apple, Google and Microsoft all push their in house browsers over it, which has decimated it’s market share.
I was excited to see that Google Authenticator, for 2 factor authentication has added cloud sync between devices, but as reported at PCWorld and MacRumors, it is not secure. This is awful of google, an awful company.
The whole point of Google Authenticator is to have safe secure 2 step verification and to have it’s sync not be end to end encrypted is unconscionable.
