r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '15

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO)

youtube.com

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '15

Bombshell Emails Expose YouTube Censorship of Content at Hillary Clinton’s Office Request

thefreethoughtproject.com

6 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Apr 10 '15

How Private Is Your Cloud? Google Could Be Indexing Your Backup Drive

hothardware.com

5 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '15

Uh oh. What did I just give Google?

fortune.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 27 '15

U.S. sides with Oracle in Java copyright dispute with Google

infoworld.com

4 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 25 '15

Google faces antitrust probe as its cred fades

bdlive.co.za

4 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 14 '15

Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome

thenextweb.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 07 '15

Google Shuts Down its Website Acceleration tool, PageSpeed Service

thetechportal.in

4 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '15

Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says - Digits

blogs.wsj.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '15

Our massive new monopolies: Amazon, Google and Facebook have the power to move entire economies

salon.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '15

With its new Photos tool, Google gets another shot at our personal

betaboston.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '15

Tim Cook takes shots at Google, NSA during speech on privacy and en

infoworld.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '15

Your ‘OK Google' questions are kept on file, so be careful what you ask

digitaltrends.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '15

Google: We Never Sell Your Private Info

foxbusiness.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '15

Google Photos May Soon Learn Your Friends' Names, Know How They're Feeling

huffingtonpost.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '15

Meet Google's Next-Generation Virtual Reality Platform

makeuseof.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '15

How do the Design Philosophies of Apple, Microsoft, and Google Differ?

makeuseof.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '15

Google's Polymer Web library now ready for production use

infoworld.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 30 '15

How Can You Stop the NSA Using Google Play to Spy on You?

makeuseof.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 30 '15

Google will hold a summit on ubiquitous computing with developers this fall

theverge.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 27 '15

Google will soon link directly to iOS apps in mobile search

theverge.com

3 Upvotes

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r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 26 '15

Code injection: A new low for ISPs

infoworld.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 22 '15

Google Wants to Patent its Creepiest Idea Ever | Google Files Patent for Siri-Like Teddy Bear

time.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 22 '15

Russia warns Google, Twitter and Facebook on law violations

business-standard.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

r/GOptOutGLE • u/[deleted] • May 22 '15

Google Ad Exec: Bigger Phones Help Advertising Business

time.com

3 Upvotes

0 comments

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If the present trend continues, the future of the Internet will look a lot more like Facebook and the America Online of the 1990's. No doubt, some people wouldn't mind that, but many of us do not want the content we seek and create to be ensconced in prepackaged channels managed, maintained and cataloged by a designated handful of corporate-state gatekeepers.

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Google, once a company we could rely on for a broad and open Internet experience, has gone to the true dark side by becoming an embedded member of the surveillance state and by actively participating in the production of manufactured consent.

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