Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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For reasons that boggle my mind, I am required to keep a Google account for work (ties into some proprietary software the company uses)
Earlier today, I got the following -
Yes, I’m certain people under the age of 16 are known for their use of very specific EHR software that requires professional license to subscribe to in the first place. Makes perfect sense.
Anyone else get one of these “for you protection” msgs from Big evil?
Personalized ads are off
Timeline is off
I see this as an absolute win, keep not knowing my age!
Right. Safe Search doesn't matter because Google Search has been outclassed for a while now. There's no drawbacks... other than the fact that apparently OP gets told about this every single day.
Data gathering and analysis is still happening in the background. They just won't show you these 2 things in the frontend.
I got these as well. Can't wait to set up my own Peertube instance and then I can delete my google account
Not your problem. Call tech support.
That one Tech support who downvoted you. I mean yes it's a headache for them but they should also make sure to have backup options for BYOD or whatever the f is in this case
Ai generate an adult face, display it on a display, point camera at it, "selfie", ???, profit
Scratch that. Draw a face. See if that works. I bet you could draw a face well enough to fool the detection software.
Oh for sure I could...but should I have to?
The whole thing is bass-ackwards.
I reckon I'll just leave it and see what happens. If it shits itself - awesome. Business case then and there for ditching big Evil.
We don't need this shit, no one asked us our opinion on using it, it just .... "became a requirement to have a Google account" one day.
Oh absolutely not.. yeah no, don't comply with that by any means, and encourage everybody else not to, too. I'm all for good progress and love tech, but I love it in a "it should serve us way, not the other way around.
My Google account itself is over 18. I wonder if that's verification enough.
it could be passed down from your parents, fairly common to register emails for your unborn children, otherwise the cool ones might be taken by the time they are concieved and in need of an email. personally, i have reserved emails for many generations to come, my eventual grandchildren will have dope emails
How do you know the names of your unborn grandchildren of your unborn children?
I registered xx_n00bslayer420_xx just in case any of my grand kids are named that
Didn't know you could give birth to millennials these days!
because if they are not named as i predicted they will be missing out on some crazy cool email names
Nope. I got the verification email on my 20 year old account just the other day
Mine went away, admins must realize I won't comply before hell freezes over.
At least here in Canada it is illegal to share employees personal information without their consent, and I don't consent to giving my id to anyone. They can't fire you for not consenting. We can't do business with any company that does their customer support through Discord as a result. Discord fucked themselves so hard in the corporate world. If it requires personal id EU can't do business on it.
I don't trust Carney to respect that.
The responsibility of government is split between the federal government and the provinces. The conmen and postmedia have convinced you that the prime minister, the leader of the ruling part, is the President. We don't have a President. Everything they have told you to get mad at Trudeau for was probably a responsibility of the province, and you fell for it. Labour, Education, and Healthcare are all responsibilities of the provinces. Next time you make a comment at least do the research and understand what you are saying.
The Privacy Act and The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) are Federal. Carny has shown he is willing to trample on our rights and is pushing for a majority to make future attempts easier.
Being critical of Carney is not an endorcsment of PP. Holding Carney accountable won't put PP into power.
Yeah, I wasn't a fan of Trudeau by the end but still better then Harper, PP or Carney.
It's specifically a labour law that regulates employers. In Quebec it is Law 25. So I guess get mad at François Lagault? This was an easy 20 second Google search to know the answer. People constantly say epically stupid shit to me that could be prevented by a 20 second Google search. Stop being that person.
Google tried for 3 months to get me to respond to their mail messages every day, now 1 year later I am glad I took the step to degoogle.
As a search engine I usually use No Ai DDG, searX,swiss cows,startpage. Browser is vanadium, ironfox,cromite on phone .
Librewolf or zen on linux laptop.
Filen as cloud storage.
Posteo.com as a mail provider
I'm de-Googling right now, and I'm trying out Kagi for search. It's paid, but so far I'm liking it. No ads, and very customizable in that you can boost or lower results from specific sites, among other things.
Something to keep in mind is that Kagi is sponsoring Russia's war against Ukraine through their business with Yandex.
Well that's not very good. I guess I'll be looking into self hosting SearXNG next. Edit: typo
Honest question: if you're paying for Kagi, how is that different than using a credit card for verification with Google. It would seem to me that you're willingly connecting your identity in either case. Maybe i'm wrong.
Cheat code: Have your employer pay for it. ;)
A more serious answer is, you could use an anonymous payment card, or apparently crypto as well, if that's your threat model. I'm not looking for total anonymity, but theoretically paying for the service means you are a customer and not the product. No ads/paid search rankings, no tracking, no selling your data to third parties. Yes, I do use uBlock Origin, I could block ads on DDG or whatever, but that doesn't seem like a sustainable business model. I'm kinda rethinking the services I use and how much they are worth to me. I'm not here to sell you on it, I'm on day two of my Kagi subscription, but so far I like what I see.
Edit: I don't think I really answered your question. Kagi isn't in a position to be an identity verifier, and it doesn't look like they have any interest or requirement to do that. It is looking more and more like Google/Meta/et al will be policing the Internet, and I just want no part of it. Google will absolutely sell your data to third parties. Kagi says they will never do so. I don't know how they'd prove that, but I hope they are true to their word.
I'm a proponent of privacy for the sake of privacy and as a right. Anonymity is the only way to ensure privacy. Seeking privacy does not inherently imply nefarious intent (not that you explicitly said it does). Sounds like Kagi wouldn't be a good choice for me. And that's OK. Thanks for answering my Q!
Another filen and posteo user here. Both are great
I have to work with Microslop at work, i feel your pain
Since porno sites are limited to 18+ people, I suggest you could authenticate yourself by providing the link to a very specific type of videos
Just send them a pic of your dick wearing sunglasses, your dick has to be 18+ for that to be legal.
I hate that we live in a world where a selfie is now an official form of ID. My bank wanted one the other day to use their app so I just deleted it lol, get fucked
I'm so sorry. :(
My workplace hasn't forces Big Evil upon us yet, but I think it's just a matter of time. Whenever that happens, I'll buy the cheapest off brand phone for that purpose.
My work Microsoft profile as a civil servant in an American subject estate in Europe doesn’t require these documents. I gather my employer is swiftly providing them in my stead at the double
As an American sysadmin that mainly works in a mainly google house, there is literally just a checkbox that says 'The users in this OU are 18+'. Can't say for MS though.
I'm pretty sure the MSA just has a clause that says you can only provide accounts to adults. That way it's up to your org to check.
Speaking of Google: has anybody noticed how unbearably slow Google sites are lately?
I almost never use Google search anymore. But I hit it the other day because I couldn't find some really obscure kernel error message, and the damn thing froze Firefox. And it did so repeatedly and consistently after restarting the browser, until I killed almost all Google scripts in uBO.
The same "experience" can be felt on any Google site, like Map.
just upload the McLovin id from Superbad as your id. problem solved
I don't really use it but I wonder if my google account I've had since 2007 will get flagged