This is misleading. Not sure if by ignorance or malice, but it’s very misleading.
This isn’t happening with your browser bookmarks. This is Google Collections, which is a shareable bookmarking feature, meaning it can be made publicly available. That’s why it’s moderated. It’s basically Google’s version on something like Pinterest.
IMO defending Google is the underhanded move.
IMO targeting someone you don’t like with antipathy regardless of their actions is a sociopathic move.
Even so - it’s not an excuse meddle with it, whatever you call it. Fuck Google.
You should be mad about the things google does. I don’t think this particular thing is unreasonable though.
Why not?
They have a duty to moderate public-facing systems. This is a link/bookmark sharing system, so obviously bookmarks that are pointing to things that are illegal are going to be dealt with.
-
OP claimed it’s his private bookmarks not facing public
-
the site doesn’t contain any illegal content. It’s just google being overzealous and intrusive
-
Google Keep Notes has a sharing note feature. You think it would ok for them to sniff what you noting and delete it if they didn’t like it?
-
one again - there’s nothing illegal on that website, nor is accessing it or sharing it’s address
OP claimed it’s his private bookmarks not facing public
OP is mistaken. Read the email in the screenshot.
-
They don’t have to, they choose to. You can share bookmarks on Firefox, but Mozilla doesn’t filter nor censor them Orwellian style.
If you’re going to store something on someone else’s computer (Google cloud), they have every right to control what is and is not allowed on their systems. Don’t like it? Use encryption, selfhost, etc…
I would love to hear that from Google’s spokesperson.
This person fucks.
Chad comment although I agree with other person that this is not the worst of Google’s crimes.
So if you have a collection with political targets and the folder is just google maps links to their houses with their names as the bookmark name google shouldn’t be allowed to stop you from spreading this?
Sure google is shitty but this feature is designed to share links with other people and sometimes those links can be dangerous so imho it’s absolutely necessary to moderate them at some level.
Depends if it’s illegal or not. In your case it’s probably illegal.
It’s like big tech corporations have been having a tournament called ‘Who’s Most Fucked Up’ Cup for past few years, we’re getting into the finals lately and Google and Microsoft are favourites for the golden medal.
laughing in firefoxian.