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09/14/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Google engineers and scientists flee the company as EVIL takes over

Google has become so unethical that even some of its own employees want nothing to do with it anymore. In the latest example of the company driving away valued workers, senior research scientist Jack Poulson has quit his job in protest of the company’s plans to launch a censored version of the Google search engine […]

09/07/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Yahoo email caught secretly scanning user emails to build psych profiles to sell to advertisers

We all know that tech companies collect our data and use it to make money through advertising. In fact, it’s gotten to the point where we pretty much expect the things we search for and the sites we visit to be used for these purposes. However, if you use Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail, even […]

09/05/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Which evil corporation is more dangerous: Google or Amazon?

Tech giants get a lot of flak these days. Their successes might be admired by entrepreneurs around the world and studied by business students for generations to come, but their immense power puts them in a position that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, and they’ve already abused that power in a lot of disturbing […]

08/17/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

BOMBSHELL: Google tracks your physical location even if you turn off location data on your mobile device

By now, most people realize that Google profits by collecting as much information as it can about everybody and selling it to advertisers – information that many of us willingly hand over in exchange for the use of free services like their search engine and Gmail. It’s very invasive, but those of us who don’t […]

08/14/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

REAL.video founder: The answer to free speech is the “decentralization of everything”

Free speech is a concept as old as time that has suddenly been getting a lot of renewed attention as tech giants try to take this right away from people – who are, coincidentally, often those who don’t share their beliefs. There has always been a fine line to walk when it comes to the […]

08/13/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Boycott MailChimp: All customers can be cut off at a moment’s notice, without warning

If you use MailChimp to automate your email marketing, you might be interested to learn that you could be cut off without warning if your opinions differ from theirs. That’s what happened to Alex Jones of InfoWars, who found the mail messaging platform terminating his accounts on the grounds of “hateful conduct.” Last Monday, Jones […]

08/12/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Twitter monitoring “off platform” behavior to BAN people who haven’t violated anything on Twitter

It might have sounded promising when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the social media platform would not be banning Alex Jones as YouTube, Apple, Spotify and Facebook did because he has not technically violated any of their rules. However, something much worse could be in the works as reports have emerged that the company […]

08/02/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

To save America, Google must be DEFEATED

Millions of people use Google sites every day without giving it much thought. They check their mail in Gmail, search topics of interest using the Google search engine, and watch some videos on Google-owned YouTube. Perhaps they’ll use Google Maps to find their way to that new store or restaurant they want to check out, […]

07/28/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

CLAIM: Google deliberately slows YouTube videos on non-chrome browsers to make them appear defective

Google has found a clever new way to get more people to use its browser so it can keep tabs on them: It’s slowing down YouTube videos in browsers other than Google’s Chrome. An engineer for Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, pointed out the issue on Twitter. Mozilla Technical Program Manager Chris Peterson said […]

07/14/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Apple programs Taiwan flag emojis to CRASH iPhones in latest stupid ploy to appease communist China

Chinese iPhone users who attempted to communicate about Taiwan or send messages containing its flag might have noticed a very frustrating problem: the emojis were causing their devices to crash. While it may seem like a quirky bug, some experts believe this nuisance was intentional on the part of Apple as it tries to appease […]

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