All four pages host a mixture of patriotic and agitational memes and a potpourri of news reports sourced from a...

All four pages host a mixture of patriotic and agitational memes and a potpourri of news reports sourced from a single website that specialises in repackaging content stolen from mainstream and independent news organisations, including several from Australia.

The xenophobic content focuses on topics such as refugees, immigration, Muslims and Islam and free speech. The pages also take pot shots at politicians from Labor, the Greens and some moderate Liberals.


#Australia ##Fake
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/trolls-from-kosovo-are-manipulating-australian-facebook-pages/10892680

Lessons learned are important. I will miss G+.

Lessons learned are important. I will miss G+.
#InternetStuff #SocialMedia

Originally shared by Animal Lovers

Saying goodbye to Google+
A great read...

https://www.embracelife.tech/new-content/2019/3/7/on-the-shoulders-of-google

Facebook had data-sharing arrangements with more than 150 companies , according to a December report in the New York...

Facebook had data-sharing arrangements with more than 150 companies , according to a December report in the New York Times. The deals helped Facebook gain more users, according to the report, and its partners were able to access user data without obtaining consent. Many of the partnerships ended years ago, the Times noted, but the deals with Amazon and Apple were ongoing at the time of the story.
#InternetStuff #SocialMedia
https://www.ktnv.com/news/national/while-facebook-had-major-outage-report-details-companys-criminal-investigation

Well, that was the POINT of them, wasn't it?!

Well, that was the POINT of them, wasn't it?!
#InternetStuff

Originally shared by Rob Jongschaap

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

http://flip.it/GU9cg1
http://flip.it/GU9cg1

"Those meddling kids" and their Mystery Machine are at the center of a well-meaning experiment gone wrong and...

"Those meddling kids" and their Mystery Machine are at the center of a well-meaning experiment gone wrong and they’ll need to bring all of their mystery solving skills to bear (along with plenty of Scooby Snacks), to find a cure for a world full of mutated creatures infected by a nanite virus that enhances their fears, terrors and baser instincts. This time, the horrors are real in this apocalyptic near-future badland!

Have just read volume one of this. It's far better than it could have been.
#ComicNarrative #ScoobyDoo
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Scooby_Apocalypse

We've been told!

We've been told! Details at https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9231049?p=web_notification_alternatives&visit_id=636853491941648583-3058344269&rd=1

I've already left G+ groups that have equivalents on Facebook/MeWe and which I've joined. I'm wondering if perhaps I should consider looking for a replacement for Google Calendar? Part of the advantage in using it as my homepage in Firefox, is that I get a widget to other Google apps, and the G+ widget. If G+ is gone, then maybe it's time to find something else.

I've already replaced Google search with DuckDuckGo. It's ok for 95% of my searches, and I go to GoogleSearch for the last 5%.
#GooglePlus #InternetStuff

China is in the early stages of setting up a data protection regulatory system to police Facebook’s Chinese...

China is in the early stages of setting up a data protection regulatory system to police Facebook’s Chinese counterparts. Chinese companies are increasingly finding that the days of collecting data without public scrutiny are over—and Chinese consumers are vocally standing up for their own privacy in ways not seen before. For this reason, a number of scholars hailed 2018 as the year when the Chinese public awakened to privacy.

Unexpected.
#InternetStuff
https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/china-consumer-data-protection-privacy-surveillance.html

I think the common ground is the desire to use social media and forums maliciously for their own ends.

I think the common ground is the desire to use social media and forums maliciously for their own ends.
#InternetStuff
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-02/internet-trolls-arent-who-i-thought-ginger-gorman-troll-hunting/10767690

Don't be naughty!

Don't be naughty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OKtcGEEtf4&feature=share

[ORIGINAL POST MADE TO G+]

[ORIGINAL POST MADE TO G+]
I read (on a google translation of https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2019/01/das-ende-googleplus-google/) that this is the current schedule for phasing out G+

February 4: No new profiles, pages, communities, and events can be created.
February 4 & March 7: Google+ comments on Blogger will be removed on February 4, on external sites on March 7. All comments will be deleted on April 2nd. Google+ login button will not work in the coming weeks and will be partially replaced by the Google login.
Early March 2019: Google+ community owners and moderators will be able to download more data at the beginning of March. This data will include the author, the text, as well as the photos of all posts in the communities.
April 2: All Google+ accounts and pages will be closed and data will be deleted. All photos and videos related to Google+ will also be deleted. Photos and videos stored on Google Photos will not be deleted.

I guess I should start looking at archiving my collections and posts soon. I've already moved to MeWe (for the groups that moved there) and Friendica (ISurfSocial, but I can connect to anyone who's moved to THE FEDERATION) and posts from G+ currently "echo" - including this one - to ISurfSocial and Live Journal.

So I have my exit strategy in place, but it's also necessary to archive what's here. I've also left a few groups here on G+ because I'm already on their replacements in MeWe. There's no point in reviewing the same posts in each.

The countdown continues.
#GooglePlus #INternetStuff #MeWe #Friendica #ISurfSocial

I joined LJ back in 2004, and still have my account there.

I joined LJ back in 2004, and still have my account there. I also moved on to Dreamwidth and have my account there. I'd still be active on each if the people I had as contacts were still there. A few are, but there's a limit to how much SocialMedia stuff I do.
#InternetStuff #SocialMedia #LiveJournal
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging/

Just checking out CAKE, which is a social media system based on conversations.

Just checking out CAKE, which is a social media system based on conversations.
https://www.cake.co/

As the game’s popularity grows, law enforcement officials, schools and parents are working to spread awareness about...

As the game’s popularity grows, law enforcement officials, schools and parents are working to spread awareness about the frightening trend.

Wasn't there a film released last year about something like this? The characters had to go on bigger and more challenging dares until, well I never watched it, but I remember the trailer. In any case, playing a game coordinated via the net that ends in your own suicide, is just crazy!
#HighandLowWeirdness
https://allthatsinteresting.com/blue-whale-challenge-india

Yet more free resources.

Yet more free resources.
http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-getty-digital-archive-expands-to-135000-images.html

Is this article fake? ;-)

Is this article fake? ;-)
#InternetStuff
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

My cynical self imagines rather a kind of post-apocalyptic Mad Max world, where our school bullies become sadistic...

My cynical self imagines rather a kind of post-apocalyptic Mad Max world, where our school bullies become sadistic local warlords. In European history, the thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, which featured highly distributed power structures are called the dark middle ages for good reasons.

An article about why distributed social media won't fix everything wrong with some platforms. Quoting history like this might not the most sensible thing, though I've seen some Horrible History sketches that have historical folk using social media!
https://blog.kugelfish.com/2018/12/the-fallacy-of-distributed-good.html

hmmm

Searx is a free metasearch engine, available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of...

Searx is a free metasearch engine, available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results. Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked, preventing user-profiling-based results modification.


Sick of Google? Try this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos...

Facebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including images that people began uploading to the site but didn’t post publicly.

They're at it again!
#SecurityBreach #Facebook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/14/facebook-says-new-bug-allowed-apps-access-private-photos-up-million-users/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fd0ac02c99ce&wpisrc=nl_tech&wpmm=1

Many people are wringing their hands about Microsoft partnering with Google to gain control over the Internet.

Many people are wringing their hands about Microsoft partnering with Google to gain control over the Internet. But Microsoft abandoning the EdgeHTML browser engine is awesome news. Microsoft’s EdgeHTML was the last closed-source browser engine. Now, all the browser engines will be open-source.

I think it's been inevitable for some time. The article at https://alternativeto.net/news/2018/12/new-chromium-based-microsoft-edge-will-support-chrome-extensions-also-on-xbox-one also confirms that.
https://www.howtogeek.com/398073/how-microsoft-is-about-to-make-google-chrome-even-better/