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amf12··on YouTube now blocking ad block
The thing though is, it's not really two distinct arguments. It's easy to pay for it and control the experience by blocking shorts or recommendations using uBlock.

What the second group of people really want is to not pay for it and also block ads.

amf12··on Google's 21-year deal with Apple is the "heart" of monopoly case, judge says
Had they offered say 25B+, what would have Apple done? They offered a worse deal, but could have offered a deal which beat Google's deal.
amf12··on Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
Or that Google believes they haven't trained their models using any protected data.
amf12··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Passkeys are instead of the password. You can still login using your password. This way, you don't have to keep entering your password if you have access to a device with a passkey and can access that device.
amf12··on Bitten by the black box of iCloud
not to nitpick, but waiting 12 hours for resolution isn't "relatively quick".
amf12··on Why I can no longer recommend a Mac to fellow blind computer users
Microsoft actually takes accessibility quite seriously.
amf12··on Pixel 8 Pro
There is a slight difference in how OS updates work in iOS and Android.

iOS system apps release with the OS on an annual cycle, but in Android system apps are upgraded independently. Meaning, even without Android OS upgrades the device would get new system apps.

amf12··on Microsoft executive says Google deals kept Bing small
Bing is the default on all Windows devices and Edge, and yet they are complaining about not getting default on Android and Apple devices?

> and that this smaller scale translated into poorer quality search.

Isn't the scale offered by Windows/Edge not enough? Other search engines like DDG, Kagi are improving their quality even with their even smaller scale.

> Tinter testified that Bing was not the default installed in any Android or Apple smartphone sold in the U.S. in the past decade, even though Microsoft would at times offer to give more than 100% of revenue -- or more -- to its partner.

If nobody is willing to take on your offer, it may be that your quality is not good enough?

amf12··on Google’s $99 a night company hotel advertises ‘no commute’ as a perk
This is a hotel that is cheaper than other hotels around, and allows someone to live in a city hours away, and just commute to the expensive city for the 3 in-office days.
amf12··on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
I don't think Nexus phones were built by Google. They always had a different manufacturer, unlike the Pixels.
amf12··on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates
Why do you think it was scammy?
amf12··on Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services
The model is available as an API via GCP.
amf12··on The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing
Neeva also failed because of their business model. Turns out, not many people want to "pay for search".
amf12··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Looking at the threads on HN and outside, no. People are looking forward to upgrade their iPhone 14s for the "new features".
amf12··on The End of the Googleverse
I just tried to search for "falloff for Google search results", as an example of random quoted string from your comment. Google Search returned one result - your comment.

Then I replaced 'Google' with 'Bing', and Google returned results without the quote which were irrelevant - but that makes total sense to me.

amf12··on Prisoners of Google Android development
I see cognitive dissonance on this site every day. Android or rather Chrome supports web apps, and Android allows apps not from the play store, unlike Apple, and yet people complain about both sides.

They'd also complain if Android allowed a loophole to violate privacy by targeting old insecure apis.

amf12··on Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com
Because Sites usually have an input box to enter the store address / zip code, otherwise you'd never be able to look up for another location. Probably the case here too
amf12··on Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup
Especially if that person doesn't do anything during the day. Should be pretty easy to track using network logs for any decent tech company.
amf12··on Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup
Of course they do.. they don't care as long as you do your job.
amf12··on System Initiative has open sourced its collab DevOps tool
Well, do you allow account deletions then? It should be supported under GDPR. We discuss this about other tech companies all the time here on HN. I never realized this is not possible on HN.
amf12··on Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AI
Difference being this is in Chrome and not the Search page.
amf12··on Google AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
Awesome! Let's stop everything - research, electricity, etc, until we find a way to run everything with zero emissions.
amf12··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
There is customer service available to paid workspace accounts.
amf12··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
Because their biggest markets do not? And it's a just announced, beta feature!
amf12··on CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
Or it know way too much. An alternative explanation for it could also be:

It knows you're in LA and did not look up "Chicago flight", so you probably aren't looking for flights there.

Chicago musical isn't playing in LA so probably not the right kind.

Probably why most people get parking ticket listed higher. It would be interesting to see the results in a city where the band, team or musical has an event soon.

amf12··on Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
Conversation mode, translate text on an image, latency, # of supported languages
amf12··on Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
> adds words I didn't select.

Because you may have enabled that. I just tried this and it gave me an option to enable the feature to include surrounding text for better context or something.

As for translation, I get a tooltip to translate, web search or Wikipedia search

amf12··on Google AI is helping airlines mitigate the climate impact of contrails
So we shouldn't find ways to reduce emissions unless the R&D itself has zero emissions?

Just looking up online, it seems 64% of the energy in Google datacenters is from clean sources, which is actually much better than I expected. Source: https://sustainability.google/progress/energy/

Should we not train GPT until Microsoft's data centers are all with zero emissions?

amf12··on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
The point isn't the $ value of the money but the time saved. That's why perks like free food are valued over their cost.
amf12··on Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office
Interesting.. laundry/grocery service would be trivial for a lot of employers, and a huge benefit for employees. Why hasn't anyone offered it yet?
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