diff --git a/homepage/shitlist.html b/homepage/shitlist.html index 2eeb30c..573ba1a 100644 --- a/homepage/shitlist.html +++ b/homepage/shitlist.html @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ information about this can be found on the site index. Or just email me.
-I sourced many links from the personal page of Richard Stallman (who, ironically, is also on this list).
+I sourced many links from the personal page of Richard Stallman (who, ironically, is also on this list).
+I'd also like to thank my friend Yarah for her contributions to this page.
- Google AMP Can Go To Hell (Polemic Digital) + Google AMP Can Go To Hell (Polemic Digital) (Archive link)
- Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition (The Verge; Hollister, Sean) + Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition (The Verge; Hollister, Sean) (Archive link)
- Google's Play Store is giving an age-rating finger to Fleksy, a Gboard rival (TechCrunch; Lomas, Natasha) + Google's Play Store is giving an age-rating finger to Fleksy, a Gboard rival (TechCrunch; Lomas, Natasha) (Archive link)
- Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (SparkToro; Fishkin, Rand) + Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (SparkToro; Fishkin, Rand) (Archive link)
- Alphabet CEO: Plan to target EU commissioner was not "sanctioned" by me (Ars Technica; Espinosa, Javier) + Alphabet CEO: Plan to target EU commissioner was not "sanctioned" by me (Ars Technica; Espinosa, Javier) (Archive link)
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges (The Verge; Schiffer, Zoe)
- New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? (The Register; Claburn, Thomas) + New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? (The Register; Claburn, Thomas) (Archive link)
-The Google Cemetery (WPKube) +The Google Cemetery (WPKube) (Archive link)
- Amazon Fire TV Update Bricks Hacked Devices (Hackaday; Osgood, Rick) + Amazon Fire TV Update Bricks Hacked Devices (Hackaday; Osgood, Rick) (Archive link)
Amazon Told Police It Has Partnered With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies (Vice; Haskins, Caroline) @@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ The Google Cemetery (WPKube) + Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content (The Hollywood Reporter; Cullins, Ashley) (Archive link)
Amazon Reportedly Has Pinkerton Agents Surveil Workers Who Try To Form Unions (NPR) @@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ It sucks that Cyberpunk 2077's edgelord marketing worked so well (Polygon; H
-Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year (The Verge; Lyons, Kim) +Comcast to impose home internet data cap of 1.2TB in more than a dozen US states next year (The Verge; Lyons, Kim) (Archive link)
-As Facebook blocks the names of trans users and drag queens, this burlesque performer is fighting back (The Guardian; Levin, Sam) +As Facebook blocks the names of trans users and drag queens, this burlesque performer is fighting back
-Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged (The Guardian; Tynan, Dan) +Facebook accused of censorship after hundreds of US political pages purged (The Guardian; Tynan, Dan) (Archive link)
-Facebook's Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study Suggests (The Intercept; Biddle, Sam) +Facebook's Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study Suggests (The Intercept; Biddle, Sam) (Archive link)
-Facebook allowed violent posts by man charged with Ilhan Omar death threat (The Guardian; Swaine, Jon) +Facebook allowed violent posts by man charged with Ilhan Omar death threat (The Guardian; Swaine, Jon) (Archive link)
-Facebook Apparently Won't Let Users Talk About Facebook's Lawsuit With Power.com (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) +Facebook Apparently Won't Let Users Talk About Facebook's Lawsuit With Power.com (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link)
-Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition To The US (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) +Facebook Blocking Stories About Richard O'Dwyer's Fight Against Extradition To The US (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link)
Facebook Censored and Deleted March Against Monsanto Event (March Against Monsanto; Derricks, Kelly) (Archive link)
-Facebook censors political satire after complaint from JobCentre Plus (Pride's Purge; Pride, Tom) +Facebook censors political satire after complaint from JobCentre Plus (Pride's Purge; Pride, Tom) (Archive link)
-Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements (The Guardian; Wong, Julia) +Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements (The Guardian; Wong, Julia) (Archive link)
Facebook Has Added You As An Informant (OWNI.eu; Vatteble, Maxime) (Archive link)
-Facebook is chipping away at privacy - and my profile has been exposed (The Guardian; Hern, Alex) +Facebook is chipping away at privacy - and my profile has been exposed (The Guardian; Hern, Alex) (Archive link)
Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed (The Next Web; Mihov, Dimitar)
-Facebook is using your phone's location to suggest new friends - which could be a privacy disaster (Splinter; Hill, Kashmir) +Facebook is using your phone's location to suggest new friends - which could be a privacy disaster (Splinter; Hill, Kashmir) (Archive link)
-Facebook Overreacts: Decides All Of The Pirate Bay Is Illegal (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) +Facebook Overreacts: Decides All Of The Pirate Bay Is Illegal (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike) (Archive link)
-Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like "Unionize" in Workplace Chat Product (The Intercept; Fang, Lee) +Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like "Unionize" in Workplace Chat Product (The Intercept; Fang, Lee) (Archive link)
-Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (Boyd, Danah) +Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama (Boyd, Danah) (Archive link)
-Facebook's real name policy is a drag, and not just for the performers it outs (The Guardian; Zimmerman, Jess) +Facebook's real name policy is a drag, and not just for the performers it outs (The Guardian; Zimmerman, Jess) (Archive link)
Facebook's recent logo drama is a problem on multiple levels (Fast Company; Wilson, Mark)
-Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (The Intercept; Greenwald, Glenn) +Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments (The Intercept; Greenwald, Glenn) (Archive link)
-How does Facebook suggest potential friends? Not location data - not now (The Guardian; Hunt, Elle) +How does Facebook suggest potential friends? Not location data - not now (The Guardian; Hunt, Elle) (Archive link)
-Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings (Fast Company; Pasternack, Alex) +Facebook is quietly pressuring its independent fact-checkers to change their rulings (Fast Company; Pasternack, Alex) (Archive link)
-Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents (The New York Times; Roth, Andrew; Herszenhorn, David) (Onion link) +Facebook Page Goes Dark, Angering Russia Dissidents (The New York Times; Roth, Andrew; Herszenhorn, David) (Archive link) (Onion link)
-Identity crisis for Koko the Clown (Latrobe Valley Express; Darroch, Sam) +Identity crisis for Koko the Clown (Latrobe Valley Express; Darroch, Sam) (Archive link)
I now have an Oculus Paperweight (Reddit; u/mud_juggler) (Archive link) @@ -261,10 +262,10 @@ Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras (Bloomberg; Burnson, Robert)
-Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts after Soleimani's death (Coda; Cockerell, Isobel) +Instagram shuts down Iranian accounts after Soleimani's death (Coda; Cockerell, Isobel) (Archive link)
-Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) +Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) (Archive link)
"I have also...received an automated block..." (Hacker News discussion of "I now have an Oculus Paperweight"; dessant) (Archive link) @@ -273,25 +274,25 @@ Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands (BBC) +On Facebook, French Antiracists Fall Victim to Censorship (La Quadrature du Net) (Archive link)
-Pulitzer prize winner blocked from Facebook after series of 'corruption facts' posts (Times of Malta; Borg, Jacob) +Pulitzer prize winner blocked from Facebook after series of 'corruption facts' posts (Times of Malta; Borg, Jacob) (Archive link)
When Facebook's "Real Name" Policies Can Kill (Weinstein, Lauren)
-Why Does Facebook Keep Suggesting You Friend Your Tinder Matches? (Vice; Paul, Kari) +Why Does Facebook Keep Suggesting You Friend Your Tinder Matches? (Vice; Paul, Kari) (Archive link)
-Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite 'real name' policy (Engadget; Blue, Violet) +Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite 'real name' policy (Engadget; Blue, Violet) (Archive link)
-Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School (Buzzfeed News; Haskins, Caroline) +Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School (Buzzfeed News; Haskins, Caroline) (Archive link)
-Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance (Gizmodo; Stanley, Alyse) +Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance (Gizmodo; Stanley, Alyse) (Archive link)
See also Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance.
-A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Williams (Buzzfeed News; Chen, Tanya) +A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Williams (Buzzfeed News; Chen, Tanya) (Archive link)
-Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Vice; Jeffries, Adrianne) +Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Vice; Jeffries, Adrianne) (Archive link)
-Biden's gun control plan is terrible for working class firearm owners (The Washington Post; Kelly, Kim) (Archive link) -
--The complete truth about Joe Biden's LGBT record (OUTspoken) -
-The Complete Truth is from a possibly untruthful source.
--On The Record: A Former Biden Staffer's Sexual Assault Allegation (NPR; Khalid, Asma) -
++ Biden Tells Elite Donors He Doesn't Want to 'Demonize' the Rich (Bloomberg; Epstein, Jennifer) +
++ 'Lock the S.O.B.s Up': Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration (The New York Times; Stolberg, Sheryl Gay; Herndon, Astead W.) (Archive link) +
++ Biden's gun control plan is terrible for working class firearm owners (The Washington Post; Kelly, Kim) (Archive link) +
++ The complete truth about Joe Biden's LGBT record (OUTspoken) +
+The Complete Truth is from a possibly untruthful source.
++ On The Record: A Former Biden Staffer's Sexual Assault Allegation (NPR; Khalid, Asma) (Archive link) +
++ "I know we all grew up with the excitement of snow days, but this year is different." (Twitter; de Blasio, Bill) +
+User Clip: Hillary Clinton on Gay Marriage in 2004 (C-SPAN; User-created clip)
-"I know we all grew up with the excitement of snow days, but this year is different." (Twitter; de Blasio, Bill) -
++ Hillary Clinton Says We Must Be 'Sensitive' to Transphobia (Out; Lang, Nico) +
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