Very interesting.
I wonder if blocking the google and google related Java ‘bots’ in my browsers and having all the google websites blocked (sent to 127.0.0.1) in the HOSTS file, would mess with the FauxNoose - Google algorithms.
I’ve been ranting about Google spying for years, but no one believes me, or if they do believe it, they don’t care, being addicted to all the ‘free’ stuff Google gives them.
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And at least here at FR, even though there is a google tracker on every page, at least there is no shadow banning... And I rarely even go to Faux, and have never commented there.
No - this would not work. The Google API is being called AFTER the submit to the Spot.IM servers based on all available evidence. So long as you submit a comment to Spot.IM, Google is getting it.
I should point out that they may have a data retention agreement with Google that disallows Google from keeping the comment, but - as you may know - an online learning algorithm doesn’t need to keep the data to benefit from it. The data nudges the algorithm in the right direction and is then discarded.
...addicted to all the ‘free’ stuff Google gives them.
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Privacy and free speech are a couple of my major personal concerns.
However: I write. Unfortunately, Google is better at some searches/services than any other search engine. I limit Google searches, but I need to use them.
Google Docs has taken over the world. Not only is it taught and used preferentially in schools, editors prefer a Google Docs link to a Word attachment.(I suspect that when I use Word’s research tools, my searches are still being forwarded ‘somewhere’. If I import visuals, including original illustrations, from my own machine to Word, they, too are likely then available elsewhere.)
Google is the preferred sign-in for too many sites to count.
On and on. They are ubiquitous.