bruh they are asking for my home address now?
bruh they are asking for my home address now?
I fuckin' signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
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You can skip that step. Not that it's okay, tho.
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For now.
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not for now, but forever. they'd be in huge trouble with EU regulations should they ever dare to change it
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Next year:
Sorry, your login looks suspicious. For your security, you've been permanently locked out of your account.
Since you never willingly gave us your address, you cannot submit a request to regain access to your account. Thank you for all the data. You cannot contact us. Have a nice day, dumbfuk
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Literally every of these Google "add information xy" boxes has been skippable for years now
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There are some people who will put this data, the ones who usually agree to all cookies. So even if you let users skip, with some dark patterns you can manage to influence a lot of people. Example: I set up local windows accounts for a couple of family members, yet somehow a week later or so they had online Microsoft accounts connected.
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More like asking you to confirm what they already know.
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Yeah, ridiculous isn't it.
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Recently validated data has more value tho
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Trust me, Google already knows your home address.
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also, I know yours.
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They don't even pretend it's for security reasons and just admit it's for ads 🤣
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Oh? Just what I was looking for! An opportunity to be manipulated more effectively by my owners.
You can change or remove this any time...
Haha, cute.
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What kind of bullshit is this?
God, I dislike Google so much. Funny to remember that once their motto used to be, "Do no evil." Ha, good times.
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They use it for Google Maps as a pin. Nothing new, and not particularly weird either. You can just skip it and not tell them.
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Skip
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We may not always have that option...
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Where?
Seems like you can remove that address later as google said themselves in that screenshot.
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Just click skip? They just use it for traffic notifications on maps and stuff.
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But at some point, there will be no skip button. You know it, I know it, we all know it. This is like the creepy uncle who starts out by giving you candy and playing football in the yard. Then he wants you to sit on his lap before candy or football, but you can jump off whenever, until the day, he won't let you. That is what these companies have been doing. I still remember the arm twisting they did when they took over youtube and we all liked youtube so much, we ended up giving in to it.
The end game for them is to own all your personal information and have total control over your online activity. Them giving you a skip button is a fake comfort. They probably already know where you live too.
For my part, I have just accepted that my basic bitch info is out there. Whatever I haven't shared myself, have been shared either by a phone book service in my country or by databrokers who have sold my info to random companies and scammers.
Anonymity online is an illusion unless you are a very tech savvy which most of us are not.
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I was just thinking how much we've lost. Each generation grows up with this stuff being normalized by people saying "it's fine just skip it". But the early days of the internet was so much different compared to the people today.
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This is a very long comment when they definitely already know users addresses, lol
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It's been doing this for over a decade. It's used by maps to create automatic pins for home and work, for easier routing (and profit if course).
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I mean this isn't new. How do you think you can say go to work or go home and have maps take you there.
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It's less creepy than asking "This is your home address, isn't it?"
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Yeh, not like they can't work it out.
(That said, they have no idea about my house number because I can't get them to understand the building I'm in has multiple houses in it....)
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Seeing this post made me realize I have fallen for this trap already.
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Yeah, pretty sure I remember clicking skip on this as many as 5 years ago. Google Maps has asked to store your home address for as long as I can remember.
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I like how you conveniently cropped out the "try another way" button:
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You mean the "fuck you, go in an infinite circle" button?
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With your phone they already know it and where you are in every moment, if you don't desactivate GPS.
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Unless you live in an apartment.
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There's a shit ton of new regulations and they're probably trying to figure out what filters and shit to apply to which viewers
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9876 rode st., vilij, provençe 012345
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Use Google's address.
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I already gave up on Google when they started forcing you to send them your ID to watch age restricted videos.
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This was fun when my business address was some office I'd never been to.
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