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2026 8
- When Robotaxis Call the Cops
- Big Tech’s Catastrophic Layoffs Frenzy
- The Rise of AI Slop on Google’s YouTube
- Why Google Search AI Overviews Are a “Misinformation Machine”
- Why Apple’s New “MacBook Neo” Has Stunned the Tech World
- When Data Centers Destroy Communities
- Why You Shouldn’t Use Google’s Chrome “Auto Browse” Agentic AI, or Any Other Agentic AI From Other Firms
- Why Proposed “Blocking Technologies” for 3D Printers Are a Terrible Idea
2025 11
- Coding with Gemini: Cheerful, Cooperative, and Usually, Wrong.
- The World Gets an Important New Drone That Can Save Lives — But Thanks to Our Politicians Not in the USA
- Separating the Chrome Browser From Google Could Be Terrible for Billions of Users
- In the War Between the Federal Government and States Against Drone Maker DJI, Americans Are at Risk
- The Website Age Verification Train Wreck
- Unforced Errors: How the U.S. Is Losing Its Lead in Technology and Science Research
- The Enormous Negative Impacts of the New Tariffs on the Technology Sector
- DOGE Is Destroying Social Security, and Seniors Are Already at Risk
- Holding Social Media Responsible: Time To Change Section 230?
- The Helpful Google Ombudsman (Who Doesn’t Exist)
- More Bipartisan Madness: Commerce Department Proposes Yet Another Insane Chinese Drone Ban That Could Cost Lives
2024 12
- AI Is Dooming Google, but Not in the Way Its CEO Believes
- [What say you, Spock?] My Proposed Terminology to Describe Bypassing Social Media Face ID Age Verification Systems
- Insanity: Drone Hysteria and Bans Put Lives at Risk
- Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Is Doomed
- DOJ’s Proposed Antitrust “Remedies” Against Google Would Be a Disaster
- DOJ vs. Google: Users have the most to lose
- “I Am the Very Model of a Google AI Overview”
- What Google Should Do About Their Search Generative AI Overview Answers
- Generative AI Is Being Rammed Down Our Throats
- Evil
- The Nightmare of Google Account Recovery Failures
- Google and Seniors
2023 17
- About Google and Location Privacy
- Google’s Inactive Account Policy and Phishing Attacks Concerns
- In Support of Google’s Progress On AI Content Choice and Control
- Radio Transcript: Google Passkeys and Google Account Recovery Concerns
- Google is making their weak, flawed passkey system the default login method — I urge you NOT to use it!
- UK Passage of Online Safety Bill to Create Chinese-Style Internet Tracking and Censorship — Coming Soon to U.S.?
- The Potential Privacy Problems With YouTube’s Family Plan “Suggestion Leakage”
- Artificial Intelligence at the Crossroads
- Thoughts on AI Regulation
- A Proposal for “Enhanced Recovery Services” for Locked Out Google Accounts
- An Example of a Very Sad Google Account Recovery Failure — and How It Affects Real People
- Potentially Serious Issues with Google’s Announced Inactive Accounts Deletion Policy
- How Google Broke Chrome Bookmarks Sync
- Big Tech Needs to Vastly Improve Their Public Communications — or Potentially Face a Political Train Wreck Over AI (and More)
- The “AI Crisis”: Who Is Responsible?
- State and Federal Internet ID Age Requirements Are Hell-Bent on Turning the Internet Into a Chinese-Style Internet Nightmare
- Giving Creators and Websites Control Over Generative AI
2022 8
- 2023 and Social Media’s Winds of Change
- Social Media Is Probably Doomed
- How to Fix Google’s Gmail Political Spam Bypass Plan
- Google’s Horrible Plan to Flood Your Gmail with Political Garbage
- My Thoughts About Google’s New Blog Post Regarding Health-Related Data Privacy
- Social Media Sites Should Be Required to ID Many Users
- Internet Users’ Safety in a Post-Roe World
- Big Tech and the Internet Are Not Our Enemies
2021 9
- How to Better Solve YouTube’s “Dislike Count” Problem
- Apple Backdoors Itself
- Keep Governments Away from Social Media “Misinformation Control”
- We Have Met the Ransomware Enemy, and It Is (Partly) Us!
- DeJoy Is Hell-Bent on Wrecking the Postal Service — and Maybe Your Life
- How the “News Link Wars” Could Wreck the Web
- The Big Lie About “Cancel Culture” and Demands to Change Section 230
- The Challenges of Moderating User Content on the Internet (and a Bit of History)
- The Right’s (and Left’s) Insane Internet Content Power Grab (repost with new introduction)
2020 4
2019 27
- The Right’s (and Left’s) Insane Internet Content Power Grab
- Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned from Google’s “BeyondCorp”
- Earthquakes vs. Darth Vader
- YouTube’s Public Videos Dilemma
- A Major New Privacy-Positive Move by Google
- Could AI Help Prevent Mass Shootings?
- Pressuring Google’s AI Advisory Panel to Wear a Halo Is Very Dangerous
- Don’t Blame YouTube and Facebook for Hate Speech Horrors
- As Google’s YouTube Battles Evil, YouTube Creators Are at a Crossroads
- Another Positive Move by YouTube: No More General “Conspiracy Theory” Suggestions
- Another Massive Google User Trust Failure, As They Kill Louisville Fiber on Short Notice
- Google Users Panic Over Google+ Deletion Emails: Here’s What’s Actually Happening
- Google’s Google+ Shutdown Emails Are Causing Mass Confusion
- If Google Cared: The Tool That Could Save Google+ Relationships
- Google Finally Speaks About the G+ Shutdown: Pretty Much Tells Users to Go to Hell
- Google’s G+ User Trust Betrayal Gets Worse and Worse
- Paid “Ad-Free” YouTube Premium Is Now Showing Ads
- An Important Message from “Google” about Google+ !
- Another Awful Google Accessibility Failure: The New “Google Contacts”
- Thanks Google! — YouTube Cracks Down on Dangerous Videos
- Boot to the Head: When You Know that Google Just Doesn’t Care Anymore
- Google’s Brain Drain Should Alarm Us All
- Finally, Some Good News About the EU’s Horrendous “Right To Be Forgotten” Law
- Why Google Is Terrified of Its Users
- A New Invite-Only Forum for Victims of Google’s Google+ Purge
- Google’s Reaction to Chromecast Hijacking Is Another User Trust Failure
- USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea
2018 98
- Google’s China Dilemma Is Ours as Well
- A Terrible and All Too Common YouTube Abuse Story
- Why I No Longer Recommend Google for Many Serious Business Applications
- The Terrifying Moment at the Congressional Google Hearing Today
- Recent Google Posts
- Can We Trust Google?
- The DATA Says: Google’s “Dragonfly” Chinese Search Is Doomed
- Save Google — but Let Facebook Die
- My Thoughts on New Studies of Toxic Emissions from 3D Printers
- After the Walkout, Google’s Moment of Truth
- Beware of “Self-Selected” Surveys of Google Employees
- Why Internet Tech Employees Are Rebelling Against Military Contracts
- The Death of Google
- How to Disable Gmail’s Annoying New “Smart Compose” Predictive Typing Feature
- Please Don’t Ask! There Are No “Google Explainers”
- Criminal Behavior: How Facebook Steals Your Security Data to Violate Your Privacy
- How Google Documentation Problems Can Lead to Public Relations Nightmares
- Ignore the Silly Panic over Google Chrome’s New Auto-Login Feature
- More Bull from the Google Haters: Search Results and Trump’s Travel Ban
- What We See on the Leaked TGIF Video Makes Us Proud of Google
- Google Backs Off on Unwise URL Hiding Scheme, but Only Temporarily
- Verizon’s 5G Home Broadband Has a Rough Start
- EU Preliminarily Passes Horrific Articles 11 & 13 — Here’s How to Fight Back!
- “The EU’s (Internet) Island” (To the tune of “Gilligan’s Island”)
- YouTube’s Memory Miracle
- Here’s How to Disable Google Chrome’s Confusing New URL Hiding Scheme
- How Google Could Dramatically Improve the World’s Internet Security
- Google Admits It Has Chinese Censorship Search Plans – What This Means
- Beware the Fraudulent Blog Comments Scams!
- Fixing Google’s Gmail Spam Problems
- Location Tracking: Google’s the One You DON’T Need to Worry About!
- Google Must End Its Silence About Censored Search in China
- Google Haters Rejoice at Google’s Reported New Courtship of China
- Prediction: Unless Security Keys Are Free, Most Users Won’t Use Them
- Censored Google Search for China Would Be Both Evil and Dangerous!
- Explaining YouTube’s VERY Cool New Aspect Ratio Changes
- Uber and Lyft Must Immediately Ban “Peeping Tom” Drivers
- EU’s Latest Massive Fine Against Google Will Hurt Europeans Most of All
- Network Solutions and Cloudflare Supporting Horrific Racist Site
- Chrome Is Hiding URL Details — and It’s Confusing People Already!
- Third Parties Reading Your Gmail? Yeah, If You’ve Asked Them To!
- Why Google Needs a “User Advocate at Large”
- Google’s New Security Warning Is Terrifying Many Users
- FedEx to Anyone With Less than Perfect Vision: GO TO HELL!
- How the Pentagon Is Trying to Shame Google and Googlers
- How the Dominant ISPs Are Trying to Scare People Into Opposing California Net Neutrality
- A Modest Proposal: Identifying Europeans on the Internet for Their Protection
- Google’s New AI Principles Are a Model for the World
- Why We May Have to Cut Europe Off from the Internet
- When Google Blames Users for Privacy Problems
- Hate Speech — and Google’s Public Relations “Death Wish”
- Google — and the Defense Department’s Disturbing “Maven” A.I. Project Presentation Document
- Calls for a Google Ombudsman — from Nine Years Ago!
- I Join EFF in Opposing the California SB 1001 “Bots Disclosure” Legislation
- Android In-App Payments Abuse Nightmares: Why Google Is Complicit
- Using Google’s Daydream VR Headset for Augmented Reality and Positional Tracking Applications
- Google’s Lightning-Fast Response to My “Trusted Contacts” Concerns
- Google Predictably Makes a Confused Jumble Out of New YouTube, Music Offerings
- The Amazing 360 VR “Scoring the Last Jedi” Video
- Warning: Dangerous Fake Emails About Google Privacy Changes
- Teachable Moment: How Outrage Over Google’s AI “Duplex” Could Have Been Avoided
- Calls From Google’s “Duplex” System Should Include Initial Warning Announcements
- Google’s New “Duplex” Voice System Creates Some Troublesome Questions
- Phishing Risks in Gmail’s New “Confidential Mode”
- New Gmail Features That May Be ILLEGAL for You to Use!
- Confused Google Announcements Regarding Retirement of Google+ Apps?
- Warning: New European Privacy Law Has Become a Jackpot for Internet Crooks
- How AI Could Save Us All
- Where I Stand on the Proposed Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
- My Initial Impressions of Google’s New Gmail User Interface
- Google Reportedly Plans New Protections for YouTube Kids — Let’s Get Them Right!
- How YouTube’s Ad Restrictions Have Gone Very Wrong
- Tragically, the YouTube Shooting Attack Is Not a Complete Surprise
- On YouTube, What Potentially Deadly Challenge Will Be Next?
- EU to Domain Owners in the UK: Drop Dead!
- Why Big Tech Needs Big Ethics — Right Now!
- Seriously, It’s Time to Ditch Facebook and Give Google+ a Try
- Fixing Facebook May Be Impossible
- The Controversial CLOUD Act: Privacy Plus or Minus?
- Why YouTube’s New Plan to Debunk Conspiracy Videos Won’t Work
- Solving YouTube’s Abusive Content Problems — via Crowdsourcing
- The Ethics of Google and the Pentagon Drones
- Why I Finally Dumped Netflix (and Love FilmStruck/Criterion)
- A Proposal to Google: How to Stop Evil from Trending on YouTube
- Why the Alt-Right Loves Google’s Diversity Conundrum
- “How-To” Videos — The Unsung Heroes of YouTube!
- Facebook’s Very Revealing Text Messaging Privacy Fail
- Blaming YouTube or the FBI for Yesterday’s School Shooting Tragedy Is Just Plain Wrong
- Google’s New “AMP” Plan for “Interactive and Engaging” Email Is Awful
- How to “Bribe” Our Way to Better Account Security
- Home Max: Happiness When Google Meets Your Ears
- The Monsters Who Laugh at Injury and Death on YouTube
- You May Be Able to Use Google’s 2-Step Verification After All!
- In Support of Google’s Culture
- Why Google Is at a Communications Crossroads Critical to Its Survival
- Proposal: “Shared” Accounts to Avoid Google Access Nightmares
- The New Intel CPU Security Bug
- A Thought Experiment: Twitter, Trump, and Adolf Hitler
2017 110
- Google Home Is Leaving Elderly and Disabled Users Behind
- Facebook’s Big, Bad Lie About Age Discrimination
- A YouTube Prank and Dare Category That’s Vast, Disgusting, and Potentially Deadly
- Perhaps the Best Feature Ever Comes to Chrome: Per Site Audio Muting!
- Google Wisely Pauses Move to Impose Accessibility Restrictions
- Risks of Google Home and Amazon Echo as 24/7 Bugs
- In the Amazon vs. YouTube War, Google is Right — and Wrong
- Google Agrees: It’s Time for More Humans Fighting YouTube Hate and Child Exploitation Videos
- Easy Access to SSL Certificate Information Is Returning to Google’s Chrome Browser
- Stupid Story Claiming Google Tracking — Plus the USA Healthcare Nightmare
- How the Internet Broke the Planet
- Google Maps’ New Buddhist “Swastika”
- Google’s Extremely Shortsighted and Bizarre New Restrictions on Accessibility Services
- T-Mobile’s Scammy New Online Payment System
- Facebook’s Staggeringly Stupid and Dangerous Plan to Fight Revenge Porn
- 3D Printed Wall Mount for the Full-Sized Google Home
- Some Background on 3D Printing Gadgets for the Google Home Mini
- Understanding Google’s New Advanced Protection Program for Google Accounts
- Explaining the Chromebook Security Scare in Plain English: Don’t Panic!
- Solving Google’s, Facebook’s, and Twitter’s Russian (and other) Ad Problems
- Vegas Shooting Horror: Fixing YouTube’s Continuing Fake News Problem
- How to Fake a Sleep Timer on Google Home
- Major Porn Site’s Accessibility Efforts Put Google to Shame
- How the Alt-Right Plans to Control Google
- Why Won’t Roku Talk About Their Privacy Policies?
- When Google Gets Your Location Wrong!
- Google’s Gmail Phishing Warnings and False Positives
- Solving the Gmail “Slow Startup” Problem
- Google’s Stake Through the Hearts of Obnoxious Autoplay Videos
- Apple’s New Cookie Policy Looks Like a Potential Disaster for Users
- The Google Account “Please Help Me!” Flood
- Protecting Your Google Account from Personal Catastrophes
- The Saga of a Locked-Out Google User
- The Vile Monster Donald Trump Stabs the DACA Dreamers in their Backs
- Status of Nazi and Nazi-Sympathizer Sites
- How Twitter Bends over Backwards to Keep Hate Speech Online
- Why Google Doesn’t Promote Their Great “My Activity” Feature
- Is Google a Cult?
- Limits of Speech: How Trump’s Nazis Forced the Internet to Grow Up
- I Found the Alt-Right Google Protest Checklist!
- Nazi Site Tries to Move Their Registration to Google … BUT …
- No Donald Trump — We Will Not “Come Together” with the Alt-Right Racists
- Google Has the Alt-Right Running Scared
- Google Employees Are Being Targeted by Alt-Right Racists
- Reactions to My Own “Google Manifesto”
- Here’s My Own Damned “Google Manifesto”
- Audio from My Radio Discussion About the Leaked Google “Diversity” Manifesto Controversy
- A Googler’s Leaked Google “Diversity” Manifesto — Lose-Lose-Lose
- Beware the Browser Extensions Privacy Trap!
- Google, Personal Information, and Star Trek
- To Protect Global Free Speech, Google May Need to Take Some Drastic Actions
- Google Introduces “Invisible” Gmail Messages!
- How Twitter Killed My Twitter Engagement by Killing Email Notifications
- Google Asked Me How I’d Fix Chrome Remote Desktop — Here’s How!
- Another Google Accessibility Failure: Chrome Remote Desktop
- Comparing the Readability of Two Google Blogs
- Bizarre Happenings with Hate Speech Video Reddit User Reshared by Trump
- Collecting Data on Users Suspended or Banned/Terminated by Twitter
- Privacy Pinheads: The Staggering Stupidity of Trump’s Voter Commission
- Always Report Vile Cyberbullies To Twitter!
- How Governments Are Screwing Us by Censoring Google
- Massive Fine Against Google: The EU’s Hypocrisies Exposed
- How Google Risks Court Actions Under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)
- Google’s Gmail Will No Longer Scan Messages to Personalize Ads (but This Was Always Harmless)
- By Killing Encryption, Our Leaders Are Delivering Us to the Terrorists
- YouTube’s Excellent New Moves Against Hate Speech — But There’s More Work for Google to Do
- Why I May Remove All Google+ Buttons from My Blog Posts
- Brief Thoughts on a Google Ombudsman and User Trust
- Google Users Who Want to Use 2-Factor Protections — But Don’t Understand How
- White House Releases Transcript of Trump and Comey Dinner Meeting
- Boom! Anti-Google Propaganda Fills My Inbox!
- Opera vs. Trump (Rossini Edition)
- Google Security’s User Confusion Continues
- Fighting Government Crippled Encryption by Turning It Off Entirely!
- Is Google’s New “Store Sales Measurement” System a Privacy Risk?
- The Coming Fascist Internet
- USA Security Classifications
- Netflix Blocking, Google, Android, and Donald Trump
- WARNING: Antivirus sites may be helping to SPREAD the current global malware ransomware (WannaCry) attack!
- Announcing the “Google Issues” Mailing List
- Google’s Achilles’ Heel
- YouTube’s Dangerous and Sickening Cesspool of “Prank” and “Dare” Videos
- Quick Tutorial: Deleting Your Data Using Google’s “My Activity”
- More Regarding a Terrible Decision by the Internet Archive
- A Terrible Decision by the Internet Archive May Lead to Widespread Blocking
- The Google Page That Google Haters Don’t Want You to Know About
- Prosecute Burger King for Their Illegal Google Home Attacks in Their Ads
- You Can Make the New Google+ Work Better — If You’re Borg!
- Collecting Examples of YouTube Hate Speech Videos and Channels
- “Google Needs an Ombudsman” Posts from 2009 — Still Relevant Today
- The YouTube Racists Fight Back!
- My Brief Radio Discussion of the GOP’s Horrendous Internet Privacy Invasion Law
- Google+ and the Notifications Meltdown
- How YouTube’s User Interface Helps Perpetuate Hate Speech
- What Google Needs to Do About YouTube Hate Speech
- How Google’s YouTube Spreads Hate
- Google and Older Users
- “Google Experiences” Submission Page Now Available
- Simple Solutions to “Smart TVs” as CIA Spies
- Google’s New “YouTube TV” Is a Gift to Donald Trump
- Meet the Guys: The Jerks of Computer Science
- Please Tell Me Your Google Experiences For “Google 2017” Report
- Don’t (For Now) Use Google’s New “Perspective” Comment Filtering Tool
- Does Google Hate Old People?
- Here’s Where Google Hid the SSL Certificate Information That You May Need
- The New Google Voice Is Another Slap in the Face of Google’s Users — and Their Eyes
- User Trust Fail: Google Chrome and the Tech Support Scams
- IETF’s Stunning Announcement: Emergency Transition to IPv7 Is Necessary!
- My Mock-Up for Labeling Fake News on Google Search
- Biting the Bullet: It’s Time to Require 2-Factor Verified Logins
2016 55
- Fake News and Google: What Does a Top Google Search Result Really Mean?
- Administrivia: Observing Google: “Tough Love”
- Action Items: What Google, Facebook, and Others Should Be Doing RIGHT NOW About Fake News
- Study: Collecting URLs and Other Data About Fake/False News on the Net
- Google Home Drops Insightful “Donald Trump Is Definitely Crazy” Search Answer
- How Fake and False News Distort Google and Others
- Blocked by Lauren (“The Motion Picture”)
- Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Others: Start Taking Hate Speech Seriously!
- Unacceptable: How Google Undermines User Trust by Blocking Users from Their Own Data
- Crushing the Internet Liars
- President Trump and the Nuclear Launch Codes
- Elections and the Internet “Echo Chambers”
- Why Google Home Will Change the World
- Google Search Results and Fact Checking
- Why Google Tops Trump’s Technology Enemies List
- We Stopped Herr Hitler — Now We Must Stop Something Potentially Far Worse: President Trump
- Asking Google Home About George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words”
- Unreadable Webpages and Crummy Electricity
- How to Copy Text from the New Low Contrast Google Blogs
- The Risks of Facebook Advertising and Racial Discrimination
- How to Protect Your Google Gmail from Russia’s Putin and WikiLeaks
- Yahoo’s Email Spying Nightmare
- The Importance of “Google Assistant” and “Google Home”
- Google Launches a New Consolidated Blog [GOOD], with a New Unreadable Font [AWFUL]
- When Hell Freezes Over: AT&T preparing to pull “GigaPower” fiber down my street
- Phony Trump and His Phony Debate Polls
- By Not Condemning Its Co-Founder, Oculus Effectively Supports White Supremacists
- Google’s War on Trolls Could Help Save the Internet
- Hillary Was Wrong About Trump’s “50% Deplorables” — They’re Actually Much Higher
- The Downsides of Google’s Chrome Security Push
- Oscar’s Ageism and Society’s Disposable Workers
- Network Solutions Still Operates Like a Bunch of Crooks
- A Horrific New Animal Cruelty Commercial from Toyota
- When Associated Press + Twitter = The Big Lie About Hillary Clinton
- Foolish and Dangerous: Europe’s Clothing Attacks Against Muslim Women
- When Hiding Passwords Is Stupid — or Worse!
- Google Questions & Unofficial Answers: “Does Google Make Junk Solicitation Phone Calls?”
- Care About Science and Tech? Our Job One: STOP TRUMP
- “Highly Illogical”: The Hysteria Over Google’s Wi-Fi Scanning
- Right-Wing Internet Sites in Panic over FBI Smartphone App Solicitation
- Was Facebook Correct Blocking Video During Fatal Korryn Gaines Confrontation?
- As We Age, Smartphones Don’t Make Us Stupid — They’re Our Saviors
- Confirmed and Unacceptable: Social Security Administration Cutting Off Users Who Can’t Receive Text Messages
- How Some ISPs Could Subvert Your Local Network Security
- The Sensible Safeguards Needed Now for Pokémon GO
- The Coming Government Showdown over Live Video Streaming
- How Ancient Monopolies Keep You from Getting Decent Internet Service
- A Rare Endorsement: When the Disk Drive Fails
- Die Passwords! Die!
- No, I did not have a project where I “released birds” over the ARPANET
- A Proposal for Dealing with Terrorist Videos on the Internet
- Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors
- Google, Hillary, and the Search Conspiracy Kooks
- Why Free Speech Is Even More Important Than Privacy
- France’s Guillotining of Global Free Speech Continues