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India doesn't have enough purchasing power to convince big tech companies (Google, Facebook, etc.) to store the data of Indian residents in India. Also, there are not many local tech monoliths with consumer apps to fall back on (like China had).

Since India depends heavily on apps & services by big tech, I doubt such requirements like GDPR has would be enforced. Although the right to ask a website to delete all information about one and so on are quite good and could work.

Apple Maps is honestly no where close to Google Maps. Especially in dense Indian cities with multiple roads to reach a place, some roads are not even there on Apple Maps. It also (like OSM) lacks in contact details of businesses, open/close time, etc. which are a real value add for Google Maps.

Hopefully some real competitor emerges.

I think Google can probably not fix it. Users will have to be manually reporting as spam. These websites on seeing traffic from Google's crawler bots show a perfectly legit and highly SEO optimized website, but for anything else show other spam. If Google starts indexing from random IP ranges, most websites would probably block indexing from “unofficial IPs” or some companies (esp in EU) would file some lawsuit against Google. The reason being that some pay-walled news article websites won't be indexed properly, as the “unofficial IP-ed” Googlebot will not get the paywalled content.

If a website lies to Google itself, I believe the only way to solve it is by reporting the search result as spam or Google contracts people to somehow visit all billions of web pages (again the same problem – from different IP ranges) to verify it as a legit page.

I would like to know how Google currently handles it and probably how it could be improved

Your emails are not scanned for building an advertising profile. This rumour comes up quite often, Google has thankfully stopped doing it for a long time now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html

I have tried playing around with the beta access to make it generate NFT art with different prompts, but in vail.

I think it has not been trained on NFT art (crypto punks and so on).

You could already use nextdns.io for ad blocking on android phones via DNS over TLS.

Writing under a pseudo-name probably helps a lot of people.

Then why did China ask for the Hambantota port[1]. It is a clear strategic and economic policy. Not to deny other countries haven't done that in the past; but it is a clear way of gaining control - especially the taking control over infrastructure part.

Same is the case with Africa, and many projects of which do not benefit the citizens of those countries in any way too. [2]

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/world/asia/china-sri-lank... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJSD8XV3qzE

Welcome to 1984

And unfortunately you are getting downvoted :(

Razorpay did receive a Section 91 order according to their tweet: https://twitter.com/Razorpay/status/1544313411621646338

I am really suspecting a lot of these comments from throwaway and new accounts.

Are they bots, paid chineese actors, or something else is to think about.

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It is perfectly working for me. Probably something to do with ISP?

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I think the problem is that we all expect to get perfect results. We want automated systems to identify and remove unimportant useless things. But how will those systems get to know that?

We can't build another AI black box to try and do that. There is a option in search to report spam or improve search results.

Out of our laziness and expecting getting everything perfect, sometimes collectively working and reporting bad content-copying websites, etc. would be collectively useful for all.

Search had gotten so good that we probably expected to get perfect results everytime. Untill bad guys started to game it. I beleive it's more of cat and mouse game, and where all users collectively should help and mark as spam.

Why can't iPhone people just use Whatsapp / Signal / etc.?

Even HN doesn't show the number of downvotes publicly. So why this much hate?

I think the problem is that social media platforms, especially Twitter downranks your post if it has a link.

Therefore, recently people have been writing threads with a link to post at end of thread. The reason simply is that platforms want people to remain on the platform for longer periods of time.

Instagram doesn't even allow you to have a link in your post. Just in the profile.

The link seems to be in an infinite redirect loop.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:d4DE5B...

I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple)

Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.

World productivity just grew by 10%

Micromax devices and even Motorola devices come with Stock android. Nokia too (but they are pretty bad)

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I persoanlly just run a private DNS server and block requests to services I don't want tracking me / showing me ads.

Unpopular opinion: Android is more privacy focussed than iOS.

Especially because during first setup, it clearly asks you to opt-out of services you do not wish to participate in. Also much more transperent.

Some of the smartest people working in best industries defending a brand clearly where it is doing something wrong, is bewildering.

You also have to feed the cows, which requires food. And by normal concensus only 10% of energy is transferred to the next species.

And producing food for cows causes more damage than making same food for humans. (Deforestation, Soy plants, etc emitting more carbon)

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This is highly inaccurate. The author is using Plausible via a proxy but Google Analytics directly (a very biased way to do things).

Secondly, PiHole, uBlock origin and most other adblockers also block Plausible analytics (there are discussions on their own Github Issues regarding it). If you are proxying Plausible to get accurate readings, same should be done with GA.