content: image of google “moderating” (i.e. eliminating, permanently, without apparent recourse) an entry in a user’s URL collection/bookmarks. the entry is for kickasstorrents. (archive)

I recall seeing an example of them doing something like this to people’s gdocs stuff (and iirc that was on paid account, but I could be misremembering). seems like they’re ramping up the where to more coverage of their services/assets

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Ffs that’s orwellian.

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it was more fun when padding on a div was included in the absolute width on one browser and added to the absolute width on another.

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FYI: the post was updated with a clarification but it sounds just as bad

https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598

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yeah, I’m familiar with the mechanism, but it’s still google fucking with user data under the “well, it’s stored on our servers” excuse

I should see if I can find that one where goog was killing someone’s stuff in their gdocs for the same reason

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I should have said “it sounds worse”, really

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