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google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this

The Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.

Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.

Oh, it’s not?

If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.

For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:

solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.net

Yes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.

Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.

(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)

Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.

Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.

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he told me it's terminal

If everything goes according to plan, then next release of #GoToSocial (0.18.0) will contain:

Domain block/allow list subscriptions (subscribe your instance to a list hosted remotely somewhere, and pull domain blocks and/or domain allows from that list every 24hrs or so).
Edit support.
Push notification support.

Three features that we've wanted for a while :) Quite exciting! Not sure yet when that release will arrive. Probably in a month or so, I'd guess.

I'm particularly excited about block/allow list subscriptions because they'll make it much easier for people to collaborate on moderation. Also you can feasibly upload an allowlist on something like github and have people make pull requests to add their instance to the list. Once it's added, everyone who subscribes to that allowlist will automatically start federating with the newly-added instance. Will make allowlist clusters much more practical!

#GoToSocial

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https://itch.io/b/2741/unstoppable-bundle

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