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[-] pop@lemmy.ml 81 points 5 months ago

Now it would be bloody awesome if someone would leak how their data collection in Android works and how much of their privacy policy is actually not just for good PR.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 70 points 5 months ago

Where are these docs? No one ever links to them or says where you can find them

[-] EarJava@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

Thousands of documents, which appear to come from Google’s internal Content API Warehouse, were released March 13 on Github by an automated bot called yoshi-code-bot.

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

God, I hate GitHub. It always gets stuck when there are many changes

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Fr, just like when those game source codes leak or whatever. It's cool and people want to download it just because, just link them lmao

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

They were leaked specifically to "SEO experts" who shared portions of it. I don't know if it was leaked publicly.

I'm basically what happened is the leaker is an SEO guy, that runs an SEO company, and leaked the documents to another SEO guy.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wonder if any are on Internet archive, and perhaps that’s why the ddos

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 5 months ago

Hidden way back behind a machine.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

That'd not where they've been primarily located, no.

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

There actually is a bot here for that

@RemindMe@programming.dev 12 hours

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Oye reminding you after 12hrs

[-] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

A collection of 2,500 leaked internal documents from Google filled with details about data the company collects is authentic, the company confirmed today. Until now, Google had refused to comment on the materials.

The documents in question detail data that Google is keeping track of, some of which may be used in its closely guarded search ranking algorithm. The documents offer an unprecedented — though still murky — look under the hood of one of the most consequential systems shaping the web

[-] souperk@reddthat.com 18 points 5 months ago

Has anyone gone through the documents? Any interesting findings? Is it time to create a website?

[-] MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago

Look, at this point Google could just drown puppies on live stream and it won’t matter. They’ll just keep on Googling anyway.

[-] geography082@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Its all about governments not protecting their citizens from the beginning, with things that are quite obvious. Even using these corporations in benefit for politicians. Corporations will always try to get the biggest beef at the lowest spending, there is no news here.

[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

thank GOD the trump news broke or else this would've been major

[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

It's really sort of amazing how few years it took to go from "Do no evil" to "Don't even bother pretending not to."

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I get this is the go-to response now, for good reason, but there isn't really anything too shady going on with this particular case at least not from Google. This is more about them trying to keep SEOs from figuring out how they rank things so they can't pollute the search results even more.

Every comment is shitting on Google but here is the what the SEO expert said about the leak when it was presented to them:

This person’s sole aim appeared quite aligned with my own: to hold Google accountable for public statements that conflict with private conversations and leaked documentation, and to bring greater transparency to the field of search marketing. And they believed that, despite my years removed from SEO, I was the best person to share this publicly.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

Just read through that blog. Look at the absolute indignity these SEO assholes have at the idea that the search engine wouldn't tell them exactly how to fuck it up with their garbage.

This is entirely about advertising. Hell, the leaker revealed their identity, and it's the guy that runs this company:

https://eaeagledigital.com/

Companies like this and the assholes behind them are a cancer on the internet and they have been for a very long time. You cannot point the finger at Google and not also point the finger at them, they are the other half of the shit equation.

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