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[–] imgprojts@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Our local druglord is offering drug protection for kids at schools! Yey! And at $5 bucks, their service is way cheaper than the war on drugs that the cops keep peddling!

Before I can get the kids to their first drug training, I gotta get the truck fixed, and what better way to do that than Joe? Joe may be the drunkest one eyed blind rheumatic paraplegic mute there is, but he's kept all our cars running pretty good since that one time we accidentally ran him over. The car was making a noise and then it was just fine. Since then we go to Joe's for regular maintenance. Well, it's the alley behind Joe's actually. It might not last, Joe seems to be getting slower and slower and much less talkative. Like the first time we ran him over, he was just blasting his mouth off. Last time he fixed my truck he wasn't moving around as much and there were more flies around him than usual. Anyway, Joe is the way!

And don't let Google trick you. They just want more of your data.

[–] archy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will Google ask me to solve a captcha while connected to a Google VPN?

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's been around for a bit now. It's free for anyone who pays them for storage. I pay them... But I'll never use that shit. I have zero trust for Google.

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[–] Rottcodd@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lately it seems that all too much of my life is spent alternately laughing at things that are so ludicrous that only a blithering moron would fall for them and dejectedly remembering that the world is stuffed to the brim with blithering morons.

[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I feel this all the time. Like 3 of every 4 headlines I read are so absurd they can't be real, except they are real. We're truly living a comedy.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they didn't offer one already

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have, for years. This isn't new.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

HAHAHHAHAHAJAHA

[–] socialjeffwarrior@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

What could possibly go wrong?

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've had one for years. If you use one of their phones or have their MVNO service you have had access to it. Might have even been turned on by default. Just a heads up.

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[–] whispering_depths@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

you didn't see this two years ago? maybe 3

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Those both sound like you things

— Brian Griffin said upon learning Quagmire has a win/win relationship with his dentist where he 1) buys nitrous oxide from him and 2) bangs his wife

[–] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Google and privacy is the same as putting lithium in water

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ahh so you can pay them to serve you ads now! Neat!

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pijon@lemdro.id 6 points 1 year ago

It was launched almost 3 years ago.

[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Google does a great job from being tracked by other companies.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google's unbelievably aggressive BS is the just about the only reason I run a VPN. Despite taking extraordinary steps to block them, Google still manages to regularly shove their BS into my life.

Google removed "Don't Be Evil" from their mission statement for a reason.

[–] riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Oh my, I thought this was a joke!

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m going trust my VPN service, which I would probably use for torrenting if I were to get it, with the company that was removing torrenting sites from its users own private bookmark lists. That can’t possibly end badly for me.

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