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===Google Play Music shutdown=== | ===Google Play Music shutdown=== | ||
[[wikipedia:Google_Play_Music|Google Play Music]] was a service that allowed users to purchase music, listen via streaming, and download to the local device; alternatively users could pay for a subscription to listen to all music available through streaming. | [[wikipedia:Google_Play_Music|Google Play Music]] was a service that allowed users to purchase music, listen via streaming, and download to the local device; alternatively users could pay for a subscription to listen to all music available through streaming. It was publicly launched on the 16th November 2011 and later shutdown in December 2020.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/thread/62843644/google-play-music-music-play-store-music-manager-are-going-away-%E2%80%93-everything-you-need-to-know?hl=en</ref><ref>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/rip-google-play-music-2011-2020/</ref> Google Play Music further allowed users to upload their own songs to listen on all their devices, with a limit of up to 50,000 files.<ref>https://www.howtogeek.com/288231/how-to-upload-your-music-library-to-google-play-music/</ref> Users were able to purchase songs individually or buy whole albums that they could then download and listen to, or stream through the internet.<ref>https://www.technobezz.com/buy-music-google-play/</ref> | ||
In October 2020, Google announced that they would be shutting down Google Play Music, with it being fully shut down by December.<ref>https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/google-play-music-dead/</ref> This went ahead with a warning to their users to begin migrating to [[wikipedia:YouTube_Music|YouTube Music]], and that they would be losing access to their purchased songs. Google recommended users should download their purchased songs before the service would shut down.<ref>https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-will-replace-google-play-music-end-2020/</ref> | In October 2020, Google announced that they would be shutting down Google Play Music, with it being fully shut down by December.<ref>https://9to5google.com/2020/12/03/google-play-music-dead/</ref> This went ahead with a warning to their users to begin migrating to [[wikipedia:YouTube_Music|YouTube Music]], and that they would be losing access to their purchased songs. Google recommended users should download their purchased songs before the service would shut down.<ref>https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-will-replace-google-play-music-end-2020/</ref> | ||
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Google Stadia controllers were limited to Wi-Fi connectivity, however upon shut down they started offering an update to allow them to connect through Bluetooth, the update service website was scheduled to shut down on the 31st December 2023.<ref>https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/bluetooth-support-for-google-stadia-controller-arrives-heres-how-to-enable-it-and-play-pc-games</ref> | Google Stadia controllers were limited to Wi-Fi connectivity, however upon shut down they started offering an update to allow them to connect through Bluetooth, the update service website was scheduled to shut down on the 31st December 2023.<ref>https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/bluetooth-support-for-google-stadia-controller-arrives-heres-how-to-enable-it-and-play-pc-games</ref> | ||
=== reCAPTCHA === | ===reCAPTCHA=== | ||
[[wikipedia:ReCAPTCHA|reCAPTCHA]] was acquired by Google in 2009 and has since been used to protect websites from [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|botting]], crowdsource transcription work, and to mass train Google's other technical ventures such as artificial intelligence.<ref>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems.]</ref> Google faced criticism over this crowdsourcing and training for using unpaid labor from millions of daily users around the world, even sparking an ultimately unsuccessful class action lawsuit in Massachusetts in 2015, with the court dismissing the amount of time spent by each user completing a CAPTCHA as "something for which [no] reasonable consumer would expect to receive compensation".<ref>https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical</ref><ref>https://casetext.com/case/rojas-lozano-ex-rel-all-other-persons-similarly-situated-v-google-inc</ref> | [[wikipedia:ReCAPTCHA|reCAPTCHA]] was acquired by Google in 2009 and has since been used to protect websites from [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|botting]], crowdsource transcription work, and to mass train Google's other technical ventures such as artificial intelligence.<ref>https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems.]</ref> Google faced criticism over this crowdsourcing and training for using unpaid labor from millions of daily users around the world, even sparking an ultimately unsuccessful class action lawsuit in Massachusetts in 2015, with the court dismissing the amount of time spent by each user completing a CAPTCHA as "something for which [no] reasonable consumer would expect to receive compensation".<ref>https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical</ref><ref>https://casetext.com/case/rojas-lozano-ex-rel-all-other-persons-similarly-situated-v-google-inc</ref> | ||
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The type of cookies collected includes, but is not limited to:<ref name=":1">https://www.businessinsider.com/google-no-captcha-adtruth-privacy-research-2015-2</ref> | The type of cookies collected includes, but is not limited to:<ref name=":1">https://www.businessinsider.com/google-no-captcha-adtruth-privacy-research-2015-2</ref> | ||
* Screen size and resolution, date, language, browser plug-ins, and all Javascript objects | *Screen size and resolution, date, language, browser plug-ins, and all Javascript objects | ||
* IP address | *IP address | ||
* CSS information from the page you are on | *CSS information from the page you are on | ||
* A count of mouse and touch events | *A count of mouse and touch events | ||
This digital fingerprinting is nearly inescapable even for privacy focused consumers since, as of November 2024, reCAPTCHA is employed in 84% of all websites.<ref>https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/captcha</ref><blockquote> | This digital fingerprinting is nearly inescapable even for privacy focused consumers since, as of November 2024, reCAPTCHA is employed in 84% of all websites.<ref>https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/captcha</ref><blockquote> | ||