Title says it all. Somewhat interesting if true. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.
The idea didn’t have an evil origin.
There are scammers that are sending phishing links inside a Google docs drive as in this way it’s less likely to get blocked by spam filters. Like “your statement is ready and you’re eligible for a refund, click here to check”
By mass replacing all the links with a Google redirect, (it shows the original one but when you click it changes), Google now can block those scam domains
The side effect is that now the system can be used to collect all the visit stats. But maybe they’re not tracking visits as they can already get full browser histories from Google chrome users with account sync, and that’s enough data
Not surprised at all and proved that Degoogle is not only a choice but necessity. I used have a lot of documents saved as Google docs. Feels much better now just using LibreOffice.
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Neat. I wonder how that would run on my potato computer.
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My server is an old precision. Very old. New SSD though, so it could maybe pull it off.
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Yeah, I don’t run it much because of the power cost. I can’t find a pi at retail though, and now that I have kids, don’t have time to mess with that anyhow. I do have a zero w that I got for $10 though and it’s a fun little toy.
