Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them.

Chozo , 10 months ago

This is misleading. Not sure if by ignorance or malice, but it's very misleading.

This isn't happening with your browser bookmarks. This is Google Collections, which is a shareable bookmarking feature, meaning it can be made publicly available. That's why it's moderated. It's basically Google's version on something like Pinterest.

https://www.androidpolice.com/create-google-collections/

Blizzard , 10 months ago

Even so - it's not an excuse meddle with it, whatever you call it. Fuck Google.

Sneptaur , 10 months ago

You should be mad about the things google does. I don’t think this particular thing is unreasonable though.

Blizzard , 10 months ago

Why not?

canis_majoris , 10 months ago

They have a duty to moderate public-facing systems. This is a link/bookmark sharing system, so obviously bookmarks that are pointing to things that are illegal are going to be dealt with.

Blizzard , 10 months ago

• OP claimed it's his private bookmarks not facing public

• the site doesn't contain any illegal content. It's just google being overzealous and intrusive

• Google Keep Notes has a sharing note feature. You think it would ok for them to sniff what you noting and delete it if they didn't like it?

• one again - there's nothing illegal on that website, nor is accessing it or sharing it's address

LoafyLemon , 10 months ago

They don't have to, they choose to. You can share bookmarks on Firefox, but Mozilla doesn't filter nor censor them Orwellian style.