This is to explain what problems trouble me with mailing list at Google: 1) From some time ago Google refuses login to Google account if user does not agree to tracking. 2) Google wants mobile phone number to create an account. 3) Deteriorating quality of Google web archive.
1 and 2 are related: Google agressivly wants to track users and aggregate all user activity trough Google into single "profile". I knew about 1 because it became known to me when I tried to login to my Google account. I learned about 2 only because my old e-mail address no longer works, so I wanted to re-connect to mailing list. Somebody proposed joing from Android phone: if you connect from Android phone, then most likely Google can get your phone number without asking you, so that solves nothing. To avoid long rant let me say that I find spying (tracking, analytics etc) by big tech quite troublesome and dangerous for the society. I am now subscribed because Ralf added my address by hand. But I am troubled becase having list at Google we more or less encourage people to agree to spying (even if we provide option to subscribe by e-mail to list administrator). Concerning 3, I would like to have no-nonsense web interface to group archive. To see resonable approximation you can look at: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/ or https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gcl-devel In case of Google, IMO they move in opposite direction and can expect only changes for worse. ATM Github seem to be slightly better than Google, but trend is clear, unless users rebel Github will move in the same direction as Google. Language tag issue IMO nicely show Github attitude: they know very well that their tags are nonsense for minority languages but are unwilling to fix it (where easy fix would be to disable broken misfeature). -- Waldek Hebisch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/20220429202954.GA30467%40fricas.math.uni.wroc.pl.
