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How to Block Ads on YouTube App for Android?

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18

The Android Google YouTube application is showing more and more ads, mostly irrelevant, and has moved the “skip video” button outside of the “countdown timer” control. 

Right now, there is no video – not even short videos lasting like 10 seconds – that goes without ads.

Time to research [WayBack] How to Block Ads on YouTube App for Android?.

The  most promising solutions:

–jeroen

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GitHub – ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab: Archiving Google+.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18

Soon this is a thing of the past, but for just a few more days, you can help: Archiving Google+.

Either run this project: [WayBack] GitHub – ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab: Archiving Google+.

Or even better: run the appliance, and help the WayBack machine with any archiving projects setup by the virtual appliance: the [WayBack] ArchiveTeam Warrior – Archiveteam.

See some of their other pages for more background information:

You can donate both to the archive team, and the internet archive:

How is G+ archiving doing?

The tracker is well under way: [WayBack] Googleplus tracker Dashboard. History: archive.is 1; archive.is 2

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There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [Th…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01

[WayBack] There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. [That is, Photos posted to Google+] Just been playing with this. Here’s one… – Julian Bond – Google+

Before I forget:

Here’s one route.

  1. Go to Google Photos settings and set Google Drive –
    Sync photos & videos from Google Drive.
  2. Google Takeout. G+Streams.Photos.
  3. Unzip locally.
  4. Copy the contents of ‘Takeout\Google+ Stream\Photos\Photos from posts‘ to a directory in Google Drive\My Pictures
  5. Fire up “Backup and Sync from Google” to upload
  6. Check the photos are now present in Photos.

And https://get.google.com/albumarchive/

Via: [WayBack] There’s recently been a question about moving G+ Photos to Google Photos. Just been playing with this. Here’s one route. 1. Go to Google Photos setti… – Alan Cox – Google+

–jeroen

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Bye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/28

Interesting approach: saying good bye isn’t that hard if you do not share a lot things with other people through it.

[WayBackBye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa:

I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn’t too hard to do. I started by moving all of my websites off of Google App Engine and onto a dedicated box that I had already owned. That was straightforward enough. Next, I removed any Google Analytics snippets from each of them and replaced those with my own analytics server that I had built a while back (it doesn’t store any PII, only aggregate information (and very little of that, too)).

Via:

This might be a viable mail alternative: [WayBack] Reliable Email Provider, Inbox Email & Resource Center | inbox.com

Simplify your online communication with one login to secure email communication, organize conversations, and fine-tune archive searches.

Via: [WayBack] Thank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us… – Google – Google+

Thank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us here to stay connected:

www.youtube.com/google
www.twitter.com/google
www.instagram.com/google
www.facebook.com/google

–jeroen

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GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27

[WayBack] GitHub – sdsalyer/gplus-archiver: A tool for exporting content from Google+

Example saves: [WayBack] gplus-archiver

Via:

–jeroen

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Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going…

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26

Great post: [WayBack] Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going and how that makes your life miserable. We all met here by acciden… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+:

Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going and how that makes your life miserable. We all met here by accident, had a good time, mostly. And now we move on.

There is no “one size fits all” replacement out there. Instead, look forward to meeting new people and old friends at whichever place you are going to.

Find me on Twitter, Mastodon and infrequently on Pluspora. Or maybe at a (hopefully open and distributed) new place that doesn’t even exist yet.

[WayBack] OK, maybe Diaspora can become my “new home”, at least for sharing my blog posts and allowing comments. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

[WayBack] Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 30 by Open Source and Fediverse Advocate/Developer exploring longvetity and software from a 1st person point of view

–jeroen

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Navigation bar notifications for Google web products will go away on March 7, 2019. Via Manage your notifications – Google Account Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/08

After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar.

[WayBackManage your notifications – Google Account Help has more details, but it does not look good.

More Google stuff is dying, almost every month now. For a list of dying products see: [WayBackdidgoogleshutdown.com

Given more is dying, and the increased lack of confidence many people have in Google, more people are abandoning Google. More on that in a future post.

For now: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d l… – Edward Morbius – Google+

“Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d like to receive similar notifications in the future, you can update the notification settings for your individual Google products.

As usual, it’s not clear whether or not this will affect the notifications widget on G+ itself. Google’s standards for clarity in exposition remain uncorrupted. Which is to say: entirely inadequate.

Otherwise, the article addresses Google Photos, Hangouts Chat, and Google+ (G Suite users).

Update: Further close reading suggests that Consumer Google+ will lose Notifications on March 7:

Note: Google+ notifications are available for G Suite users only.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9231049

Via: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, … – Lars Fosdal – Google+

–jeroen

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Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01

Reminder to self: Local Guides Nederland moved their [WayBack] G+ community over to [WayBackLocal Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect which is part of [WayBack] Local Guides Connect and powered by [WayBack] Powered by Lithium | Lithium.

Since that is not part of any other social media platform I subscribe to, I will likely only see new stuff when I actively go to that place: hopefully that is more than once a year.

–jeroen

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Kristian Köhntopp – Pluspora

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01

Reminder to self:

I was https://plus.google.com/+KristianKöhntopp/ and it was fun while it lasted.This is an active profile, and not a reshare target.

[WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp

And:

I still need to find a good Android app that handles sharing (I think that is called intent handling in Android land), OS based notifications and easier small screen navigation than the mobile web-site.

–jeroen

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Google Sheet with forwarding addresses. Please feel free to add yours….

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/21

[WayBack] I have created a Google Sheet with forwarding addresses. Please feel free to add yours- only the info you are comfortable with. Please DO NOT add full e… – Di Cleverly – Google+

[Archive.is] Forwarding Addresses – Google Sheets

–jeroen

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