Can we we stop using google and youtube as boycott pls?

[IbnAbdulHakim]

assalamu alaikum

I have officially joined the boycott. Lets see how long it lasts.

 

[White Rose]

I have stopped using google. I dont have gmail so I am good there. And I also stopped using youtube though I may need it for educational purposes but I will try to find other ways.

 

[جوري]

Just saw on the news this morning that google fell to number two, but it didn't say how much losses it incurred.. Does anyone have that bit of news in English? I saw it in Arabic..

 

[Hulk]

Guys if you wanna make it more effective why not make a short write-up and guide to hand out/forward. A tiny pitch if u may

 

[جوري]

It is already on all the major news channels al7mdullilah....

 

[hur575]

The best answer is to get our own Islamic medium, we can do without google but youtube is great dawa tool. It is really sad that we still have to rely on them, a brother's youtube account was closed twice, and they were dedat's good clips translated into Arabic, few dislikes and it got deleted, The stupid film they made was reported by Muslims, and had many dislikes but youtube refused to remove it.

 

[جوري]

(yes, there was a real billboard)




[h=4]When you search Google,[/h] Fig. 1

[h=4]and click on a link,[/h] Fig. 2

[h=4]your search term is usually sent to that site,[/h] Fig. 3

[h=4]along with your browser & computer info,[/h] Fig. 4

[h=4]which can often uniquely identify you.[/h] Fig. 5

[h=4]That's creepy, but who cares about some random site?[/h] [h=4]Those sites usually have third-party ads,[/h] Fig. 6

[h=4]and those third-parties build profiles about you,[/h] Fig. 7

[h=4]and that's why those ads follow you everywhere.[/h] Fig. 8

[h=4]That's creepy too, but who cares about some herpes ads?[/h] [h=4]Your profile can also be sold,[/h] Fig. 9

[h=4]and potentially show up in unwanted places,[/h] [h=4]like higher prices and getting insurance.[/h] Fig. 10

[h=4]But there's more.[/h] Fig. 11

[h=4]Remember your searches?[/h] Fig. 12

[h=4]Google also saves them.[/h] Fig. 13

[h=4]Your saved searches can be legally requested,[/h] [h=4]and then come back to bite you (happens).[/h] Fig. 14

[h=4]Or a bad Google employee could go snooping (happens).[/h] Fig. 15

[h=4]Or Google could get hacked (happens).[/h] Fig. 16

[h=4]That's why we don't send your searches to other sites.[/h] Fig. 17

[h=4]Or store any personal information at all.[/h] [h=4]That's our privacy policy in a nutshell.[/h] Fig. 18

[h=4]So don't get tracked when searching.[/h] [h=4]Use DuckDuckGo instead. Add to Browser[/h] [h=4]Privacy is just one of many reasons why it's awesome.[/h] Fig. 19

[h=4]For maximum protection, use these apps too:[/h]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Abine Privacy suite. Firefox | Chrome [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Adblock Plus Blocks ads. Firefox | Chrome [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] AdBlock Blocks ads. Safari | Chrome | Opera [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] AdSweep Blocks ads. Opera | Chrome [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Beef Taco No ad network tracking. Firefox [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Disconnect No tracking from major sites. Chrome | Safari [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] HTTPS Everywhere No tracking between you and sites. Firefox | Chrome [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Tor No tracking by being anonymous. Bundle (includes Firefox) [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] Ghostery No third-party tracking. IE | Safari | Chrome | Firefox | Opera [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] RequestPolicy Manage third-party tracking. Firefox [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] RefControl Manage what gets sent to sites. Firefox [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] BetterPrivacy No tracking from Flash. Firefox | Others [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] NoScript Blocks JavaScript. Firefox [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] JavaScript Blocker Blocks JavaScript. Safari [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] ScriptNo Blocks JavaScript. Chrome [/TD]

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[TD="class: ctd"] NotScripts Blocks JavaScript. Opera [/TD]

[h=4]Tell your friends[/h]

 

[Snowflake]

^Jazaki Allah khayr ukhti. I love to see what kind of profile google has build up of me I research anything and everything just to up my knowledge on things. It's not very clever of google to be relating our searches to us personally. Sometimes are searches are for friends who need advice, or another person could be using our computer.

Also I recently started using yahoo and internet explorer, but it's a pain. I'm experiencing a lot of problems - videos freeze and even editing my posts is a nightmare as internet explorer keeps freezing when I click save. I've just had to switch to mozilla for the sake of editing a post. I'm going to try duckduckgo now.

The best answer is to get our own Islamic medium

This is really the best solution of all. I wonder why it hasn't been done so far. After I boycotted google and youtube, I went to Islamictube only to find they are affiliated with google too. I wish someone would achieve this for the ummah insha Allah.

 

[جوري]

Google has released its second six-month Transparency Report. This report, consisting of graphs and charts, shows how many times a government requested user data from the company and how many times it has requested removals. It also shows interruptions in traffic flows for different Google properties, by country. During the last six months of 2009, the U.S. made 3,580 requests. The first six months of this year, they've made 4,287.

At 128, the U.S. still trails in take-down requests vs. last year's leader Brazil, with 398. Brazil objected to its inclusion in last year's report. Some have insisted their requests are almost all related to child pornography investigations and others that the popularity of the Google-owned Orkut social network helps explain the high numbers.
A click on the pinned locations on the map will provide the percentage of requests complied with, or at least partially complied with.
Overall, the numbers, both of information requests and of information take-down requests, are higher. Online censorship has been growing, not declining, in the last year.

Another element of the report are the traffic reports. Through these, a user can isolate moments of downtime in various Google products at various times. A sudden precipitous fall in YouTube traffic, for instance, is a pretty good indication that the government involved has blocked it, as Iran did during last year's elections.
The traffic charts, powered by pull-down menus of properties and countries, also come annotated with a full or partial block notice, when those actions have been verified.
Frankly, this tool is of greater use to scholars, technologists and activists than the laity. It isn't easily read nor easily cross-referenced. All Chinese, and some Iranian, data are not provided, so it isn't complete either.

"There are limits to what this data can tell us . . . Because of the complexity of these requests, the numbers we are sharing do not reflect the total number of accounts subject to data disclosure requests by governmental agencies . . . We hope to provide more detail about our compliance with user data requests in a useful way in the future."​

So do we. But given how little information most companies are willing to give out, it is still a great resource. As more data is compiled in the coming six-month periods, who knows what kinds of observations might be made about the global accessibility of information?
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