Dear Google, I find it quite abusive how you tend to use your own product (gmail, of all) to communicate to your users telling them you are *not able* to communicate per e-mail, by using a "no-reply@google.com" from-field. Furthermore, it is highly illogical for you to switch areas to be blurred in streetview, and then claim there is no switching it off at all. How is it even possible then, for Google to know which areas need to be blurred and which do not have to be blurred ? What kind of strange code do you use, where you seem unable to use proper switches (i.e. either ON or OFF, like with every normal switch)? Here's an idea: Out of your gigantic for-profit earnings, put 100k a year aside for 2 people that use support email as it was intended (to give support using a from field with an actual address people can communicate with, not some black-hole nothing 'we are too big to care' corporate crap /dev/zero disfunctional cop-out). Then, put another 100k aside for some coder that can actually write a proper switch in your streetview databases, so that owners of homes/buildings (which you decided to blur in…

what3words? Tried using it, for about a month, only to find nobody was prepared to also install the app, or remember 3 words chosen by an unknown third party, or clicking "Navigate to" in that app and then opening Google Maps, while having been obliged to create an account with them, which by that point on android phones is already being milked as advertiser food because they're opened using just 1 Google account that happens to be on the same device. It's just another deep hole towards collecting big data from innocent android users. If anything, it seems to be trying to patent location info, which is ridiculous. And the "///" seem to be a way to induce thoughts of a protocol being used, but it isn't really a protocol, just window-dressing by an (undoubtedly) overpaid design-squad. What I would prefer is a translation of LAT + LONG into just one numbers string. That way you could just start at 1, which could for example be the UTC or GMT 0 or something random that is used a lot, and end with whatever many locations have been tagged using a number. That way it would be fair, just as fair…

Da's wel erg makkelijk hè? Asociaal herrie maken, en dan zeggen dat de ander dat moet tolereren omdat ze leven in een grote stad. Zo groot is die stad trouwens niet. Bangkok, *dat* is een grote stad. Daar is het, naar verhouding tot het verkeer en aantal mensen, muisstil, viel me op. Je mag best geluid maken, maar wij leerden als kinderen om *niet te hard* te praten op straat, en zeker niet 's avonds, wij leerden rekening te houden met wat anderen misschien als afleidend of storend zouden kunnen ervaren. Ook dieren trouwens, in een bos bijv. Als je in de natuur met heel veel hard getetter kinderen hoort kwebbelen, en de ouders/groepsleiders zeggen daar niets van, dan weet ik al meteen hoe laat het is. Een aantal kids in de buurt denken hier schijnbaar ook dat ze de enigen op de wereld zijn. Met hun bluetooth-speakers pontificaal gaan hangen voor je deur, of keihard krijsen, schreeuwen, stampen of tegen dingen aantrappen alsof ze psychiatrisch patienten zijn, zonder er een moment erg in te hebben dat er misschien mensen zijn die bijv. thuis werken en zich willen kunnen concentreren. Of die nachtdiensten draaien en willen kunnen slapen. Het gaat…

Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Clearly Gmail use their Spam 'detection' as a non-stop alpha version test-system, there's generally an alarming number of false positives in their Spam folder, or, wait, they don't call it a folder, they *label* it as being spam. I have been running my own mail-server(s) ever since the BBS/fidonet days in the 1990s, and I can assure you, the reader; I do know how email works, I know what each header in an email means, I know why and when it gets blocked, bounced, deferred, queued, tagged, blacklisted, you name it. Been there, done it all. And that's why I'm so fed up with google's attempts to monopolize the email-sphere by forcing all other mail service providers to jump through unpredictable hoops in order to avoid their false positive spam-tagging. Just because they're a big name doesn't mean they know how email works, in fact, most of their delivery-servers are blacklisted somewhere for a reason. Compare that with my score why don't you. Apparently Google wants the entire world to use Gmail, and Gmail alone. When you finally got used to their strange label- and filter-conventions, after years of sending each other huge attachments, Google forces…