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Google Ruins the Assistant's Shopping List, Turns It Into a Big Google Express Ad (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the point-A-to-point-B dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Google Assistant, Google's voice assistant that powers the Google app on Android phones, tablets, and Google Home, has just gotten a major downgrade. In a move reminiscent of all the forced and user-hostile Google+ integrations, Google has gutted the Google Assistant's shopping list functionality in order to turn it into a big advertisement for Google's shopping site, Google Express. The shopping list has been a major feature of the Google Assistant. You can say "Add milk to my shopping list," and the Google Assistant would dutifully store this information somewhere. The shopping list used to live in Google Keep. Keep is Google's primary note-taking app, making it a natural home for the shopping list with lots of useful tools and management options. Now the shopping list lives in Google Express. Express is an online shopping site, and it has no business becoming a dedicated place to store a shopping list that probably has nothing to do with Google's online marketplace. Since Google Express is an online shopping site (and, again, has no business having a note-taking app grafted onto it), the move from Keep to Google Express means the Assistant's shopping list functionality loses the following features: Being able to reorder items with drag and drop; Reminders; Adding images to the shopping list; Adding voice recordings to the shopping list; Real time collaboration with other users (Express has sharing, but you can't see other people as they type -- you have to refresh.); Android Wear integration; Desktop keyboard shortcuts; Checkbox management: deleting all checked items, unchecking all items, hiding checkboxes. Alternatively, the move from Keep to Google Express means the Assistant shopping list gains the following features: Google Express advertising next to every list item; Google Express advertising at the bottom of the page.

99 comments

  1. Advert company makes product that delivers adverts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    News at 11

  2. Guess I'll have to get the echo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Really liked the Google home device, pity

  3. Terrible by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is terrible news for the two people that use this service.

    1. Re:Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps it's time for a hobby? Basket weaving, or macrame? Building birdhouses is quite popular with the mentally unstable.

      You have Cheeto dust in your neckbeard, by the way. Oh and your parents hate you.

      Hugs and kisses,

      Juan Epstein

    2. Re:Terrible by DickBreath · · Score: 1

      Wait. So it's up to 2 people now who use Google Assistant?

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      I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
    3. Re:Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Could someone explain how this is insightful? How about Score:4, Fucking Obvious

      In case anyone cares, 110010001000 is having sexual relations with his hamster, and the hamster has not once consented.

    4. Re:Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The rest of us?

      I've met both of you and I'd rather be in space.

    5. Re:Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My helmet met your mom's clam. Down at the docks, I was wearing a pink skirt and smile. Your mom had beef curtains down to the floorboards. But hey, not telling you something you didn't already know.

    6. Re:Terrible by TWX · · Score: 1

      Since "Fucking Obvious" mod action died with Kuro5hin, we've had to improvise.

      Kind of like how at work it's generally unacceptable to say, "Go fuck yourself!" so we instead say, "Ok, Great." or, "Bless his/her little heart."

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    7. Re:Terrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes. 110010001000 excels at making people like you "lose their shit". Great show. So, when 110010001000 posts, he gets our votes. Hamsters be damned.

    8. Re:Terrible by freeze128 · · Score: 1

      A friend of mine has Google Home, uses the shopping list (as it was BEFORE the downgrade) and he is visually impaired. He often complains that technology companies CHANGE THINGS AROUND. This is not a nice thing to do to the visually impaired. People RELY on consistency with the programs (and operating systems) that they use on a daily basis.

    9. Re:Terrible by stephanruby · · Score: 1

      Well, the shopping list was an advantage over Amazon's Alexa.

      Now, that the advantage is gone. You might as well just unplug your Google Home and use it as a door stop.

    10. Re:Terrible by 110010001000 · · Score: 0

      Just think: you will never go to space. You will live and die here on Earth, just like the rest of us. You might as well enjoy it.

    11. Re:Terrible by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      That shows what YOU know. Hamsters can't give consent. They can't even speak American.

    12. Re:Terrible by religionofpeas · · Score: 1

      The only reason that I've heard of these Google apps is because my phone keeps installing updates for them.

    13. Re:Terrible by vanyel · · Score: 1

      As one of those two people, it's pretty annoying, as it's the most useful feature of these devices. I switched to google's device for the shopping list specifically because it used Keep, which is much faster to startup than the Amazon Alexa app, which is where they put their shopping list. Now google is basically doing the same thing, eliminating the one advantage it had.

  4. PLEASE Understand by sit1963nz · · Score: 4, Informative

    YOU are the product being sold. YOU are NOT a customer, you are a data source that Google on sells. EVERYTHING Google does is on the basis that they need more advert impressions and click throughs. The only thing that surprises me is that this was not done sooner.

    1. Re:PLEASE Understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks Captain Obvious!

    2. Re:PLEASE Understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      YOU are NOT a customer

      Bullshit, or they wouldn't be advertising to you, trying to get you to buy shit from their other customers.

    3. Re:PLEASE Understand by epine · · Score: 1

      The only thing that surprises me is that this was not done sooner.

      Oh Lord it's hard to surprise a cynic,
      when you're a cynic in every way ...

      All together now. With feeling.

    4. Re:PLEASE Understand by religionofpeas · · Score: 1

      YOU are the product being sold. YOU are NOT a customer, you are a data source that Google on sells. EVERYTHING Google does is on the basis that they need more advert impressions and click throughs

      They need to do a better job. All I see is ads for products I've already bought, over and over again. They need to show me ads for products I don't have yet, but that I would be interested in.

    5. Re:PLEASE Understand by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Everytime I see this meme it becomes apparent that the poster saying "please understand" themselves don't understand business.

  5. It's Been Getting Worse by Thelasko · · Score: 2

    Google Now/ Google Assistant or whatever they are calling it has been getting worse for a while now. It used to tell me about my commute. Not anymore. It used to tell me the weather on the home screen. Now I have to search for "weather". I should seriously just delete the thing.

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    1. Re:It's Been Getting Worse by mrchaotica · · Score: 1

      The items in "Stories to Read" used to load in whatever web browser you had selected as the default. Now they load in some ad-hoc browser window that's "powered by Chrome." Not only does opening in a real browser require two extra taps (one for the menu, and one for the "open in [browser name]" menu item), it means that -- unlike my default Firefox browser -- it doesn't block ads.

      It's infuriating enough to almost singlehandedly drive me to an AOSP build or Lineage OS.

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    2. Re:It's Been Getting Worse by Thelasko · · Score: 1

      I've been waiting for Lineage to announce a stable release. However, I'm getting impatient.

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    3. Re:It's Been Getting Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've been waiting for Lineage to announce a stable release. However, I'm getting impatient.

      Are you serious? You know this is a continuation of cyanogenmod, right?
      Just install the damn nightly (which is weekly, but whatever).

    4. Re:It's Been Getting Worse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Select Menu -> Settings -> Accounts & Privacy -> Open web pages in app ... and change to "off". That will load the pages in your default browsers, which is hopefully the Adblock Browser. I found the advertising intolerable, which is why I eventually tracked down this option.

    5. Re:It's Been Getting Worse by mrchaotica · · Score: 1

      Awesome, thanks!

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      "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  6. Google is not your fucking friend by Orgasmatron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop getting upset when they remind you.

    --
    See that "Preview" button?
    1. Re:Google is not your fucking friend by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      If it was genuinely useful Google would have abandoned it by now

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  7. What made you think it would last by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about Google's changes over the last five-ten years gave you any reason to think anything you liked from Google would stay as you liked it?

    I think it is absolute madness to rely, or even get used to the continence of, any Google services.

    I myself am guilty of breaking this rule in one huge way - I still use Waze. I know my own day of sorrow is coming. I just don't see how I can act surprised or upset when it arrives.

    --
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    1. Re:What made you think it would last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I myself am guilty of breaking this rule in one huge way - I still use Waze. I know my own day of sorrow is coming. I just don't see how I can act surprised or upset when it arrives.

      Me, too. I'm waiting for them to completely ruin it. Right now, it still mostly functions in a useful manner.

    2. Re:What made you think it would last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Mostly... the self-ads for google's ride-share service are getting more and more persistent.

    3. Re:What made you think it would last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Huh. I know ads pop up on Waze, but since I'm driving I don't see them - and, when I'm stopped, I'm generally looking outside the car at the traffic light, other cars, cute pedestrians, etc.

    4. Re:What made you think it would last by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

      the self-ads for google's ride-share service are getting more and more persistent.

      I have not seen those. Yet another addition to the ever-expanding list of benefits to those living outside California.

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    5. Re:What made you think it would last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Today is nearly ten years since google changed

      Link 1 - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/technology/14DoubleClick.html

      APRIL 14, 2007 Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for YouTube late last year.

      Link 2 - http://www.businessinsider.com/neal-mohan-googles-100-million-man-2013-4

      The result: an epic, 400- to 500-page PowerPoint document.

    6. Re: What made you think it would last by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +1,These days one should expect google incontinence, often on the nice Persian rug.

  8. They never learn by qvatch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, were you relying on a google product again?

    1. Re:They never learn by ohnocitizen · · Score: 1

      This is news, and the "this is not news this is expected" crowd is brain dead. Yes it's news when a software company replaces a useful product (that they may have built marketing on) with a less useful product as a tie in for another service. It's worth criticizing google for this as much as it is pointing it out.

  9. Google has too many redundant projects by MobyDisk · · Score: 2

    Google and Microsoft both have the problem that they have multiple nearly identical services within one company. They periodically retire one service and add another, inevitably losing or breaking some feature. Just recently, my phone lost what I think was "Google Assistant" and now it uses "Google Home" - which is the same thing with fewer features. For example, it used to work from any screen so I could tell it "OK Google, dial {phone number I see on the screen}" or "OK Google, search for {thing I see on screen}" It also can't identify songs. It even has a special message where it tells me that feature isn't supported yet. That was a strange response since that was the first indication I had that the program I was using had been replaced.

    1. Re:Google has too many redundant projects by DickBreath · · Score: 2

      Google should follow Trump's lead. For every service Google repeals, it should add two new services that replace it. With overlapping functionality, but with neither one having quite everything that you want.

      --

      I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
    2. Re:Google has too many redundant projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Google should follow Trump's lead. For every service Google repeals, it should add two new services that replace it.

      And make Apple pay for it!

    3. Re:Google has too many redundant projects by Philotomy · · Score: 1

      Perhaps because Google isn't really interested in provided you with the best service possible: you aren't their customer. They're interested in offering you free services of all sorts in order to collect data about you. That's their real product that their interested in selling.

    4. Re:Google has too many redundant projects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Step 1) Type something snarky, irrelevant, and borderline-indecipherable.
      Step 2) Position cursor randomly within text and insert "Trump" for no reason
      Step 3) Gain karma points and attention and briefly relieve your seething, irrational, pathological hatred for Trump and all the satanic, evil nazis who voted for him

      Sad!

    5. Re:Google has too many redundant projects by jeremyp · · Score: 1

      There's nothing irrational about hatred for Trump.

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  10. Suggestion: Alternative technology by Alain+Williams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Piece of paper held onto the fridge with a magnet.

    Works for me.

    1. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by Yath · · Score: 1

      Just don't advocate that solution on Ars Technica - they'll tar and feather you.

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      I always mod up spelling trolls.
    2. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by hawguy · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Piece of paper held onto the fridge with a magnet.

      Works for me.

      I used to use that piece of paper once.... problem is that it never left the 'fridge, so when I went to the store, I'd have to try to guess what I wrote on the list.

      Now I use Google Keep and share the shopping list with my spouse, so either one of us can edit the list, and when either of us goes to the store we have access to it.

    3. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      BURN THE HERETIC!
      Post-its on the microwave are the one and only alternative!

    4. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'd rather use a web app so that I can stop to the store even if I don't have the paper list... and any authorized users can add items from anywhere at anytime... but and electronic pad on the fridge would be a nice addition.

    5. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That's great!

      Unfortunately I can't add items to that while I'm at work.

      Also can't read it from the shop if it's stuck to the fridge.

      Also my other half can't add items to it, or see it at the same time and buy stuff off it and mark them as bought.

      Also.... etc.

      (And basically you just mean "Carry a notebook and pen everywhere", which seems a little silly in the age of the smartphone).

    6. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by Striek · · Score: 1

      Mt stainless steel fridge is not magnetic, you insensitive clod!

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    7. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by apoc.famine · · Score: 1

      We used Wunderlist for a while in the same way. The problem is that the dry-erase board on the fridge is always the closest thing when we discover we're out of something, so it gets jotted down there. Phones are often in another room. Then we were trying to remember to update Wunderlist from the board on the fridge, but that was 2x the data entry. So now we just snap a picture of the dry-erase board when we're headed out. And text the picture to each other if needed. It...actually is easier than any of the other options.

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    8. Re:Suggestion: Alternative technology by BrianB · · Score: 1

      That is the biggest reason I like Google Home. Standing in the kitchen "Hey google, add milk to the shopping list", don't even have to pick up a pen. Super convenient and easy. This is the reason I've never before used an app for a grocery list.

  11. Also missing by darkain · · Score: 1

    "Okay Google... What song is this?" - used to be a voice command to have Google turn on the phone's mic, record a snippet of audio, then report back what song it is. This was prior to Google Assistant, back in them good ol Google Now days. I never asked for GA, it was forced on my phone. This was a feature I used quite frequently to discover new music playing in various places while I traveled. Luckily, manually pressed the mic icon on the home screen reverts back to GN instead of GA. Its just stupid though having to press a button to activate GN now though, because GA took over the voice activation feature on the phone.

    1. Re:Also missing by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1

      "Okay Google... What song is this?" - used to be a voice command to have Google turn on the phone's mic, record a snippet of audio, then report back what song it is. This was prior to Google Assistant, back in them good ol Google Now days. I never asked for GA, it was forced on my phone. This was a feature I used quite frequently to discover new music playing in various places while I traveled. Luckily, manually pressed the mic icon on the home screen reverts back to GN instead of GA. Its just stupid though having to press a button to activate GN now though, because GA took over the voice activation feature on the phone.

      Funny; it was never forced onto my iPhone.

  12. Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wait, Google has a shopping site?

    Who knew?

  13. Google is for search and gmail. by CptLoRes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything else that is Google I don't touch. Exactly because of stuff like this. So as long as they don't mess with gmail, frankly I don't care.

    1. Re:Google is for search and gmail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I demand value for money from all the free services I use.

    2. Re:Google is for search and gmail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's great because we don't care for your meaningless comments.

    3. Re:Google is for search and gmail. by Alsee · · Score: 1

      >as long as they don't mess with gmail, frankly I don't care.

      5... 4... 3... 2... 1... FUUUUUUUCK!

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  14. Re:I made that little bitch eat his words & ru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Looks like you have a hobby too. Congratulations.

  15. Re:I made that little bitch eat his words & ru by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

    You sure showed me! No one is using your malware laden software, you anti-Semite.

  16. Re:Ruin Google's ads the most efficient way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

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  17. My brain switched off half way through the summary by blackpaw · · Score: 2

    And for once, not a fault of the editors - that is a truly ridiculous collection of buzzwords and "services", but they seem necessary.

  18. Google is evil by LeftCoastThinker · · Score: 1

    Google long ago gave up on it's core premise to "do no evil" and yet people still haven't caught on and bailed out. It is blatantly obvious how evil Google is, just google it. Anyone who disagrees should email me at my gmail account. For more information on how evil Google and Alphabet (a shell company Google created to hide more misdeeds) visit my YouTube channel and check out my videos. Now give me a minute, I need to check another tab in my Chrome browser.
    .
    . /sarcasam off

    In all seriousness though, the saying coined by Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight Rises seems to be holding true for Google: "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." From handing over the email of private citizens to the US government https://yro.slashdot.org/story... to upranking liberal sites on political topic searches https://news.slashdot.org/stor... to skewing auto complete of searches about Hillary Clinton pre election http://www.breitbart.com/tech/... there have been some mis-steps at Google lately.

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  19. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Next service to be ruined: hangouts. I can't wait for them to kill gmail too..

  20. Re: I'll blow you away again: /.ers do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So I'm supposed to be impressed that you posted comments by a bunch of people I don't know about a product I will never use simple because you act so immature. The best part is you actually think people care about your comments and fear you based on said comments.

    News flash, a 2 year old scares me more and child #5 of mine who is 7 sounds more mature than you. Your parents obviously failed at their job of bringing you up correctly. The good news is that I'll be able to use you as a perfect example to my children of how not to be when they grow up. I owe you thanks for that. Oh I guess you can tell your parents that you are finally good for something after all.

  21. Re:I'll blow you away again: /.ers do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > It's no malware either...

    It hasn't been updated in at least twenty-two months? And -contrary to what one of your testimonials says- it doesn't run on mobile devices? (And all a virus scanner tells you is that it doesn't look like any well known malware. I've written code that will do stuff like format your system drive or capture all your network packets and exfiltrate them to another host that doesn't get detected by virus scanners. You've gotta be root-equivalent to edit the hosts file. You can do all sorts of nasty with those privs... and your software isn't even signed!)

    You're better off installing an open-source DNS server to get whole-LAN protection.

  22. Re: I'll blow you away again: /.ers do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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  23. Re:I made that little bitch eat his words & ru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If jews are good people then why were they kicked nation to nation in history in Spain (1492), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them: Explain that

  24. Joining up all the walled gardens by hughbar · · Score: 1

    Some people already talk informally about Googlezon, this is just more of the same. I understand that not many people actually use this, but the gesture is very worrying. Please go to your local baker (no, not the one inside the supermarket, inside the mall) before the only bread available is via an Amazon drone.

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  25. Re: How did eating your words taste? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thank you for proving my point.

  26. He giveth, he taketh away...before I knew about it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I only found out that Keep had such amazing functionality reading this post, and now it's been taken away. I can't decide whether to feel disappointed about something I never had. I suppose I am disappointed that Google are slowly treading the path towards corporate monsters, bent on pleasing shareholders at the expense of their users. I suppose that's the trouble with building up all these supposedly free services, they actually cost a considerable amount to develop and host so at some point the shareholders will want their ROI.

  27. Re:Advert company makes product that delivers adve by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

    What amazes me is people who are surprised when they ask Amazon's Alexa to "order more toilet roll" and then get some over-priced 2-ply rubbish. Alexia isn't there to help you buy toilet roll, it's there to force toilet roll vendors to pay Amazon whatever they demand to be the default option.

    It's bad for everyone. In the past if you searched for "toilet roll" you would get a list, and all the slots on the first page of results were valuable. Now it's literally just one, the top spot, the default option when you ask your digital "assistant" to buy something.

    It could of course backfire spectacularly. Maybe people get together to force the 1-ply sandpaper to the top of the list and thousands of angry and sore Alexa owners start complaining.

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  28. Turn off the Assistant by grumpy-cowboy · · Score: 1

    The first thing I do when I got a new phone is to turned off the "assistant" (Google Assistant, Cortana, Siri, Alexa ...). It's useless and it take bandwidth/battery/...

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  29. Reads like a millenial rant by neo-mkrey · · Score: 1

    The whole summary reads like a millenial's "I'm entitled to free stuff the way I want it" rant. Get a clue, Google doesn't care what you want -- you are the product, not the customer.

    1. Re:Reads like a millenial rant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're entire comment sounds like a rant about a non-related group of people. Great full circle.

  30. Anyone bothered to test this theory. by rashanon · · Score: 1

    So if you create a shopping list using google voice commands on my phone, it no longer goes to keep, it goes to google express. Any pontificating genius bother to test this story out. It comes from Ars Technica. all the comment section are like this one, idiot one liners.

    Ive seen this used by older folks who cant remember something later, and just say into there phones what they want to note down. THey have a shortcut on thier computer bring up the notes.

    So i tried it just now. I created a shopping list using voice. It went to google keep.

    So sorry Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica. Your op-ed article is not correct. Go back and check again.

  31. You prove mine hiding my post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject not proud parent https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54219985/ not wanting your kids seeing you EAT YOUR WORDS, lol...

    * Afraid to show your kids the truth? It's not good to LIE to them, NOT "proud parent" ashamed of yourself as you clearly are hiding my post w/ a downmod (using your registered lusername yet ac trolling me - how many times have I burned you before on tech issues that you're reduced to that? HOW PROUD would your kids be to know their parent is a SKULKING WORM?)

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    1. Re: You prove mine hiding my post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why aren't you supervised at all times?

  32. I made that little bitch eat his words & run by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    110010001000 eats his words & ran https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9954349&cid=53422667/

    * EASILY!

    (I also made him "lose his shit" having to try hide THIS very same post showing him EATING HIS WORDS, lol https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54218419/ + https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54219271/ & https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54219985/ + https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54220001/ - so much for that pussy!)

    APK

    P.S.=> He's a do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" troll & he KNOWS it so he tries to spread his misery over his waste life onto others (that's all - you've got to understand + pity losers like him)... apk

  33. I'll blow you away again: /.ers do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Your software is well written, functional. The Host File Engine performs exactly as promised by mmell

    his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant

    his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg

    I've never tried to belittle (APK's) work, I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon

    take a look at the APK hosts file engine by SuperKendall

    APK is kinda right. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works by bmo

    I like your host file system by Karmashock

    I find your hosts file admirable by vel-ex-tech

    * My code's liked + recommended & hosted by Malwarebytes' hpHosts!

    APK

    P.S.=> It's no malware either https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

  34. How did eating your words taste? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How did eating your words taste here https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54219271/ like your foot in your mouth ramming them down your throat washed down w/ the bitter taste of SELF-defeat?

    * Show your kids that "proud parent" and let's see how proud they are of you after that hahahaha!

    UPDATE (lol): YOU PROJECT YOU DO CARE UNIDENTIFIABLE WEASEL BY TRYING TO "DOWNMOD HIDE" THIS VERY SAME POST lol https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54219985/

    Hahahahaha - you are FUCKING so stupid & easy to get to "play yourself" it's not funny - show you kids THIS!

    APK

    P.S.=> Learn a lesson - I will EASILY outsmart & outthink you making you eat your words with concrete, verifiable & undeniable TRUTH, everytime, easily (you're too stupid like ALL "your kind" UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous troll)... apk

  35. Doesn't need an update: It's perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & no bugs found in it in 5++ yrs. of public release. Malwarebytes verified the code too (you lose) & hosts can be imported to ANDROID via ADB (or even iPhones, apple devs do it via SSH & GodMode they have - I know - a relative of mine runs their nightly builds of ALL their OS').

    The way YOU talk (& it's ALL mere 'talk', whereas I can show good work I've done folks here like + use AND many 1,000's worldwide do too)? You sound like a MALWARE MAKER!

    DNS = loaded w/ security issues hosts avoid (avoiding DNS) https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9007355&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=51969075/ & inefficiency issues bolting on more you don't really need!

    APK

    P.S.=> PROVE you've written a DAMN THING I can see & use you UNIDENTIFIABLE blowhard (you'll "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" I bet) that users here & worldwide like + use bullshitter - as I've never SEEN a ware by "UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous coward" like you, talker... apk

  36. Re:It doesn't need an update: It's perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No Linux version...
    Lame!

  37. Yea, ok: Why don't YOU make one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See my subject: You do that - me? I'm not in the habit of helping INFERIOR competition, "a'ight"?

    APK

    P.S.=> You pack of f'ing talkers (not doers)... apk

  38. Why are you always eating your words? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject & see here https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54224261/ & here https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10476671&cid=54224177/

    ?

    * You'll die of starvation (which is good) due to EATING YOUR WORDS vs. myself constantly 110010001000 - eating your words != GOOD nutrition you know, lol...

    APK

    P.S.=> You're pitiful like all "your kind" is (& you know what I mean by that, lol) - detested worldwide all thru history... apk

  39. Ok Google, send feedback.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    File a bug and tell them you don't like it... maybe they will listen if enough people do.

  40. Ruin Google's ads the most efficient way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-7 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22APK+Hosts+File+Engine%22+and+%22start64%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

    Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

    Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

    Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

    Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

    * Via what u NATIVELY have in the IP stack in FASTER kernelmode!

    APK

    P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/