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I know it's Google but the fact they are using a Google form to sign up for a Pixel Phone giveaway from the official Google Store website makes it feel pretty sketchy. 🤣

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2024/12/04
05:56 UTC

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Google Business disabled and I can't contact support

I attempt to use their appeal button process but the tool states "no disputes to remedy" along with not notifying me of what policy I "violated." Also when I attempt to contact google support it works on my personal account but not my business account that currently has the Google Business disabled issue.

Does anyone know where to contact live support directly? i keep getting redirected to documentation, useless chatbots, or dispute tools that don't work.

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2024/12/04
04:51 UTC

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google icon color contrast visual glitch

so i’m trying to do nfl mock drafts for youtube but each team logo has a weird color contrast visual and im not sure how to fix it

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2024/12/04
03:49 UTC

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Download bottom tab

whenever i donwload some files it will appear it top right and not shwoing what i download and i have to go click it, i still prefer the old ways where i can see the download files showing at the bottom tab, why google want to hide what we download, we might download some virus file, anyone know how to bring back? i try various method in youtube but none of them seem working to me

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2024/12/04
03:18 UTC

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Every time I go to search something…

Every single time I go to search something, the Google search bar shows, but once I hit enter, yahoo comes up. How do change it from yahoo to Google? I’ve looked everywhere and can’t figure it out.

4 Comments
2024/12/04
02:42 UTC

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Is there any way to use 2 physical sim cards in Pixel 8, 8 Pro, 9, 9 pro?

Is there any way to use 2 physical sim cards in Pixel 8, 8 Pro, 9, 9 pro?

Pixel mobile comes with Dual SIM card, 1 physical sim card and 1 esim. Rather than having a esim is it possible to use 2 physical sim cards in pixel mobiles using any extenders or any other mediums? Can anyone help me on this please?

2 Comments
2024/12/03
19:35 UTC

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I was just trying to decode the the morse code in the slideshow and got this The AI overview is not that helpful at all

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2024/12/03
19:34 UTC

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I have a lot of music to catch up on

5 Comments
2024/12/03
16:33 UTC

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Really, desperately need, Ad category blocking.

I like Google phones, I do. I generally prefer the Google Now/News feed to any other feed service. However, when I'm scrolling and I'm presented with underwear with a giant bulge, while quite flattering, I'm a bit horrified as my phone is essential to my work as a modern day teacher.

Why did Google feed me that ad? According to them it was due to my age.

Yet another underwear ad, this time featuring brightly colored rainbow gender ambiguous attire, stated I was seeing it because of my location (I guess I do live in a liberal area) and my browsing history (I do think trans and the queer community in general has a lot of current news about them I should probably not be ignorant of).

For the record, I prefer my underwear primarily to be ancient. The older the better, one owner, plaid, made by the Hanes corporation circa 2012 or earlier. My desire to see adverts for any other undergarments is less than non-existent and indeed is another mark in the column of, "guess I'm buying an iPhone and avoiding Chrome when possible."

"You can turn off ad personalization," let me be clear, I do like ad personalization. Yes, I might be the only human who does, but I like to see similar adverts to things I've searched before or modest deals on exactly what I've searched before. I have never searched for underwear before beyond the aforementioned Hanes in the time frame I shared. When I get an ad for that, even that, I would like to categorically say, "No, don't put this in my feed, you idiots."

The last part can simply be implied, much like I would have to deal with the implications of someone were to see those ads on my scroll.

Please and thank you (morons).

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2024/12/03
14:15 UTC

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Google Adsense keeps rejecting my website for no reason for low value content

we have spent the last year revamping the website more than 4 times , last 4 months spent revamping all articles and enriching them and adding media , first couple of times we got rejected in couple of days , now they have waited 2 weeks and rejected the website , we have tried everything litterally , and now we are clueless..

site: aflami.tv

3 Comments
2024/12/03
14:04 UTC

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Google Drive app on Mac duplicate files to system disc

I need to use Google Drive for work, to sync files on my disc for other user. So I have a folder on Google Drive and a folder on external disc. But, but... When I'm making files from Google Drive, "Make Available offline" on my external disk, files downloading to my external disc and my system disc also!

So, what is the point? Why these files are also stored somewhere on my system drive?! It's just eating my system drive space.

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2024/12/03
13:20 UTC

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Deleted some preinstalled apps, cant use any google apps services now

Hey, I got an Samsung s24 and decided to deinstall some apps I thought werent important. Now I cant use gmails and google search.

I already activated all apps I deavtivated but it still wont work.

Maybe someonw knows what to do.

5 Comments
2024/12/03
11:11 UTC

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I can't add recovery phone number in google.

As the title says, " it keep saying "sorry something wrong, please use other phone number or try again later"

1 Comment
2024/12/03
08:27 UTC

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Most Searched Keywords: Google vs Bing

30 Comments
2024/12/03
07:35 UTC

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Which app is safer and more secure, Apple Mail (IOS) or Gmail app? For iPhone.

6 Comments
2024/12/03
05:46 UTC

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Who needs to get 30% off select Pixel phones? The deal expires in 3 hours. Free

Promotional code:

2J4NKNEYH0A3G8NF7Z01932

7 Comments
2024/12/03
05:13 UTC

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Can I delete photos out of my google photos without deleting them in my apple photos

When I tried to get this answer online, it was incredibly vague. My drive storage is very full, and it's mainly because of my google photos, but its photos that seem to be from my phone camera roll. I bet in the past I probably synced my camera roll to google photos by accident. And the most updated it is from August 2022. I want to delete the photos but I'm worried that I'll delete them on my camera roll. To my knowledge, I've stopped any syncing but I'm not sure.

If anybody could give me a straight forward answer on my query that would so awesome. I just want my storage back bruh

1 Comment
2024/12/03
05:07 UTC

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People Signing My Account Up For Bad Things

People in my school found out what my personal email (Gmail) is (just the name) are signing me up for inappropriate things, is this bad and is there anything I can do?
The things are generally 18+ and I dislike the activation emails

16 Comments
2024/12/03
01:23 UTC

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Google interview

What topics google interviewers like to ask? Trees, dp, graphs, intervals, tries, segment trees, greedy... Any thing else? How do they like people answer? How to share my thoughts correctly Pls help me 🥺 I want to prepare for my interview the best I can, any tips are welcome 🙏🏻 For intern Software engineer Thank you guys 💪🏻

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2024/12/02
23:13 UTC

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Privacy warning: Google Drive scans text in photos on iPhone camera roll and uses it to create search suggestions

I was in the supermarket looking at the billboard with local ads, for sale etc. and saw something I was interested in (a boat for sale, I was fantasy shopping OK?), and snapped a quick photo of it.

Got home, was about to start Googling to see if there was an online ad for it, but I had only typed one word when a suggested search popped up with the complete name of the boat followed by the exact wording from the ad in the photo. I have zero related searches in my Google search history, and it's not like this is a common Google query. The only related result was one listing on a pretty obscure website. I tried the same thing in Incognito mode and the suggestion didn't appear.

The only Google app I have on my phone is Google Drive, and it did have Photos access, but this wasn't a photo I'd uploaded to Drive. I'd literally only taken it 10 minutes before. To test a theory, I:

  • Deleted Google Drive off my phone
  • Took a photo of an ad for another boat listed on the same website page as the first one
  • Waited 10 minutes, then started to type in the name of the boat into Google. Lo and behold, no suggested search.

So, be warned. If you've given Google Drive access to your camera roll, it looks like Google is routinely reading text in photos you've taken and using it to generate search suggestions, and probably targeted ads as well. God knows what else they're doing with that access. Creepy af.

12 Comments
2024/12/02
21:01 UTC

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When did Google images become only stuff for sale?!?

I don’t use Google image search very often, but today I searched for a “hanging lamp socket with a bulb’. Every image is a link to a store, Amazon, eBay, etc. Should I search some other way? How?

14 Comments
2024/12/02
20:20 UTC

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YouTube is making their comments censorship less obvious/noticeable

So YouTube's comments censorship has already been notorious (judging by the related posts on Reddit from the last few years), but I wanna talk about something deeper.

It seems that YouTube is now also trying to pretend like they didn't censor your comment when they actually did, I've noticed a few comment replies of mine shows up on my main account but when I switched to another account (on a different browser) to double-check it, I realized it's not there (I also tried to check again after 10+ hours, clearing cache, etc. to make sure this isn't due to some other cause)

So yeah... next time you thought your YouTube comment was actually sent out (just because you can see it with your account), think twice.

16 Comments
2024/12/02
18:37 UTC

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The biggest flaw with the Nest Video Doorbell & Home app

So i need a video doorbell at my house and was looking at the Nest battery version. But after reading the specs and technical details i noticed that there is no way to turn off notifications for specific familiar faces?? This has to be the biggest flaw with this unit and makes me wonder what the developers were thinking about when designing it?

Like, why on earth would i want to be notified every time i (myself) step outside of my house or come home to my house where the nest is located? I can only imagine how many unnecessary notifications i am going to get on my phone...SMH

If there was a way to disable notifications completely for the familiar faces i have saved in the home app, that would have been so useful. I just don´t understand what Google was thinking about here...

0 Comments
2024/12/02
18:37 UTC

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WHY CANT GEMINI DO THINGS WHEN I TYPE

Literally don't understand why it can't do things when I text it but when I say it out loud it can.

25 Comments
2024/12/02
13:08 UTC

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Google Doc deleted my entire save out of nowhere.

I was working on my project for 5 hours and it deleted all the progress I had. It said that something timed out and it deleted everything up to 5 hours ago. This is so strange. I've never ever had this issue before.

I opened up my version history. It's not there. I clicked. On my Google Drive bin. It's not there.

Does anyone know how to resolve this issue? Please I'm super devastated and I have to be up all night now to complete this when I need to get up early for a new job tomorrow 💔.

6 Comments
2024/12/02
12:50 UTC

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Google refuses to provide me with an estimate regarding my Reserve With Google application

I own a booking platform and my clients continuously ask for "Reserve With Google" integration. I filled in the form 3 weeks ago, and Google hasn't reviewed it yet.

After contacting support, I received conflicting answers, initially stating that my application was missing, then they found it but it was incomplete, then I was redirected to a different department and finally this:

We do not guarantee partners will receive a response.

The process seems to be opaque, and it doesn't feel anything like a Google service. How should approach this issue? Ideally, I would want them to tell me what the issues are so we can resolve them.

2 Comments
2024/12/02
10:44 UTC

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