A clever hack that is now being investigated by Google’s internal forums. How it works: Google Docs take up 0 bytes of quota in your Google Drive Split up binary files into Google Docs, with base64 encoded text Encoded file is always larger than the original. Base64 encodes binary data to a ratio of about 4:3. A single doc can store ~1 million characters. This is around 710KB of base64 encoded data.
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Google Analytics runs on over 56% of all websites. It’s the backbone of ad-tech across the web. Unfortunately, for site owners like me who just want to learn how people are using their website—while respecting their privacy—there simply aren’t any alternatives that meet all my requirements. So in two days, after a couple dead-ends, I built my own using React, AWS Lambda, and a spreadsheet. This is how. It’s somewhat ironic that the datastore for this project is Google Sheets. That aside, this is a well-done effort and one that I wouldn’t mind adapting for use around these parts.
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A little ingenuity paired with changes to ReCaptcha’s audio challenge allowed this hacker to create a Python ‘robot’ that defeats the ‘not a robot’ test with 90% accuracy. The approach is brilliant: Navigate to Google’s ReCaptcha Demo site Navigate to audio challenge for ReCaptcha Download audio challenge Submit audio challenge to Speech To Text Parse response and type answer Press submit and check if successful The code is small enough to grok in 5-10 minutes. Love it!
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Peter Bright writes for Ars Technica: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. […] With Microsoft’s decision to end development of its own Web rendering engine and switch to Chromium, control over the Web has functionally been ceded to Google. That’s a worrying turn of events, given the company’s past behavior. This post was mentioned in Slack by James Lovato about a former Microsoft Edge intern claiming Google callously broke rival web browsers. Then, Nick Nisi chimed in to mention this post by Jeremy Noring as “an interesting rebuttal/defense of what they’re doing.”
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