Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name (https://danq.me/it-is-only-q). But sometimes I've done the same thing in other places…
Yeah, it was a bad metaphor. I was sleepy. Blurring makes sense as a way to say "this is private". It's almost lampshading, in this case, because it's the bit I want you to look at! But blurring doesn't make sense from…
Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such mention this time around. /shrug/
Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profile one. Which started (seemingly…
To indicate to the reader that the information represented by this area of the image should be considered private. It's like how they blur nipples on TV. We all know what nipples look like! But they're blurred to say…
For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could call. I provided one, and then…
Sure. But I still don't think it covers Business Profile. But I'll check.
My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are associated with the business or were…
Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put my personal phone number onto a public…
No, I gave my phone number to Google to gain access to Business Profile, as part of an identity verification process, and specifically didn't give them one to publish on the business listing. And they correctly didn't…
Post author here. Nope, I'm in the UK, and therefore covered by the DPA2018 (which is basically the copy-paste version of the GDPR that the UK government made post-Brexit).
Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech companies are less-inclined to make tools to…
Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.
Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. film & TV) use…
No JS on that page either!
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!
Thanks for the shout-out! Even though I know it cheats (and how) I still play against Cheatman sometimes; the challenge is to make guesses that force the computer to bisect its search space into two approximately-even…
Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name (https://danq.me/it-is-only-q). But sometimes I've done the same thing in other places…
Yeah, it was a bad metaphor. I was sleepy. Blurring makes sense as a way to say "this is private". It's almost lampshading, in this case, because it's the bit I want you to look at! But blurring doesn't make sense from…
Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such mention this time around. /shrug/
Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profile one. Which started (seemingly…
To indicate to the reader that the information represented by this area of the image should be considered private. It's like how they blur nipples on TV. We all know what nipples look like! But they're blurred to say…
For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could call. I provided one, and then…
Sure. But I still don't think it covers Business Profile. But I'll check.
My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are associated with the business or were…
Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put my personal phone number onto a public…
No, I gave my phone number to Google to gain access to Business Profile, as part of an identity verification process, and specifically didn't give them one to publish on the business listing. And they correctly didn't…
Post author here. Nope, I'm in the UK, and therefore covered by the DPA2018 (which is basically the copy-paste version of the GDPR that the UK government made post-Brexit).
Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech companies are less-inclined to make tools to…
Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.
Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. film & TV) use…
No JS on that page either!
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!
Thanks for the shout-out! Even though I know it cheats (and how) I still play against Cheatman sometimes; the challenge is to make guesses that force the computer to bisect its search space into two approximately-even…