Google Analytics feature on Switch

Like the Playstation 5's controversial Party Voice Chat Recording feature which thankfully can be turned off, this can be the same for Google Analytics feature for the Switch. But there's one thing to take note, it is not available in European and Australian Nintendo accounts and Switch Eshops. I don't know the goddamn reason for even Nintendo to follow the controversy Sony caused with the Playstation 5's Party Voice Chat feature, as if the controversy regrading Xbox One Kinect wasn't big enough when it comes to privacy.

It's already a shame that there are people who don't care about privacy being compromised and I can recall someone taking privacy advocates for fools through his/her own idiotic comments at the time. Playstation 4 had tons of consumer respect when it was announced and released that it put the Xbox One to shame due to the controversy Microsoft caused at the time. Fast-forward to the release of the Switch and we can know that the amount of units of the Switch console is super-large as if Nintendo did the right thing with the console design idea in the 8th console generation. It's basically what the Wii U should have been in terms of innovation.

Well, privacy is still able to go on even this year and such features such as Party Voice Chat Recording for Playstation 5 or Google Analytics for Nintendo Switch can be turned off if you really value privacy. However, if you're still on Playstation 4, there's somewhat of a problem when it comes to joining a Party Voice Chat that involves the Playstation 5 users. There's no telling if the Recording feature is on or off. It's a little big of a deal when compared to turning off data collection features on Switch or even the Firefox web browser in which Mozilla always asks for permission.

Updated YouTube Harassment Policy

Obviously, making a video or comment that discriminates a person, group or organization may result in a decrease of the karma as that kind of action is really bad. For the recent update from YouTube, making videos or comments that discriminate a person, group or organization based on race, gender, religion, etc. may result in actions taken against you for violating this updated policy. Video removal or even worse, channel termination as a result of this consequence can be punishing. Oh, criticisms are still welcome in the videos and comments as long as they sound professional though.
There were already recent cases of channel termination of some of the YouTubers over the Leafy Content Cop thing after the updated policy took effect recently. I don't know the proper reason for that happening but from some official tweets coming from YouTube themselves, the humor/satire part seems to be questionable. You need to make that the video of yours about someone doesn't seem like a free pass to the harassment. Sure, you can make a gaming news video about the dirty game developers like you've prepared evidence and criticism against them which is some kind of stuff Sidalpha does. Of course, there were times when he got attacked by the greedy game developers as if they thought that he was trolling or cyber-attacking them with the videos of his instead of addressing the criticism thrown at them. There were even worse times that some of the YouTubers were sued by the greedy indie game developers like the famous time when Jim Sterling was sued by Digital Homicide at that time. So it looks like such incidents already happened to those YouTubers even before the recent update of the Harassment Policy on YouTube. But then again, those kinds of videos fell under YouTube Gaming news videos or something, talking about all sorts of gaming topics, ranging from upcoming games, controversies that already pissed people off as well as the concerns of unacceptable features.
There are other videos I had seen as well like the diss-track videos about various YouTubers or even the MAD videos which are sort of artistic as well. So what's bad about making MAD videos of someone famous in the first place? The only bad things are that when the MAD video you make is poorly done and/or contains something disturbing in some portion or the entirety of the video that is bound to turn me off like I already was by certain videos.
About troll comments thrown at your videos on YouTube, you can try to remove/flag them and even report and block the ones typing in such non-professional comments but the problem is that they will come back and do the same shit to you with different/sock-puppet accounts. Another problem is that private messaging section on YouTube in which even if you block and report the user annoying the hell out of you a lot with troll messages, they will continue on with sock-puppet accounts.
I don't know if the updated harassment policy is the right step in the direction or a controversial one. What if someone false-reports your videos for harassment under this updated policy for LOL or some sort? Will that anger you and the other viewers in which the online search for the culprit starts? This kind of shit isn't funny and the good viewers should know better seriously as making false-reports against someone on YouTube over harassment when their videos don't cause any harm whatsoever is totally wrong. And by the way, those making kids cry or rage online in the making of such gameplay videos of whatever game they play may need to think twice before making such videos due to the updated policy as I don't know if such actions may result in violation or not.
One big concern from people is that when YouTubers make such videos of themselves ranting about greedy game developers for instance, we don't know for sure if such videos will be falsely flagged and/or taken down or some sort as if YouTube isn't siding with us or something. But of course, criticism isn't equal to trolling or even hate-speech for sure. You should instead find solutions and strategies that will help you to address such criticisms and see if you can do any better.

Intra, Android app to protect against DNS manipulation

The app has the ability to encrypt your Android's connection to the DNS server in which your device is protected from DNS manipulation attacks and you can gain unrestricted access to the internet. It is one of the apps that circumvents censorship and you can use VPN to unrestrict even more stuffs.
However, let me be skeptical here, while you obtain those security tools that protect your devices from cyber-attacks done by cyber criminals, some of the tools are notorious for allowing cyber criminals to use them undetected, not to mention that they are over-protective and make your internet connection unreliable in making competent and smooth connection while those protection stuffs are enabled. The next notorious thing is that not all sites can be accessed smoothly while protection features like Intra are active. There's a concerning question like that from the FAQ section of the app's official web site. Lastly, the usage of VPN to get around the restriction just to access the foreign sites and contents while knowing the fact that you're not from that country.
One thing about DNS manipulation is that as part of the cyber-attack campaign organized by cyber-criminals, there's a chance that you can be led to fake websites masquerading as the real ones which can infect your devices with malware or maybe the fake websites containing information you may not believe while the real sites containing true information are being blocked or something. Who knows what will happen to you next after you've known the true information nobody's supposed to know?
Other answers from the app's FAQ from the official website include:

• Using encryption to your Android device to make sure that you're sent to the right place.
• Using Google's public DNS in which data collected will be removed within 48 hours.
• Having a tiny 'split horizon' VPN in which your internet connection won't be slowed down because the app is not the VPN-type.
• Being an alternate to Private DNS setting from Android 9.0 as it is for Android 4.0 and later.
• Excluding apps from Intra's protection so that they can work normally again.

There are unseen questions based on other technical scenarios like your home network already offering its own similar protection for instance but those are other users' experiences and topics of the future. You just need to go to the app's official website and see what it does before deciding to even download it from Google Play.

Google+ for consumers to be shut down in the future

The bug that caused the data breach was discovered in March this year by Google which was several months ago but they chose not to disclose it as they found no evidence. It started a few years ago in which it exposed the users' private information until the time Google discovered this year. It was a serious technical offense when it happened that it opened doors to investigation. The bug was discovered while Google is working on Project Strobe, an internal audit of third-party developer access to Google accounts and Android device data.
Luckily, following the discovery of the bug, it was eventally patched but about Google+, it looks like some service nobody cares for and especially for the previous controversies Google caused in the past like the integration of the service with YouTube comments and such. Such controversy allowed the indecent and troll comments to be unreportable but that was the past that the controversy was reversed and even then, people use the more popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
The aim of Project Strobe is to improve data privacy for consumers in which things you posted on Google+ will not be collected or even other services, as well as the Third-Party APIs. Not to mention the improvement of the data permission for Android apps.

Brave's GDPR breach complaint against Google

Brave the web browser with privacy in mind is made by the Mozilla Project co-founder and according to the complaint from Brave, it appears that Google and other ad-tech companies had breached the GDPR which had gone effective several months ago in EU. That regulation was one important step in protecting individuals' privacy but it was a shame that Google breached such a recent regulation like that.
According to the official article from Brave, each time you visit a website containing 'Behavioral Ad', intimate personal data can be shown to tons of computers. The ad-tech companies broadcast this kind of data to solicit potential advertisers' bids for the sake of the attention of you visiting that website. Under GDPR, this kind of technical action known as 'bid request' to online industries is unlawful as it fails to protect intimate personal data from unauthorized access.
The Brave web browser started two years ago with the ability to block third-party cookies and it is based on Chromium browser. It is one of the lightweight browser with advanced ad-tracking controls but don't expect many common things this browser may have although there was an announcement that they would include the prototype Tor mode with Private Tab Browsing. Speaking of Tor, it is unspeakably notorious for being used by cyber criminals and other kinds of baddies alike in addition to those seeking high privacy. The worse thing is that, the privacy protection has gone too far that many online services you go to regularly falsely complain about your account being compromised.

Aka to Blue (Red and Blue)

It was a notorious moment to find a bunch of Capcom's 194x and Raiden ripoff/clone games on Google Play store. Some of the games had stolen assets from those games or whatnot like the ship looking similar, the firepower being quite similar as well as the sound effects. That's not cloning at times if you're trying to take those kinds of assets like that. To find an original shmup game on mobile that gives you pure arcade experience is a rare story. Aka to Blue/Red and Blue is one game that requires later versions of IOS and Android as it provides arcade and console gaming experience.
The game consists of 5 levels as well as two ships to choose from as stated from the game's title. The red man is kind of cool and badass like he sort of reminds you of Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear while the blue lady is seen being formal at times. It is a famous game due to professional developers involved in it. Plus, the music is all rock-style.
The gameplay is interesting in a way that you get to replenish the bomb-like defense quickly without having to traditionally collect the bomb item. It supersedes Dodonpachi Maximum in a way that you have multiple levels of bomb-like special attack but be warned, it's a hard game like other bullet hell shooters on mobile.

Fake reviews for Whatsapp

Like really, as if the worst games of recent years were already plagued with fake reviews like some of the worst Steam games were taken down and then reinstated with fake reviews and changed names for instances, how about Whatsapp being mistaken for a game? Whatsapp the game? LIKE SOME STUPID MORONS THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE PLAYING GAMES WITH WHATSAPP! THIS IS A SLAP ON THEIR FACES FOR THIS SORT OF IGNORANCE!
I don't care if that is more or less a fake or real news or something to you from my recent discovery at Neowin but I was already annoyed even more than before from this year's Lunar New Year days and especially for sometime after Lunar New Year where Singtel users like me were knocked out of internet access! So, the real annoyance was that while I was working on something, be it a Game Maker game or perhaps a music arrangement/remix or something, those home morons had the guts to tell the elder aunts that I was playing games or some sort. Their continued ignorance and presence continued to piss me off and there will be no guarantee of peaceful celebration of future Lunar New Year then and especially when it comes to DJ practice which I sometimes do with my DJ controller. Even if they looked at my computer screen, they couldn't know what I was actually doing by then as if they told others that I was playing. Such ignorance from them was the reason on why I didn't bring my laptop computer along this year and their manipulation of the others as I fear it is going to make me miserable like I may end up suffering from medical torture because of them.
So, the situation stated above may be why you shouldn't annoy me with ignorant rumors about me or something else. NOBODY cares for morons like those who take Whatsapp for a game. We CARE for respectful and superior people although those morons who have been annoying me as stated above might think that I have communication problem or some kind and it is a future offense to deny the consequences you're given by someone whom you have disrespected. You should realize your actions done to that person, NOT think that there's something wrong with them.
Even as an adult or elder person, you should have decent attitude and knowledge of what's actually going on and what is someone actually doing. And if you think or talk to others that some DJ doing DJ practice is playing games or something, that DJ will have an indirect "Fuck You" delivered to you for stupidly disrespecting them. You'll be scolded indirectly with the use of that DJ's brain. The same goes to the music producer producing something in the bedroom. So a lesson is that you should know what that person you're intercepting is actually doing before you say anything from your mouth.
So for Whatsapp, they didn't have time to investigate those morons doing fake reviews like that on the app and it was up to Google to do the investigation themselves. Those fake reviews popped up on Whatsapp from February to March and thankfully, other Google Play apps weren't invaded with such. Those posting fake reviews like that don't deserve to be respectful adults and we don't have time and breath for fools like them.

Love Live School Idol Festival After School Activity for arcade

As a rhythm game, it looks quite suited for me to play on like I treated it as an arcade game of some kind when playing on my Android tablet ever since its international release 3 years ago. Unfortunately, there have been problems with this kind of games on IOS and Android that altered players' behaviors negatively.

• Microtransactions - A DLC-like item that can be spent in unlimited ways, allowing you to get premium currencies and other premium items you can't get normally. It can result in an unnecessary waste of money, putting buying a normal game to shame. You could have used thousands of dollars to buy something else.
• Gatchas - A luck-based feature that draws random items including super and ultra rare items through premium Gatcha features using premium currencies. There are tons of ways to get premium currencies but that depends on the game.
• Performance perfection - A torturous behavior coming from the player no matter how technically competent the device is.
• Frustration factor
• Grinding

The amount of grinding in the game is another torturous one as a way to gain access to additional chapters in the story as well as to unlock additional songs in the main section in the Music Select screen. I had already seen some players raising the player rank too high like I don't know if they have anything else to do besides playing the game. Even the in-game events are becoming worse that such grinding may require microtransactions and usage of premium currencies.
In the case of the arcade version, it has elements from the mobile version like drawing cards from the machine representing characters in different dresses, team set-up and other stuffs. During gameplay, there will be card effects although in different ways than in the mobile version and the arcade version uses physical controls and is more difficult in gameplay. Like other rhythm games on the arcades, you will need the Nesica card if you want to make the progress count. Also, the arcade version features in-game graphics for gameplay in a similar vein to Project Diva series. Certain songs in the arcade version have the new dance choreography you can't see elsewhere. The others already have their own via the animated music videos as well as the ones taken from the TV animated series and the animated movie.
Unfortunately, the information for the arcade version may be scarce when trying to use the keywords in English in the search engine as if there's no English speaking wiki for that version. But, from what I know is that there may be Challenge difficulty in addition to Expert difficulty and the notecharts are obviously superseding and different than the mobile version. The UI engine seems to be at the same level as Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage or something in which other idol-themed music games on mobile follow with the same kind of UI layout for gameplay. Like Beatstream and DJ Max Technika series, the arcade version of LLSIF has double screens and the one on top is for seeing the dance thing in action while the bottom one focuses on gameplay.
Lastly, if you want to know about the system specs of the machine the arcade version uses, you can look it up in Wikipedia or something. From what I saw on social media and video sharing sites, the arcade version uses dual graphics cards and the graphics card is different than the one the Taito Type X3 machine uses and it turns out that the game uses Taito Type X4. Like Taito Type X3, Type X4 has different spec options. Unfortunately, the amount of information about Taito Type X4 is kind of small not because things are so technical or something but it seems that ignorance about the arcade version's existence is a problem. If the arcade version makes it to the US via Round 1, it may solve that problem but it's not the same for other countries although it's already better for the arcade version to stay in Japan as there are already tons of idol-themed music game and animated franchises which are outnumbering everyone non-stop like hell. I think the over-popularity of Idolmaster and Love Live franchises is the reason for such existences of other franchises but it may seem that certain fans' behaviors had been altered so negatively that they did certain things in public that landed themselves in serious trouble. Examples included threats of stabbing, being a public nuisance via delusion, showing off too much fan-tribute accessories in their possession or even suicide attempts over disbandment or retirement of a group or something. Those are NOT how you become a fan of a particular idol group or individual you like.
The arcade version is more or less published by Square Enix and it may mean that it runs on a Taito-branded arcade system with the Nesica service, similar to other Square Enix games on the arcades that make use of it although one of them uses the Playstation 4 based arcade hardware instead of the Type-X series system.

Google's inaccurate Best Android games of 2016 list

We were lucky about the Best mobile games of 2014 list like we took it for an accurate one but for this year's, it's not the same. It's not that Google and Apple have screwed it up or something if you ask.
For Pokemon Go, I already ranted about it over the lack of proper security even with the policies intact. It was declared mediocre for me like it should fall under the Disappointing Games of 2016 list. Fast forward to the present time, I can assume that the game's having some improvements and in the future, there will be additional 100 Pokemons for Pokemon Go. So, I guess that the game has gone from mediocre to a fine game and even then, it still falls under that list I just mentioned but it is inexcusable to put the game that is terrible, average or okay in the top 5/10 games of the year list. Not to mention that even The Game Awards had gone a little incompetent into making Pokemon Go as the Top Mobile and Family Game. Do people care about personal security or something?
Speaking of The Game Awards of this year, I already have another game to rant about, Street Fighter V, that doesn't deserve to be involved in it as it has gone from great to okay but that will be in another blog post when possible. It's still a fine game to be frank but people are not happy with it being the Best Fighting Game of this year for this year's The Game Awards as if other fighting games deserve that due to sufficient features.

Neeuro Memorie Impression (Video added)

Firstly, it is an educational and brain testing app from Neeuro with the use of Neuroscience technology that records your brain activity with the Senzeband device which is needed to determine your brain as well as certain mini-games that require it. For first-timers, there should be a screen or an option that assesses your brain for strengths and weaknesses in various parts. Categories include Attention, Spatial, Decision, Memory and Flexibility for mini-games. Other statuses include your mental state, EEG Frequency Band and EEG Signal.

Bonus video - Made a MAD video of Sushi Recall from Neeuro Memorie in which it is truly presented as a Bishi Bashi mini-game.

Mini-games

• Sushi Recall - This one seems to be quite fun. All you have to do is to choose the corresponding sushi that is all the way on the left. When the level begins, either one or more disappear and you have to choose the corresponding sushi as indicated on the plate with the question mark. Choose the wrong one and you get deducted. You can have up to 10 levels and at higher levels, about four sushis will disappear and the patterns can be complicated and randomized no matter how many types of sushis are there. I even had the guts to speed-run from levels 2-8 like I was playing Bishi Bashi games and it can be handy if there's such a mini-game like that in a Bishi Bashi game in terms of concept. It doesn't have to be sushi anyway. It's just that you need someone to cover the target part for additional challenge. At level 9, it was where the mini-game pushed my limits and how the hell can the children and elders clear further levels like that? It is fun like someone can remake this in the form of an arcade game or some kind.
• Sitting Ducks - All you have to do is remember where the ducks are facing and then follow the instructions. It may tell you things like which ducks change direction and which ones don't.
• Multitask Master - This may be interesting but it can be hard if your multitasking isn't good. I may be a sucker at multitasking though. Various obstacles include number sorting, sorting of number of polygons in the shapes, bubble tapping, maze and to know where the hidden ball is moved to. The one where the ball is covered in one of the cups and then the cups shuffling and you have to know where the ball is pretty much ruins the experience of multitasking and consumed more time for me. There are also questions telling you the color, meaning or other stuffs of the word as well as the objects that don't belong or something. In addition, there's even the simple mathematical calculation via the question as well. I was told that some lady managed to move up to level 10 in this mini-game but I had no idea on how did she do that.
• Dot Connect - The board on the right may be rotated or flipped and you have to replicate the same connections.
• Star Gazer - Like Sitting Ducks, you're supposed to remember the number of stars in the sky, the planet and even the number of shooting stars.
• Space 360 - Hold left and right buttons to move the ship and the trick is that the rotation is done automatically and you have to get around it without running into obstacles while collecting the items.
• Supreme Shopper - This is where you have to make calculations as indicated on the instructions. There will be additional tricks like discounts, taxes and so on.
• Flower Garden - This is where you have to plant the respective seeds onto the respective soils and then water the soils that need watering.
• Junction Control - The traffic light surely says it all but it controls one of the sides. There will be a waiting bar indicating the driver's patience so some strategy is needed.
• Farmhouse Friends - What a weird mini-game I had ever played. You have to know what causes the event change. It's pretty much the least favorite to be frank from the way the mini-game was designed but since this is an educational game for everyone, the in-game music is obviously unnecessary.
• Who's Who - It may be similar to Name Recall from Elevate except that it uses the visual + text comprehension instead of visual + vocal comprehension. Well, why vocal comprehension when we can actually mention listening comprehension which is the proper name? 

There may be some mini-games that involve solitaire or maybe mahjong but I'm heavily against gambling stuffs so forget about them. Perhaps, I already regretted playing those S***c games that have the casino mini-games or zones alike so the best bet will be to take out or skip those zones when necessary and optionally, replace them with an education-themed zone like a Mathematics-themed, Science-themed or even History-themed zone.
I might have played Elevate on my Android device and it looks really educational like I can improve my vocabulary, grammar, comprehension and stuffs like that but chances are, you'll make a slow progress that way. It is a little bit useful for refreshing your memory since you will run into many new words you won't know of in the first place and the worst thing is that those words were already mentioned in the past time. It's a shame that Neeuro Memorie is less educational with a lack of proper educational content like mini-games related to vocabulary, grammar, other kinds of comprehension in which Elevate has but what is sufficient enough is the Mathematics side via Supreme Shopper and Multitask Master.
So if you're going to think of making a Bishi Bashi-like game with those mini-games taken from Neeuro Memorie, unfortunately, that will be insufficient. We can have Sushi Recall, Multitask Master and Space 360 and but that is all we can imagine of in Bishi Bashi-form.

Bishi Bashi form of Neeuro Memorie mini-games

• Sushi Recall - Regardless on the number of types of sushis, the thing you will need to concentrate is the corresponding plate colors. To add additional challenge, the plate color and the sushi will disappear and there will be a question mark on top of that plate and you have to remember that plate color. There will be time limit and your time will be graded depending on how fast you clear the stage.
• Multitask Master - Questionaire about the meaning or color of the word can be available as well as the sorting of the numbers, letters and even the number of polygons for the shapes. Unfortunately, that will require double play mode or something. Otherwise, it's not multitasking test at all. You will be graded on the number of correct answers and how fast you can answer everything.
• Space 360 - Using the left and right buttons to move the ship as using the middle button doesn't do anything. Optionally, the left and right on the D-Pad or Analog Stick can be used to move the ship as well. You will be graded on the number of objects you collect. Collision with obstacles three times may result in abrupt end of the stage. There will be time limit as well like other mini-games.

There will be future updates that include multiplayer support and additional mini-games.

Chromodo web browser under fire for leaving users in danger

According to the research results from some security researcher from Google, some of the policies in Chromodo web browser are disabled while Chrome has the same policies enabled by default. This leaves some users in danger as baddies can gain access to the private data. With the safeguard, scripts can access data in another script if they both originate from the same source. It's a warning originating from the Google researcher and there is a fix he has made to fix the issue.
Even worse is that the Comodo Internet Security tempers with the DNS settings according to the researcher in addition to importing everything from Google Chrome and making itself the default browser and nobody knows the motive of this. And of course, is there a reason on why Comodo doesn't have the official solution to this fix.
It's another security weakness that can leave you vulnerable to attacks by cyber-criminals, not some kind of a measure/practice that lowers down the security level through illegal cyber-monitoring for detection of baddies. No, like I've said, it's just another security weakness or bug that the ones behind the web browser or the app should come up with a patch or something to fix it. There's already no clue this time on why Comodo isn't aware of this. You could have used the other antivirus/internet security brands instead of this unusual-ness.

Google Chrome reportedly bypassing Adblock that forces users to watch video ads

The actual culprit behind this bypassing is the unintended result of fixing the previous security issue and the developers behind the Chromium are already aware of it. The patch is likely to be on the way to Google Chrome 46 and until then, the only way to get around this situation is to disable Adblock, whitelist YouTube or maybe uninstall the YouTube app. Wait, YouTube web app on Chrome? That sounds kind of bullshit to you for your sake! You could have used the YouTube with HTML5 for smoother browsing right now on any web browser. You could have also used the YouTube app on mobile devices which obviously makes any sense.
OK, it may seem that many people were like putting blame to Google for causing this security problem but once again, the actual culprit is the one stated above at the beginning of this post. It may be a minor or normal issue level.

Actions taken by Google against ad injectors

Advertisements can be useful in having business companies earn money that way but should there be wrong advertisements that infect the visitors' devices, it can be a serious trouble after tons of users are complaining about that situation. A recent situation is that Google has owned the DoubleClick technology that allows advertisers to manage advertisements on behalf in the respective websites. Perhaps, there should be trusted ones that don't allow illegal activities to take place in victims' devices.
One example is that cyber-criminals can hijack various websites into replacing the professional ads with undesired ads that do harmful thing to the website visitors' devices but another recent situation will take you back to the days of the Lenovo Superfish scandal in which Google has taken actions in. Another problem is that even some evil ISPs are doing the same thing as stated in the above example but this is what the companies are to worry about undesired ads on their sites injected by the ISPs themselves. For normal users, it's easy to get around this situation with the Ad-blocking extensions in the web browsers.
Unfortunately, Google should have taken actions against ad injectors earlier as the ISPs in the US might have gone way too far. The privacy is violated there over those bad ads, other malwares are injected on ISP broadband routers and certain services belonging to them doing the same violation thing as well.

Spyware extension silently installed on Chromium

A mysterious extension installed on Chromium silently listens in to whatever the user is doing on Chromium according to some reports from the security experts and researchers. Google was already aware of this situation and they confirmed that it was Debian's responsibility and reason that the extension was installed without concern because it is a security problem related to privacy. It might affect the users using the Chromium-based web browsers on Debian and Debian-based OSes. Also, it might seem that Chromium itself is not a Google product but then, Google Chrome itself is pretty much based on Chromium and they still have the hands on that technology. The origin of that doesn't belong to Google however.
The only solution will be to disable the microphone and camera on the computer or use other web browsers on the Debian and Debian-based OSes.

Google My Account Hub

This one looks new and features more privacy and security control of your account. And before I just blogged about this, I already made adjustments to the privacy and security of my Google account with Privacy and Security Checkups. For history, I already turned everything off except for the YouTube video view history in which I still can go to the YouTube history section to see the previous videos. However, it still appears that I have the option to keep or remove the apps that require access to various Google serivces and like there's no way to customize the permissions.
This feature is built for the cloud security where you can make adjustments there even if you don't have your Google account.

Android M Developer Preview

Android 5 may have improved security on newer phones running it but the performance issues and the new interface are what drive the customers away when it initially launched. There are still people using IOS 8 and Android 5 of course but the amount of customers using Android 5 is unspeakably low compared to those using Android 4.x. Maybe, those superior Android devices are super-expensive and especially for those running the later versions of Android OSes. Another problem is that your current Android device cannot be upgraded to Android 5 if it doesn't support that.
Then, for Android M, it has better security than ever with the opportunity for the users to accept or deny the app permissions just like what Cyangenmod OS has. Other than better security, there's also the battery saving feature such as Doze in which when the device is inactive for a long period of time, the app activity will be inactive as well. For tablet devices, this feature may be handy like you can place it on the table when you're not using it but I still think that it should be better in saving battery when the device is on standby with app and service activity inactive. The activity should be really inactive when the device is on standby for a long period of time but I don't know if this is the point of that.
There are other features such as app auto-backup, USB Type-C support, new volume control, certificate installation for enterprises and so on. I don't know how the app auto-backup works but I guess that this is Google's official way of backing up your apps. I guess that the destination for that will be the cloud storage or something.
Android M will be released in the third quarter of this year.

Google patents dolls that track children's habits

This may seem unbelievable like there may be suspicious thoughts of repeat betrayals coming from tech companies to customers like what some of the US ISPs do in betraying their customers with something that goes against the purpose and definition of proper security or perhaps what Microsoft has with the How-Old.net service that makes technical betrayal real. Another unbelievable thing is what Google's planning with the dolls that listen and watch on what the children are doing. In general, we don't know what Google will be up to in patenting this technology.
This kind of technology such as voice controlled toys has been around for a long time and the Contana, Siri and Google Now are already based on the same exact technology which Neowin doesn't find them intrusive so be glad about that when using those voice assistants. However, combining all of these can lead to serious consequences for comprising security like that and we don't know if this is going to happen.
The movie, Five Nights at Freddy's, may have the same concept but in reality, the only addition is the technology itself that allows the fictional magic to happen in a wrong way. I may suggest that you invent the real-life version of something from some other franchise that has its own fictional technology like the hoverboard for instance. That was something someone invented and broke the global record when riding one in the air above the water for long instance. Don't patent and invent the technology that is used for something intrusive, destructive or any other bad purpose.

Google Play infected?

The great news is that the Patriot Act is bound to expire unless someone wants to extend it as an illegal excuse to continue that unauthorized data collection bullshit. Even the watered down USA Freedom Act was recently rejected as well that the people in the US get more privacy by the time we reach June 1st. However, this is not the time for victory yet as some extension excuses are like still intact or something. What else is affected is the Google Play. The motives are likely to be the same just to detect North Africa, Russia and Cuba for something destructive just like many other services. But then, we already know that things have already gone way too far and it may be why many other foreign nations and tech companies are concerned about those illegal technical actions. Also, those motives mentioned above were part of the XKeyscore. The proper talk about the motives that affect Google Play is about the Network Tradecraft Advancedment Team which is the advanced unit that comprises of analysts from all "Five Eyes" at a series of workshops that took place between Australia and Canada.
Again, this is unspeakably illegal and going too far like it's not the proper and decent way to protect people like us from anything that poses a serious threat to whatever nation you're living in. There has to be a real protective way to protect us through security while respecting our own rights and privacy as well. Hell, even the Samsung App Store for Android is infected by that same situation as well. Alternatively, you can sideload Android apps or perhaps install them from alternative app stores.

Enable or disable what Google tracks about your online activity

Damn, talk about laziness like I've got nothing to work on at this moment other than some signs of progress on my YouTube account and my blog. It may appear that miscellaneous stuffs to work on don't count as they are not that important and parts of New Year Resolutions. This year, like two years ago, there will be blog posts that have the security topic in them and this one as discovered from Neowin is about how Google tracks your online activity if enabled. There was a recent announcement that you get more options to turn off things you're tracked through Google services.
If you want to disable Search and Browser history, that's a good thing, in case you may get intercepted browsing through something extremely indecent on the web in which you don't mean to. I don't mean to stumble upon those kinds of stuffs nor do I appreciate or contribute to them. Maybe there should be some policy that blocks or takes down indecent stuffs automatically so that I can see the web properly and especially when those things originate from the advertisements. But be warned, there's an option to download your search history should you choose to disable the search history. You should only save that to the safe location, not a public location or a public device.
Plus, there are other options that include your YouTube search and video view histories that you can turn off as well. Prior to blogging about this, most of the options were already paused but pausing doesn't mean you may have already removed those histories of yours completely.

Google+ split up into parts of services

Those saying that Google+ no longer exists may be glad but then there are still silly defenders of this service up there. And in fact, that service to me surely has done things a little bit worse as if we are not able to report a bunch of useless troll comments on YouTube and Google Plus probably due to the forced integration of that service and that the extensions for the web browsers are applied. Without the extension stuffs, we should be able to report those comments but then, it can leave us seriously vulnerable to illegal data collection through advertisements on YouTube. But, with Google+ being split into various popular parts of the services like the Google Hangout, Photo Streams, etc. I don't know if Google may have done things right with YouTube service again as if we are able to interact with the YouTube comments again with the web browser extensions applied like things may be quite smooth.
Perhaps, next time I post my blog post or YouTube video, it will be automatically tweeted and not publicized to Google Plus although I have some unexpected amount of momentum there. How did people visit me there? Well, who the hell cares for Google+ when other social networking sites are more popular than that. And thanks to that for being some kind of a technical discovery back then and especially for other services which no longer existed such as Google Reader, Windows Live Mesh cloud desktop and some other Google services which were less popular as well.