Post by Peter T. DanielsPost by António MarquesPost by Ruud HarmsenWed, 14 Nov 2018 05:06:53 -0800 (PST): "Peter T. Daniels"
Post by Peter T. Daniels"Years ago," GG offered only "tree view," in a panel at the left side, and
would only display 10 messages at a time, and there was no way to change
that. In "page view," the messages are chronological, 25 at a time, and
unless the thread approaches its maximum of 1000 messages, going from one
"page" to the previous or next one takes no appreciable time. (It can slow
when the number of messages passes 600 or so; after 1000, each reply to a
message in the extant 1000 starts a new thread with the same title.)
There are no different views, for me.
Perhaps you have GG Professional.
I suppose he uses GG while logged in to google, which I assume results in a
UI with a number of other options.
I don't know what "logging in to Google" would be.
You don't have a google account? How then does google allow you to send
messages using GG? How does it know it's you sending them, as opposed to
whoever chose to use your name?
Either you have 'logged in' to google using your Edge at some point, or
someone did it for you.
Post by Peter T. DanielsI simply type "g" in the
search box at the top of the Edge screen, and it fills in groups.google.com
/forum..., which takes me to the page where I can choose one of the five
groups I'm "subscribed to."
...and how does it know you're 'subscribed to' groups unless it knows it's
you? When you use someone else's computer, it won't show those groups.
Because you're not logged in there.
You may not know it, but whenever you open a page from Google, it knows
it's you who's opening it (or, at least, someone using the computer/browser
you've identified yourself in). That's how it knows what content to show
you, viz subscribed groups. That's harmless enough, but it gets much worse
- due to the widespread use of 'google analytics' and the '+1 G' button in
third party sites, Google knows most of what you access even if it's not
Google-related. Facebook is similar in that regard. And if they know, so do
all the shady entities they sell your data to.
Even if not 'logged in', they still can and do track a lot of what you do,
but in this day and age when everyone gleefully exposes their data, there
are diminishing returns in that.