Comments on: Google wants you to stop using Blogger: Here’s how to leave http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html Journalist and author Violet Blue's site for sex and tech culture, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Tue, 26 May 2015 17:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adam http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94171 Adam Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:29:05 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94171 It appears that Google has given in, to a degree, but they have given themselves a lot of room to be arbitrary: https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en&rd=2#!category-topic/blogger/how-do-i/other/desktop---other-please-specify/chrome/jAep2mLabQY If you post a picture of a derriere on your blog, and you don't have a Certificate of Compliance on file, Google is still reserving the right to go after you. I think most bloggers, who aren't posting "commercial porn" are going to be OK, but I think that moving to another platform, paid if you can, would still be a good idea. It appears that Google has given in, to a degree, but they have given themselves a lot of room to be arbitrary:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en&rd=2#!category-topic/blogger/how-do-i/other/desktop—other-please-specify/chrome/jAep2mLabQY

If you post a picture of a derriere on your blog, and you don’t have a Certificate of Compliance on file, Google is still reserving the right to go after you. I think most bloggers, who aren’t posting “commercial porn” are going to be OK, but I think that moving to another platform, paid if you can, would still be a good idea.

]]> By: Dylan http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94169 Dylan Fri, 27 Feb 2015 05:34:43 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94169 Everyone is welcome at http://ello.co Everyone is welcome at http://ello.co

]]> By: Adam http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94168 Adam Fri, 27 Feb 2015 04:09:06 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94168 I've reviewed (by that I mean, slogged) through a bunch of Terms of Services of a couple dozen alternate blogging sites, paid and free, and found that most have a problem with adult content. It should be noted, for the record, that most of these sites have discussed their "funding issues" on their site, as well. I guess there are just not that many people interested in blogs about people's "Journeys with Jesus" and "First-Wave Feminism". Anyway, I found an interesting conglomerate of sites that don't have any problem with adult content, at least for now: 1. Quora (does have blogging features now) 2. LiveJournal 3. Typepad (may be paid only now, though) 4. Soup.io (Austrian-based, but a tad short on blogging features) 5. Silvrback Some of these also include some conversion features from other blogs. A few others don't warn you up front about adult content. This may or may not mean you'll have no problem with them, but trying a free blog and seeing what happens is an option: 1. Posthaven 2. Sett 3. Weebly 4. Postagon Google has been shutting down services for a while now, such as Reader. They've lost the "blogging war" to WordPress, and if they think they can't make money on a service, they'll shut it down. As previously mentioned, they have no compunctions about using sex-negativity to serve as a smokescreen hiding the fact that their business is shrinking. I'm sure that the R-rated movies on YouTube aren't going anywhere. But the traffic to Blogger is going to hit the wall fast. You would have to be a pretty naive Internet user to trust Google with anything of any importance at this point. I’ve reviewed (by that I mean, slogged) through a bunch of Terms of Services of a couple dozen alternate blogging sites, paid and free, and found that most have a problem with adult content. It should be noted, for the record, that most of these sites have discussed their “funding issues” on their site, as well. I guess there are just not that many people interested in blogs about people’s “Journeys with Jesus” and “First-Wave Feminism”. Anyway, I found an interesting conglomerate of sites that don’t have any problem with adult content, at least for now:

1. Quora (does have blogging features now)
2. LiveJournal
3. Typepad (may be paid only now, though)
4. Soup.io (Austrian-based, but a tad short on blogging features)
5. Silvrback

Some of these also include some conversion features from other blogs. A few others don’t warn you up front about adult content. This may or may not mean you’ll have no problem with them, but trying a free blog and seeing what happens is an option:

1. Posthaven
2. Sett
3. Weebly
4. Postagon

Google has been shutting down services for a while now, such as Reader. They’ve lost the “blogging war” to WordPress, and if they think they can’t make money on a service, they’ll shut it down. As previously mentioned, they have no compunctions about using sex-negativity to serve as a smokescreen hiding the fact that their business is shrinking.

I’m sure that the R-rated movies on YouTube aren’t going anywhere. But the traffic to Blogger is going to hit the wall fast. You would have to be a pretty naive Internet user to trust Google with anything of any importance at this point.

]]> By: emze http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94164 emze Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:12:23 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94164 I have 4 blogs in Blogger. 1 with sex contents. 2 with no sex contents. 1 technical. I gonna remove all them. I don´t thrust anymore im Blogger. I have 4 blogs in Blogger.
1 with sex contents.
2 with no sex contents.
1 technical.
I gonna remove all them. I don´t thrust anymore im Blogger.

]]> By: Toronto Stud http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94162 Toronto Stud Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:47:03 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94162 Thank you for this article! I've been posting about my sexual experiences for a couple of years now with Blogger and I was kind of taken aback by Google's puritanical stance. I was able to move my blog to Tumblr thanks to your article in less than five minutes. Kudos to you for providing this info. As for Google, the 19th century called, they want their attitudes to sex back. Thank you for this article! I’ve been posting about my sexual experiences for a couple of years now with Blogger and I was kind of taken aback by Google’s puritanical stance. I was able to move my blog to Tumblr thanks to your article in less than five minutes. Kudos to you for providing this info. As for Google, the 19th century called, they want their attitudes to sex back.

]]> By: audren http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94160 audren Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:57:56 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94160 "Seriously, what idiot lumps child abuse with erotica in a terms sheet?" - actually, most internet content providers. This is so depressing. duly note the humor trait by deviantart: "or otherwise objectionable" instagram : [no] violent, nude, partially nude, […], unlawful, […], hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos etsy : [content shall not] be obscene or contain child pornography deviantart : [do not post content that is] obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, […], vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable wordpress : please don’t post […] explicit images or video of sexual acts […] images of child pornography pinterest : [don’t post anything that] is sexually explicit or pornographic, exploits or presents minors in a sexual way, or promotes adult sexual services dailymotion : [sont interdits] les contenus à caractère pornographique et les contenus incitant à la violence physique […] vimeo : you may not upload any video [which contains] sexually explicit content or pornography […] unlawful acts or extreme violence As I wrote (in French) in <a href="http://lesfessesdelacremiere.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/avant-que-de-parler-prenez-moi-ce-mouchoir/" rel="nofollow">this article</a>, it is as if in real life, you were to warn people: "this is a library, so please don't disturb fellow readers -- no eating, no shouting, no phonecalls, no pulling old ladies by the hair or burning newborn babies, thank you" “Seriously, what idiot lumps child abuse with erotica in a terms sheet?” – actually, most internet content providers. This is so depressing.

duly note the humor trait by deviantart: “or otherwise objectionable”

instagram : [no] violent, nude, partially nude, […], unlawful, […], hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos

etsy : [content shall not] be obscene or contain child pornography

deviantart : [do not post content that is] obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, […], vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable

wordpress : please don’t post […] explicit images or video of sexual acts […] images of child pornography

pinterest : [don’t post anything that] is sexually explicit or pornographic, exploits or presents minors in a sexual way, or promotes adult sexual services

dailymotion : [sont interdits] les contenus à caractère pornographique et les contenus incitant à la violence physique […]

vimeo : you may not upload any video [which contains] sexually explicit content or pornography […] unlawful acts or extreme violence

As I wrote (in French) in this article, it is as if in real life, you were to warn people: “this is a library, so please don’t disturb fellow readers — no eating, no shouting, no phonecalls, no pulling old ladies by the hair or burning newborn babies, thank you”

]]> By: Hug http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94158 Hug Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:55:38 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94158 Nice the see the BBC finishing their little article with a quote from you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31602891 Nice the see the BBC finishing their little article with a quote from you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31602891

]]> By: Scott http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94157 Scott Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:05:00 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94157 Stay away from Dreamhost! Unless they have massively upgraded their servers across the board they oversell their services. I was with them for six years with multiple accounts. While I had issues from the beginning and didn't really know butter, the last two most of my sites were down more often then up. I was always getting dropped connections. It got to the point that I couldn't even makes posts anymore! I had many tickets with support, most which pretty much said it was my issue and gave me the same fixes I had already implemented. Out of frustration I copied my main site wholesale to iWFHosting about six months ago. With no changes at all, I found it a night and day difference. I have slowly moved every other account over with the same results. Arvixe has been a good host also. Both are adult friendly. Essentially you're just looking for any host (which is pretty much all of them,) that uses CPanel though. CPanel is the has one-click installs for Wordpress and a large number of other platforms if you feel that you Another thing to be aware of is that a self hosted Wordpress install has an "Import From Blogger" Plugin, you access it from Tools -> Import, install the plugin, go back to the same menu and follow the directions. Stay away from Dreamhost! Unless they have massively upgraded their servers across the board they oversell their services. I was with them for six years with multiple accounts. While I had issues from the beginning and didn’t really know butter, the last two most of my sites were down more often then up. I was always getting dropped connections. It got to the point that I couldn’t even makes posts anymore! I had many tickets with support, most which pretty much said it was my issue and gave me the same fixes I had already implemented.

Out of frustration I copied my main site wholesale to iWFHosting about six months ago. With no changes at all, I found it a night and day difference. I have slowly moved every other account over with the same results.

Arvixe has been a good host also. Both are adult friendly. Essentially you’re just looking for any host (which is pretty much all of them,) that uses CPanel though. CPanel is the has one-click installs for WordPress and a large number of other platforms if you feel that you

Another thing to be aware of is that a self hosted WordPress install has an “Import From Blogger” Plugin, you access it from Tools -> Import, install the plugin, go back to the same menu and follow the directions.

]]> By: Chr1s http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94156 Chr1s Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:27:14 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94156 I think it will soon be possible to circumvent such censorship in the future, decentralization is the way to a free internet >> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534501/bittorrent-tests-websites-hosted-in-the-crowd-not-the-cloud/ I think it will soon be possible to circumvent such censorship in the future, decentralization is the way to a free internet >> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534501/bittorrent-tests-websites-hosted-in-the-crowd-not-the-cloud/

]]> By: Falbert http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2015/02/google-wants-you-to-stop-using-blogger-heres-how-to-leave.html/comment-page-1#comment-94153 Falbert Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:42:28 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=22233#comment-94153 Thank you, Violet, for putting together a good chunk of resources for those that are about to be locked out of Google's community. Thank you, Violet, for putting together a good chunk of resources for those that are about to be locked out of Google’s community.

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