{"id":371,"date":"2008-10-14T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2008-10-14T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T13:37:56","slug":"google-is-censoring-me-this-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/google-is-censoring-me-this-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is Censoring Me. This is a good thing."},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there a dark side of email? I couple weeks ago I posted the following on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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Apparently the answer is yes.<\/p>\n

Is there a solution? Brett sent me an email a couple days back. All it contained was a link to one of Google’s new projects: “Mail Goggles”<\/p>\n

According to Gmail’s blog<\/a>,<\/p>\n

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But as TechCrunch<\/a> points out, it is far from fool-proof:<\/p>\n

There are two problems with the product. First, I hate math. Second, if I want to send a drunken email, and all that\u2019s standing between me and success are a few math problems, I\u2019m gonna go find that calculator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of course what about Twitter, IM, or the infamous drunk Facebook wall posting? In the meantime Brett, I resent the insinuation that I am bad at math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there a dark side of email? I couple weeks ago I posted the following on Twitter: Apparently the answer is yes. Is there a solution? Brett sent me an email a couple days back. All it contained was a link to one of Google’s new projects: “Mail Goggles” According to Gmail’s blog, When you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}