I regularly check my spam folder and am often amused what I find:   How can Google put its own email into its own spam folder?   This clearly is a #UsabilityFail.   #TechTip brought to you by Yours * TrulyJuly *.      

Realising you have been hacked is a terrible moment. While your brain is spinning with all the what-ifs, it's hard to concentrate on the next steps. But it's important to act quickly to prevent the hackers from causing more harm. The more important it is to feel supported along the way. However, Google offers really no support at all when trying to recover a hacked Gmail account:

Here I'm presented with no other option but to 'Accept' the use of cookies. The GDPR clearly states that with cookie settings the withdrawal must be as easy as giving consent. You might think that linking to the California Privacy Rights Notice exempts this website from complying with the GDPR. The GDPR applies to EU citizens, not EU organisations…

I like LinkedIn, because it's a network of professionals. Accordingly, I expect content that is relevant to professionals. I'm coming to terms with the decline of quality and the invasion of clickbait. But I'm shocked to see that LinkedIn actively advertises games, disguised in 'Notifications'. Furthermore, the worst FOMO triggers are being used: Stating a big number of others justifies conforming to the new norm.

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On January 7, 2025 Meta made the announcement that they are ending their third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model. With this, they follow a similar community-driven content moderation program launched by X (formerly Twitter) in 2021 that became widespread on X in 2023. This, despite research showing how the ‘community notes’ model –which combines automation with the…

  For the Archery competition at the Paralympics Games Paris 2024 Google created this Google Doodle: Named “Paris Games Archery“, the Google Doodle from 02.09.2024 depicts the shooting of a street sign, which even in the Google Doodle almost goes wrong,…

  In my Microsoft account dashboard I get the notification that Outlook has blocked content from MS Teams, both of which are part of the Microsoft suite.       Fair enough, it’s up to the user to mark as Safe Sender, but still: They don’t whitelist their…

  Even though the field states ‘Phone’, it’s actually the email address which is required as stated in the alt attribute: “Please enter an email address.”   This can happen when you don’t quality check your website. #GoodPracticeTip: You always need to…

  Every day I get invited to hundreds of newsletters.   #GoodPractice would be to pitch a newsletter with a unique and memorable name to catch user attention.   Instead, I’m invited to this:     To come up with something as generic as ‘Monthly roundup’ is…

  When I look at a table I expect the data columns to be aligned with the header, so I can easily relate the data to the correct header. Not so with Google Analytics: In their calendar I can start to guess which weekday aligns with what date.   To not…

  I put together a specific set of parameters to determine the data for an interaction event. And when I click ‘save as’ Google Analytics comes up with a very unique ‘report’ as a file name.     This is almost as bad as ‘image_01’.   From time frame to…

  Every time Facebook makes an update to its interface, something goes wrong.   Who knows what Facebook have been up to, but all of a sudden, the ‘Share this to Facebook’ button on WordPress results in a pop-up window to ‘Create post’, but without the…

  Sneakingly AVG AntiVirus installs its own browser version with one of their updates. On top of it, AVG Secure Browser is set by default to automatically start when the computer starts.   There are many complaints around the internet, even on the AVG…