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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Why do you think that she wouldn't have tried to commit suicide via another means if she didn't have access to a gun?
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Just because you have done it before doesn't mean it isn't a shady business model. Are they being notified that they are tracked? Just because you don't have a problem with this practice doesn't mean it is without proble
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
A) Where do you think banks got the idea? They just copied an existing shady business model. B) The developers could have said no. If my boss got a contract with a bank that said I had to track users against their will, I would turn it down
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I've started to wonder if we're hitting a stage in society where we need to embrace the "mid-life crisis" as a normal stage of development, rather than as a problem. I personally would love if we had better systems in p
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Do we technologists need to build privacy invading tools on every damn thing? They are reporting on a problem that we keep creating. I don't see any problems with this.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Just because it is legal does not mean I am not allowed to raise hell
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> That turned out to be significantly less dangerous than we anticipated. Tell that to people who have been doxxed. Or people who have had their stalkers find them. Or people who have been arrested by oppressive governments... The list g
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I frequently see comments where I'm not sure how to vote. Examples: A) The statements/arguments/facts in your comment are incorrect, but your conclusion is correct based on $something_else. I don't want to vote up becaus
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Continuing the tangent: I've often wondered if having a separate voting system for "agree/disagree" and "correct/incorrect" would help /thinking out loud
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
There are: LineageOS without gapps or anything is a much better option. I won't say that it is a good option, as it clearly isn't. But at least they give you some control of your data. Apple doesn't really give you any.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> So then the question becomes: who do you trust ? Definitely not a multinational corporation who has lied to it's users in the past, and has compromised their privacy and security. I trust companies who put their money where their
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
My apologies for being unclear. Yes, it is known that FB can and has taken a ton of info from Android. I was questioning how they know that Apple doesn't put in back doors, and doesn't spy on you.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
"Your holding it wrong" "We slowed down your battery to make your phone last longer"
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Of course they lie. They could prove to us that they are being honest, but have chosen not to. Why would they do that if they didn't have something to hide? Sticking by your ethics isn't about what you gain, it is about being hone
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I definitly see Apple as being capable as lying. They have a history of it, of course, so I dont see how this situation is any different. Additionally, Google is absolutely bad, but that is just whataboutism. If Apple valued privacy as much
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
To be fair, I dont read physical mail from Comcast either. I'm constantly flooded with junkmail from them.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
A) Of course they have incentive to do so. They Also have incentive to hide it tho. B) Not dealing with 3rd party manufacturers seems unrelated to the discussion. Can you expand?
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I don't see how that is inaccurate. Can you explain?
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
A privacy breach via legal means is still a privacy breach
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
A) OK, but the end result is the same. B) And? It doesn't matter how lightweight it is. It's still unnecessary.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Yes, they do. My apologies if I seemed to imply that they don't. They don't weight it high it enough. The fact that it took until 2018 until they did that for mobile is telling enough.
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> Unlike FB they don’t do secret backdoor deals with phone manufacturers to spy on you. Also they don’t spy on you. How do you know this to be true?
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Google has been encouraging those sites to run all that extra cruft by: A) Not de-ranking sites that are large and slow B) Asking them to run a bunch of unnecessary trackers (Google Analytics) I've never used AMP, but it does sound lik
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
There's no coordinated campaign that I know of. The negative reaction that I personally have to AMP is that Google started pushing it as the solution to a problem that they helped create. It's just an attempt to lock publishers i
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
I apologize, as I was indeed not talking specifically about phones, but computing devices in general. I can see how that can be confusing since the original article is about phones. In regards to phones: Just because we don't have a go
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> Name 1 OS + hardware combination where you have the ability to fully audit every part of security-sensitive software. I'll wait... https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems + any open source os That aside
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> So what if you do ? You can't. That is my complaint. There are plenty of other operating systems where I can. The fact that Apple won't let me implies that they are hiding something. > Android isn't really open source
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
Why not talk about usenet/early www? Just because you can sweep it away doens't mean it didn't exist
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> Firstly in terms of market and brand perception Apple absolutely leads on privacy. That’s not really credibly contestable. I'd say it's highly contestable, especially since we have no actual direct proof that they do value pr
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by CaptSpify 8y ago
> I think Apple leads in privacy How do you know that? Unless you have some special access to see the source, you are just taking their word on that.

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