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by bryan_w 5y ago
If you buy a quest 2, you will then be entitled to call support and they can help you recover your account in some cases. This has been exploited recently so I'm not sure about the success rate, but it seems like it would work for your
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Yup they utilize "residential proxies" to hide their behavior which makes the situation worse because sometimes it will affect your legit users
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by bryan_w 5y ago
You can also just click the X in the upper right corner and say "hide all from <page>"
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by bryan_w 5y ago
But teens weren't allowed to use Facebook until 2007 and Instagram wasn't popular until 2010 so by your own data the increase in adolescent suicide couldn't be caused by FB
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by bryan_w 5y ago
It pisses me off to no end when someone says something like, "Given how much google/fb/amazon has been in the news, theres no question that they're now evil"
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Amazing, although I wish there was more direct Linux support for the platform.
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by bryan_w 5y ago
But they don't use the same standard permission box that they force 3rd party apps to use. That's shady....
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by bryan_w 5y ago
That's exactly what I said would happen. Big companies can do their own "Nelson" research and know how to tune their ads. As a result, they are willing to increase their bids over the less informed small businesses who now ha
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Catching all the bugs is generous. You won't be able to prove...basic functionally when all the components are deployed in production
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by bryan_w 5y ago
From the guidelines link at the bottom of the page: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about
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by bryan_w 5y ago
It's a platform for user-generated content so I'd imagine they would be able to follow their friends and see their pics/videos/reels. That plus kid-approved verified partner content (like @pbskids or @nick). That plus th
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Also it would be quite bad for businesses if their future most profitable demographic kept killing themselves before getting to their income generating years
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Mainly to completely segment off their content (like YT kids) so that while they can have an "Instagram" account, they can't have creepyperson69 sliding into their DMs. It would be similar to what they did with messenger kids
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Interesting point you bring up. If this research claimed the opposite result, people here would be ripping it apart, but since it confirms their biases, they double down on it and accept it as ground truth.
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Why would that be any worse? If I owe $100, I still repay $100. Facebook can't change the terms of a previous agreement
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Seems like a win/win situation to me
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Yeah, I follow a person on IG that does bread baking stories and the rig she uses is quite a clunky setup as she doesn't even want to touch the phone while baking due to her hands being covered in dough.
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by bryan_w 5y ago
But the widget that would have been ordered, made, and delivered on Friday will now get delivered on Wednesday due to the backlog that built up
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Interesting that they get to frame their permissions prompt in such a way, but offers no such affordances to other app makers (unless they show the same "Do you wish for Apple News to track you" prompt afterwards)
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Are you calling him "trolls, shills, agitators, and foreign intelligence" thereby proving him right?
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by bryan_w 5y ago
This is so true. Just look at the number of comments on any technical post on here (e.g. the "how to write a syscall" post earlier today) vs any post having to do google/facebook/amazon. It's pretty clear that some
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by bryan_w 5y ago
It's not that hard if you use "residential proxies"
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Samsung would setup tents outside apple stores offering "free", quick, phone swaps that "actually runs all your favorite apps". Of course not everyone would swap, but I'm sure they would lose a sizable number of cus
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by bryan_w 5y ago
How do you guard against someone in their home, taking a picture of your personal information when you call the call center?
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by bryan_w 5y ago
For the US, everything in the design of the vaccine card system was made to prevent it from becoming another social security card fiasco. They are oversized, freely distributed, not centrally tracked, etc. If I had to guess, it was made thi
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by bryan_w 5y ago
I usually add something else to ensure its unique because unlike in most TV/Movies, "Horse battery staple" and "Horse BAttery.Staple!" Are miles apart and any legit password cracking tool won't know that there
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by bryan_w 5y ago
> CA's research was violating privacy laws because it was gathering personal data from Facebook's users without their consent. It actually gathered data from fb users with explicit consent (a login with FB dialog along with a p
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by bryan_w 5y ago
* Gets $5 billion fine for sharing data with "researchers" * FTC: "Now FB, don't you go sharing data with researchers again. You are responsible for preventing scraping of user data" FB: * consents * * Proceeds to n
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by bryan_w 5y ago
Wait a second, I never hear about police officers being fired for abusing license plate/id lookups....
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by bryan_w 5y ago
The Cambridge Analytica data started off as a university research project too...until the data was sold. FB got a $5 billion fine for being duped in 2015. It doesn't surprise me they are trying to prevent that again

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