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by bryan_w 6y ago
Exactly, the FTC order asks FB to prevent data about someone from leaving FB's servers and go into a third party's database unless that person explicitly allows it.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
The user signed up, but the app would have access to that user's friend's data who didn't sign up
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Having multiple login systems is an integrity/spam disaster waiting to happen. You have to reimplement whatever detectors and filters twice and hope that nothing messes up and lets Jim the perv who was kicked from messenger move onto c
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by bryan_w 6y ago
All FB political ads are listed in Facebook's Ad Library
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Makes sense. Last time a university wanted to scrape user data from from Facebook users (with their permission) "for research purposes", it didn't end so well for Facebook.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
If they try to make it so that Google employees can't commit to the chromium repo, they're going to run into 1st amendment issues real quick.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I was hoping something like this would start to come to light. The prosecution of "big tech" has been pretty shady (at least since 2017). Here's hoping they uncover the rest.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Here's a reasonable proposal, they could get off their butts and actually innovate to adapt to a changing market. It's like they saw Netflix and iTunes and Spotify come up to adapt to the changing media markets and decided that t
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I mean if you have Google travel installed then it's a feature that it's integrated with gmail. Additionally I wouldn't find it weird for calendar or maps to make suggestions based on gmail. That is the value proposition by a
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by bryan_w 6y ago
It's funny, one of my friends posted on his FB, "Who are you voting for and why?" And nobody took the bait. He just got a bunch of popcorn eating gifs
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> We need (and have) reliable sources for new long-term customers. You may need to elaborate on this. Where are your new long term customers coming from?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I don't accept that; it's why I will never subscribe to the NYT.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Facebook's privacy policy spells out what they use as sources of data for ads and messages are not on that list.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
So you've noticed "communism Sundays" around here too eh? I don't know where to go to meaningfully engage with humans anymore. It's just smarter and smarter bots
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Question: can it carry over uncompleted tasks from the day before?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
That link has nothing to do with Facebook
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> It's user's data (i.e profile info) that shouldn't leave the EU If profile info can't leave the EU, then how will I know whom the message is from? Also isn't message data user data?
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I agree, I also think that it's possible everyone involved could have been working with diversity in mind and still were blind to this bug. Imagine someone makes a diverse facial recognition model where the confidence for detecting bla
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by bryan_w 6y ago
The quest now has finger tracking which I imagine is still done in SW.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
What's scary is that with all the resources that FB has, it still has to prioritize enforcement, which means that platforms like reddit or even HN have no chance of catching this.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
>Epic now has a very good reason to collect a working email address from every past iOS customer Not just epic but any business really that obtains most of their customer base through sign in with apple. Losing your entire customer base
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by bryan_w 6y ago
So true. Add in the old-school absolutists that believe that everything more complicated than links should be banned and that people should play videos by interpreting the raw octet stream, and it makes up pretty much everyone in this threa
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by bryan_w 6y ago
This actually gets back to the issue of web bundles. Google doesn't have to worry about the 8 MB because they have an extensive CDN, but smaller sites have to save every bit because they are being charged for it. If Google can leverag
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by bryan_w 6y ago
What's crazy is that these are supposed to be complementary effects. The more apps that are installed on Apple's platform the more money that Apple makes, but apparently that's not enough for them.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
> They're selling dossiers on you to groups literally trying to gaslight and manipulate you, to subconsciously influence you to do things, or to just make you generally feel like shit. Where can I find one of these dossiers? Or at l
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by bryan_w 6y ago
(2018)
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by bryan_w 6y ago
I mean, it's not unreasonable to say that "my software" = My binary that is running on a device. With android, I can have an .apk that is distributed via the play store or I can have that exact same .apk distributed via any o
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Oculus allows sideloading, unlike Apple.
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Some will see this with outrage, but I'm just thinking that it's an ad. I feel like I should get into Amazon stock while it's on the upswing!
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by bryan_w 6y ago
Your example makes no sense. If both those orders were on the books then the exchange would have to immediately execute that trade at $1.00 (Assuming A is before B).

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