bryan_w

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by bryan_w 7y ago
Then you may be surprised to find out that most ads being discussed are allowed on TV: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Not in the way you're thinking: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...
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"All those animals would be dead in 15 years time anyways"
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You should check out workplace (by facebook).
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You would see ads for people to install the "Cambridge Facebook Client -- Earn $2/month just by using Facebook!" While they silently slurp up the same information on not just that person, but their friends.
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Self driving cars have more sensors
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Well then I guess you would have to start your own business or live off the land. The government can't prevent you from doing either of those activities and you're on a site full of people who do these sorts of things, so it'
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by bryan_w 7y ago
It's actually available today in messenger, but you have to start a "Secret conversation" first. FB's plan is to make it default
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by bryan_w 7y ago
You're talking about rooting which is different from sideloading. On android, you can go to foo.com/someApp.apk and after accepting a bajillion warnings, install the app with no approval from Google needed
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by bryan_w 7y ago
You haven't seen how the bots have ruined similar subreddits. They either hijack old accounts with karma, or they create accounts and age them manually, farming karma by reposting content or hopping onto a repost and reposting the top
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Nope.
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A metric butt-ton of advertising on FB and Google
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Yup just wait for the "Cloudflare allows access to domestic terrorist sites" headline next time the CEO pisses off the NYT
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Oculus connect 6 is tomorrow and Thursday. You should watch the keynotes to get an idea about what they will do with this
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by bryan_w 7y ago
To say nothing about the fraud. If you can't link clicks to buys, you will quickly find yourself paying for bot clicks
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by bryan_w 7y ago
My dude, do a search, there's help out there. Text only therapists all the way to video chat. It only take 5 minutes to get started, but please look into it.
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Still doesn't change the fact that if Apple was principled on privacy, they would refuse google's billions in spy money and wouldn't, by default, send their customers to Google search engine to be harvested
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They already have integration with Alexa voice commands, so maybe there's some hope of adding prime video
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Don't forget that it would also make bezos even richer as amazon.com is the only place people know off the top of their heads to buy anything
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Have you considered cloudflair?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Yeah, I notice this every time there's a story about Facebook or Google, there's always a group of posts that are exclaiming how great their life is since they deleted their account. It's super creepy
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Don't forget that they take google's money and put them as the default search provider in safari. Apple loves privacy, but they love money more.
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Facebook doesn't sell data
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by bryan_w 7y ago
"A browser is required to load resources whether or not they come from they come from the same domain " False. A browser could easily be configured to block or prompt before loading 3rd party content (early versions of IE use to d
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Yup, that's why we're all still using AIM. The network effects are literally impossible to overcome. /s
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Really? You think AT&T and Verizon are the pinnacle of good corporate behavior?
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by bryan_w 7y ago
Oh man, while I agree with you, I don't see your arguments landing well with this crowd
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by bryan_w 7y ago
How would google's practices stop me from creating a search engine? Keep in mind when Google started, Yahoooooo! Was the big player and Google overtook them by simply being better
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by bryan_w 7y ago
I'm not sure Google devices can make calls, but if they could, the only part that would be sent to Google (which is what these people would have to analyze) is "hey Google, call bank"
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by bryan_w 7y ago
I dunno if I agree with you assessment, if you buy a device that purposefully made to record your voice and send it to a company, I wouldn't find it unreasonable that the company could listen to what I sent to them. It's not like

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