mrgreenfur

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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
It is super effective. I was in FL last weekend and the tv stations were flooded with ads; the positive tone seeps into your brain whether you like it or not.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Agreed; they are adding them now and just released 'stickers'.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Don't all review sites eventually fall into the Yelp-style blackmail business model?
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
I've always heard the explanation as: it's a strategy to commoditize complementary products and a complement to search is browsers (Chrome) and a compliment to browsers are devices (Android). By getting to the devices and browsers
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Isn't that because they can still match the friends side to the new data? They still have half of the matches and once you give them your half they will suggest the same stuff.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Agree here; Given the insane hours that people spend in FB, the feed becomes part of their reality and better nudges affect their outlook on the world, their spending decisions and their political directions.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Pretty similar to Super Thinking: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181911-super-thinking Can anyone compare them?
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
The canonical guide for installation is amd-osx.com ; plenty of helpful folks in the forums and discord.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
They've gotten a taste of the surveillance revenues and won't look back. When you install Win10 there is a nag screen to make sure you opt-in to all kinds of data collection.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Ahh, cool! Someone else linked to your privacy policy where it's super clear "Visitors are not tracked by using e.g. persistent cookies". Might be worth clarifying by bringing this line up especially as there are tons of &quo
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
How do you know it doesn't need a consent notice? Anything that tracks people uniquely, via a personal identifier, is in-scope and counts as personal data. Is the assumption here that it counts as 'legitimate interest'?
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
It shows a fiber cut in Bulgaria: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/datalogix/
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
I agree that this is the next step in the ad-tech / spy-tech war. uBlock recently found an approach for blocking cnamed origins: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/3a564c199260a857f3d...
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
I agree with this, but we already have this problem for full-fledged browers: each page can usually make requests to any/all 3rd party domains (for any reason). Often I see even javascript from raw cloudfront domains, how the hell shou
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Generating your own UUID is forbidden I thought? What if apple sandboxed it to each app to make it safer/easier?
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
I think the push to apps was to get persistent tracking while offering the user the olive branch of new apis/better battery life/etc. The browser is a prophylactic against apps and their uncontrolled behaviors.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I know it's included in Win10 and in iOS, surprised it's not in OSX yet!
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
I think the full answer is to never trust anything on a page that isn't from the host domain: achievable via the uMatrix plugin. I dont understand why anyone would trust random scripts from a random company (and sometimes just an unnam
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Isn't this against most brand consistency standards? I've seen so many branding guidelines be very strict about changing colors/backgrounds.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
That is against the business model of building a ubiquitous profile on every one and selling that for ad targeting. This way he can sell each person over and over instead of making a measly $3.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Google gets fitness data attached to your profile for incredible insight into ad targeting and profiling. Seems incredibly valuable to me. The actual products themselves are a bit ancillary for google their real value is realized behind the
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Same here; only recently did I follow a walkthrough to see what the final end-game chapters are like
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Curiously, he criticizes BAK for this reason: the game tells you "go go go" but then encourages you to look in every nook and cranny. I've been playing Skyrim and quite enjoy how it doesn't rush you and instead encourage
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
But isn't it the exec's job to make sure there are people aligned to problems worth solving? Yelling about problems does nothing without staffing and accountability.
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Isn't the business model there: analyze the data uploaded and use it to enrich targeting. This is what they've done with every other free product. Maybe when we pay outright that will stop?
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Agreed; but isn't this shooting them in the foot in the same way Tumblr did? I wonder why they did this instead of adding stronger filters / controls to separate the populations
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Maybe they are using all those ML teams to build "self driving offices" (a la uber) or Self-greeting receiption? or predictive room bookings
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
Is it needed and / or ethical in this case? Alzheimers patients don't spontaneously recover, seems immoral to deny them treatment via a placebo when there is no possibility of improvement from their current state. I'm not a s
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by mrgreenfur 7y ago
It's a great question and one of the common complaints to the wave of privacy regulations. I believe that it's not a ton of work, but may be a bit of legalese to wade through and should be basic due diligence for collecting person

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