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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
Phil Knight mentioned this in Shoe Dog. I don't remember the details but he was paid a visit by some officials and they told him he cannot pay factory workers more than they can pay their doctors.
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Ask HN: Should I accept all cookies? (and clear them shortly after?)
18 points by ogeiczvm 4y ago|7 comments
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
Yes, I did notice that replies to your post were blaming cookies and some incorrect assumptions - hence I wanted to put the time in writing this post separately. To further validate our assumptions - try to use google maps daily for at leas
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
Yes, never logged on. Linking your location back to you personally is a different topic and depends on your usage - but if you have a static IP for > 2 weeks - google.com should show you your precise location (at the bottom of the page).
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
> There is no path forward that permits both "I don't accept Google's data practices" and "I allow Location Services for Google mobile apps on my iOS device". :) in my case I have a family member sharing my
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
I actually mentioned this in another reply. I never tried but it should work in an android emulator - set the GPS coordinates to something interesting - of course, something that won't potentially get you in trouble.
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
I never tried this - but I would've expected that after using Google Maps for a couple of weeks while in London - the GeoIP data would've been updated again back to the UK?
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
I am aware of the IP leak in iOS but that's only for Apple services, Google Maps will always use the outbound VPN IP. Something to note though - in my post I never mentioned the "real IP" - all tests were done to change the g
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
It would be an interesting test if someone has the time and resources - use conflicting location for the same IP. Could be done in an emulator in Android Studio I assume? I would think that it would simply treat it as bad (inconclusive) dat
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
I always use private browsing window (and note my recommendation on how to replicate - to use Firefox Focus as this does not have any persistent data) - so yes. It's definitely updated on GeoIP as it's device independent (eg: a la
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Tell HN: Google Maps location data is used for GeoIP updates
113 points by ogeiczvm 4y ago|65 comments
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
thank you - I already had GreaseMonkey installed (for old.reddit.com redirection) - wasn't sure if they're compatible but they are - it worked nicely without any modifications - thank you very much. depending on the size of the l
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by ogeiczvm 4y ago
of course, in retrospective now it makes sense - thanks for taking the time to look into this, appreciate it.
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Ask HN: How do I hide a user's comments?
2 points by ogeiczvm 4y ago|11 comments
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by ogeiczvm 5y ago
My day to day browser is a hardened Firefox (plenty of about:config tweaks, resistfingerprinting, ublock origin, temporary containers etc). For signing up to Oracle Cloud I used a tmpfs based Chromium browser (ie: completely fresh, factory
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by ogeiczvm 7y ago
> Of course, you could mitigate this by setting up your own VPN on something like Linode, but unless you're regularly rotating IP addresses, you've just traded a pseudo-identifier that multiple people/devices share for a p
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by ogeiczvm 7y ago
Sometimes governments have a sense of humour: https://www.govt.nz/404
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by ogeiczvm 7y ago
I have a nextcloud instance (alongside a few other things). I run it on a $10 VPS (disk is a RAID1 array between the local VPS disk and a remote disk (ceph?) that the provider gives. That's the 1st level of storage redundancy. I perio