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by pnw 6mo ago
The examples show Android devices. How does Webloc track iOS devices given Apple doesn't allow unique IDs and allows the user to disable the ad ID? I wish these articles would go into a bit more detail for the technical reader.
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by pnw 6mo ago
See point 7 at https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
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by pnw 6mo ago
They responded on the Chrome store. Hey William, thanks for flagging this! We were experimenting with analytics to help us identify crashes and improve stability. We've rolled this back in v2.1.17, which is now live and being rolled ou
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by pnw 6mo ago
I do the same. Minor correction - it's no longer Vudu, it's now called Fandango at home. You also have to watch out for expiry dates on the codes. US only. Paramount and Lionsgate are the only studios which don't participate
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by pnw 6mo ago
Up to one third of that $99m goes to attorneys. Named plaintiffs get $25k each and class members get what's left over, which could be anything from $50 to $5k according to ChatGPT. I wonder if they'll throw in free credit monitori
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by pnw 6mo ago
According to Wikipedia, the DEA gave him immunity on additional charges in return for pleading guilty and running a sting against his associates, but before the DEA knew about the murders.
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by pnw 6mo ago
I read whatever version of this book was available to download in 2020 and really enjoyed it. Some very original ideas. I didn't find the writing clunky, and I read way too much.
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by pnw 6mo ago
Oracle laid off 491 people in Seattle this week.
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by pnw 6mo ago
I think that's the point. Nobody in the 80s or early 90s understood how quickly it would grow by 1995.
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by pnw 6mo ago
McKinsey estimated the global market for cellphones would be 900,000 units in 2000. They were off by 100 million. Even until the 90s some telcos believed that cell usage would never eclipse landlines which would remain the base of their bus
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by pnw 6mo ago
They said the same thing about cell phones vs landlines back in the day. Based on Starlink's revenue doubling year on year, and a six fold increase since 2022, I don't think anyone really knows what the upper bounds for global acc
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by pnw 6mo ago
5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) is already part of the 5G standard. It's not a replacement for terrestrial carriers, it's an expansion that enables devices to be always connected and select the appropriate terrestrial vs satelli
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by pnw 6mo ago
Audited financials would be released with the S-1. But it's very unlikely that they are not audited given the amount of money they have raised.
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by pnw 7mo ago
Allowing private right of action means this will be weaponized by attorneys in the same way the ADA has. Just scanning the bill, any small business in the US using dynamic pricing, targeted discounts or "VIP pricing" on their webs
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by pnw 7mo ago
That's good news!
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by pnw 7mo ago
Based on the links in the articles, it's personal photographs and a resume from an old Gmail account. The resume dates from 2017.
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by pnw 7mo ago
I love Proton but it's really low on usability since their calendar doesn't integrate with anything (by design). If you are used to managing a busy calendar it's quite a shock. And their docs and sheets apps are extremely min
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by pnw 7mo ago
My understanding was that it's very difficult to reliably fingerprint iOS devices. Apple limits access to identifiers and specifically disallows fingerprinting. For this application of tracking people, you'd need decent reliabilit
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by pnw 7mo ago
You can buy eSIMs that aren't linked to your identity at https://www.phreeli.com/
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by pnw 7mo ago
Nobody has explained to me how iOS ad SDKs across different apps can track individual users given that there hasn't been an accessible GUID on iOS for many years now.
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by pnw 8mo ago
IDK how many people on HN have read When Prophecy Fails, but it's a seminal paper as I understand it. If you want a more contemporary and readable book on the same topic, When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer C
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by pnw 8mo ago
It's not the best EV site when all of the coverage of the US market leader is so incredibly slanted due to personal politics of the editor.
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by pnw 8mo ago
Electrek is a highly biased source, the editor has a grudge against Elon and Tesla. It's really unfortunate since it used to be one of the best EV sites.
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by pnw 8mo ago
It doesn't seem like Brave's fingerprinting prevention includes extensions, so on my first pass I would say no.
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by pnw 9mo ago
It sends alerts to the thief's iPhone or Android (if you have Apple's Tracker Detect Android app) that they are being tracked within 30 to 60 minutes. It also enables the beeping so the thief can find and remove the Airtag. If the
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by pnw 9mo ago
Apple has removed all mention of theft tracking from their site once they added the stalking protection. Airtag is for people who lose things, not finding stolen things. You have less than an hour before an Airtag alerts a thief they are be
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by pnw 9mo ago
Unfortunately the anti-stalking features have made Airtag mostly useless for theft prevention. You have less than an hour to retrieve your item before the tag alerts the thief they are being tracked. I've seen it trigger as quickly as
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by pnw 9mo ago
You can turn it off without resorting to a local account, although it's non-obvious. GPEdit -> Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → BitLocker Drive Encryption → Operating System Drives → “Choose h
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by pnw 9mo ago
This is the same model Computer Associates used to run back in the day. Find product with marginal profit but dedicated user base, cut costs, increase pricing and milk it until the next product comes along.
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by pnw 9mo ago
To stop third parties selling your location information. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/...

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