throw_away892

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by throw_away892 6y ago
Kinda new on here but am loving the bare bones feel to the forum. The karma bit in my previous comment was added as a sarcastic aid. I personally don't care much for gaining karma. Thank you for this extra context. Very helpful.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Except I (throwawei) had to login to another account (this one) to reply you as the downvotes triggered some soft ban limit on the account from replying/commenting. So much for free speech... I would post photos holding today's ne
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by throw_away892 6y ago
HN Commandments: pray you don't offend the rain gods. Your karma will be wiped away in a furiously terrible flood.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
> IDFA The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need? Even if you manage to toggle 3rd parties out of your phone. You cannot toggle the Apple out of it.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
I enjoyed Mad Men. But comparing web advertising today to the 70-80s is disingenuous. Fact of the matter is, advertising today / web marketing relies on user tracking. I'm yet to see anyone debunk this.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Check their ad business brief - https://searchads.apple.com/ As requested, evidence of tracking in iPhones - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/11/16/appl...
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Not true. Facebook doesn't do any of this automatically, manner of speaking, unless the user explicitly informs the addon to do so.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
This looks like simply naive thinking. Without evidence to backup your statement about Apple, everything about it breaks the cardinal rule of the ads business.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Not enough. Need to see it go down 20-30% more. The BTC pump craze needs to die down so my diamond hands can buy it from the weak hands.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Ouch. I can relate to a bit of some of your issues. What saved me from all these seemingly mysterious bugs is going with a pure Arch system. I was using Manjaro at the time and it wasn't fun patching it just so that it could break on t
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by throw_away892 6y ago
After using a Linux distro as my main desktop OS, there was no way I was ever going back to the monstrosity that is Windows. No matter how bad Linux sucks in some regards, it is the black sheep of the family that will always have that speci
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Just because you (unique use case) don't see the problem doesn't mean it does not exist (for the common average user). The whole browser "sync" you get with Chrome is much more than keeping your bookmarks. It is a featur
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Happy user as well. I use it as a hackish solution for ssh-ing to my closed-down homelab. I love how well their authentication & security is modelled. This is great news for them.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Accurate. Gotta keep the engines of crypto trading churning.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Not in defence of big tech but Australia is doing this whole news business laws wrong and for the wrong reasons. [0] Only good is that this serves as a nice reminder that big tech & co. that they are not independent of government legisl
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by throw_away892 6y ago
True. But that was not my argument.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
A customer won't order through 3rd party app if the restaurant doesn't partner to sell through them. Same case for internet marketing. What you should feel bad about are the excessive commission fees charged by those delivery apps
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Ah yes. Thanks for the memory. So they effectively cut their ad spend on Facebook by 2/3rds (an experiment) and saw virtually no difference between the two budgets. An obvious indication of reporting fraud.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
I remember not too long ago Uber cancelling previous arrangements with Facebook advertising over a similar fraud.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Direction regarding this help info would be appreciated
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by throw_away892 6y ago
Epic's move (if it succeeds) would have a direct positive effect on the consumer. Across the board. It's not a gamer issue anymore. It is now bigger than them.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
How you don't see Epic's move as a win for Apple users is ironic given how pro-consumer you seem to perceive Apple to be.
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by throw_away892 6y ago
> First, manual APK install has to be enabled in obscure settings that come with a "scary" warning. Don't see how this is necessarily a bad thing. It's a general security notification. > Then they can't provid