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by 2cb 5y ago
Some people, especially those who have more international contacts, will prefer to use Telegram over WhatsApp sure. It is rare to find anyone under the age of 60 who uses SMS as their primary method of communication in 2021 though. The numb
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by 2cb 5y ago
You missed out some vital context from the source of that statistic: > The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, from a peak of 150.83 billion in 2012. > The fall in the
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by 2cb 5y ago
WhatsApp has no motivation to use SafetyNet. For one thing plenty of their users use cheap Chinese phones that aren't actually Google certified (but come with the Play Store anyway) and they know this full well from their analytics. Fo
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by 2cb 5y ago
> The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, from a peak of 150.83 billion in 2012. The fall in the number of SMS and MMS messages sent over mobile networks in the UK, coinc
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by 2cb 5y ago
Thanks. Since no company is registered under that address I'd bet there simply is no company and the guy is just a sole trader under the name Six Ace Games. No official registration needed for that, you just have to report the income t
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by 2cb 5y ago
> Or does Google associates even if you're logged in into multiple accounts in the same browser? Of course they do. Fingerprinting browsers is extremely easy.
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by 2cb 5y ago
The only restriction they have for unrooted phones is lack of auto updates, a mild inconvenience at worst. You also have to hit "install" on a little pop up window when you install something. That's it. Most regular users are
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by 2cb 5y ago
> Furthermore, no company would be asinine enough to allow bots, AI, or ML make decisions without a way to undo those changes. Sadly this is actually the norm across all these big tech platforms these days. Algorithm bans an account, hum
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by 2cb 5y ago
If you have a rooted phone you probably have Magisk, it's virtually the universal go to rooting app and the easiest method of rooting. You can even still get OTA's if your phone uses the A/B update system like basically every
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by 2cb 5y ago
You can run a script to do it for you, you don't even have to know what SQLite is, you just need to go on xda and run the script that makes Google Pay work. Although I would argue that these concerns only apply to regular users who wou
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by 2cb 5y ago
If your product is B2B SaaS do you really need to put ads inside your app?
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by 2cb 5y ago
It genuinely does wonders for mental health to disable notifications for social media apps. Definitely agree there.
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by 2cb 5y ago
Very sloppy for it to not even do a 301 redirect though. Even if you use one of those basic website builder services they will do that as standard. Decided to run SSL Labs on the site out of curiosity[1] and they still have TLS 1.0 activate
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by 2cb 5y ago
> No company information in the UK company database for either 6ace or sixace, despite a claimed address of "61,hallwicks road,Luton,Bedfordshire,London-LU2 9BG". To be fair it is common for a UK company to have a generic name
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by 2cb 5y ago
They've gained free SEO, traffic, and publicity from this HN thread alone.
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by 2cb 5y ago
A Linux phone could run WhatsApp if the Linux distro was implemented in such a way that it could run Android apps (remember Android is basically just a runtime on top of the Linux kernel) and since AOSP is FOSS this is very doable and legal
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by 2cb 5y ago
It is similar in the UK as well regarding WhatsApp. Not quite to the extreme you describe, but WhatsApp has 100% replaced SMS. No one uses SMS. It is all WhatsApp. People don't talk about texting they say "I'll WhatsApp you.&
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by 2cb 5y ago
Not rare at all if you sit on a train and glance around you. I see people watching movies/TV on phones and tablets constantly out in public. Very common. It's partly the reason I got a Fold 3. Very good for on the move media consu
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by 2cb 5y ago
This is a very US centric view. In virtually all of Europe, for instance, WhatsApp is the go to messenger and no one uses SMS anymore. In some countries - primarily Russia, but also in Europe e.g. Germany and increasingly the UK - Telegram
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by 2cb 5y ago
The blog post says outright they are not an American company, they are not hiding that.
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by 2cb 5y ago
Yeah the genuinely malicious apps are unlikely to be using Google ads or other services to generate revenue.
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by 2cb 5y ago
I realise this is an edge case, but if you don't have an FB account but you set one up to create a page for your business and set up ads for it etc, it'll likely get shut down very quickly by FB's algorithms. So basically if
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by 2cb 5y ago
If you use Magisk you can just sideload Netflix from APK Mirror or Aurora Store and you're fine. Samsung stock ROMs specifically have extra Netflix DRM checks built in iirc, but if you're rooted disabling them should be easy, I&#x
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by 2cb 5y ago
Best non-sarcastic option is to submit to the OEM app stores like Samsung Galaxy Store and Huawei App Gallery.
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by 2cb 5y ago
The manager of the company (we can guess likely the CEO since it's a small startup) was infected by a trojan that stole passwords from his computer, but they're certain it didn't infect the network because they "wiped th
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by 2cb 5y ago
Do you think such people go around advertising that fact?
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by 2cb 5y ago
I don't see how it's "way inferior" to manually hit an "update" button, it's a minor inconvenience at best.
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by 2cb 5y ago
15% of the consumers is, I'm guessing, based on US marketshare? The company in the OP here is not American, and outside of the US, Android has the majority of the smartphone marketshare in most of the world. Despite what Americans ofte
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by 2cb 5y ago
Yeah no one outside of Google does including the developers who got banned, that's kinda the whole problem...
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by 2cb 5y ago
They could but Google's AI would likely pick it up instantly and they actually would have broken the ban evasion rule at that point so they wouldn't have a leg to stand on when accusing Google of being unfair.

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