Dan-Q

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by Dan-Q 2mo ago
Original author here. Upon inspection, these passwords are clearly not chosen by the user and, as far as I can tell, consist only of numbers and uppercase letters.
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by Dan-Q 2mo ago
I'm the original author (but not the poster here on HN). Yeah, I considered that. I even wrote the code in such a way that it supports that. But I'm concerned about the legality of distributing it. Given that it hits API endpoints
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Often I'm lazy and just black out revealing information, like I did in my blog post about how British Gas can't understand my name ( https://danq.me/it-is-only-q ). But sometimes I've done the same thing in oth
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Yeah, it was a bad metaphor. I was sleepy. Blurring makes sense as a way to say "this is private". It's almost lampshading, in this case, because it's the bit I want you to look at! But blurring doesn't make sense f
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Could be! My only counterpoint is that every time they've previously made a change, they've emailed to say so, and I've searched my email (including spam) and not found any such mention this time around. /shrug/
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Sorry, I got mixed-up between this and another thread. You're right, the Google Play one was provided separately (and has now been corrected). My post was about the Business Profile one. Which started (seemingly randomly) containing th
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
To indicate to the reader that the information represented by this area of the image should be considered private. It's like how they blur nipples on TV. We all know what nipples look like! But they're blurred to say "yeah, b
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
For the business account. I wanted to take control of the Google Business Profile (back then: Google My Business) listing. To do that, Google asked for a phone number they could call. I provided one, and then double-checked that they hadn&#
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Sure. But I still don't think it covers Business Profile. But I'll check.
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
My phone number is on my CV, and that's deliberate (I want a job!). It's in plenty of other places online too. But none of them (except the Google Play one, which I'm fixing) are associated with the business or were provided
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Yes, there is. I'm not claiming that my personal phone number shouldn't be online anywhere. There are plenty of places it's pretty easy to find! I'm just saying that I didn't put my personal phone number onto a publ
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
No, I gave my phone number to Google to gain access to Business Profile, as part of an identity verification process, and specifically didn't give them one to publish on the business listing. And they correctly didn't publish one.
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Post author here. Nope, I'm in the UK, and therefore covered by the DPA2018 (which is basically the copy-paste version of the GDPR that the UK government made post-Brexit).
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Not sure that Google offer Takeout on Business Profiles. Businesses aren't often protected by the kinds of PII-protecting laws (GDPR etc.) that individuals are, and so tech companies are less-inclined to make tools to streamline bulk e
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Post author here. There shouldn't be one on the website (and I can't see one?), but the Google Play developer profile is unfortunate: thanks for pointing it out.
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by Dan-Q 1y ago
Blog owner here. You're welcome to unblur it: I swapped the number out in the screenshot for one of Ofcom's list of official never-to-be-assigned telephone numbers for drama (e.g. film & TV) use ( https://www.ofcom.o
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by Dan-Q 4y ago
No JS on that page either!
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by Dan-Q 4y ago
Thanks; I hadn't noticed that. It's a side-effect from some terrible CMS plugin I thought I'd disabled. Fixing it now. Edit: Fixed! Thanks again!
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by Dan-Q 7y ago
Thanks for the shout-out! Even though I know it cheats (and how) I still play against Cheatman sometimes; the challenge is to make guesses that force the computer to bisect its search space into two approximately-even subdictionaries rather