bootaccount

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by bootaccount 5y ago
ah, so you're just talking the talk, without preparing to walk the walk... things don't improve because you just wrote a comment on HN, it has to materially impact the business for them to notice the disagreement with the policy.
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by bootaccount 5y ago
why consider it when you can do it? Behavior can only change when there's a massive drop in MAU and revenue, then the product team will consider backtracking
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by bootaccount 5y ago
I was exposed to this while talking to an Amazon recruiter recently, while I also hear stories about how they seem to work people to a breaking point. The median tenure at AMZN is also 1.5yrs, per linkedin. Their strategy seems to be to wor
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by bootaccount 5y ago
Windows 10, which was forced on users machines (often without consent nor approval) meets the threshold for spyware. Could the entire OS be considered spyware? Should Win 11, which is expected to have mandatory MSFT account, be considered s
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by bootaccount 5y ago
Amazon's Ad business is a monster that is growing faster and faster [1] so they'll want to track and absorb as much data as possible. FireTV is one of the noisiest devices in my home, second only to Roku, constantly phoning home.
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by bootaccount 8y ago
reddit also injects unique tracking into every outbound URL click, allowing them to monitor individual user behavior and engagement (similar to Google Search results)
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by bootaccount 8y ago
it's at the top of the release to distract the investors that don't spend the time to dig through all the details in the rest of the document.
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by bootaccount 8y ago
there's nothing stopping from Alexa recording content locally and transmitting it with a traditional request once activated. Also, there's no reason for Amazon to want a constant stream of Alexa data hitting their cloud services.
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by bootaccount 8y ago
try disabling Google Maps location access permission. For me it triggers an endless loop requesting Location permission, rendering the app unusable. Google's always mining data behind the scenes and gapps are constantly phoning home, y
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by bootaccount 8y ago
advertising is the biggest thing 'educating' voters, and usually it's usually something along the lines of here's why <party> <candidate> is bad, vote for me instead. News media is trash and unreliable as the
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by bootaccount 8y ago
you can start with getting NetGuard - a no-root firewall that can be used to prevent apps from connecting to unnecessary domains. It's from the same developer who made xPrivacy. If you can achieve root, you will have much greater contr
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by bootaccount 8y ago
the only option I've found is to force desktop mode, otherwise virtually all engagement with the mobile site will redirect to the app
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by bootaccount 8y ago
they're using app.adjust.com to force the user to get the app and track the behavior -- using Firefox and something like uBlock will prevent the behavior and block the redirect attempt
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by bootaccount 8y ago
I disagree. My parents emigrated to different lands (with me) to provide me additional opportunity to excel. I'm early into my career and have a higher salary [6fig] than my parents', primarily due to the sacrifices they made over
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by bootaccount 8y ago
google chrome drops cookies that you cannot clear with recent updates also in Chrome it's not possible to block things like sending URLs back to base for safebrowsing (like Firefox)