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…
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
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…
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…
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…
reddit also injects unique tracking into every outbound URL click, allowing them to monitor individual user behavior and engagement (similar to Google Search results)
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.
ah, yes the popular vote. Let's let the massive population of california lead the way deciding the fate of the country and give it to the hands of a larger criminal.…
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…
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…
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 they too…
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…
the only option I've found is to force desktop mode, otherwise virtually all engagement with the mobile site will redirect to the app
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
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…
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)
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
reddit also injects unique tracking into every outbound URL click, allowing them to monitor individual user behavior and engagement (similar to Google Search results)
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.
ah, yes the popular vote. Let's let the massive population of california lead the way deciding the fate of the country and give it to the hands of a larger criminal.…
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…
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…
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 they too…
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…
the only option I've found is to force desktop mode, otherwise virtually all engagement with the mobile site will redirect to the app
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
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…
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)