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No more than any other social network and more likely to be less so. This just seems to be a justification for future government action against the app/company.

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My IQ continually dropped while reading this summary and anyone that knows me would tell you that I can't afford that.

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https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/fdb47392-6233-49f6-a5ba-59d8e465d1a3.webp

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https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/e4e1fa77-c370-4f36-844d-0cad4e664131.webp

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The article seems a little light on any single fact but does anyone know if there's any actual data that shows personal disability information being recorded/collected? Is the tracking code being served both on the public side and in the logged in portion of the portal? Absolutely no meaningful information was provided.

I know we can sue a sandwich, is this one of these lawsuits? "I found Google tracking code on the DMV site so it's time to earn my retirement" sort of thing?

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This is America

I think that's a very apt summary of the case. It's our super-lotto.

Everyone knows(like even my elderly mom) that Google, FB, etc follow you everywhere and that they use that data. I would have no doubt those sites knew she was disabled long before she visited the DMV site. It looks like she just found a way to monetize it.

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My family plays the games under my account now. I imagine not much will change when I'm dead.

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Pretty sure I'm good. Account email is a forwarder to a family domain and they have access to everything relating to the account. For all intents and purposes, it's just me logging in from the grave.

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Sorry for not being clear, I wasn't aware family sharing was even a thing. In my case, everyone is using my credentials to log into and use the games under my account. All the same property so same IP.

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I don't think major manufacturers ever will make them. We'll continue to get one-off kickstarter-esque fringe phones that'll keep the most devout Luddite happy and the rest of us will buy what we are offered whether we want a dumb phone or not.

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I know and consider those to be squarely on the fringe.

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The only people that would heed a warning of that sort are the same people that would not be using it in the first place.

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Man I got so excited about beeper but it just fails to log in to anything I try to set up. FB, sms, anything at all, it successfully logs me in and then hangs on the spinning wheel of death

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

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“Proton does not require a recovery address, but in this case the terror suspect added one on their own. We cannot encrypt this data as we need to be able to send an email to that address if the terror suspect wishes to initiate the recovery process,..."

I love that proton kept referring to the user as the "terror suspect" repeatedly so we would know they're really the good guy here.

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Thanks very much for the clarification to the context, I really appreciate it as someone who had no idea.

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I don't have a business account with them but have had a Prime subscription since Prime became a thing and have to say that something has changed in regards to the support as of late and not for the better.

Last week, we had 6 orders scheduled to arrive to our house and we got notifications for all that they had been delivered to the office and handed to reception, which we don't have, just a porch and a door. My wife contacted support to tell them and they said they would refund all of the orders without even looking to see where they got delivered to. The support person gave a few different totals, none of which were correct and we ended up having to go through our orders to add up the refund total since he couldn't do it correctly. After all of that a refund was issued..... and then the packages were delivered about 30 minutes later.

We have been trying for days now to let them know that the packages were delivered so we could be billed correctly but so far, every person we've talked to has said they're allowed to refund but not allowed to charge us and that it had to be passed to someone above them.

I don't have a lot of faith that they'll figure it out and worry that some day, they'll just cancel our account because they detected some type of fraud.

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lol, calm down there, captain commenter. You're going to blow a gasket.

schwim ,
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Thanks very much, that's what we ended up doing. We just reordered the canceled items and then returned them with the "no refund needed" option chosen.

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No, I reordered the items, then returned without requesting refund, as some helpful commenter suggested here while you were writing your epic diatribe.

What email provider do you use for sign ups?

I used to use Protonmail, however the verification steps become tedious when creating unique emails for sign ups. I've switched to Tutanota despite it contravening their one account policy. What do you all use for one off emails (for sign ups etc )? Or do you prefer one of those 10 minute email sites?

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I use forwarders on a domain I own that point to my primary acct.

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Anyone have an eli5 explanation of how AITA works? What patterns could be captured and how would that lead to identification or data siphoning?

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Thanks very much, I believe I understand that part now, like a fingerprint to associate to site components like pulled in js, css, etc. I still don't understand, though, how they associate that to a particular user of a VPN. Does each request done through a VPN include some sort of identifier for each of us or is AI also doing something to put these requests in a particular user's bucket?

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Could you explain how separate emails would increase security risk? I ask because I've used separate emails for absolutely everything and it has only ever helped me with security( if I get a Microsoft security notice to anything other than Microsoft@mydoma.in, I know it's not legitimate).

I don't mean in lieu of 2fa, strong pass, etc, I mean in conjunction. I don't see how it could hurt.

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My gym does this. I carry one my old phones in my console with nothing but the gym app on it. I turn it on when I park, it connects to wifi while I'm walking in, I scan the code then turn it off and throw it in my bag.

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Youtube has ads?

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Freetube with sponsorblock enabled foils all of it.

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Freetube with sponsor block is a godsend.

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I do this for part of my reg forms. I split the reg process into two parts. First, supply email only. This element uses an obfuscated id. Once they do that, the link sent to their email leads to the rest of the process, using no obfuscation. This should keep from breaking password managers.

Regarding login bruteforcing. I give them 3 shots then a cooling down period.

This process has resulted in a 0% success rate for bots so far. We will see how it holds as the domain sees more traffic.

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I absolutely love the token spoofing and hope more developers pursue that solution. The more unpaid API access, the better.

Comments no longer visible with youtube frontends?

Are comments no longer visible for anyone else using the youtube frontends? I can no longer see comments with either invidious, piped, or viewtube, and I've tried several instances of each. With invidious there's just nothing there below the video description. With viewtube I get an error message. And with piped I see...

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Still working for me on Freetube.

schwim ,
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Windows for gaming, Linux for everything else. With the way I use it, I don't see the desktop, much less notice any changes between updates.

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I have tried. For the games I like to play, this is not the case, sadly. Windows provides a vastly superior gaming experience in my case.

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Unfortunately, our lives don't perform at the technical level but the practical. Gaming performance for the games I like are abysmal on linux. I appreciate linux for what it excels at but I would never suggest it to someone that wanted to game.

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I sit in my car.

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I forgot about the epidemic of gas station explosions due to people sitting in their cars.

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If it is of concern for you, you're going to lose your shit when you find out the risks involved when you actually drive your car.

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Can you perhaps share some statistics of explosions caused by getting in a car? No? How about an article of someone blown to smithereens by getting in there car? Not that either?

What you're feeling better about is the theater of inferred safe practices. The fact that in spite of driving being the top cause of accidental death, you're ok with but although there is no factual info backing up your fear of getting into your car should give you pause.

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Not that it didn't happen, just that they are so rare, you had to find a 4 pixel video of one and are completely unable to provide any statistics due to it's rarity.

I was going to link a vehicle accident to back up my claim but, well, I had problems picking one from the 6 million that occur annually.

But you go ahead and worry about the static electricity while fueling so you can hop in your car and hurtle down the road around the oncoming rockets that are infinitely more likely to end your life but you are, for some strange reason, more OK with.

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Luckily there's no sticker on our car about the risks of driving, so we know it's safe.

You seem angry. Maybe 4 1/2 hours of vehicle crashes will soothe you. Dont worry, they are high-resolution.

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"Stickers tell me when to worry." - You

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Here's another hour of vehicle accidents for you to calm you down.

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"Fear everything except for the most likely cause of death." - You

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Since you're struggling to keep throwing other elements into this discussion in hopes of legitimizing you calling me an idiot over an anonymous comment section that has angered you:

I'm fully vaccinated because the risk of death without has been proven to be significant.
I wear a seat belt because the risk of death without has been proven to be significant.
I don't drink and drive because the risk of death when doing so has proven to be significant.
I get in my car when fueling because the risk of doing so is so minuscule that there are literally no published statistics regarding the practice.

You seem to be doubling down on the "I'm having a problem winning this with logic so let's find something else to get this guy on" and super light on any stats, so I'm going to concede you are the winner of this online comment battle(Congrats!). Also, I did find a video showing some static electricity fires so I thought I'd give you that as well. It seems you were right all along.

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I just watch the filler from the side mirror. When I feel the click of the disengagement, I hop out, give a ground pat to the pump and replace the nozzle.

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You keep saying you're done but yet here you are, still engaging.

I win because I've commented last. Yay, me.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

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It will be interesting to see how the technology fares with something like pi-hole.

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It will be interesting to see if PC ad blockers are able to mitigate them or whether they're going to tunnel them in like FB/Instagram do.

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Just say no to noscript.

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