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Coming soon: AI detector detectors.

I agree with the points raised by the article, but shouldn't there also be a push to stop cellular service providers from selling your location data? It's worthwhile to call out smartphone app developers, but ISPs can get your location even if you don't have a smartphone, and in fact are required to be able to report on this by law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_... etc.). Does the EFF just think that it's moot to try to legislate against the latter?

Can I pay for YouTube Premium without my watch history being used to build an advertising profile on me? I know I can read the privacy policy, but I'd be interested to see if anyone has any evidence to the contrary. Overall I think the ad-blocking crackdown is good for both sides here . . . I just wish I could be confident that paying for a service ensures some level of privacy (which is not the case for things like phone service, in which e.g. T-Mobile sells your location data).

I wish employers would stop pretending the push to end remote work is even tangentially related to productivity.

Very cool to see. I wonder how much shoulder strength this requires.

I just recently went through the process of closing my Wells Fargo account and switching to a different institution. It was surprisingly difficult to open with a credit union (none that were in my region offered 2FA, and the one big national one wanted me to verify some information during signup with Stripe . . . no thank you). I was determined to switch and ended up opening a bank-like account elsewhere, but I can see why people don't do it.

Too much fuss for making a lot of coffee per day . . . I'm happy with my $30 electric grinder and $220 SCAA-certified drip machine.

Sadly, we both know the answer to that question.

Love the reviews.

Amazing. I'll have to keep this in mind next time I want to skip the gym . . . .

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found it odd.

Every time this subject comes up, the comments are filled with people who feel entitled to watch YouTube for free (not willing to pay in attention or in hard currency). "If you don't watch to pay for it or watch ads, don't use the service" just gets ignored, and people post ridiculous replies like "lol I just block all ads" . . . it's as if YouTube is as necessary to their survival as water.

It's also great because it demonstrates how full of BS many of the "if I had a choice to pay for the <ad-supported thing> I would" crowd are . . . not all, of course, but I bet there's a sizeable intersection between the two categories.

Typical post from a clueless author who doesn't understand the purpose of simplification. Ordinary people don't need to care about technical implementation details, and "small bits of text" gives a basic idea of the concept as far as it concerns them.

This.

Interesting, do you know if this extends to consumer technology companies like Lenovo and Motorola? I find the claim easy to believe about services like TikTok, but it seems like it would be more difficult to surveil hardware customers globally without being detected. On the other hand, if there were some backdoor in consumer hardware, I suppose we might not be able to detect it . . . .

The cynic in me wonders how much personal data is being harvested by these private companies with the PRC's blessing. The occasional high-profile smackdown could be a tactical way of hiding that agenda.

I'm going to disable this nonsense the second it hits my device, if ever.

Brave Goggles: https://search.brave.com/help/goggles

Count me among the ones using FF Mobile. I can't imagine browsing the mobile web without an ad-blocker, and I'm happy to fight back against the browser duopoloy.

Will a local stub resolver respect the TTL, or are queries to authoritative name servers never cached? I know something like dnsproxy would care about the TTL, but not sure about, say, systemd-resolved. But good point nonetheless.

Fun :). It would be interesting to see how accurate one could get the time records (I see a TTL of 1 second, but what if the algorithm for reporting the time could try to measure latency between DNS client and itself and . . . yadda yadda yadda). Wish we had more submissions like this one.

I'm highly suspicious of Vodafone's claim that this tracking scheme will protect user privacy. Hopefully this gets challenged in court.

Now I'll think twice before getting near another banana . . . :).

+1, was looking for this. Some of the articles are rewarding, though.

This was a good read, even if many of the points cover well-trodden ground. I wonder how much folks agree with "all behavior makes sense, given enough information".

Funny to see how delusional the replies to this are

I have HN on 200%, using a 21.5" 1080p monitor myself.

^ This. It's so obnoxious that the _only way_ to e-file is to go through one of these companies, unless your income falls below a certain (not-very-generous) threshold.

Painfully relatable :). In a similar vein, Google's Calculator app for Android and ChromeOS doesn't allow you to input parentheses (there's no button for it, despite there being three "pages" of buttons, and it mysteriously does not allow you to paste them into the input field).

Absolutely disgusting to read about what people can get away with if they're useful to the FBI . . . .