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circa··on Instagram Threatened Removal of Verified Status for Posting Snapchat Content
LOL the title should just be something like, "when stupid gets even more stupid"
circa··on Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers
love the site!
circa··on Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
Time to pull a Radiohead and delete all your tweets overnight.
circa··on iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
"Apple outsourcing Maps' business info to Yelp, they really should hold their partners to a much higher standard given all of their privacy rhetoric."

I could not agree more. I cannot stand Yelp and was pretty bummed when they integrated Yelp into Apple Maps.

circa··on News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
At first, I read it quickly as "NEW websites are dumpster fires." Which is also sometimes true. For lack of a better term. I hate the "tablet catered" website look on a desktop. A lot of the news sites look this way too. I'm not really sure how else to describe it.
circa··on macOS X GateKeeper Bypass
Someone should inform the KeyMaster
circa··on Klotho – There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge Your Brain. Who Should Get It?
All i can think of is Ghostbusters - "I am Vince Klo(r)tho keymaster of Gozer!"
circa··on Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
This has been my experience too. I think they were good a long time ago when jobs needed to be created but there is not much use for them now.
circa··on [dead]
Misleading title is misleading
circa··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
Just ban all the comments. The world would be a better place.
circa··on Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret
Yeah, I was worried it was the thermostat too. Hopefully that day will NOT come when they tell us all their products have microphones in them.
circa··on Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions
could not agree more!
circa··on Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
I believe it also broke the File History and Windows Backup (if you use those). I had a client I had to restore from backups. Thankfully they only lost 1 small file in the mix of it all.
circa··on Google+ shutting down after users' data is exposed
Surprised it took this long
circa··on Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles
I've moved most of my users to Microsoft Teams and its not much better.
circa··on Twitter's Secret “Guest Mode”
Pretty sweet find! Thanks for sharing!
circa··on Bay Area man must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly
Slightly off topic, but the "Reply All" podcast did a great episode on the foreign IT phone support scams about a year ago.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance#episode-...

circa··on AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner
The only good that can come of this all is that the Time Warner name will finally go away. (yes i know this is the media company vs. the cable company but this is the end of it!) the rest of the deal, is not so great.

edit: not vs.* but 2 different entities with similar names.

circa··on Netflix suffers first massive global outage
True but you know people will act like it is.
circa··on Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands
Also, I still love that Geico Ice T Lemonade commercial. One of the very very few commercials I enjoyed.
circa··on Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands
Wow they really go after ANY small businesses, don't they!?
circa··on America is losing the battle against robocalls
Yeah it’s getting worse too. I’ve had the same number for about 18 years and I definitely get about 5-12 calls per day. Usually weekdays and during work hours. Our business line is awful. Constant calls all day long. About 25% robocalls
circa··on $11M settlement reached with Google regarding terminated AdSense accounts
Ugh, yeah this brings back bad memories. Similar to and reminds me of all the PayPal issues in the past as well. What headaches.
circa··on US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level
The beginning of "The Handmaid's Tale"
circa··on YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
Just what we need! A new streaming music service!! Who isn't excited?!
circa··on YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
Not to mention the increase of product placement in movies these days too!
circa··on “Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy”
I really want to do a Whois search and have it say George Costanza as the owner of this site.
circa··on MoviePass no longer lets you see the same movie more than once
They did just introduce this feature in like January too. I'm surprised this is what they're revoking. Must be a lot of repeat offenders.
circa··on Someone bought my Twitter account 10K fake/bot followers
How much did he sell it for? As people mention you can buy a lot of fake followers for cheap. I do like a lot of the data here though.
circa··on Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15
Will they make them go away with this one weird trick?
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