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thehourson iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus

WhatsApp video [1]

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jeff-bezos-phone-hack-mbs-sa...

thehourson iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices

Given how rampant ad fraud is in programmatic, I wonder how much revenue actually drops for these companies, relative to the decreased ad spend.

Uber’s [1] experience is one example:

“We turned off two thirds of our ad spend – $100m out of annual spend of $150m – and basically saw no change in our number of rider app installs. What we saw is a lot of installs we thought had come through paid channels suddenly came through organic.”

[1] https://mackgrenfell.com/blog/how-did-uber-waste-so-much-ad-...

thehourson Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

Generally speaking my personal experiences with Amazon have been good. However, I’ve similarly shifted most of my online purchases elsewhere because (1) I don’t trust the reviews anymore and (2) I don’t trust Amazon’s suppliers.

Ironically, my purchases on Amazon these days are almost exclusively books and ebooks.

thehourson Using fake reviews to find dangerous extensions

Were these reviewers only leaving reviews on spoofed extensions? Seems like it’d be trivial to mix in positive reviews of legit extensions, making the trail harder to follow.

thehourson Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi

I found egpu.io to be a fairly reliable source. Check out their build section to see if anyone has successfully paired an eGPU with your Mac model.

I was able to get a ThunderBolt 2 Mac to work with a Razor Core + Vega 56 combo, but YMMV. Away from computer so don’t remember exact year for my MBP, circa 2015 maybe?

thehourson Too rude for Facebook: the ban on Britain's historic place names

Tom Scott did a short bit on this topic, Why Web Filters Don’t Work - https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE