I’m not interested in conjecture I’m interested in facts. Get me some research papers. Get me some court docs. Something.
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I’m not interested in conjecture I’m interested in facts. Get me some research papers. Get me some court docs. Something.
Cox got caught buying that data, and when confronted about it, Google, Amazon, and Meta all failed to deny that they also buy that data from those malicious app makers
But what is that based on? This paragraph?
A spokesperson for CMG told Newsweek that “CMG businesses have never listened to any conversations nor had access to anything beyond third-party aggregated, anonymized, and fully encrypted data sets that can be used for ad placement.”
I don’t think that explicitly means they had datasets made up of clandestinely recorded conversations in the wild.
third-party aggregated, anonymized, and fully encrypted data sets that can be used for ad placement.
Really could describe ANY possible set of tracking data… Unless you put this quote into a clickbaitey article and strongly imply it’s something sinister.
Someone back this up with proof. Security researchers would’ve noticed this. They’d’ve had to have hacked their way around the microphone permission systems and microphone use indicator (depending on OS) on your phone and upload that data without being caught by security analysts. That kind of bug would probably be worth a fairly decent bounty too.
The article talks about a slide in a PITCH to advertisers. But not a concrete system. Then it goes on to say advertisers bought a dataset from other sources. What dataset? From where? It doesn’t say. Transcriptions from voice assistants? Maybe. But without hard evidence I don’t believe random apps are just recording clandestinely in the background. But people want to believe this so writing shitty unsourced articles with click bait titles and tenuous-if-I’m-generous linking of weak facts lacking entirely in context generates lots of clicks.
But that’s stupid, their high end devices are good enough to last 5+ if not for software
Yeah how many attacks have there been using the pseudo-randomness of the RNG to break into modern phones? Going to bet none.
And great software with little bloat and useful features.
But the updates still suck ass.
I mean it really doesn’t get as hot as I’d had thought it would which is apparently the big longevity killer. And the way they help manage these huge wattages is splitting the battery into multiple cells.
Chinese brands have had super fast charging for more than 5 years now and I don’t think I’ve heard too much in the way of massively increased battery degradation.
That bar is still way slow. My phone can charge at 100watts, 0 to 100% in less than 30 minutes. Most American brands are way behind.
I feel like it had far less of an expansive library than the GC.
Definitely don’t. They might be able to run some tools that try to pull files from corrupt file systems but they definitely don’t have the specialty skills and knowledge on how to recover physically damaged hard disks.
I feel like with the advent of nearly ubiquitous unlimited mobile data plans (in some parts of the world) a lot less people use public WiFi. However on a plane you have little choice, so it makes sense.
If only Redbox had 4k blurays I’d probably have used them more, but I know that’s probably way too niche.
Yep. “Free phone” via bill credits for 2 years but they’ll proudly proclaim they don’t do contracts and there’s no ETFs. Technically true, but realistically no difference.
In your circle maybe, I’d love the statistics on this though because I’m pretty sure the overwhelming majority are paying for their phones on installment through their carriers.
I just like how it works with trackpads more, and tend to do more things basically fullscreen anyway.
For me it’s KDE on desktop, GNOME on laptop.
What the hell are you talking about?
LineageOS is well past it’s peak days but they support a ton of devices beyond Pixel.
That started with the 6
Yeah I had to export it manually from K9 then it worked perfect