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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by supercheesecake@aussie.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

If I look at a news app on my iPhone, for example, I can see in iOS’s privacy report that the app is using various Google APIs for analytics, amongst others. I understand why (it’s free and easy for them) but means that despite the app not collecting data on me, Google still is.

In this case, is using the web version of the app (which is often an option) more private?

Here I’m assuming mobile Safari with privacy relay, plus some extensions to stop trackers etc.

Thanks in advance.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 34 points 10 months ago

Or you could tear the Dyson hand dryer off the wall and carefully jimmy the door open with it

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 17 points 10 months ago

Who remembers the Sinclair ZX-80 with a massive 1kb ram?!

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 51 points 10 months ago

I know I’m going to get downvoted to oblivion here, and people love to hate on Apple. But this was in response to older phones with old batteries sometimes not being able to keep up with the demands of the latest iOS and features and unexpectedly shutting down. So they would “dampen” the demands to keep them running.

We want to keep our old phones forever but we also want them to do the stuff that the latest phones can do. Something has to give.

This is litigation culture run rampant.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 20 points 10 months ago

I thought we were just basically training google’s image recognition AI by selecting the squares it asks etc. Nothing to do with security (in practise).

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[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 20 points 11 months ago

We’re going to need a bigger boat

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 70 points 11 months ago

When you’ve done everything that’s reasonable, and no one in power listens, so have to become unreasonable. And people say, why can’t you just be reasonable?! 😕

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by supercheesecake@aussie.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Title.

Trying to buy an audiobook with my US account from Australia. Am using a VPN and a fresh log in using a private browsing window. Still getting the “not for sale in this country…”

How does Amazon/Audible still know my country?!

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your suggestions, but I feel like we’re no closer to figuring out how Amazon is detecting my physical country. If they have some new “trick” surely this is a privacy issue as well?!

EDIT 2: Important details, this is on my iPhone using both the Amazon and Audible apps, and via the web with Safari (mentioned below). Doesn’t work.

I gave up and went to my desktop and was able to complete the purchase following the same steps without issue. So 🤷‍♂️ ?!

Clearly Amazon is scraping some information from the phone to region lock the purchase. Still would love to know given VPN isn’t masking my location apparently.

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Kudos to Andre Antunes and the Nooran Sisters

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by supercheesecake@aussie.zone to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

Just wanted to note that when deselecting pure black (I always prefer something not so dark personally, so thank you for the option!!) the comments/post screen still uses pure black.

But the theme options are great! Appreciate it!

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 21 points 11 months ago

I remember playing Alien Isolation on the original Xbox one(?) with the spy camera thing. Anyway, you could activate the mic on it and the Alien would react to sounds in your (physical) room. So tense when I’d be hiding from the Alien and my toddler kids would come in making noise and I’d be ripped to shreds. Good times.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 25 points 11 months ago

Didn’t we just finish one circuit of this merry-go-round 6 days ago? https://lemmy.world/post/1967628

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I can’t see a way to show the read posts again. Pressing the button a second time does nothing. V1.01.

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In particular for a user, so they get a notification that they were mentioned.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 48 points 11 months ago

This resonates with me … sadly

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 26 points 11 months ago

Nah you’re right and this person has obviously never used a Garmin.

The Apple Watch is a great smartwatch though and solid for sports. My wife has one and loves it. I’m on the Garmin side, so we’re always comparing.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 44 points 11 months ago

This is a troll comment.

Let’s review: has “had a couple of Garmins”, but doesn’t know that both speed and lap speed are default data fields in the bike activity. And can be trivially changed to average speed or essentially a bazillion other types of data (HR, power etc) in a highly customisable way.

[-] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 28 points 11 months ago

One of mine is called “download virus” to stop my neighbours accidentally trying to connect.

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