supercheesecake

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Body and odour. It’s a new deodorant line.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

“Never delete an email”. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t it headed by David Spergel who is an astrophysicist? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spergel

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wtf is wrong with you?!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It’s 3 plus/minus 1 sigma

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! Excellent advice!

I am a big fan of RSS and have been using it as my primary source of info for at least a decade.

I actually already had SBS but only just now realised that ABC pages (eg “just in”) can be entered directly and it’ll find the RSS version (using Reeder at least).

Do you have advice about how to centralise/organise RSS? I use Feedly as a cloud source that I point Reeder at (have also been playing with Fiery Feeds). But I can’t help but think there’s a better way that doesn’t involve a third party (again, privacy).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you. That’s very helpful.

And yep, https://www.abc.net.au/news is exactly one of the sites I was thinking of. I notice their app makes many calls to firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com and similar. Sending who knows what.

Moving to the web version I’m hoping can blunt such things. On iOS I use AdGuard, Hush, and StopTheMadness. https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html tells me I’m not doing too bad in terms of ads and tracking.

Two others which are pretty bad with their apps but have very similar webpages:

https://touch.footytips.com.au/home https://www.afl.com.au/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess my question was if webpage versions of apps can/typically use Google analytics-type tracking of what you’re doing.

And more specifically if Safari with private relay, perhaps with some extensions, can hide anything such webpages are trying to scrape.

 

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also married a Kennedy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheers, thanks for the very helpful info.

We paid for Nord quite a while ago with some special deal. I haven’t heard great things about them since though so might be time to ditch and pay for something better. I’ve heard Proton is good as well.

 

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This resonates with me … sadly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

view more: next ›