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throwaway78981on Android 12 is live in AOSP

There is GrapheneOS too:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/DanielMicay

throwaway78981on Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries

You are not illogical:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28714516

throwaway78981on Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)

Not just destroy, destroy and steal too. Because why not.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22676706/apple-watch-swip...

throwaway78981on Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (2018)

From February this year - Apple App store is home to multi-million dollar scams. The method the guy used to find this is so childish it's a wonder how Apple could have missed. Also Apple employs some dark patterns if you wanna report scams.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...

throwaway78981on Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

This isn't true. The phonebook we had had only Name, Phone number and very broad location. Also those days, phone number was just that - a phone number. Nowadays it's a unique identifier for lots and lots of things including government stuff. Some government stuff even uses it for authentication/authorization.

Also I guess user ID means it gives access to their fb profile page I guess? From there one can scrape pics etc (public ones).

throwaway78981on Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

Some might laugh this off as 'oh it's just scraping'. But I remember reading some comments in HN that there are apps that can scan faces and pull personal info including where they live, work etc. So each leak uncovers a person little by little.

This vindicates the stance taken by Signal to not even collect metadata.

Edit: I mean surreptitiously scan the face of a stranger you see in public and the app will tell you about them. Don't know names of the apps.

throwaway78981on Facebook-owned sites were down

Signal is welcoming everyone:

https://nitter.mailstation.de/signalapp/status/1445062426739...

throwaway78981on Profilerpedia: A Map of the Software Profiling Ecosystem

There's also Prodfiler from Halvar Flake and friends.

https://prodfiler.com/

throwaway78981on Firefox vs. Brave: Which is the better browser for you? – Mozilla

Some links supporting this view:

[1] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

[2] https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45