poopkins

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The non-stop chimes and beeps and spoken alerts in cars in South Korea is absolutely maddening. With these constant distractions, there's absolutely no way this makes driving safer.

Imagine passing a speed limit sign that warns of an upcoming speed bump. It will immediately start loud beeping because you're now speeding as you roll out, while simultaneously speaking out loud what the new speed limit is, while simultaneously also saying there's a speed bump, all while your music and navigation play as well.

Thank goodness this was vetoed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that exactly what OP's screenshot is depicting?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Connecting a classic (non-Google TV) Chromecast to a new WiFi (or heaven forbid a hotel WiFi with a capture portal) was always such a pain. And casting over networks without mDNS is flaky at best and otherwise downright impossible.

By contrast, I've loved taking along my Chromecast with Google TV to hotels, along with:

  • A VPN client installed it already,
  • An Android phone that can create a WiFi AP while connected to the hotel WiFi,
  • A Bluetooth speaker and my Bluetooth headphones paired to it so I get great audio as well.

This has been a complete gamechanger and a genuine upgrade over yesteryear's Chromecasts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Maybe Wise? I suppose it depends on your needs as not a whole lot of people use Wise.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Apple doesn't care about your privacy. They care about their image of caring about your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The brakes broke, so I guess technically it could be a "break failure."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

As somebody who is very deeply integrated with ad integrations that include the ones listed in the article—AdWords and AdMob—there are no insights provided to me as an advertiser or any other bidder regarding individual data. Perhaps the EFF would like to research this topic in some more detail.

There is simply no data for me to obtain, no insights for me to dig into, no aggregated collections for me to unpack, no anonymized groups for me to attempt to drill into. With honest sincerity, I just don't know what the EFF is trying to accomplish with that article. I genuinely feel that this article is taking a native approach to the creative use of "sale" and undermines their credibility.

If an advertiser like me can't obtain this data that's supposedly for sale, then where is it being sold? We instead begin to navigate down a path regarding the choice of the user: do you prefer personalized ads or non-personalized ads? If you have chosen for personalized ads, then it will be Google and Google alone that will bucket you into groups to perform bidding towards interests that you group into.

Then coming back to the original question: where exactly does Google sell your data?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Can you walk me through your logic that Google would sell your data? Who would they sell your data to, exactly, and how would that be financially advantageous to them?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Precisely; for context, it was recently discussed in Dutch media how some of these e-bikes reach 60 km/h. Together with a culture of people refusing to wear bicycle helmets, there's certainly some more nuance and middle ground.

There needs to be some kind of solution, but doing nothing is not really an option.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How do you navigate?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

3,000 people clicked a button out of curiosity or by mistake. If this is statistically relevant for their install base, there really is nobody using Brave. I have as many users randomly come and go into my game on a daily basis.

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