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#Meta and #Yandex are de-anonymizing #Android users’ #web browsing #identifiers


source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

#Tracking code that Meta and #Russia - based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate #Internet protocols, causing #Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. #Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent #mobile #app user identities.


#anonymity #surveillance #www #privacy #browser #fail #warning #danger #history #software #fail #problem #economy #news #identify #usa #politics #bigbrother


Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
#FAIL #internet #Software #privacy #Russia #mobile #Chrome #tracking #USA #problem #google #politics #app #web #Android #history #surveillance #browser #news #economy #Danger #Warning #meta #www #bigbrother #anonymity #Yandex #identifiers #identify

Overheard my partner talking about this online academic testing platform that requires students to have their webcam turned on during assessments. Said platform kicked out a student for not looking towards the camera, turns out they're blind and using a screen reader. 🤷‍♂️

#Accessibility #A11y #Fail

#FAIL #Accessibility #A11y

#ClimateChange mitigation.

Wrong idea - The tech heads talk of constructing Carbon Capture machines. That would require hundreds of thousands of machines, more mining, more power consumption #fail

Right approach #nature

But, the photo of another deforested landscape. This is not wetland, Tree's used to & would grow here. Sheep keep it looking like this.

Photo taken in #Sheep District National Park, #England (officially called the Lake District National park)

#ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy
The photo shows a stream running through a deforested landscape. The only place where the odd tree grows is where humans or sheep couldn't get to them (e.g., on the vertical rocky crags). As Tree's grow they capture carbon. To mitigate climate change we need to use solutions, big & small, that don't emit & or sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide
#FAIL #nature #ClimateChange #england #climateaction #sheep #climatepolicy

#rasberrypi właśnie ogłosiło, że wybrało drogę "Internet of 💩".
😞
W kolejnych #rpi będą chipy z własnościowym #AI od #sony , które będzie raportować do bazy "tylko" metadane.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/new-raspberry-pi-devices-will-have-sony-ai-platform-built-in
#privacy #fail

New Raspberry Pi Devices Will Have Sony AI Platform Built In

Future Raspberry Pi deviecs will have access to Sony's Aitrios edge sensing platform for AI projects.
Ryan Whitwam (ExtremeTech)
#FAIL #privacy #AI #Sony #rpi #rasberrypi

auto-troll:

```
echo "backuping existing ~/.vimrc"
cp ~/.vimrc.bkp ~/.vimrc
```

#fail
#FAIL

Ob man Audionachrichten mag oder nicht, mal dahin gestellt. Es gab bei #Matrix aka #Element schon seit 2018 den Request, dass man bitteschön in der #Android App bei Audio Dateien einen einfachen Player haben wollte, der einfach nur eine Sounddatei abspielt. So wie man das auf Webseiten kennt. Ein Knopf und dann wird das Ding abgespielt.

Die luxoriöse Anwendung wäre dann mit einem Pausenknopf und eventuell dann noch einen Slider, damit man hin und her springen kann.

Bis heute, muss man die Audiodatei runterladen, um sie dann mit einer externen Player App abspielen.

Als Workaround senden Leute Videodateien!

So und der Stand der Entwicklung ist, dass man jetzt 1 Jahr .. in Worten EIN Jahr ... damit verbracht hat, weil man die korrekte Darstellung der Wellenform im Player haben wollte.

DAS nenne ich mal so komplett am Usecase vorbeiprogrammiert ... also ... nicht programmiert.

"Wir liefern das Auto nicht aus, weil das Sitzpolster statt von rechts nach links kariert von links nach rechts kariert ist."

#Fail
#FAIL #matrix #Android #element

I can't get over the fact that someone decided this was a suitable website background image. #webdesign #fail
#FAIL #webdesign

No, #PayPal, if I set up two-factor authentication, it wasn't so that you give me the choice between using a token or sending it by SMS to my number!
It was precisely so that who has access to my phone number (rather than my phone itself) would be irrelevant!
#security #fail #2FA
#FAIL #security #PayPal #2fa

I remember sharing a spreadsheet of the most spectacular ways Artificial Intelligence respected the letter of their goals but not their spirit. I can't find it anymore, but I found this:

The World Cup 2018 was the top sporting event of year, and AI researchers at Goldman Sachs, German Technische University of Dortmund, Electronic Arts, Perm State National Research University and other institutions ran machine learning models to predict outcomes for the multi-stage competition. Most however were totally wrong, with only EA — which ran its simulations using new ratings for its video game FIFA 18 — correctly favouring winner France.


#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VideoGames #Fail

#videogames #FAIL #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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