@cannedtuna This is why opt-out doesn't work. If you reset/reinstall your system, you have to remember to opt-out again.
Same thing anytime you switch to a different system.
The vendor can also create 'snazzy new feature' that has a similar-but-different behavior embedded in it... and the new feature is opt-out. #darkpattern
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org @bagder@mastodon.social I'm of a mind that this vuln keeps cropping up because its being handled at the wrong level in the stack, and maybe in the wrong way as well.
Consider what it would be like if the OS presentation layer detected this, simply by highlighting any parts of strings that don't belong to the same language as the first (visible) character in the string.
@cannedtuna This is why opt-out doesn't work. If you reset/reinstall your system, you have to remember to opt-out again.
Same thing anytime you switch to a different system.
The vendor can also create 'snazzy new feature' that has a similar-but-different behavior embedded in it... and the new feature is opt-out.
#darkpattern
@wbrianwhite That sounds like fraud to me.
@CodenameDarlen If you use a VPN service, enabling this will effectively disable the VPN. If I were @fdroidorg I'd post a big fat warning on this app.
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org In the "Everything has IOT, mics & cams" category...
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org Is not what I'd call privacy...
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org You see, sometimes corporations like to make jokes...
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org @bagder@mastodon.social I'm of a mind that this vuln keeps cropping up because its being handled at the wrong level in the stack, and maybe in the wrong way as well.
Consider what it would be like if the OS presentation layer detected this, simply by highlighting any parts of strings that don't belong to the same language as the first (visible) character in the string.
@jgkoomey @urlyman @ajsadauskas @green
GDP is a garbage metric. It encourages destruction and externalization.