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Some people, especially those who have more international contacts, will prefer to use Telegram over WhatsApp sure. It is rare to find anyone under the age of 60 who uses SMS as th…

You missed out some vital context from the source of that statistic: > The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, fr…

WhatsApp has no motivation to use SafetyNet. For one thing plenty of their users use cheap Chinese phones that aren't actually Google certified (but come with the Play Store anyway…

> The number of outgoing SMS and MMS messages sent in the United Kingdom (UK) fell to 48.68 billion in 2020, from a peak of 150.83 billion in 2012. The fall in the number of SMS an…

Thanks. Since no company is registered under that address I'd bet there simply is no company and the guy is just a sole trader under the name Six Ace Games. No official registratio…

> Or does Google associates even if you're logged in into multiple accounts in the same browser? Of course they do. Fingerprinting browsers is extremely easy.

The only restriction they have for unrooted phones is lack of auto updates, a mild inconvenience at worst. You also have to hit "install" on a little pop up window when you install…

> Furthermore, no company would be asinine enough to allow bots, AI, or ML make decisions without a way to undo those changes. Sadly this is actually the norm across all these big …

If you have a rooted phone you probably have Magisk, it's virtually the universal go to rooting app and the easiest method of rooting. You can even still get OTA's if your phone us…

You can run a script to do it for you, you don't even have to know what SQLite is, you just need to go on xda and run the script that makes Google Pay work. Although I would argue …

If your product is B2B SaaS do you really need to put ads inside your app?

It genuinely does wonders for mental health to disable notifications for social media apps. Definitely agree there.

Very sloppy for it to not even do a 301 redirect though. Even if you use one of those basic website builder services they will do that as standard. Decided to run SSL Labs on the s…

> No company information in the UK company database for either 6ace or sixace, despite a claimed address of "61,hallwicks road,Luton,Bedfordshire,London-LU2 9BG". To be fair it is …

They've gained free SEO, traffic, and publicity from this HN thread alone.

A Linux phone could run WhatsApp if the Linux distro was implemented in such a way that it could run Android apps (remember Android is basically just a runtime on top of the Linux …

It is similar in the UK as well regarding WhatsApp. Not quite to the extreme you describe, but WhatsApp has 100% replaced SMS. No one uses SMS. It is all WhatsApp. People don't tal…

Not rare at all if you sit on a train and glance around you. I see people watching movies/TV on phones and tablets constantly out in public. Very common. It's partly the reason I g…

This is a very US centric view. In virtually all of Europe, for instance, WhatsApp is the go to messenger and no one uses SMS anymore. In some countries - primarily Russia, but als…

The blog post says outright they are not an American company, they are not hiding that.

Yeah the genuinely malicious apps are unlikely to be using Google ads or other services to generate revenue.

I realise this is an edge case, but if you don't have an FB account but you set one up to create a page for your business and set up ads for it etc, it'll likely get shut down very…

If you use Magisk you can just sideload Netflix from APK Mirror or Aurora Store and you're fine. Samsung stock ROMs specifically have extra Netflix DRM checks built in iirc, but if…

Best non-sarcastic option is to submit to the OEM app stores like Samsung Galaxy Store and Huawei App Gallery.

The manager of the company (we can guess likely the CEO since it's a small startup) was infected by a trojan that stole passwords from his computer, but they're certain it didn't i…