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They can't, it's a myth. It's not enough plants, but also, they actually release CO2 at night.

Yes, there are ways to distinguish between them as a user, for example you can check to see if your browser plugins are available. I also went through some of the most popular iOS …

This is an interesting response after Meta was exposed on all the JavaScript they've been running without communicating their actions with their users - https://krausefx.com/blog/i…

Author of the krausefx.com post here: I don't believe there is a universal way of detecting this, however in the case of Instagram, the user agent string actually includes the "Ins…

Author here - Yes, my resting heart rate is quite high for the level of fitness investment. I believe this is due to a few factors (not a doctor), one being my height (6'4), the ot…

Author here - I've used Foursquare's Swarm over the last 11 years, as well as manual End-Of-Day location input through the Telegram bot the most recent 3 years

Author here - Tracking calories has impact on way more things than just the weight. e.g. choosing a low-fat diet vs a low-carb diet makes you feel very differently day to day, and …

Author here - I actually talked about this at the very bottom of the howisFelix.today page, in the "Conclusion" section: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time buildi…

Author here - Yes, sorry for not putting that somewhere more visible. In my mind, the actual database running it was actually not relevant at all, it would have worked just as well…

Author here: Yes, exactly which is why I chose to use Telegram to enter my data. If you go all the way to the bottom of howisFelix.today and check out the "Data Inputs" section I w…

Author here - thanks for the feedback to include CO2 emissions, I just updated the page to include the numbers, via Nomadlist's built-in CO2 emissions calculator: https://github.co…

Author here = I actually researched & published many privacy projects ( https://krausefx.com/privacy ), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit ab…

Author here. Yes, I agree. For this project, only 5% of the 383,000 data points were collected manually, the rest came from various data sources like RescueTime, Apple Health, With…

Author here. I actually researched & published many privacy projects ( https://krausefx.com/privacy ), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit abo…

On iOS, it used to be the case ( https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-whats-the-user-doing ), however with iOS 13 ( https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/57#issuecomm...…

I wrote an open source script for this a while ago, it's annoying to run due to Twitter API limits https://github.com/KrauseFx/twitter-unfollow

It doesn't solve all the problems, the status bar can be hidden or faked unfortunately https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-watchuser-access-both-...

Actually, right now, neither Google Chrome, nor Safari would warn the user at all, if you download ANY content via HTTP from a HTTPs encrypted website, it's a bug I filed for both …

It made it to the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441537

Thanks, really appreciate your comment. I'm trying my best to raise awareness, and help Apple protect the user's privacy

Yeah, thanks for the note, I noticed that but was too lazy to re-do the screenshots.