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tootahe45

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    Comment #39657241

    Last time i checked you need to swipe to confirm every time your automation attempts to send a message? kinda kills the automation part. I was shocked that there was almost nothing…

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    Comment #30743533

    They'll want to collect the data for themselves which is why we don't already see this for things like KYC.

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    Comment #30734098

    If the bubble bursts a lot of BS jobs will go away including a lot of jobs in the 'innovative' sector, which only exist due to Americans having more cash than they know what to do …

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    Comment #30725688

    No. Cyber crims are financially motivated and today there are far easier/lower risk options for hackers. Just look at the people who lose 6 figure crypto balances to automated twit…

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    Comment #30719936

    I'm honestly more comfortable with Google than companies that pretend to be into the whole privacy thing. At least Google doesn't try deceive you. I really hope nobody here uses TO…

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    Comment #30659335

    Unrelated to post, but does anyone know of a text-to-speech app that would allow me to listen to this or any other long text article in audio format?

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    Comment #30659281

    > Hopefully WFH gains acceptance and becomes normalized Why would this suddenly happen now considering it didn't happen anywhere over the past 2 years?

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    Comment #30393964

    The site wasn't using it to block me, just to prompt a captcha, without doing so to 'real' browsers. The HTTP requests were exact copies of browser requests (in terms of how the se…

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    Comment #30381440

    Would be cool if there was something like this for Python. Last time i tried to scrape something interesting i found that one of Cloudflare's enterprise options was easily blocking…

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    Comment #30356102

    Twitter did a similar thing to combat misinformation IIRC, that's why i mentioned Jack.

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    Comment #30344807

    It can be even worse than suspending you, as early as 2018 i noticed they were shadow banning you based on VPN (PIA also). Meaning you could still post but not be seen, or have the…

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    Comment #30298062

    Now if we could pay someone to read it and tell us what data was collected.

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    Comment #30293421

    I wonder if they count crypto scammers as real users. Hell , i can't even tweet at Amazon support without multiple automated scambots messaging me.

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    Comment #30281809

    Probably this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_J8dHLe1Vc

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    Comment #30225252

    I reported a funeral fundraiser for a criminal gang where i live a few weeks ago to Gofundme. These funerals involve reckless, high speed driving by hundreds of bikies wearing Swas…

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    Comment #30205661

    > Yep, this could be managed by a blockchain no.

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    Comment #30191819

    It's heavily regulated and subsidized in NZ and it's also lot more un-affordable here. Since a few years ago we've been allowed to withdraw our version of a 401k to buy houses, to …

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    Comment #30054108

    Have a similar problem here, I logged into my google account on a mobile emulator VM while testing some apps and have since deleted the VM. However, when i sign into my gmail acc i…

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    Comment #29988206

    Why is android bad in your opinion? i personally went for IOS recently due to privacy,security being important to me(3 years of security update for 1.4k android device is ridiculou…

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    Comment #29953262

    Not only was the doubling part from Runescape but this kind of live stream-replay tactic was also first used for phishing Runescape accounts when Twitch first got popular. They wou…

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    Comment #29953150

    This seems like quite a low effort investigation that also just assumes all transactions are victims. My guess is that throughout the live stream they would have shills in the chat…

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    Comment #29951925

    Don't give the bitcoin bros any ideas

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    Comment #29950085

    I could hear these large thuds all the way from the top of the south island, NZ, in the hills and at around the same time others were reporting it. Definitely heard like 20+ of the…

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    Comment #29935654

    They offer the worst currency conversion rate imaginable when you go to withdraw to your non-US bank, so some people prefer to keep it in PP as a USD spending account i guess.

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    Comment #29934862

    Governments need to ban 'shotgun KYC', which is where they let you put funds in the account before they freeze it and make you do KYC, rather than making you do KYC directly on sig…