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Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by gruez »

brookst wrote: post #98
heroh wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

recaptcha v3 will require the human to have a Google certified android device (i.e. no GrapheneOS or LineageOS etc.) and a dedicated iOS app which leaks device ID and other data. Google will get to know every user browsing the web and link it to a smartphone. Since they’re rolling out government issue ID verification at the OS level, this change will allow Google to identify a random web visitor to a govt ID. https:/…

More info on how an iOS app can leak device ID? I thought Apple did away with access to device IDs and only provides a per-developer ID.

The "device ID" part is probably false and a red herring. What actually matters is that google can correlate which challenges a given device is solving, so if it's solving 10k challenges per day, it can be marked as being suspicious.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

detourdog wrote: post #96
trollbridge wrote: post #31

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Around the same time frame, my brother rented some rooms in his house to people who had the occupation of actually delivering those phone books. (This was in a different country, but apparently the Yellow Pages existed everywhere.) The delivery-people got overwhelmed and eventually just resorted to putting the stacks and stacks of phone books into piles and burning them. It took a long time until they got caught beca…

The mailroom of my apartment building in college in 1988 was full of phone books that were unclaimed. I took enough to make a platform for my futon.

As funny as these stories are it makes my environmentalist blood boil. Such ridiculous waste at scale for a product barely anyone actually wants.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by gruez »

jorvi wrote: post #66
muyuu wrote: post #57

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Captchas are getting so annoying and puzzling they will soon prove you're unlikely to be human if you pass them.

Its only Google's ReCaptcha that sucks, with its eternal gaslighting. "Select stairs": okay, does that mean the railing too? And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess. "Select motorbike": okay, but you're showing me a bicycle. I'll click "skip". FAIL. TRY AGAIN . Sighs.. okay, I guess the average person is so dim-witted the…

>with its eternal gaslighting.

That's not gaslighting.

>And probably some percentage of people clicked rails, so now I have meta it and guess if that percentage is enough to throw off my guess.

No, there are multiple accepted answers.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by hmokiguess »

I always get paranoid about these things ever since the Streisand Effect became a thing, I feel like the outcome is you enter a second list and this second list is maybe less friendly as it turns you into an outlier which brings other kinds of problems

It feels like the system is rigged and we need a better answer

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by lacewing »

hmokiguess wrote: post #104

I always get paranoid about these things ever since the Streisand Effect became a thing, I feel like the outcome is you enter a second list and this second list is maybe less friendly as it turns you into an outlier which brings other kinds of problems It feels like the system is rigged and we need a better answer

No, the system is rigged in a different way. There is an actual data broker industry that's mostly hidden from view; and then there are hundreds upon hundreds of ephemeral "look up your neighbor" websites that you know about and end up submitting opt outs to, only for half of these websites to disappear and a new crop to show up in a year or two.

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by dfxm12 »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #65
dfxm12 wrote: post #54

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They probably wouldn't have shared the GitHub repository with hn if this was the case.

There are "show hn" submissions for things that people just want to show off multiple times a week.

This was not tagged as a show hn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by vablings »

lacewing wrote: post #106
hmokiguess wrote: post #104

I always get paranoid about these things ever since the Streisand Effect became a thing, I feel like the outcome is you enter a second list and this second list is maybe less friendly as it turns you into an outlier which brings other kinds of problems It feels like the system is rigged and we need a better answer

No, the system is rigged in a different way. There is an actual data broker industry that's mostly hidden from view; and then there are hundreds upon hundreds of ephemeral "look up your neighbor" websites that you know about and end up submitting opt outs to, only for half of these websites to disappear and a new crop to show up in a year or two.

Weird how with these kinds of discussions new accounts always show up with a wealth of information. Very astroturfed topic readers beware

Re: Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS

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Post by codepoet80 »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #86

I use Optery for about two months a year, seems to do a good enough job for most of the data brokers. There are also discounts or promo codes to lower the price as well. https://www.optery.com/ HN Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010 Promo codes: https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/

I tried Optery. It got a good chunk done in two months, then the rest were just pending for a year... until I cancelled. Felt like they were just keeping me on the monthly dole while they didn't do anything.
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