As an aside, who's idea was it at Fortune to have an autoplaying video that, when paused, starts playing again the moment you scroll down the page?!?
Don't know but presumably they were awarded a bonus.
Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says
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#53Reading about spying headphones on website where video with sound starts automatically and continues to play when pressing pause (but jumps to right corner, just like hoaxes for Windows 95 where "start" button evaded mouse) — we're living in adtechpunk world.
You don't have to put up with that. Protect yourself. Install uBlock Origin and NoScript.
Or another option: uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Playing embedded videos will need such an amount of configuration that you'll really want to watch it before bothering. This could be a positive or a negative, depending on the person :)
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#55Hmm, not pleased, we have two sets of the 35 earphones and I use the app - well, I have to, else I can't change some settings on the earphones. This is totally overstepping the boundaries of what earphones/headphones should be doing. Any company that collects my data and moves it from under my purview to theirs should have to display or expose this data in the exact form that it's collected to the user, so we can see…
This reminds me of a bluetooth toothbrush I just bought that requires my location to be enabled to change the settings via the oral b app which is required since this model has less buttons than others. The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush was for a wireless hardware clock, brushing timer, and ranking system which also really doesn't work correctly even with the app.
Ranking system?!
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#56I have the 35s. How does one get in on signing the class action? Or can you only do this after it has gone to trial and has gone in favor of plaintiff?
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#57Ok, this is DEFINITELY NOT cool (+ the fact I own those and I have the app installed).
One small note of optimism (but not coming from Bose) is this: http://imgur.com/a/ezLUi (i.e. the iOS on/off setting for Background App Refresh - I have it globally off for the whole device, always). So I don't think once the app is not running that there's an easy/Apple approved way for them to keep running to app to transmit data, etc.
I also just turned off Cellular Data for this...
If someone from Bose is reading this - just wow...
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#58Reading about spying headphones on website where video with sound starts automatically and continues to play when pressing pause (but jumps to right corner, just like hoaxes for Windows 95 where "start" button evaded mouse) — we're living in adtechpunk world.
Enable the tab mute button that's existed in chrome for years but is still hidden:
Go to URL chrome://flags in a new tab Search for the ‘Enable tab audio muting UI control’ flag Hit the ‘Enable’ link Relaunch Chrome when prompted (on Chrome OS a full restart is required)
Now you can click the little speaker that appears next to the tab's close button when a tab is playing sound to stop that tab from playing audio.
God knows why this isn't enabled by default, somethingsomething advertising money...
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
This reminds me of a bluetooth toothbrush I just bought that requires my location to be enabled to change the settings via the oral b app which is required since this model has less buttons than others. The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush was for a wireless hardware clock, brushing timer, and ranking system which also really doesn't work correctly even with the app.
Ranking system?!
I suppose you can compete with other people on who brushes the teeth more regularly and for the full required time.
Gamification of dental health! I think this is a good thing.
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#60Reading about spying headphones on website where video with sound starts automatically and continues to play when pressing pause (but jumps to right corner, just like hoaxes for Windows 95 where "start" button evaded mouse) — we're living in adtechpunk world.
You don't have to put up with that. Protect yourself. Install uBlock Origin and NoScript.
You don't need noscript if you enable dynamic filtering on ublock