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Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by kakarot »

distances wrote: post #53
coldpie wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

I use NoScript, uBlock Origin AND uMatrix on most of my instances.

Noscript as the first line of defense against 3rd party scripts, uBlock in advanced mode for fine-tuning what content goes through, and uMatrix for being the safety net as well as providing cookie control and spoofing/referrer masking, since Cookie Monster still cannot work with multi-process mode.

I really wish uMatrix and uBlock would just combine forces or that uBlock would at least match uMatrix's privacy protection.

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by JimmyAustin »

prisonerOfwar75 wrote: post #175

Not surprised - I just assume every company that has my data which explicitly says it does not sell your data does. A side note: One day I noticed the gps icon on my iphone was lighting up one evening even through non of the apps were using it. I opened up the app drawer to see which app was using it and it was Outlook. I immediately deleted the app and then I saw another app without gps permissions access it.. I got…

Devils advocate: If iOS did have remote access tracking software built in, why would it tell you via the UI?

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by ajdlinux »

Lawyerly people - the class action lawsuit defines the class as restricted to customers who bought their headphones in the United States.

Are there rules that prevent a US class action from including non-American customers? How hard would it be to commence a similar class action outside the US?

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by dragonwriter »

ajdlinux wrote: post #193

Lawyerly people - the class action lawsuit defines the class as restricted to customers who bought their headphones in the United States. Are there rules that prevent a US class action from including non-American customers? How hard would it be to commence a similar class action outside the US?

IANAL, but:

> Are there rules that prevent a US class action from including non-American customers?

Yes; purchases outside the US would generally be governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which they occurred.

> How hard would it be to commence a similar class action outside the US?

Depends on the applicable local law; class action might be easy, hard, or not available at all, depending on the jurisdiction.

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by unicornporn »

kakarot wrote: post #191
distances wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

I use NoScript, uBlock Origin AND uMatrix on most of my instances. Noscript as the first line of defense against 3rd party scripts, uBlock in advanced mode for fine-tuning what content goes through, and uMatrix for being the safety net as well as providing cookie control and spoofing/referrer masking, since Cookie Monster still cannot work with multi-process mode. I really wish uMatrix and uBlock would just combine f…

Don't you find that your surfing is a configurational nightmare? Using uMatrix was doable, but I finally gave it because it always interupted my browsing. Adding NoScript to the mix would probably drive me insane. Do you have any special techniques? :)

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

#196

Post by wapz »

kakarot wrote: post #189
orthecreedence wrote: post #99

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Wow, this is awesome. Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using Firefox for months now (switched from chrome) and never knew about this feature in either browser.

When you regularly have open 100+ tabs in more than one instance of Firefox across multiple VMs, this is an absolutely indispensable feature. Before its time you would basically have to shut everything down and start over instead of finding that obscure tab that suddenly started belting out news headlines

What are you using 100+ tabs for?

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by Klover »

wapz wrote: post #196
kakarot wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you regularly have open 100+ tabs in more than one instance of Firefox across multiple VMs, this is an absolutely indispensable feature. Before its time you would basically have to shut everything down and start over instead of finding that obscure tab that suddenly started belting out news headlines

What are you using 100+ tabs for?

People can use a ton of tabs for a ton of reasons. I used to do the same thing at times, when I used Treestyle tab in Firefox. But it's an old type of extension soon to be deprecated, and was giving me bugs on browser updates (maybe due to it being a XUL extension).

The add-on put tabs on the side of the screen, and grouped them up into trees, which you could also collapse. So if you were to browse Wikipedia and click on all sorts of links, you'd have a whole tree with different branches. Then when you take a break, you just collapse the tree and start a new tree. Want to reference something from the Wikipedia tree? Just expand it again!

It worked really well with the session restore functionality of Firefox, which doesn't reload all tabs again when the browser launches. So you had very little performance impact for what felt like the perfect bookmark and tab integration.

So in order to reach 100+ tabs, it's just one hour of casual browsing per day and within a week you'll have 100 tabs open of Wikipedia trees, various clothing stores, a code problem tree or two, and a HN tree with all the little interesting links.

Then you may wonder why you wouldn't just bookmark pages and close tabs? Personally I open bookmarks a few times a year, but this Treestyle extension made me click around so many times per day.

(By the way, if anyone has found a similar add-on please let me know)

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by wapz »

Klover wrote: post #197
wapz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you using 100+ tabs for?

People can use a ton of tabs for a ton of reasons. I used to do the same thing at times, when I used Treestyle tab in Firefox. But it's an old type of extension soon to be deprecated, and was giving me bugs on browser updates (maybe due to it being a XUL extension). The add-on put tabs on the side of the screen, and grouped them up into trees, which you could also collapse. So if you were to browse Wikipedia and clic…

Wow I've never heard of that. The most tabs I've ever personally used is around 25 to do some server stress testing (very low-scale). The most I've ever seen is around 35 from one of my coworkers that uses tabs instead of bookmarks for some reason.

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by acqq »

jdmichal wrote: post #150
draugadrotten wrote: post #122

I live in Europe. Next year I and all other Europeans should be able to make a GDPR request for information to Bose and, at no cost, get a complete copy of all information Bose keeps on me. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/...

I wonder if the UK will keep that particular EU regulation after its exit...

"The GDPR will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. The government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will not affect the commencement of the GDPR."

General Data Protection Regulation Introduction:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/...

Re: Bose Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says

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Post by jinglebells »

jmcdiesel wrote: post #84
kragen wrote: post #47

This link has an autoplay video with sound. Can we get some kind of title warning on these, like the [pdf] or [1927] warnings? I really don't want to click on these without being prepared. Lacking a better alternative, for now, I'm just flagging it.

"This link has an autoplay video with sound." Are we really getting this finicky now? Like, I'm usually on the more compassionate side of listening to people's concerns, but being offended by a video playing is just... sissified to the max.

Depends if you click the link while at work in an open plan office, so you can checkout the tab later and the audio starts playing.
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