Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
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Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
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Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#2Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform).
I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#3Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform ). I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
Several sites do that now, it's annoying and you sometimes cannot even get back to the previous article. I like to read the text on my screen near the top of my browser, so I scroll constantly as I read, and for these sites I continually scroll off the end of the article into the next one before I have finished the last vertical page of text due to the way I read. I'm not changing the way I read content due to these shitty sites, so I guess I will never finish one of their articles.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#4This sounds great at first. But I am really concerned about its impact on subscription services and blocking. If economics of it plays right, the apps would now have access to a confirmed unique ID for a device that would allow them to lock support of the service to not only just the number of devices(which is fine) but also the device itself.
I am aware that apps can currently use multiple sources to get unique IDs like MAC and others. But they can be spoofed, this if it works would be secured from those concerns.
Maybe(most probably) I am completely wrong in this line of thought. But would love to hear the thoughts of HN folks on this.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#5With features like these, I imagine secure Android devices with prompt software patches will become even more important in the future (whether or not the people using them realize).
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#6Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform ). I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
> the URL automatically changes
in Chrome. Just tried Firefox and didn't see the same.
It's a little strange, a new paradigm-shift for the reader. If I bookmark the URL further down thinking I'm bookmarking the whole scrolled view, it reloads the bookmark to a different view - only the article I was currently scrolled to.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#7Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform ). I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
If you curios how it's done check here:
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#8Completely off-topic: If you scroll down past the linked article and onto the next article, the URL automatically changes (from /google-is-bringing-electronic-ids-to-android to /cisco-open-sources-mindmeld-conversational-ai-platform ). I've never seen this type of behavior from a web page before.
> the URL automatically changes in Chrome. Just tried Firefox and didn't see the same. It's a little strange, a new paradigm-shift for the reader. If I bookmark the URL further down thinking I'm bookmarking the whole scrolled view, it reloads the bookmark to a different view - only the article I was currently scrolled to.
> in Chrome. Just tried Firefox and didn't see the same.
It does work in Firefox exactly the same way.
Just stop scrolling for a while and it's will update URL.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#9It's weird to see all these crutches and half-assed fixes instead of lobbying and other work done to fix the ID situation in the US. It's really unfathomable to me how big of a problem identity theft and unauthorized access to digital systems for a regular citizen is. Especially compared to what for example Estonia has built, where I really do not have to worry about that issue - I have to have my ID card (or my mobile-ID) or I don't have access. Basically mandatory 2FA everywhere important, since about 2002, in my humble opinion it should be about time the US properly fixed the issue.
Re: Google Is Bringing Electronic IDs to Android
#10This sounds great at first. But I am really concerned about its impact on subscription services and blocking. If economics of it plays right, the apps would now have access to a confirmed unique ID for a device that would allow them to lock support of the service to not only just the number of devices(which is fine) but also the device itself. I am aware that apps can currently use multiple sources to get unique IDs…
> the apps would now have access to a confirmed unique ID for a device that would allow them to lock support of the service to not only just the number of devices(which is fine) but also the device itself.
I'm not sure I understand the concern. Could you give an example?