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I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by MBCook »

RetroTechie wrote: post #26
fckgw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The adapter flashes a QR code on your monitor. It's not plug-n-play.

Requiring the use of an app, in order to use some kind of adapter cable? I must be getting old, feel like I've just crawled from under a rock... :-) That would also mean this cable becomes useless the moment URL encoded in the QR disappears? As for the app: even if it's total crap, if only 50% of cable-buyers proceed to install the app, that 50% is still gained as potentially spied-upon subjects. There's a new please…

Does it really matter? This isn’t a real product. It’s a scam product to trick people trying to buy a real Apple part and con them into the app’s clutches.

The real part doesn’t need anything. Plug and go.

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by bitwize »

RetroTechie wrote: post #26
fckgw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The adapter flashes a QR code on your monitor. It's not plug-n-play.

Requiring the use of an app, in order to use some kind of adapter cable? I must be getting old, feel like I've just crawled from under a rock... :-) That would also mean this cable becomes useless the moment URL encoded in the QR disappears? As for the app: even if it's total crap, if only 50% of cable-buyers proceed to install the app, that 50% is still gained as potentially spied-upon subjects. There's a new please…

It's not really an adapter cable. It's got a little SOC in there that streams your iPhone's display from the app to the HDMI port.

Meanwhile, your personal data is being streamed back to China...

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by ASalazarMX »

reilly3000 wrote: post #29

I say the big 404 and instinctively bounced. I can’t be the only one. I went back to find their 404 page and am quite satisfied with what I found: https://www.404media.co/i-te/

The cyberdemon really ties the room together.

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by MBCook »

hedora wrote: post #44
alwayslikethis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be nice to have a special way to scan a qr code in which the system reads the QR code for the app without the app being able to see raw camera data.

I think this flow sort of supports that. https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/07/limit-third-party-iphone-phot... If I remember right, there’s a way to get a “take picture” option in the chooser. I’m not sure how the qr code would then be recognized, though I’m not sure why you wouldn’t have them get the qr code via the system camera app.

That’s intended for selecting a pre-taken photo without giving an app library access. You’d have to get the user to take the picture then come back to your app.

What you really need is a system dialogue that pops up the camera and only returns the QR code to the app, the way the photo picker can see the whole library but only gives the app the one selected photo.

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by ASalazarMX »

bitwize wrote: post #53
RetroTechie wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Requiring the use of an app, in order to use some kind of adapter cable? I must be getting old, feel like I've just crawled from under a rock... :-) That would also mean this cable becomes useless the moment URL encoded in the QR disappears? As for the app: even if it's total crap, if only 50% of cable-buyers proceed to install the app, that 50% is still gained as potentially spied-upon subjects. There's a new please…

It's not really an adapter cable. It's got a little SOC in there that streams your iPhone's display from the app to the HDMI port. Meanwhile, your personal data is being streamed back to China...

Part of me is looking forward to the time when a government activates a significant part of all the spyware/adware/backdoors/etc in the world as part of a cyberwar. COVID would be a child's game compared to that, but that disaster would at last make people understand how bad tech has become at this point.

Double points if the operation is started by another state/group that stole those backdoors.

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by ale42 »

jmrm wrote: post #56

This kind of shady devices should be banned in Western Countries, not only for trying to get their users' information, but also for being a device that can go directly to the e-Waste bin without a minimal usage

They should be banned everywhere...

Re: I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

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Post by gpderetta »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #54
reilly3000 wrote: post #29

I say the big 404 and instinctively bounced. I can’t be the only one. I went back to find their 404 page and am quite satisfied with what I found: https://www.404media.co/i-te/

The cyberdemon really ties the room together.

Very nice old school Geocities look.
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