Why people are so eager to ruin privacy? That is ridiculous.
Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life
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#102How does it integrate with Apple Health?
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#103I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
Even if I am in a tiny minority, I don't have a Facebook account and I would prefer to continue not having one
(motive: snobbism, more than privacy concerns).
So if a service is only available through a FB login I decline to use the service.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
I would have signed up via facebook, but then I noticed they wanted my friends list. Nope. Nope. Nope.
IIRC the friends list is in the default app permissions, and calling the graph API only returns the friends on your list who also gave the same permission to the app.
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#105I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
The main issue I have with Facebook is that their goal is diametrically opposed to the concept of the Internet that I would subscribe to. They are actively working toward attaining a monopoly for online social activity. In a sense, they want to become the "social wrapper" for everything that is done on the Internet.
I completely deleted my Facebook account a few weeks ago and quickly am realizing how far-reaching their monopoly already is.
This point alone - which doesn't even include the many, many privacy issues FB has - is enough for me to say I will not use a service that requires a FB login.
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#106Anyone recommend running apps? I use Nike Running but it doesn't integrate with this. Any recommendations between Strava and RunKeeper? (I run and will be getting into cycling shortly.) Thank you!!
Having used both, I personally prefer Strava. I've found it far better at motivating me to run. You can compare your performance against other runners along pre-defined segments (e.g. some hill you regularly run). The two people I've recommended Strava to are now hooked.
Their engineers make cool side projects [1] and release interesting new features regularly.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?
https://stallman.org/facebook.html
The irony is that without Stallman (GNU software), there probably wouldn't be facebook :)
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Nowadays, I find the only interaction I have with the scroll bar is to look at it to determine how far down a page I am. I always use the scroll wheel on Windows or the two finger scroll on the Mac trackpad to scroll a page.
Yeah which is why its so frustrating that so many sites are updating to ones which hide the scroll bar.
This doesn't though.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to remain any kind of anonymous, it means logging into each facebook login-enabled site with a new, fresh fb account. Using one trash account might stop them from linking things to your 'real identity' (such as fb perceives it), but it still lets them link all of your activities together and build a profile. Persona linking from there isn't hard, based on usernames or email addresses used (see pipl and si…
Unless you clear your Facebook cookies each time you log out.
There are also in-browser tools that prevent cookies from being sent to third parties.
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#110In Linux Firefox the 3d rotations are aliased and ugly. Could you just give us a normal web page? This web site has all the problems of bad flash websites but built in JavaScript.
Don't attribute opinions to "us", please. I don't agree at all. I think it's a beautiful page.