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Very, very skeptical of this. Apps that people have installed tend to be similar apps.
For some subset maybe. But I guarantee you that there is not one other person on Earth that has the same set of apps installed on their phone that I do. The chances of that are astronomically tiny.
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M is often used to mean 1,000 from the Roman Numeral, so using it to mean "one million" is confusing. It's not just finance, but in other contexts too, such as online marketing CPM = Cost Per Thousand. MM then is used to denote a thousand thousands, or one million. In online marketing sometimes you'll see CPMM = Cost Per Million.
k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.
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I'd also bet you a coffee that you could pretty reliably uniquely fingerprint devices this way. I don't bear OP any ill will for writing iHazApp, but I can certainly see why many would be uncomfortable with it.
Very, very skeptical of this. Apps that people have installed tend to be similar apps.
I'm running a browser with only two (what I believe are common) add ons installed and a fairly uninteresting system config on common hardware. This is enough (combined with other "safe" metadata) to uniquely identify me! Compare this to iPhones, which frequently have dozens of apps installed and expose comparable device metadata.
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M is often used to mean 1,000 from the Roman Numeral, so using it to mean "one million" is confusing. It's not just finance, but in other contexts too, such as online marketing CPM = Cost Per Thousand. MM then is used to denote a thousand thousands, or one million. In online marketing sometimes you'll see CPMM = Cost Per Million.
k is used for 1000, M for millions... damn americans.
Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.
Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault
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Mozilla didn't start white-listing web sites which it determined didn't snoop on the :visited property, and black list all other sites. Instead, it fixed the API.
Right, they did it by blocking javascript access to computed CSS styles so that it doesn't return :visited rules. In Apple's case, the more secure options would either be "an app must include a perapproved list of which other apps are authorized to see that it is installed", or popups for permissions like "Image Editor wants to know if you have Dropbox." Since Apple has both the authority and the manpower to approve…
Why do people continue to use MM for "million", especially outside of the context of money?
M is often used to mean 1,000 from the Roman Numeral, so using it to mean "one million" is confusing. It's not just finance, but in other contexts too, such as online marketing CPM = Cost Per Thousand. MM then is used to denote a thousand thousands, or one million. In online marketing sometimes you'll see CPMM = Cost Per Million.
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M is often used to mean 1,000 from the Roman Numeral, so using it to mean "one million" is confusing. It's not just finance, but in other contexts too, such as online marketing CPM = Cost Per Thousand. MM then is used to denote a thousand thousands, or one million. In online marketing sometimes you'll see CPMM = Cost Per Million.
When, whether talking about money or not, have you ever seen someone write 100M to mean "a hundred thousand"? That would be completely ridiculous. Roman numerals are not used for that.
http://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stand...