Earbuds aren't on all the time, so you can enable when needed and set it to disable after a few min of activity.
I can see that smart watches might be a problem. They should perhaps use a dedicated protocol for always on devices like that.
I've not been inflammatory here, you've come in and argued against claims I didn't make. Check your own house first before you criticise others.
You should probably keep your wifi and bluetooth set to switch off automatically anyway, what with how much they're used for tracking.
"Lions led by donkeys" comes to mind.
Terrorism. Political violence is called terrorism.
Yes exactly, the exact same phone can have different variations on the same versions of firmware, depending on the region.
The solution here is to not run stock firmware. Get a custom ROM and enjoy all the extra features.
Where did I claim to know everything about Google's secret sauce?? Which specific things are you saying I'm wrong about?
While it's good that you're avoiding most of the tracking, I think it's naive to say they're not successul. Like I say, so many services use Captcha, and there are many more that use it as just a back end service than those that ask you to identify fire hydrants or bicycles. You literally can't use the service without connecting to Google.
and also how often Google asks me to prove I’m even human at all.
This is also Google using you for free labour in training their AI systems.
Well exactly. That's why hyperbole like that in this article frustrates me.
/u/chameleon@kbin.social posted a working link to the actual paper, which is much more reasonable in its claims: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad080
Thank you for the link.
Skimming through the report, though, I see no mention of "collapse of society" like the hyperbole in the article. It mentions the collapse of various natural and socioeconomic systems, but the article is nowhere near as reasonably measured as the paper.
That's my beef here, the article is doing a disservice to the paper by exaggerating things for clicks.
OP is literally in this position because they're not blocking ads effectively.
I get that I'm somewhat biased, in that it hasn't affected me so much. But that doesn't mean it isn't valid for me to point out the rift in experiences.
Software is supposed to work for the user; it's supposed to make things easier. Somewhere along the way that philosophy has been twisted into the software working for the publisher, at the expense of the user. The very acceptance of that premise is the problem - let alone the acceptance of viewing ads.
That sounds like disabling Bluetooth on iphones doesn't disable Bluetooth LE. Sucks for iPhone users.