supercheesecake

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[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Body and odour. It’s a new deodorant line.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t it headed by David Spergel who is an astrophysicist? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Spergel

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

It’s 3 plus/minus 1 sigma

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! Excellent advice!

I am a big fan of RSS and have been using it as my primary source of info for at least a decade.

I actually already had SBS but only just now realised that ABC pages (eg “just in”) can be entered directly and it’ll find the RSS version (using Reeder at least).

Do you have advice about how to centralise/organise RSS? I use Feedly as a cloud source that I point Reeder at (have also been playing with Fiery Feeds). But I can’t help but think there’s a better way that doesn’t involve a third party (again, privacy).

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thank you. That’s very helpful.

And yep, https://www.abc.net.au/news is exactly one of the sites I was thinking of. I notice their app makes many calls to firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com and similar. Sending who knows what.

Moving to the web version I’m hoping can blunt such things. On iOS I use AdGuard, Hush, and StopTheMadness. https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html tells me I’m not doing too bad in terms of ads and tracking.

Two others which are pretty bad with their apps but have very similar webpages:

https://touch.footytips.com.au/home https://www.afl.com.au/

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess my question was if webpage versions of apps can/typically use Google analytics-type tracking of what you’re doing.

And more specifically if Safari with private relay, perhaps with some extensions, can hide anything such webpages are trying to scrape.

 

If I look at a news app on my iPhone, for example, I can see in iOS’s privacy report that the app is using various Google APIs for analytics, amongst others. I understand why (it’s free and easy for them) but means that despite the app not collecting data on me, Google still is.

In this case, is using the web version of the app (which is often an option) more private?

Here I’m assuming mobile Safari with privacy relay, plus some extensions to stop trackers etc.

Thanks in advance.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also married a Kennedy

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Ha! Just finished Player of Games yesterday and bought Use of Weapons. Trying to decide whether to continue with Culture or mix things up and start with the first Wheel of Time book.

Either way I’ll get to it, and the rest, because the first two I thought were excellent reads and I really like Banks’ writing.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry, my bad. I thought this was a petition OP had set up. And not Mozilla themselves to protect Firefox. Sleep deprivation :(

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why the focus on Firefox? Why not just say “browsers”?

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember they had a space invaders type game for it, written and run IN 1k RAM!! Just amazing.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Who remembers the Sinclair ZX-80 with a massive 1kb ram?!

 

Title.

Trying to buy an audiobook with my US account from Australia. Am using a VPN and a fresh log in using a private browsing window. Still getting the “not for sale in this country…”

How does Amazon/Audible still know my country?!

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your suggestions, but I feel like we’re no closer to figuring out how Amazon is detecting my physical country. If they have some new “trick” surely this is a privacy issue as well?!

EDIT 2: Important details, this is on my iPhone using both the Amazon and Audible apps, and via the web with Safari (mentioned below). Doesn’t work.

I gave up and went to my desktop and was able to complete the purchase following the same steps without issue. So 🤷‍♂️ ?!

Clearly Amazon is scraping some information from the phone to region lock the purchase. Still would love to know given VPN isn’t masking my location apparently.

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