iOS does that the first time you open the app. An app never opened can’t send notifications (it wouldn’t have registered).

Cry me a dollar.

9gag memes were similar.

If you believe that’s really true I’m probably not the one to change your mind.

Browsers usually don’t even ask for any permissions, where iOS and Android apps do, and explicitly state what data they’ll steal.

It’s much easier to fingerprint your behavior when using the web than it is when using apps.

Unless you’re only talking about “the wrong kind of apps” but then I could continue about “the wrong kind of websites”.

But hey, you do you. Happy tracking.

Edit: I feel sad that sites like The Verge et al. trick people who want to learn in those kind of directions. They’re writers, not tech people. They earn from ads! Don’t listen to them.

You could as much harvest more data from a browser honestly. Most apps are sandboxed, a browser shares its cookies.

It’s written in the stars.

A theme of the outer space where a Firefox girl lives

Sweet. Dreams.

I’ve been walking around with it “plugged in” for 20 years. I did try Ice Weasel once, but that was simply too cold for my sensitive insides.

Let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

You’re correct. Right now many experts are scrambling all those small pieces together as to how this could happen in the first place, as a lot of it was public too: the social pressure on maintainers, random software changes that now seem suspicious, and the absence of a real identity of the perpetrators. Every expert who’s onto this seems to be a real person, with a real identity and a real face to the name.

Prior to the first commits, there must have been months if not years of planning too.

But just the fact that some of the code those perpetrators wrote took +0.5 seconds more for something that would normally only take 0.2-0.3 seconds is what gave them away.

0.5 seconds of CPU time vs. years of planning.

It’s an intriguing story.

They tried so hard, they got so far, but in the end, it didn’t even matter.

Almost burnt myself.

Platyhaxor

This is y i undesstand Lemmy

All of them. (I only visit /all)

That’s why I look heavy too.

I self-hosted my remote and now I can’t find it anywhere.

Which means at all previous times, for 20 years, noone did check fck sht.

Would’ve could’ve should’ve.