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aembleton commented on TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?   noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfu... · Posted by u/doener
hekkle · 16 hours ago
Fair enough, it does make sense that they will maximise their profits where they can, I'm just saying that it (the app not the website) refuses to work unless you provide it a full scope of literally every permission available. Maybe it has more to do with attestation, and verifying that you are not a scammer, than stealing and selling data?
aembleton · 8 hours ago
What does the app give you that the website doesn't? I've never tried it as the website works just fine.
aembleton commented on TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?   noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfu... · Posted by u/doener
cheschire · 18 hours ago
Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.

Or did you still want to be able to view tiktok?

Sorry. Can't help you there. Or can I? https://www.torproject.org/download/ or https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/proton-vpn-fast-sec...

aembleton · 8 hours ago
> Don't worry, when you blackhole the entire tiktok domain, you'll still be able to use grindr.

Grindr can still sell your data.

aembleton commented on TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?   noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfu... · Posted by u/doener
gruez · 15 hours ago
It's not, though. If you deny location permissions the app will still know and pester you to enable. Same with other sensitive permissions with the exception of internet.
aembleton · 8 hours ago
Thats a shame, I used to be able to pass fake location data through on an app by app basis using an Xposded module. That was probably 10 years ago though.
aembleton commented on Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video   zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-1... · Posted by u/febed
aljgz · 14 hours ago
It should also be illegal to have ads in the Amazon marketplace (where we pay to buy products), Google/apple app store (where people already paid for a phone), Uber ride, and basically anywhere we have already paid to use something.

If this is not stopped, there's no limit, your car, TV, fridge, it will be everywhere, and it pumps more and more income away from people and products/service providers into advertisers' pockets.

aembleton · 9 hours ago
Also it shouldn't be allowed in Supermarkets
aembleton commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
laurentiurad · 11 hours ago
I built and run several SaaS platforms:

- https://dave-bot.com -> a full-stack AI platform where you can generate videos, images, music, code, 3d objects with frontier Gen AI models.

- https://headsnap.io -> a platform that you can generate images of yourself based on 4 selfies.

- https://quantiq.live -> a service providing financial and historical data for stocks, as well as government trades.

- https://aivestor.tech -> an AI agent that picks small/midcap stocks and trades them using Alpaca API. It uses Reddit, news, polymarket, Google Trends and many other data sources to take investment decisions.

- @Polyglot_lingua_bot -> a voice-enabled Telegram-based bot that can help you learn new languages.

- https://select.supply -> a directory of carefully-curated and well-crafted products.

All of those allowed me to quit my day job and live a comfortable and flexible life. I still invest time in maintenance and adding new features, but I love coding, marketing and everything that comes with promoting and selling a SaaS (and I also have a serious addiction for Stripe notifications).

On top of that, I developed my own software agency where I help clients build and scale software (https://bitheap.ch).

aembleton · 10 hours ago
I get 404 when I look for pricing of headsnap - https://headsnap.io/pricing
aembleton commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
Sander_Marechal · 3 days ago
I love Projectivity Launcher on my Google Streamer, but I can't figure out how to really replace the built-in launcher. Sometimes the device falls back to the default launcher until I press the "home" button on my remote.
aembleton · 3 days ago
Have you tried installing Launcher Manager? https://www.techdoctoruk.com/launcher-manager-for-android-tv...

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aembleton commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
alias_neo · 3 days ago
Unfortunately not possible on the Fire Stick (4K Max), Amazon have modified it to disallow other launchers; there are some "hacks" but none have worked for me and the closest one I did get to working was too much of a pain for the rest of the family.

I've found no way to root it either so I just want rid of it, every time something appears almost-full-screen on the home page that's inappropriate for the kids with no regard for what time of day it is, my wife gets all the more annoyed by it; she never wanted it in the first place, so the poor experience is not helping my case).

aembleton · 3 days ago
I couldn't work out how to do it on my Fire Stick either. But it does work for my Google TV.
aembleton commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
mrweasel · 3 days ago
At first I was going to disagree, because having the compute built into the TV makes some sense, but thinking about it made me change my mind.

A modern TV has a lifetime of 15 - 20 years I think. E.g. my in-laws have a Sony TV, from around 2012 - 2013. It's not 4K obviously, but the picture is beautiful, the sound perfectly fills their small living room, it's a great TV. Even considering that Sony did skimp on the compute in that TV from the start, there's no way that they could have put in hardware that would future proof it until 2030 or beyond. Nor could they reasonably charge enough to cover software updates for that long. It makes much more sense to have a replaceable external unit.

aembleton · 3 days ago
Fortunately you can still by an external unit and plug it in
aembleton commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
goku12 · 4 days ago
> ... and never, ever allow it to communicate over the Internet.

I'm pretty sure they're working on solving that problem.

aembleton · 3 days ago
Doubt it, 99% of consumers will connect it to the internet. The remaining 1% will be blocking ads everywhere making the data rather useless and potentially poisoned.

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