Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC

Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by xnzakg on Friday November 13, 2015 @07:09PM (#10563452)

Java phones even supported asking for internet access... which is pretty much taken for granted now, and GPlay doesn't even show that an app needs it.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by barrkel on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:22AM (#10564849)

If you could deny access to an application with no good intrinsic reason to go online (eg single player game) then you would probably block ads too, and that's not in Google's interest.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by ATsch on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:52AM (#10565250)

For HTTP requests, yes. Using sockets requires the "Full network permissions" permission.

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