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 digi_owl on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:02AM (#10564792)

Just sad that Google has lumped the permissions into categories, and also put a bunch of them into "safe".

Yeah yeah, clueless aunt Tillie will flip something and complain that its broken. But persisting this way means that you (Google and anyone agreeing with their stance) are breeding whole generations of Tillies.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by emsy on Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:11AM (#10565047)

iOS has this for years without a problem, so Google has to find a better reason why they screwed this up for so long.

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by nitrogen on Saturday November 14, 2015 @12:41PM (#10566491)

And before iOS, J2ME phones had very fine-grained permissions (though it was usually the carrier that controlled them).

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by digi_owl on Sunday November 15, 2015 @03:42AM (#10568961)

Depends on where in the world you lived...

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Re:Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone... by mtgx on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:36AM (#10564868)

Indeed. Six categories seems like a pretty small number.

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