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Re:Why Gibiru attempts to take the canvas image data of my browser? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:41PM (#38757731)
Yes I do already know that.. I find it criminal that they call themselves private then take your fingerprint.. Even Google and Bing don’t do that!
Re:Why Gibiru attempts to take the canvas image data of my browser? on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:32PM (#38746675)
Firefox has blocked their attempt for canvas, why would they need it while most sites don’t ?

n.b. Gibiru is a supposedly private search website based on Google..

Re:Anyone knows why Blackholecloud shut down? on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:24PM (#38746585)
For some reason there aren’t any news articles published about this sad thing, I was looking forward to use their service .. Its like they shut down and noone noticed..
Re:Why not sell the Symbian 60 software rights or make it open source? on Thursday December 16, 2021 @07:38AM (#29577536)
I think its a mystery as to why we don’t see Symbian phones from manufacturers that should take advantage of their opensource repository...
Re:Why not sell the Symbian 60 software rights or make it open source? on Thursday December 16, 2021 @06:56AM (#29577316)
Thank you for letting me know about the Lightphone ;)

Why not sell the Symbian 60 software rights or make it open source?

Posted by hosa on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:14PM
from the self-post dept.

Disclaimer: Rant incoming;This is a question I had for YEARS..Nokia basically has shelved the Symbian 60 OS for many years, not making any devices that run it and not selling it either, so whats up??Why am I asking this question right now? Because im INFURIATED that today , if I want to buy a basic phone, I am pretty much stuck with weird, cheap experience Chinese software ( sometimes even on...

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Re:Why Techcrunch articles refuse to be displayed in my iPhone? on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:50AM (#27902453)
The error displayed instead is : "An error occured with this part of the page sorry for the inconvenience" The rest of the website displays fine.. I have used several browsers.. I am on iOS 12.1 (I know I need to update)
Re:Ask HN: Do Smartphone Apps get audited? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:16PM (#27695031)
Thank you for your answer.. I dont think there is enough transparency regarding this issue..

Ask HN: Do Smartphone Apps get audited?

Posted by hosa on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:36PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I remember I read that article in the past about the guy who reverse engineered TikTok, and thats how we found out it was collecting too much information about you.. Another article about some apps that monitor the clipboard which would allow your passwords to be revealed .. I believe Not just for security reasons , but for efficiency reasons as well, I have used several apps that for some...

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages indexed by se... on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:26PM (#26360966)
Both. Shoot me
Re:Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages indexed by se... on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:25PM (#26360945)
Yes I know that extension.. But my purpose is different, for researching and education , there are pages that only exist in the internet archive, and so I do not want to search the same thing two times in two different places..