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Cake day: November 19th, 2021

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  • This one needs to be illegal.

    Apps that you need push notifications turned on for, but also serve ads.

    For example, where I live the company that does riding sharing also does all kinds of deliveries. I get notifications about all kinds of restaurant deals.

    The version of Amazon we have sends all kinds of unwanted messages from sellers if you add an item from their shop to your cart. It can be turned off, but it needs to be done one by one manually.

    Even the mobile wallet apps that we use here send all kinds of ads.

    Like, I need notifications about payments and that is it. Stop giving me full screen popup ads each time I open the app to make a payment. It just slows me down and frustrates me.



















  • I wouldn’t really call it a hacker tool any more than you would call a hammer a thieves tool.

    It just accesses the data that stored in an unencrypted format on the computers hard drive.

    If someone had remote access to your computer they could use this, but I imagine they could also use the official tool too.

    Since the data is stored in an unencrypted fashion, a hacker who had remote access would be better served running some script that will just transfer all this data to their offsite server and could be accomplished pretty easily.

    I guess what I want to really say is that calling it a “hacker tool” is misleading.