Ahh, I understand. You'd also have to not be an AT&T user. Best bet is to actually test for header injection first, since we don't really know all the carriers that do this. Particularly with the small carriers, since they are just reselling service from the major carriers.
There are only three possible explanations for this: the two phones were using different carriers, or they were being tested in different geographical locations, or the cell carrier itself is making the distinction for some weird reason. The header injection itself is totally unrelated to the phone, the operating system, or what the software on the phone does.
My definition of "tiny" is "under 5,000 people". I live in a state that has no city that is as large as 3 million people. But perhaps there are more than the usual number of electronics hobbyists in my state.
I assume this is due ot a "no track" setting at the browser application level.
The browser has nothing to do with this at all, and there's nothing a browser (or any other software you can run on the phone) can do about it short of using a VPN.
When you did your tests on the Android phone, are you quite certain that you weren't using the WiFi connection? The tracking header is only inserted into traffic that goes over the cell network.
I wonder if we could fuck with this services though by creating a Mozilla addon that inserts this header and fills it with some random garbage on each request. If enough people used it maybe we could DOS their database by filling it with UUID seen only once?
No, that wouldn't work. The header is inserted well after the request leaves your phone. If you insert the header yourself first, it will just get overwritten once you've sent it.
I know this is meant to be a joke, but closing Radio Shack means there is no longer any place you can just run out and grab a specific capacitor or DB9 connector or whatever.
I have never lived in a larger-than-tiny town that didn't have at least one independent electronic supply store within driving range. I haven't set foot in a Radio Shack in years, but I am always totally able to run out and grab components at the last minute.
Meh. Radio Shack actually died decades ago, once they decided to stop being an actual parts supply store. All of my sadness passed way back then.
You don't have an real electronic supply stores in your area? My sympathies...
I am, actually.
Doesn't everybody?
Fortunately, no.
peer pressue...have you tried to have a social life these days without a stupid FB profile?
Yes, I have, and have found no problems whatsoever doing so. My social life is rich and full and completely Facebook-free. I've never had a date react to my lack of Facebook in a negative way.
I am hoping my hardest hope that my employer won't use this. Right now we're forced to use the thoroughly horrendous Jive app for internal social media "needs", and I fear that Facebook's offering might be better. I fear this because the awfulness of Jive is currently an excellent excuse to avoid using it at all. Replacing it with something less awful might make it more difficult to avoid.
It's a labor camp where people are making money.
Where only a small percentage of people are making money. Most do not.
Saying the app store and its execution weren't a great revolution shows that you are totally ignorant of how software was made and sold only a few years ago. Small developers for software really didn't exist. Nobody pays for shareware, and making a living as a small dev was basically impossible.
I have decades of experience doing that, and all I can say is that you're dramatically overstating things. Small software developers were, until the last ten years or so, the most common type of developer. They made money. Not everyone, of course, but percentage-wise I think they did better than developers who exclusive use Apple store.
The app store basically recreated the hobby developer market, period, and brought it to a level of mainstream that was never attained by normal PCs.
That's just silly, unless you're talking just about hobbyist Apple developers. The hobby developer market seemed to be largely unaffected by the Apple store. The parts of the hobby sphere that are the most vibrant and growing have nothing to do with iPhone development.
Where is the source code to this EFF app? I don't see it. This means they are not adhering.
This means they are not adhering to what, exactly? I don't think the EFF claimed this was an open sourced app, and I know that the EFF doesn't think that open source is the only legitimate license to develop apps under.
They can't complain about Apple, then NOT release a Windows phone app and not release a Blackberry app and then do an Android app and then NOT release the source code to that and then complain about Apple.
Why not? I'm not seeing the problem there.
I am as big of a fan of the EFF as the next guy, but it is pointless to single out Apple's walled garden when most of the Android mobile carriers install crapware you can't uninstall
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Something which has nothing to do with Android and everything to do with the agreements between cellphone manufacturers and carriers.
That isn't freedom and arguably less than the typical Apple experience.
I disagree. With the iPhone, I am only allowed to install and use software that Apple says that I can, in ways that Apple says that I can. Android has no such limitation. That's a far more massive infringement on my freedom than not being able to uninstall a piece of crapware.
Web apps don't count, have never counted, and never will count. That's why Apple deigned to allow people to write real apps -- something they adamantly did not want to allow when the iPhone was first released.
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