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Comment Stop pushing the in-app browser (Score 2) 67

I'll believe Meta if they stop forcing in-app browser down our throats. External links should open in the user's browser of choice by default.

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1h57x02/facebook_forces_you_to_use_the_inapp_browser/#:~:text=It's%20intentional%20as%20it's%20getting,use%20external%20browser%20for%20everything

The motivation is 100% greed and control.

Comment Re:This will not safeguard private data (Score 2) 38

If that's your standard for those emails with confidentiality statements (they are not disclaimers), you already have a problem because your device and maybe email provider already read them to determine if they are spam. Also, unless the email body has been encrypted, they've been sat in SMTP server queues in plain text where nefarious people could read them.

Those "disclaimers" aren't really worth anything.

Comment China's response is a joke (Score 1) 320

Totally laughable. They have been running a nationalist agenda for years and boycotts of US goods happen regularly, therefore a tariff on US imports isn't going to do much anyway. OTOH US's tariffs will wean their citizen off relying on cheap M.I.C. imports. It's a good thing they start looking at goods made elsewhere.

Comment I'm not surprised. (Score 2) 129

While they're at it, I suspect there are backdoor commands on the ESP 8266, or Teensy, or other microchips made in the same country. Maybe still OK to use for game controllers, toy robots, music generators, but I'd be extremely wary about using them for anything mission critical like door locks, or anything that can connect to your network.

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