Big data is creepy data

[sdifox]

With pay-at-pump, you insert the card to begin which gets a pre-authorization from the bank. Then you pump and the charge is finalized when you finish pumping.

He lives in Timmins. By law he cannot pump his own gas. The polar bears have the monopoly on that service.

 

[rh71]

Yeah and you can buy all your shit WHILE your gas is pumping. That's like 5 minutes saved every trip! That shit adds up!

It's illegal to put a gas cap in the trigger or otherwise pump while unattended here in NY. Not true in DC?

 

[lxskllr]

In MD, and I suspect everywhere, you have to stay at the pump. Seems like most places now still have the handle holders intact. Years ago a lot of them were removed, and I propped it open with my knife. Don't know what changed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

He lives in Timmins. By law he cannot pump his own gas. The polar bears have the monopoly on that service.

I don't even think we have full serve stations here actually. I was out of town, Earlton area, and there was actually a full serve station, it even had the air hoses you drive over that rings a bell inside, I was surprised those were still around!

 

[SKORPI0]

My Note 9 has tracking updates on places that I've been to for the last few months. Not sure how to turn it off.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Hey man, I looked into the Raspberry Pi method of whole-house ad blocking but apparently it's not as easily do-able via DNS anymore. Ads on phones... suck. YoutubeTV ads too, but not on my PC where I have adblock installed.


You're using this and it works through DNS? Even Youtube ads where they serve from the same host as the video?

Why is it not easily do-able at the DNS level anymore? Yeah it might not be able to block everything, but it is still useful for ads overall.

But yeah, I dunno if it blocks at the YouTube level - since I do it at both the DNS level with Pihole and at the browser level with ublock.

 

[PlanetJosh]

Maybe a cosmetic surgery ad on the screen if the facial AI detects the person is not aging well. Assuming it's got the age and other stats from information gathering like credit files and so on.

 

[sdifox]

Why is it not easily do-able at the DNS level anymore? Yeah it might not be able to block everything, but it is still useful for ads overall.

But yeah, I dunno if it blocks at the YouTube level - since I do it at both the DNS level with Pihole and at the browser level with ublock.

They are serving from same name now.

 

[rh71]

Why is it not easily do-able at the DNS level anymore? Yeah it might not be able to block everything, but it is still useful for ads overall.

But yeah, I dunno if it blocks at the YouTube level - since I do it at both the DNS level with Pihole and at the browser level with ublock.

If ads are being loaded from the known marketing domains, those are easily blacklisted and no ad will be served. But if the video/show you're watching is producing the ad as well, how would it be blocked by hostname DNS then?

I would love to know how ublock/adblock works (and it does block all ads). If the extension in a browser can tell what's an ad and what isn't, how can we apply that at the router?

 

[purbeast0]

It's illegal to put a gas cap in the trigger or otherwise pump while unattended here in NY. Not true in DC?

It's been illegal since I turned 16, which was 22 years ago.

Speeding is also illegal.

So is jay walking.

 

[Spacehead]

Reading the OP reminded me of this picture. It's in the PDF note for the Security Now podcast at the top:
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-752-notes.pdf

And scroll down to the bolded "And speaking of BIPA..." (p. 10) for news on the latest in facial recognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI

 

[Scarpozzi]

Say what you want, I like Google's kinky auto-suggestions these days. I've been training that engine for years.