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New comment by aunterste in "App leaks users' masturbation habits"

aunterste — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:08:06 +0000

Firebase at its best

App leaks users' masturbation habits

aunterste — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:08:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/app-for-quitting-porn-leaked-users-masturbation-habits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795601

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by aunterste in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

aunterste — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:16:51 +0000

This would have been a great opportunity to regulate and prohibit massive data collection on mobile phones, by writing a law that requires the platforms (iOS,android) to architect differently and police this aggressively. Takes care of a lot of the TikTok worry and cleans up ecosystems from location tracking/selling weather apps as well.

New comment by aunterste in "[dead]"

aunterste — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:00:08 +0000

On a 59 minutes old account no less.. someone found the secret points padding button.

New comment by aunterste in "Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders"

aunterste — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:39:59 +0000

It is - this would be the better antitrust angle to pursue

New comment by aunterste in "SumatraPDF Reader"

aunterste — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:51:44 +0000

Great tool, easily self hosted for the family, their rare beyond viewing PDF needs don't warrant to install anything.

New comment by aunterste in "A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team"

aunterste — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:50:10 +0000

I'm just waiting to see which (non google of course) website will be the first that is "you must have WebIntegrityAPI enabled to use this website" ..

New comment by aunterste in "FedNow Is Live"

aunterste — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:55:33 +0000

I hope it's a success - but I am doubtful in the US payment landscape, as absurd incentives persisted so long: - C2B payments (everything from cable to insurance) is dominated by credit card payments, as consumers chase rebates/miles/cash back [paid for by the people who don't pay their card in full every months] - C2C payments, because it was virtually impossible for an average person to pay another bank account to bank account, a whole shadow banking system like Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, CashApp was created. - B2B could always pay via ACH, doing it in real time for vendor payments has no advantage - B2C payments, maybe - when you insurance company settle a claim same day (just kidding...).

So I hope that the US gets to a place where it is secure and convenient to pay others bank accounts with the balance in your bank account - but I doubt it.

New comment by aunterste in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

aunterste — Wed, 17 May 2023 12:58:27 +0000

What an excellent way to protect your business from other non-corporate entrants. Regulation hurdles to keep emerging businesses from coming in.

New comment by aunterste in "Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens"

aunterste — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:32:01 +0000

When airplane cockpits have touchscreens, they are ready for use in cars, until then...

New comment by aunterste in "Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC"

aunterste — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:11:24 +0000

"Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law."

Yeah, all corporate customers that have seen an FDIC charge on their statement, based on Q-end balances will have a "special" laugh at this. It's going to be passed through and not be bourn by the surviving banks - that benefit from this 'bailout' of their customers....

New comment by aunterste in "After Dark Screensavers in CSS"

aunterste — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:44:02 +0000

I miss the times when flying toasters where super exciting ...

New comment by aunterste in "FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns"

aunterste — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:48:24 +0000

and they say "Don't do what they say in commercials..."

New comment by aunterste in "Bubbles"

aunterste — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:28:18 +0000

so addicting...

New comment by aunterste in "Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email"

aunterste — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:39:00 +0000

You are absolutely right for 'collaborative tools' where most status changes are meaningless. But I think OP is going after something else, you nudging yourself repeatedly to start something you are dreading.

New comment by aunterste in "Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?"

aunterste — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:25:34 +0000

SEEKING Co-founder | B2B Fintech | Technical, Blockchain dev | Bootstrapped

Instead of inventing yet another payment rail/app we are aiming to make B2B payments more secure, easier on proven infrastructures.

New comment by aunterste in "Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers"

aunterste — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:15:26 +0000

maddening maybe, but because of the simple equation that the fraud losses from continuing to use swipe and issue cards without chip are high, but the margins on credit cards, due to the high rates are high enough to cover it. Carrying a balance on a credit card in Europe and South America is not very common (your account bank will grant a decently priced overdraft facility (not the crazy US fees there), rebates/points/miles are lower - so it just pays to be complacent here for the industry.

New comment by aunterste in "Bitwarden raises $100M"

aunterste — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:40:30 +0000

Enterprise sales - that is a hugely untapped market for password managers (and a huge gap for a lot of companies where people keep their various passwords that are left after massive SSO implementations when they try to SAML everything). CyberArk plays in that space, but Bitwarden with the thoughtful way they have built this product can give them a run for their money.

New comment by aunterste in "Ask HN: Who else is uncomfortable with hardware 2FA for personal use?"

aunterste — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:08:36 +0000

I think that's my point though, I can easily lose my phone, no harm done if one has the seed-values for the TOTPs and they are protected on the phone.

It's not so much asking for 'perfect' security - I agree, that doesn't exist.

But do HW security tokens create a probability of a hard lock-out that outweighs the security/convenience they provide.

Ask HN: Who else is uncomfortable with hardware 2FA for personal use?

aunterste — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:49:44 +0000

I just 'aborted' my Yubikey purchase again as I started to think through how many I would need to buy and where to leave them to be sure I always have access, even if my house burns down and/or the hardware key breaks, one gets lost etc.

I think hardware 2FA is great in a corporate environment where there is an administrator that can enable/disable accounts and issue a new HW key if required.

For personal accounts though, I somehow feel uneasy about reliance on a small piece(s) of HW. Having a great password manager, lots of 2FA (with TOTP, where I own and back-up the secrets) and have all of that secured with a cloud backup with a super strong password that I don't know or have to write down, but can recreate if need be (e.g. an MD-5 hash of a specific segment of a public text).

Too much? Anyone else has the same concerns or am I missing something?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32675578

Points: 22

# Comments: 12