Hacker News: privacyking

New comment by privacyking in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

privacyking — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:40:09 +0000

Have you tried Narjo as an alternative client?

New comment by privacyking in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

privacyking — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:50:17 +0000

You can have a second or third VPN active if you use a work profile and private space

New comment by privacyking in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

privacyking — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:18:42 +0000

You still have the same things on android. If an android app requests eg exact location it can refuse to run and there’s nothing you can do. That sort of behaviour is prohibited on iOS and an app won’t be approved if it does that sort of thing. They have to allow declining location permission or at least approximate location

New comment by privacyking in "On privacy and control"

privacyking — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:56:55 +0000

It's not their own phone. It's an OEM phone that will be supported by GrapheneOS by flashing it. Once you do it, there's no reason to believe it wont have the same play integrity issues that it currently has on pixel devices.

New comment by privacyking in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

privacyking — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:35:06 +0000

No they don't. The current releases for android and iOS both use file based encryption on most supported phones.

New comment by privacyking in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

privacyking — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:02:54 +0000

A chargeback can be started in minutes.

New comment by privacyking in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

privacyking — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:48:40 +0000

It has a stable interface on top of Linux, which desktop linux does not have.

New comment by privacyking in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

privacyking — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:12:30 +0000

Given that their OS requires a pixel phone and google is not releasing a) updated drivers b) updated source code for the latest release

their days are indeed numbered.

As for not being a certified android device and being unaffected. That is not true. There will be chilling effects that result in much less FOSS app development for Android, and whether or not an OS is certified is irrelevant in that regard.

New comment by privacyking in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

privacyking — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:10:22 +0000

That OEM phone is literally years away.

New comment by privacyking in "PureVPN IPv6 Leak"

privacyking — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:06:03 +0000

Well it's more private. Also there's only one proper IPv6 implementation (using GUAs) and most people.cant get one

New comment by privacyking in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

privacyking — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:43:21 +0000

Thanks

New comment by privacyking in "Signal Secure Backups"

privacyking — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:31:19 +0000

Do you know roughly how long before the iOS version comes out? I want to switch to iOS from android.

New comment by privacyking in "Signal Secure Backups"

privacyking — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:29:19 +0000

I don't think that's true anymore. They added message history syncing

New comment by privacyking in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

privacyking — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:02:38 +0000

Source? What message does iOS show?

New comment by privacyking in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

privacyking — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:59:59 +0000

Woosh.

That's the whole point.

New comment by privacyking in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

privacyking — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:52:53 +0000

Exact same thing happened in my country. All the banking apps moved to Google Pay/wallet and there's now only one bank left that supports the AOSP android pay feature. Also using a garmin watch now.

New comment by privacyking in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

privacyking — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:34:41 +0000

That's how it's always costed

New comment by privacyking in "Paracetamol disrupts early embryogenesis by cell cycle inhibition"

privacyking — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:09:58 +0000

True but one of the proposed mechanisms of action is on the same pathway as NSAIDs

New comment by privacyking in "Pixel 10 Phones"

privacyking — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:33:23 +0000

> 3) once that I forgot my password to the MacBook, all one needed to do to access my data was to enter recovery mode and reset the password. Sure it logged me off from browser sessions, but all my files where there available to anybody

Do you not know how computers work? That how it works on every computer without encryption.

You wouldn't have been able to access to the data passwordless if you had enabled Filevault encryption

New comment by privacyking in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

privacyking — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:11:42 +0000

Yes. Facebook was using this trick on Android. Meta's android apps would host a server on localhost, and their sites would communicate with this local server to pass tracking information that would otherwise be blocked by all browser protection methods on Android. I guess it is still fingerprinting, but at the most extreme end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115