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iPhone VPN and Its Importance!

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This feature of VPN can also be used in your iPhone as in computers and this feature provides you the freedom to use internet on your iPhone independently. VPN blocks the third-parties that try to enter your connection and create problems in communication, data and browsing purposes. This iPhone VPN also stops hackers from identifying your personal data and emails. This iPhone VPN has a great importance if used in an iPhone. Nowadays, the Wi-Fi technology has become very popular. There are many spots which provide you free internet access so the use of this technology has also become common. Many people use this feature of Wi-Fi and most of them are Hackers so if your phone doesn't have this VPN, then these hackers can easily see what websites you are browsing and if you are using a website for bank purposes, then they easily get access to your private data.

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The antitrust case against Apple

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The foundational tenet of "the Cult of Mac" is that buying products from a $3t company makes you a member of an oppressed ethnic minority and therefore every criticism of that corporation is an ethnic slur:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

Call it "Apple exceptionalism" – the idea that Apple, alone among the Big Tech firms, is virtuous, and therefore its conduct should be interpreted through that lens of virtue. The wellspring of this virtue is conveniently nebulous, which allows for endless goal-post shifting by members of the Cult of Mac when Apple's sins are made manifest.

Take the claim that Apple is "privacy respecting," which is attributed to Apple's business model of financing its services though cash transactions, rather than by selling it customers to advertisers. This is the (widely misunderstood) crux of the "surveillance capitalism" hypothesis: that capitalism is just fine, but once surveillance is in the mix, capitalism fails.

Apple, then, is said to be a virtuous company because its behavior is disciplined by market forces, unlike its spying rivals, whose ability to "hack our dopamine loops" immobilizes the market's invisible hand with "behavior-shaping" shackles:

http://pluralistic.net/HowToDestroySurveillanceCapitalism

Apple makes a big deal out of its privacy-respecting ethos, and not without some justification. After all, Apple went to the mattresses to fight the FBI when they tried to force Apple to introduced defects into its encryption systems:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/fbi-could-have-gotten-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-leadership-didnt-say

And Apple gave Ios users the power to opt out of Facebook spying with a single click; 96% of its customers took them up on this offer, costing Facebook $10b (one fifth of the pricetag of the metaverse boondoggle!) in a single year (you love to see it):

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/facebook-makes-the-case-for-activity-tracking-to-ios-14-users-in-new-pop-ups/

Bruce Schneier has a name for this practice: "feudal security." That's when you cede control over your device to a Big Tech warlord whose "walled garden" becomes a fortress that defends you against external threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/08/leona-helmsley-was-a-pioneer/#manorialism

The keyword here is external threats. When Apple itself threatens your privacy, the fortress becomes a prison. The fact that you can't install unapproved apps on your Ios device means that when Apple decides to harm you, you have nowhere to turn. The first Apple customers to discover this were in China. When the Chinese government ordered Apple to remove all working privacy tools from its App Store, the company obliged, rather than risk losing access to its ultra-cheap manufacturing base (Tim Cook's signal accomplishment, the one that vaulted him into the CEO's seat, was figuring out how to offshore Apple manufacturing to China) and hundreds of millions of middle-class consumers:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-vpn/apple-says-it-is-removing-vpn-services-from-china-app-store-idUSKBN1AE0BQ

Killing VPNs and other privacy tools was just for openers. After Apple caved to Beijing, the demands kept coming. Next, Apple willingly backdoored all its Chinese cloud services, so that the Chinese state could plunder its customers' data at will:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html

This was the completely foreseeable consequence of Apple's "curated computing" model: once the company arrogated to itself the power to decide which software you could run on your own computer, it was inevitable that powerful actors – like the Chinese Communist Party – would lean on Apple to exercise that power in service to its goals.

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese state's appetite for deputizing Apple to help with its spying and oppression was not sated by backdooring iCloud and kicking VPNs out of the App Store. As recently as 2022, Apple continued to neuter its tools at the behest of the Chinese state, breaking Airdrop to make it useless for organizing protests in China:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/11/foreseeable-consequences/#airdropped

But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn't limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it's proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users' privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers' explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Here's the thing: even if you believe that Apple has a "corporate personality" that makes it want to do the right thing, that desire to be virtuous is dependent on the constraints Apple faces. The fact that Apple has complete legal and technical control over the hardware it sells – the power to decide who can make software that runs on that hardware, the power to decide who can fix that hardware, the power to decide who can sell parts for that hardware – represents an irresistible temptation to enshittify Apple products.

"Constraints" are the crux of the enshittification hypothesis. The contagion that spread enshittification to every corner of our technological world isn't a newfound sadism or indifference among tech bosses. Those bosses are the same people they've always been – the difference is that today, they are unconstrained.

Having bought, merged or formed a cartel with all their rivals, they don't fear competition (Apple buys 90+ companies per year, and Google pays it an annual $26.3b bribe for default search on its operating systems and programs).

Having captured their regulators, they don't fear fines or other penalties for cheating their customers, workers or suppliers (Apple led the coalition that defeated dozens of Right to Repair bills, year after year, in the late 2010s).

Having wrapped themselves in IP law, they don't fear rivals who make alternative clients, mods, privacy tools or other "adversarial interoperability" tools that disenshittify their products (Apple uses the DMCA, trademark, and other exotic rules to block third-party software, repair, and clients).

True virtue rests not merely in resisting temptation to be wicked, but in recognizing your own weakness and avoiding temptation. As I wrote when Apple embarked on its "curated computing" path, the company would eventually – inevitably – use its power to veto its customers' choices to harm those customers:

https://memex.craphound.com/2010/04/01/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either/

Which is where we're at today. Apple – uniquely among electronics companies – shreds every device that is traded in by its customers, to block third parties from harvesting working components and using them for independent repair:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks

Apple engraves microscopic Apple logos on those parts and uses these as the basis for trademark complaints to US customs, to block the re-importation of parts that escape its shredders:

https://repair.eu/news/apple-uses-trademark-law-to-strengthen-its-monopoly-on-repair/

Apple entered into an illegal price-fixing conspiracy with Amazon to prevent used and refurbished devices from being sold in the "world's biggest marketplace":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/10/you-had-one-job/#thats-just-the-as

Why is Apple so opposed to independent repair? Well, they say it's to keep users safe from unscrupulous or incompetent repair technicians (feudal security). But when Tim Cook speaks to his investors, he tells a different story, warning them that the company's profits are threatened by customers who choose to repair (rather than replace) their slippery, fragile glass $1,000 pocket computers (the fortress becomes a prison):

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/01/letter-from-tim-cook-to-apple-investors/

All this adds up to a growing mountain of immortal e-waste, festooned with miniature Apple logos, that our descendants will be dealing with for the next 1,000 years. In the face of this unspeakable crime, Apple engaged in a string of dishonest maneuvers, claiming that it would support independent repair. In 2022, Apple announced a home repair program that turned out to be a laughably absurd con:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/22/apples-cement-overshoes/

Then in 2023, Apple announced a fresh "pro-repair" initiative that, once again, actually blocked repair:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

Let's pause here a moment and remember that Apple once stood for independent repair, and celebrated the independent repair technicians that kept its customers' beloved Macs running:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/29/norwegian-potato-flour-enchiladas/#r2r

Whatever virtue lurks in Apple's corporate personhood, it is no match for the temptation that comes from running a locked-down platform designed to capture IP rights so that it can prevent normal competitive activities, like fixing phones, processing payments, or offering apps.

When Apple rolled out the App Store, Steve Jobs promised that it would save journalism and other forms of "content creation" by finally giving users a way to pay rightsholders. A decade later, that promise has been shattered by the app tax – a 30% rake on every in-app transaction that can't be avoided because Apple will kick your app out of the App Store if you even mention that your customers can pay you via the web in order to avoid giving a third of their content dollars to a hardware manufacturer that contributed nothing to the production of that material:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-must-open-app-stores

Among the apps that Apple also refuses to allow on Ios is third-party browsers. Every Iphone browser is just a reskinned version of Apple's Safari, running on the same antiquated, insecure Webkit browser engine. The fact that Webkit is incomplete and outdated is a feature, not a bug, because it lets Apple block web apps – apps delivered via browsers, rather than app stores:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/13/kitbashed/#app-store-tax

Last month, the EU took aim at Apple's veto over its users' and software vendors' ability to transact with one another. The newly in-effect Digital Markets Act requires Apple to open up both third-party payment processing and third-party app stores. Apple's response to this is the very definition of malicious compliance, a snake's nest of junk-fees, onerous terms of service, and petty punitive measures that all add up to a great, big "Go fuck yourself":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/#dma

But Apple's bullying, privacy invasion, price-gouging and environmental crimes are global, and the EU isn't the only government seeking to end them. They're in the firing line in Japan:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-down-on-Apple-and-Google-app-store-monopolies

And in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-wins-appeal-in-apple-case

And now, famously, the US Department of Justice is coming for Apple, with a bold antitrust complaint that strikes at the heart of Apple exceptionalism, the idea that monopoly is safer for users than technological self-determination:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline

There's passages in the complaint that read like I wrote them:

Apple wraps itself in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct. Indeed, it spends billions on marketing and branding to promote the self-serving premise that only Apple can safeguard consumers’ privacy and security interests. Apple selectively compromises privacy and security interests when doing so is in Apple’s own financial interest—such as degrading the security of text messages, offering governments and certain companies the chance to access more private and secure versions of app stores, or accepting billions of dollars each year for choosing Google as its default search engine when more private options are available. In the end, Apple deploys privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract to serve Apple’s financial and business interests.

After all, Apple punishes its customers for communicating with Android users by forcing them to do so without any encryption. When Beeper Mini rolled out an Imessage-compatible Android app that fixed this, giving Iphone owners the privacy Apple says they deserve but denies to them, Apple destroyed Beeper Mini:

https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-moving-forward

Tim Cook is on record about this: if you want to securely communicate with an Android user, you must "buy them an Iphone":

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rcs-imessage-android-iphone-compatibility

If your friend, family member or customer declines to change mobile operating systems, Tim Cook insists that you must communicate without any privacy or security.

Even where Apple tries for security, it sometimes fails ("security is a process, not a product" -B. Schneier). To be secure in a benevolent dictatorship, it must also be an infallible dictatorship. Apple's far from infallible: Eight generations of Iphones have unpatchable hardware defects:

https://checkm8.info/

And Apple's latest custom chips have secret-leaking, unpatchable vulnerabilities:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

Apple's far from infallible – but they're also far from benevolent. Despite Apple's claims, its hardware, operating system and apps are riddled with deliberate privacy defects, introduce to protect Apple's shareholders at the expense of its customers:

https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy

Now, antitrust suits are notoriously hard to make, especially after 40 years of bad-precedent-setting, monopoly-friendly antitrust malpractice. Much of the time, these suits fail because they can't prove that tech bosses intentionally built their monopolies. However, tech is a written culture, one that leaves abundant, indelible records of corporate deliberations. What's more, tech bosses are notoriously prone to bragging about their nefarious intentions, committing them to writing:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

Apple is no exception – there's an abundance of written records that establish that Apple deliberately, illegally set out to create and maintain a monopoly:

https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-doj-build-antitrust-case/

Apple claims that its monopoly is beneficent, used to protect its users, making its products more "elegant" and safe. But when Apple's interests conflict with its customers' safety and privacy – and pocketbooks – Apple always puts itself first, just like every other corporation. In other words: Apple is unexceptional.

The Cult of Mac denies this. They say that no one wants to use a third-party app store, no one wants third-party payments, no one wants third-party repair. This is obviously wrong and trivially disproved: if no Apple customer wanted these things, Apple wouldn't have to go to enormous lengths to prevent them. The only phones that an independent Iphone repair shop fixes are Iphones: which means Iphone owners want independent repair.

The rejoinder from the Cult of Mac is that those Iphone owners shouldn't own Iphones: if they wanted to exercise property rights over their phones, they shouldn't have bought a phone from Apple. This is the "No True Scotsman" fallacy for distraction-rectangles, and moreover, it's impossible to square with Tim Cook's insistence that if you want private communications, you must buy an Iphone.

Apple is unexceptional. It's just another Big Tech monopolist. Rounded corners don't preserve virtue any better than square ones. Any company that is freed from constraints – of competition, regulation and interoperability – will always enshittify. Apple – being unexceptional – is no exception.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

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If fairy tales was today the wish-granting being would force you to choose wishes from a shitty drop-down menu.

#Select

All wishes are final, irreversible, and non-fungible.

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Hey everyone, I guess now is a good time to plug Luna AdBlock VPN for mobile since YouTube is being a shitter about it. I use it for my iPhone since I haven’t been able to find an adblocker compatible with the app other than this.

It’s a little spotty at times, but its worked for me for over a year now and I haven’t heard of any crackdowns on it. Would recommend for IOS users, idk about other platforms since there’s probably better options for them.

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I’m not saying you or anons are wrong, just posing an alternative hypothesis that fits the data points. I do agree post in French is a smidge off, linguistically. What if anon is CM, and she is stalking SH and planting these things herself to achieve notoriety or maybe finagle a meeting. (Hey we are rumored to be dating so let’s go on an actual date 😉) and yeah, full disclosure, I’m still sad about KE - the yenta in me thought they were perfect.

The English translation was from Google because I was going to bed and too tired to translate it myself. The Anon's French is perfectly fine French. I lived in Paris, I speak French. Please tell me where "linguistically" it is not from someone who speaks French. Also, if it's someone who is trying to pass off as French, wouldn't they have used a translation app and made sure their French was perfect? Or, written in English and said their English wasn't good?

I have an IP app that tells me people's IP addresses, the cities from where they're sending me Anons, if it's a real IP or a VPN, the electronic device they're using, and how many times they've visited my blog. The 3 Anons I've gotten about Chloé are all from different IP addresses, using 3 different devices. This last one was from Paris, France like I posted. So, unless one Anon has 3 different devices they're using to send me Asks AND they are both an Android and iPhone user, these are NOT the same person.

As far as Anon being Chloé, c'mon now, that's ridiculous. For that to be true, Chloé, who is busy always traveling the world and has a LIFE full of fashion, food, friends, would have had to somehow find my blog, be so obsessed with Sam and so fucking immature at age 31, to then send an Outlander gossip blog a plant about herself with Sam? Read how dumb that sounds. Chloe comes from money, she has a ton of connections, if she wanted a "meeting" with Sam all she would have to do is hit up one of her friends who knows a friend who knows a friend and voilà. Mademoiselle Montana does not need to finagle any dates; they come to her. Trust.

Since both Sam and Chloé self-admittedly use Raya, the exclusive celebrity dating app, my money is that that's how they connected.

As for Karina Elle, I understand everyone has their favorite Sam ex-girlfriend/date, but that doesn't mean you need to subscribe to conspiracy theories. FACT: the Anon Asks I received about Sam and Chloé sightings in Paris a few months ago are all from different people. And they were all sent from Paris. So, unless there's 3 Parisians who decided to take time out of their insouciant la vie en rose Paris lives to try to pull the wool over my eyes, I'd file this under #samtana did happen. Oh, and also Chloé is not in Paris right now, so she couldn't have sent this Anon Ask. You referenced data points; there they are. Facts.

All of a sudden, I'm craving a brioche and a café au lait. à bientôt, mes amies. Bisous. 😘

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If you had battery-related performance issues on an older iPhone—and you got in on a class-action lawsuit against Apple six years ago—you could soon receive some payback for your trouble.

According to a statement released by the law office involved in the suit against Apple, the tech giant will soon have to pay out up to $500 million to customers affected by its throttling of iPhones that had older batteries. The so-called Batterygate scandal affected people using iPhones in the 6, 6S, and 7 families, as well as the original SE model, and stems from complaints from users that Apple purposely slowed down the devices after they installed software updates. Apple hasn’t admitted any wrongdoing, instead positing that its practice of deliberately slowing down its phones wasn’t a technique to get people to buy a newer device but rather a safety measure to keep the phones from shutting down when the battery got too low.

The checks will be doled out to the roughly 3 million people who filed claims for the lawsuit, which works out to somewhere between $65 and $90 per person. It’s too late to make a claim now—the deadline to join the suit passed in October 2020.

Here’s some more news about the stuff on your phone.

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Bad streaming music news for anyone who’s somehow not on Spotify or Apple Music: Amazon’s music streaming service is getting more expensive.

The price hike from $9 to $10 was revealed by a FAQ page on Amazon’s Music site, spotted by The Hollywood Reporter. The increase is relatively small and will apply to Amazon Prime members with Unlimited Music plans and family plans. But it’s part of a trend of streaming services putting the squeeze on their customers. The cost of a Spotify Premium subscription went up by a buck last month after 12 years without an increase. Hulu and Disney+ are getting more expensive later this year. Netflix has cracked down on password sharing and introduced a paid ad-supported tier. And don't forget that HBO Max removed gobs of content from its platform. Amazon Music doesn’t seem to be ditching any of its songs quite yet—or banning password sharing—but clearly the Amazonian overlords want to squeeze a little more out of the platform.

Muting TikTok

A recent Reuters poll shows that nearly half of Americans approve of the US banning the social media app TikTok. (Disclosure: Yes, WIRED is on TikTok.)

US lawmakers have been talking about tanking TikTok for years now, citing concerns that the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance could share Americans’ user data with the Chinese government or that the app could serve as a software backdoor for Chinese spyware. Pundits and members of Congress have posited the TikTok ban as a push to protect privacy, even though the issue is more due to international tensions between the US and China. (Cue the I Think You Should Leave “you sure about that?” clip.)

The process of actually banning the app from US soil would be laborious and controversial. Montana is going to give it a shot in 2024, when its recently passed TikTok ban goes into effect. Enforcing a ban will be nigh impossible, since users could likely circumvent the rules by using a VPN to make it appear that they are in another location or by simply downloading the app while they are traveling to another state.

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It’s getting hotter here on planet Earth. Heat waves intensify, oceans warm, and wildfires worsen. And all the while, humans—and everything else living on the planet—pay the price. Human influence has undeniably altered the weather of the world, and as we hurtle along in a climate emergency, it’s only going to grow hotter and more unstable.

This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, WIRED’s resident doomsday reporter, Matt Simon, joins the show to talk about extreme heat, why it keeps getting warmer, and how we might be able to adapt.

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A bit about TikTok, a bit about sanctions... this and that :D

A small exception as I normally use this blog to post Kakashi stuff, but… since this whole situation affects my Kakashi mania…

It was quite a surprise to find out that TikTok’s parent company was actually Chinese...

I have to admit that I don’t have a full insight on how TikTok operates, but, see, since the beginning of the sad events in Ukraine TikTok had actually imposed probably the most harsh restrictions on the Russian audience among the social media platforms: Russia had been basically cut off from the rest of TikTok and TikTok content was sort of split into two parts.

Here’s how it works: if I open TikTok with no preparations, I only see content made by Russian creators around before-March-2022. And of course, I cannot post any new content.

In order to access the proper TikTok, I, as a user of iPhone who cannot hack the app itself (Android users are more lucky I guess), have to not only use VPN, but actually must also have a foreign SIM-card turned on (and as I can use two SIM-cards I have to turn off the Russian one). Again, no other social media platform had restricted our access this much.

The only other resource I know that perhaps can compete in how much they don’t want Russians around is eBay: I am unable to change the shipping address and use my account to order, even to deliver to the USA. I’ve used all my IT intelligence (it’s not that great but definitely higher than that of an average Internet user) and was only ever able to order to Kazakhstan (but even so – only as a guest – all my new accounts were promptly banned, regardless of VPN, proxy/anonymisers, etc.) which had an interesting effect and lead to a wild story of how I later retrieved my parcels from Kazakhstan 🤣

But yeah, with eBay, at least I understand. With TikTok… I think they are influenced more than they admit because damn even with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr I can just use VPN and do what I please (even though I constantly worry that they would do something to my account – but nope. I just can’t monetize, but I don’t care about that much and I think I could potentially solve this issue if I wanted to)…

And I wouldn’t wonder about it if it wasn’t for two things:

For example, AliExpress, a huge Chinese shopping platform, never banned Russia and operates just like it did before February 2022. They generally don’t have the policy to strangle Russia as far as I understand because it took them a couple of weeks to restore payment with our cards (which are banned everywhere else in the world – I have a bank account in Kazakhstan for my foreign operations which is mildly inconvenient).

And second, which annoys me quite a bit, is that TikTok, by doing what they did, had harmed not only the spoiled Russian brats that no longer had a place to wiggle their butts in (seriously I saw those videos of those teens literally bawling about it 🤦‍♀️). But I don’t know if they realize it or not, TikTok was quite a valuable platform for fund-raising. Charity, animal shelters, surgeries, expensive medical treatment, you name it! And that was all cut off. This is what really hurt. I’d like to hope that they readjusted… but I really don’t think that even in light of everything that was fair to those whose lives relied a lot on TikTok. Alas… Politics matter above all… Whoever cared about the poor and disabled?..

So yeah, it was indeed surprising to find out about the parent company.

Anyhow, if TikTok gets banned in the USA, ask me, I’ll teach you how to bypass it 🤣🤣🤣

Welcome to our world!..

I would definitely laugh if TikTok opens up to Russia out of spite, haha… But something tells me… they’ll just surrender – too much at stake.

#TikTok #Russia #sanctions

[solradguy]

Wait hold on you can rip out bloatware by connecting it to a pc?

Hell yeah man!!! I don't know how you'd do it on an iphone, but with Android you can plug your phone into your computer and poke around in its files just like it's a Windows computer, basically.

Here's the guide I used: beebom.com/remove-bloatware-android-no-root/

This guide's a little old now, but I still sometimes get into my phone and the methods in the guide all seem to work as of early 2022-ish. I haven't used this other guide, but this one involves a program that removes the bloatware for you. This method might be easier/more efficient if you aren't familiar with navigating the insides of computers: beebom.com/how-remove-bloatware-android-phone/

Since I mentioned it in my tags on the PITA post, you can also download Blokada to block trackers and stuff too. You're going to want to download and install the .APK file, not the app off the Play Store, which only includes their VPN. Google doesn't like apps that block their shady shit lol. The VPN is a subscription service and I haven't used it, but their blocker protection is ace and I swear by it: blokada.org/

And if you hate Bixby and its stupid button being right next to the volume control (like I do), you can use bxActions to map it to something actually useful, like turning it into a camera hotkey or whatever: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.bxactions&gl=US

#asks #publishing this in case anyone else wants to clear some space off their phone

[akkivee]

Hi! I was just wondering where you were watching the lives and stuff. Do you buy the cds or use a streaming service or some secret third option I can’t think of right now? Tbh I’ve been living off of your scraps of hypmic content since I don’t know where to find it other than on yt. Thank you for your time, have a wonderful day/night! :)

hypmic is basically partnered with abema, and they tend to host most of hypmic’s events, lives, stages, etc!!!! i have an iphone and occasionally use a laptop when it feels like functioning long enough for me to watch content lol, so idk semantics between each device, but ik that abema content can only be accessed through a vpn and the app itself is region locked to japan

it’s also paid content so be ready to shill if you want more lol!!!! I haven’t actually tried to buy content on pc, but with my iphone, i used to have a separate jp itunes account where i’d buy jp itunes gift cards and use those as my method of payment. i was fortunate enough to have downloaded the app while i was in japan a bit ago, so now i’m able to use apple pay for purchases lol

i can only provide help with apple related stuff lol, but if you want to take that leap into buying shit from abema, i’ll be happy to make a tutorial lol

#vee got an ask #like we have the division cross talks starting next month the new stage in march and the 10th live in april #so tbh now would be the best time to get on that lol!!!!!! #abema prohibits international use so amenities like customer service and refunds etc are pretty much unavailable to foreigners using the app #and probably foreign currencies lol so they will accept your money but if something goes wrong or is cancelled you won’t get it back lol #something to keep in mind but it’s something i have only briefly had to think about once and that was bc of a change in in-app currency lol

[xpersey]

Grass Airdrop Farm (5min, 300$+)

Good day, dear readers!

Today, let’s explore a unique project that you don’t want to miss out on.

I’d like to remind you that following my advice has already allowed you to claim over $2000 on Cetus Protocol. Similarly, I believe ZetaChain has the potential for significant profits.

What is it?

You must have noticed that in all applications on iPhone, Android, Vkontakte, Yandex, Google, etc. you are shown only those ads that you may be interested in? You were either interested in this product/service in a search engine, or just talk about it next to the phone. Almost all services collect information about you and sell it to advertisers without your knowledge. Grass does the same thing, only you get paid for it.

The project collects anonymized information using 0.5% of your communication channel and sells it to selected clients, who use this data to train artificial intelligence models.

A protocol that allows you to exchange your unused home network bandwidth for future tokens has announced a $3.5M seed round from venture funds Polychain Capital, Tribe Capital, and Bitscale Capital.

How to get started with GRASS? Follow the referral link: (bonuses will be credited) https://app.getgrass.io/register?referralCode=auzgpTiXUxrGedr Choose to download the app — Download Grass (we’ll discuss security questions in the post) Register: Enter your email Choose a username (or generate one) Set a password and confirm it Enter the referral code: auzgpTiXUxrGedr

On your dashboard, you’ll see:

Statistics on point earnings

The status of your networks and the number of points you’ve earned

Unfortunately, VPN reduces network quality and doesn’t earn points, but you can also earn through referral leads.

A mobile app will be launched soon!

!After registration, points will start accumulating within a few hours. The extension may take about 20 minutes to load.

I believe that a project requiring no investment other than providing your data, especially in the trending AI narrative, is poised for a powerful drop in 2024 on Solana.

Discord

Twitter

More interestingly: The founder of Grass discusses the possibility of releasing a separate device that will “look from under your network” and farm points/future tokens for you. Using the Solana blockchain architecture, thanks to almost zero transaction costs, will efficiently reward users after the token is released on the market. Claiming tokens/distribution in EVM networks is a costly matter, and projects like Grass would be impossible on the Ethereum network/not fit into the economic model.

#crypto #airdrop #farming #solana #testnet #grass

[silvermoon424]

Since you're an expert in Apple products, wondering if there's a way (or a decent way) to get VPN on an iPad I got for my birthday. It doesn't need to be fancy for downloading but if possible to watch streaming apps set up other countries. Thanks so much in advance and no worries if there isn't a good solution. I just trust you in this rather than searching the Internet at large.

"An expert" lol, thank you! I wouldn't call myself an expert but I try my best.

Anyway, most VPNs are very much compatible with iPads as well as iPhones! You will need to buy one for it to be useful; if you're just looking for streaming, than NordVPN or Surfshark are fine (those are not very reliable when it comes to torrenting though, so be careful).

I found this guide by Surfshark that walks you through setting up a VPN on an iPad. It sounds like Surfshark also offers an actual VPN app, which sounds like it would probably be the easiest and most efficient solution.

#asks #Anonymous

[autonoes]

omg. iphone ppl. i just found out that the app Brave Browser lets u adblock youtube and play in the background. i am listening to a song on youtube as i type this. as far as i can tell there’s no bullshit w the app. u can pay for vpn if u want but i think it’s free otherwise ?? this is huge

#u have to turn on background play in the settings in the app #this reads like an ad lmao #i’m in shock #trembling as i write this listening to kurai by midbooze #WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS #the yt ​ads have acc been doing psychological damage to me recently #they keep waking me up at night