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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I’m part of those people. The usual argument is that everybody’s phone is listening all the time, without agreeing to permissions or showing the mic notification or anything like that. I’ve never seen any proof of that. This article is about a bunch of shovelware apps (Pool 3D, Beer pong: Trickshot, Honey Quest etc) that aren’t even listed anymore. There’s nothing about them skirting permissions or hiding the notification.

    People see the headline and assume it’s Facebook et al.



  • Somebody signed up for an Apple account with my email address, apparently before they required email confirmation. There’s no way for me to remedy this, so I’m apparently just supposed to deal with somebody else using my email for an Apple ID. Their support treated me like an idiot for an annoyingly long amount of time.

    Support: “Sir I can’t give you access to somebody else’s account. Do you understand that?”

    Me: “I don’t want access, I just want to use my own email. That’s my email address on that account”

    Support: “If that’s your email address, then that’s your account sir”

    Me: “No it’s not my account”

    Support: “Then what’s your problem?”

    Apple are the only company this has happened with (people commonly use my email address for things, but there’s always a way to reclaim it)