bigmushroom

lkrupp said:

And people call Apple a bully. Google comes up with its own, proprietary codec and then refuses to support the industry standard H.265, finally bullying Apple into using it. Scratch your ass, Google.

DAalseth said:

corp1 said:

Great, now we know how it actually works:

1. Tencent makes a list of "suspicious" URLs (malware, pro-democracy, etc.)
2. It hashes all the URLs and makes the list available for download. It retains a map of all of the hashes and the URLs for each hash.
3. Safari downloads the hash list.
4. Whenever you try to visit a URL whose hash is on the list, Safari phones home to Tencent and tells them the hash (revealing your IP address in the process.)
5. Tencent looks up the suspicious URL list (URLs matching that hash) in its hash->URL map and returns the suspicious URL list to Safari.
6. Tencent logs your IP address, the hash/list of suspicious URLs, and the timestamp
7. If the URL is actually on the suspicious URL list, Safari blocks the site saying that it is suspicious.
8. Tencent forwards the information (IP address, time/date, list of suspicious URLs that you might have been trying to visit) to the appropriate Chinese authorities for further investigation.
9. Profit!

Nope. The hash list is local. Nothing goes from your device to Tencent.

tzeshan said:

bigmushroom said:

tzeshan said:

But I have publicized it on some Chinese web site. 

Nice to know there is some good patriotic Chinese informers like yourself who tell the Chinese government whom else to pressure and blackmail. While you are at it, while you don't you tell your handlers to take a bit easier on those millions of Uyghurs they locked up in concentration camps (sorry - education camps). Some of those stupid Westerners have started to notice. 

Just a guess - Google probably doesn't care as much about China since they essentially left in 2009 and don't have much activity left there. Unlike Apple.

Don't challenge me. I am very knowledgeable about every thing. For example, can you tell me why US still jail thousands of muslims in Cuba base? 

Gilliam_Bates said:

aderutter said:

If Apple does get forced to allow other app-stores it should let users know that installing a third party non-apple-approved app will disable all the Apple authored apps to ensure their security is not compromised. So, if you install the Epic app-store for example you can say goodbye to Safari, the official Apple App-Store app, Mail, Calendar, Notes, GarageBand, Pages etc.

And even more than so. They could say goodbye to any app trying to access common resources like photo album, address book etc. Virtually any app trying to access resources extarnal to it would be stopped, since these resources could be tampered with or confusing the user when trying to access. In principle, you could either run the apps from this alternative App Store  OR  anything else of what you have today, but not both. And this is actually the situation you already have when you jailbreak your iDevice. So, all you enemies of the App Store: stop whining! You already have the results of your wishes in place. Don't you like it?

dugbug said:

rogifan_new said:

This headline is stupid. You can't capture more than 100% of something.

It means other players in this market lost money

cpsro said:

Users of Google Photos give the company a perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free license to use their photos for any purpose, including marketing. If/when users "delete" their photos from Google's cloud and discontinue using the service, the company still retains the right to use the photos for their own purposes and will likely maintain the photos. Face recognition technology is already quite good. Place recognition (especially with GPS EXIF data) and other forms of recognition are improving. By using Google Photos, even for a short time, you provide Google with more data that can and will be used in ever more sophisticated ways to track and market to you and everyone else.

(Because AppleInsider fails to mention the above, long-known short-coming to the service, it makes me wonder if Google paid AI to post the article.)

Use of Pokemon Go is another way for Google to map the world for free.

"Except for material we may license to you, Apple does not claim ownership of the materials and/or Content you submit or make available on the Service. However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you. You agree that any Content submitted or posted by you shall be your sole responsibility, shall not infringe or violate the rights of any other party or violate any laws, contribute to or encourage infringing or otherwise unlawful conduct, or otherwise be obscene, objectionable, or in poor taste. By submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users, you are representing that you are the owner of such material and/or have all necessary rights, licenses, and authorization to distribute it."

They are extremely similar and cover the mechanics of cloud computing (where files have to be copied and displayed somewhere). The part of the Google license that mentions continuing use after you close account applies only to things like listings yo have added to Google maps - photos for example are deleted and hence no longer displayed.