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  • How to not get taken for $1000 by Apple Pay scammers

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    chia said:
    loopless said:
    I am completely shocked when I see people using their credit cards  with "tap to pay".   No biometrics. Just tap the card.

    Everywhere else in the known  universe they require a PIN.

    then sadly you don’t know or have traveled far in the known universe: there’s no PIN with tap to pay right across the U.K, as with the European Union countries I’ve travelled in too.

    The notion of entering a PIN defeats the  very aim of making Tap to Pay convenient to use, though the value of a single tap to pay transaction using a card is limited to £100,  and other countries probably have similar limits. The PIN is required only for transactions above that amount or for occasional “spot checks” by the card issuing financial institution.

    ”Tap to Pay” with Apple Pay is different as the user is verified by their device, allowing a higher value to be tapped, usually the retailer’s floor limit. 
    Same here in Canada: tap to pay is everywhere. And you rarely hear about scams because you need to be very close for it to work, there's a limit of $250 per transaction in most cases (roughly the same as £100), and scammers would need to invest in special equipment to do it. Apple Pay is a lot different in that regard.

    ronnchia

  • Old iPads are a staple in US homes, long after they've gone obsolete

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    Still using the first 12.9" iPad Pro from 2015 as my home music hub. The battery only holds a couple hours of charge at this point, but I just keep it plugged in all the time.
    Bart Ywatto_cobra

  • UK newspapers tell Apple its 'web eraser' will put journalism at risk

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    brianjo said:
    gatorguy said:
    They may have to do what Google has done with a similar effort: simplifying a search result pointing to a media article by removing adverts is (supposedly) only done with a website owner's permission. An original content provider has the right to monetize their content, and I doubt Apple would disagree. 
    Apple only agrees if they get a 30% cut of the profits.
    And I only agree if the media sources and their affiliates are upfront about what information they're collecting and who they're collecting it for.
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  • UK newspapers tell Apple its 'web eraser' will put journalism at risk

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    gatorguy said:
    They may have to do what Google has done with a similar effort: simplifying a search result pointing to a media article by removing adverts is (supposedly) only done with a website owner's permission. An original content provider has the right to monetize their content, and I doubt Apple would disagree. 
    I don't have a problem with ads, it's all the tracking which is done via those ads I have a problem with. When I watch an ad on traditional television, it's not like it places something in my house which monitors what I do after the ad is over. But when an ad is shown in my browser, it can then use a tracker to follow me everywhere I go after that point while browsing. Thankfully browser makers have curtailed this recently, but I'm sure advertisers have found ways around it.


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  • Smartphone addiction is real, and we all probably need to do something about it

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    gatorguy said:
    Steve Jobs and Bill Gates knew this over a decade ago. Even though they understood it, this was foisted on us anyway. 
    To summarize what I said above for the TLDR crowd that needs a tagline:

    The companies which profit most from knowing everything we do on our devices foisted this on us, not the device creators (who only profit from the sale of the device, not how much we use it).
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