I set it up away from my house and use a separate wifi network but it pissed me off.
> See, back in Android 6 Marshmallow, Google changed things so that apps needed location permissions to scan for Bluetooth devices. At the time, the rationale was that Bluetooth was going to be used for things like interior navigation or location tracking in a more abstract sense, and your location could indirectly be inferred via Bluetooth scanning alone if a given hardware identifier was tied to a specific location.
After a lot of digging around, I discovered you cannot use Fanduel if you have a wired device. The app _requires_ you to connect to your router by Wifi or it will not work. WTF.
People need to just stop with this tracking bullshit.
It still shouldn’t require it though. At least on iOS, requiring it should get them banned from the app store.
I want side loading to exist for iOS, but I also want bans like the above to apply at my discretion to anything I pay money for.
There are lots of third-party Lightning to HDMI adapters for cheap on Amazon that work as a clone of Apple's with no need for any software. Whatever this cable is doing is out of the ordinary even for knockoffs.
First party malware is the worst.
I was mulling over a (legitimate) project recently and couldn't find any information about them all together.
As an Android user myself, so far I'm up to...zero?
https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/07/limit-third-party-iphone-phot...
If I remember right, there’s a way to get a “take picture” option in the chooser. I’m not sure how the qr code would then be recognized, though I’m not sure why you wouldn’t have them get the qr code via the system camera app.
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Effectively you can expect it to work for Android 8+ as the previous versions don't necessarily have a QR code scanner.
What happens if you try to use the cable without downloading the app? I for one would assume that my cable was defective, if it needed an app to work. I realize that HDMI cables are weird, and that like quite a lot of modern interconnect are not a monolithic standard, but come with multiple support levels; I wish that would stop.
A standard is a standard, and market partitioning is no part of the job of a standard.
That would also mean this cable becomes useless the moment URL encoded in the QR disappears?
As for the app: even if it's total crap, if only 50% of cable-buyers proceed to install the app, that 50% is still gained as potentially spied-upon subjects. There's a new please-spy-on-me sucker born every day, so to speak.
Uh oh. Hope that means securely wiped and not just "I deleted the notes and photos and put in a drawer."
The lack of transparency on the security details will take a toll on the consumers in the coming future.
Truly the dumbest timeline.
Its like they abandoned any respect for trademarks and parents and got away with it.
