AAHere we go again.
Google. Hates. Ad. Blockers.
9to5Google: YouTube suddenly stopped loading for some users with ad blockers https://9to5google.com/2025/11/07/youtube-loading-issues-ad-blockers/ @9to5google @nexusben #Google #YouTube #privacy
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BrianKrebsMeta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥
"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"
"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’
Patrick Breyer🇩🇪⚠️ Perfides Täuschungsmanöver? EU-Rat droht durch die Hintertür 🚪 doch eine Pflicht zur #Chatkontrolle einzuführen: Artikel 4-Erweiterung soll „alle angemessenen Risikominderungsmaßnahmen“ inkl. Chatkontrolle VORSCHREIBEN, sanktionsbewehrt! 😡
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-10-30_Council_Presidency_CSAR_Policy-debate_14032.pdf
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-10-30_Council_Presidency_CSAR_Policy-debate_14032.pdf
Paul Förster 
For all those like me, who hate that freaking slider to turn off an alarm. At least, it can be turned off now, though this switch is at a location that nobody would expect it to be.
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/ios-26-1-bring-back-the-tap-to-stop-alarm-button/
Jan Penfrat
Electronic Frontier FoundationRing’s face recognition feature raises privacy and legal problems. A senator is rightly calling on Amazon to abandon its plans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature
BfDIHeute beschäftigt der Rat der EU mit dem Thema Chatkontrolle.
Der kritischste Punkt – verpflichtendes, anlassloses Durchleuchten von privaten Nachrichten – ist zum Glück mittlerweile vom Tisch. Ich habe aber noch folgende Punkte ggü. der Bundesregierung
angesprochen:
1. Ein „freiwilliges“ Scannen erfolgt ohne Rechtsgrundlage und stellt deshalb eine rechtswidrige Datenverarbeitung dar.
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and in true messed-up and uncoordinated iOS26 fashion, they place this button/feature in a different part of the menu, than the other, original button/feature: General > Software Updates > System Files
Gosh, these Apple devs are too much! 🤦
"Background Security Improvements replace the company’s existing 'Rapid Security Response'”feature."
"Apple describes this feature as providing, 'lightweight security releases for components such as the Safari browser, WebKit framework stack and other system libraries that benefit from smaller, ongoing security patches between software updates'.”
Computerworld: What are ‘Background Security Improvements’ on Apple devices? https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084124/what-are-background-security-improvements-on-apple-devices.html @jonnyevans #Apple #cybersecurity #infosec
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