AppleInsider Says Apple Sent It ‘Essentially the Same Email … 29 Times’ About App Store Scams in Ten Years
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/appleinsider-app-store-scams/AppleInsider Says Apple Sent It ‘Essentially the Same Email … 29 Times’ About App Store Scams in Ten Years – Pixel Envy
William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele, AppleInsider: After we reported less than four days ago about the fraudulent apps, Apple got back to us. They repeated the same talking points that they always do when an app gets pulled after it steals money from users, or some other nefarious deed. And, as always, it’s information surrounding […]
Launching Strava With a Hotel Keycard – Pixel Envy
Tom Babin, of the excellent Shifter channel on YouTube, shared a very clever trick of using Shortcuts with an NFC chip — perhaps using a hotel keycard you forgot to return — to launch Strava or Komoot. I am terrible at remembering to track typical rides like my commute so I set this up and […]
Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-massachusetts-lawsuit/Meta Must Face Youth Addiction Lawsuit by Massachusetts, Court Rules – Pixel Envy
Nate Raymond, Reuters Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by Massachusetts’ attorney general alleging the company designed its Instagram social media platform to addict children, the state’s top court ruled on Friday. […] Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt said the lawsuit brought by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell does not […]
Macworld: ‘Use Apple’s App Store at Your Own Risk’ – Pixel Envy
Reece Rogers, Wired, in January: In the first month of 2026, Freecash has rocketed to popularity among US users. This week it reached the number two position on Apple’s free iOS download charts, nestled between ChatGPT and Gemini. The bump in downloads coincides with a spree of ads promoting the Freecash app. […] While Freecash […]
Live Nation Is an Illegal Monopoly, Jury Finds
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/live-nation-monopoly/Live Nation Is an Illegal Monopoly, Jury Finds – Pixel Envy
Alanna Durkin Richer and Larry Neumeister, reporting for the Associated Press last month: The Justice Department touted a tentative settlement of its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Monday as a victory for consumers that would end an illegal monopoly over live events in America, but over two dozen states […]
WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/webxray-opt-out-audit/WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured – Pixel Envy
WebXRay is a tool built by a former Google privacy engineer to audit websites for specific violations that may be legally actionable. The company markets its product to litigators finding privacy violations for lawsuits, and to businesses trying to understand their own compliance. A recent audit by the company of popular websites indicates most still […]
A Hospitality Industry Without Hospitality – Pixel Envy
There was once a time when the hospitality industry was staffed by people who were at least nominally interested in the comfort and happiness of their guests. Yes, of course it was also about making money — like any job — but the reason someone would be a guest’s point of contact in a restaurant […]
Apple Removes Old iWork Apps for MacOS – Pixel Envy
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple has just made a change to its iWork lineup on the Mac, removing the old versions of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers from the App Store and leaving just the newer builds that support Apple Creator Studio. If the alternative is displaying two versions of each app, I think this is the […]
The Internet Archive Is Increasingly Restricted by Publishers – Pixel Envy
Kate Knibbs, Wired: A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for […]
