Encrypt all the things!

Pixel 6a, running Firefox as browser of choice.
Sometimes, when it starts up, the homescreen shows a microphone where the Firefox button will eventually be.

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I can't be sure what it is but it just stuck out to me because it was so spot on and the job was actually roughly in my field which has nothing to do with the core business of that company.

You are probably right and it's browsing history and not just any browsing history but the browsing history on this forum.
Some of the things I could be a fit for:
Luxury Garment Technologist
Junior Blockchain Developer
Production Co-ordinators, Eurovision
Non-Scripted Commissioning Executive Apple TV+
GPU RTL Design Intern
Store Swapper London (PT) Swapfiets
Temporary Videogame Tester
Travel Security Program Manager TikTok
Assistant Manager Foot Locker
Part time News Content Editor – Polish/German speaker
Volunteer with Elephants in Thailand
Live producer - Mountain bike
Witness & Case Review Officer British Transport Police
Speechwriter/Editor Shell
Luxury Travel Consultant
Personal Assistant The Mail on Sunday

Imagine one person could be all that.

Have you seen how off-target some of the ads are though? You know they're not that clever (yet)

I know the first proposition is most likely but the big brother in me still thinks the latter happens every now and then.

It's also browsing history / clickthroughs / engagement of people that you are directly and tangentially linked to.

That's the really insidious part, that you can't do anything about at all (short of installing all the scripts & ad blockers / cookie managers on all of the devices of all of the people in your wider network, and encouraging private & proxied browsing) . It's also incredibly valuable to the platforms.

You can disable 'listening'... if you trust that the disable works.

You could also just block all outbound traffic to anything likely to be advertising or get a dumb phone :)

Yeah, it's like when a couple talk about something and then one of them gets ads for it and they think "ooh they're listening" and not that "ooh this thing that we just spent 4hrs talking about, one of us probably looked at on the internet"

Indeed.

Or they're talking about it because a friend / colleague mentioned it, and had been looking at it, and some algo identified a pattern that when people browse that sort of thing, they must talk about it, as people in their network search it a day later, so they decide it's time to start spamming adverts for it.

Yep. Most people just don't understand how it works so the "they're listening!" thing comes up all the time.

Thing is peeps, they don't have to listen. The 4hrs every day you spend looking at your phone, the 4hrs you spend looking at non work shit on your computer...

Ok, I plead guilty 😁

Just because they do all the above, doesn't mean they're not also listening...

One of the first things they say when dealing with a public backlash over something is "we hear you loud & clear.". They've no shame.

Is there something that will allow me to find and kill all various sites that I have a [pointless] account on?
If not @Velocio can you please invent it?

If I want to run Mullvad or similar VPN on a wifi router, using the broadband box only for cable/adsl, is there something better than an old Asus RT-N66U? I use a flashed custom rom one of these at my place but this is for someone else, less techy that won't want to piss about with custom roms, making sure updates work yada yada.

Yet another very serious Lastpass breach

Sounds like it's part of the same incident that happened back in August, or did I read it wrong?

I migrated to bitwarden when the fees were introduced but I stupidly didn't delete my lastpass account for fear of something having been lost in the migration process 🙄😳

This was a follow-up to the August breach, using information obtained then to gain further access.

Tkae the blessing, delete it now

Interesting study suggesting that people who use AI coding assistants to write secure code actually write less secure code than if they just did it themselves.

Guess who’ll be updating to bitwarden then?

Everybody?

Had moved to Bitwarden several years ago. I find it to be the best at the moment.

You do not need their paid product, the free is good enough and fully OSS.

I've also been on BW for a few years #flex.

One feature I really like with the chrome plugin is Ctrl-Shift-L keyboard shortcut to fill in credentials. If you aren't yet logged in, it opens a tab for your pin number, hit enter and it closes that tab and fills in the fields in the original tab. Seamless and fast, with no mouse required. Just how I like my romance.

Seamless and fast, with no mouse required. Just how I like my romance.

😂