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Jake and Cristian talk trash about Elon Musk, go into the Android EU Antitrust case, and then yell about Chrome’s new HTTP Not Secure Banner.

Content Warning: Politics, Food, Hot Takes

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Elon Musk
00:19:44 – The Google EU Case
00:39:52 – Chrome Marking HTTP Sites As Not Secure
00:56:26 – Google “My Purchases Page”

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Jake and Cristian talk about browser extensions, Chrome freezing, apps that access your email being able to access your email, ZTE sorta getting their sanctions lifted, the California Online Privacy Law, Supreme Court Rulings, Alexa being creepy, and creepy dudes getting what they deserve.

Content Warning: Politics, Doom and Gloom

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Stylish Extension Sending Visited Website Data To Remote Server
00:26:53 – Chrome Freezing Bug
00:34:32 – Gmail Apps Can In Fact Read Your Emails
00:41:07 – ZTE Sanctions lifted? Kinda? Maybe?
00:43:04 – California Online Privacy Law
00:44:54 – Supreme Court Rules That Location Searches Can’t Be Warrentless
00:51:28 – Alexa Is Being Creepy, Again
00:56:43 – Man Trying To Take Upskirt Photos With A Shoe Camera But It Blew Up

• “Stylish” extension with 2M downloads banned for tracking every site visit

• Tech-support scammers revive bug that sends Chrome users into a panic

• Gmail app developers have been reading your emails

• US forces smartphone giant ZTE to fire its CEO and leadership team

• California Privacy Law

• Supreme Court decides against warrantless location searches in a major privacy decision

• Alexa reportedly says, ‘Every time I close my eyes, all I see is people dying’

• Man’s creepy “upskirting” plan foiled when his shoe camera explodes

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Jake and Cristian talk about domains and GDPR, Google’s Pentagon thing again, an interesting side chain exploit in Chrome and Firefox, Sonic Damage, and gross location based ads.

Content Warning: Politics

Show Notes:

00:00:00 – Cristian’s GDPR Story
00:09:38 – Google Removing Don’t Be Evil Plus The Pentagon Thing
00:22:06 – Chrome and Firefox Leaking Out Facebook Names and Pictures
00:32:54 – Playing Frequencies Near A HDD Causing Data Loss
00:47:30 – Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs

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