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Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices (arstechnica.com)
ourlovecanlastforeve writes with a link to Ars Technica's report of a new way for ads to narrow in on their target: high-pitched sounds that can make ad tracking cross devices and contexts. From the article: The ultrasonic pitches are embedded into TV commercials or are played when a user encounters an ad displayed in a computer browser. While the sound can't be heard by the human ear, nearby tablets and smartphones can detect it. When they do, browser cookies can now pair a single user to multiple devices and keep track of what TV commercials the person sees, how long the person watches the ads, and whether the person acts on the ads by doing a Web search or buying a product.
And why can a rogue website or app access the microphone? Oh yeah cuz android.
They pull crap like this and then have the gall to say adblock users are evil?
Don't you think?
Enough with the pollution already!
IANAL, but I was wondering if this would be illegal under wire-tapping laws. A quick glance over the code (18 - US 2511) actually specified "oral" not "audio" communication. Would this then be exempt?
I suppose any app that takes advantage of this would have a disclosure about the recording buried deep in its legalese.
Time for a new hardware-based ad blocker...
The summary mentions tablets repeatedly, but none of mine even have a microphone. So how does that work?
The only difference is that then, you were explicitly aware of it and consented to carrying around the device.
News flash: carrying around a cellular-connected computer in your pocket, and trusting applications that you can't verify, puts you at risk for THINGS HAPPENING. Discuss.
1. Mics don't pick up ultrasonic
2. Speakers don't reproduce ultrasonic
3. And even if these somehow did, Nyquist already limits it all
Look at a high-end mic's response curve. Most barely get above 16 kHz, after which they drop off very fast. Compare that to any system that may be attached to a computer. Same for a loudspeaker. High-freqs are directional, meaning if you get off-axis even a little, even more drop-off. All BULLSHIT. The internet at play and the eager ignorants ready to believe anything it proclaims.
Sounds like it might be time for an Ultrasonic Jammer in my house. They have them to supposedly keep pests away. I'm sure it would blanket the area and disrupt any ultrasonic tracking. Hopefully they won't bother the family pets too much. http://amzn.to/20SJgu6
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Don't have a smartphone, don't have a tablet, and don't even have a microphone on my desktop machine -- and now, even less interested in ever owning any of those than I was five minutes ago. For the rest of you, I'd suggest hacking into your TV or home theatre receiver, and putting a lowpass filter in all the baseband audio lines so these 'inaudible' signals won't get passed through to the speakers.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
can any of those devices actually play anything at that pitch? I guessed that most of those cheapo speakers were rated 20-20k, with a more likely band at 120-17k
What if all the supposed research about advertising being relavent is just plain wrong.
TRILLIONS of dollars down the drain.
LOL, SUCKERS!
PS: Not once have I ever bought any specifically advertised product... advertising is a cheesy subliminal turnoff full of superlative untruths. Have I been made aware that a specific class of product exists, yes, bought a particular advertised product within that, no.
If you RTFA, you'll note that no one actually says this is happening yet.
This is about a complaint filed with the FCC to prevent the use of this technology. One company, SilverPush, is cited as having developed the technology and details about it are in the public view, but that's the only case where there's even anything to cite about this form of intrusive technology.
You can let your hackles go back to their normal position now.
yeah, and I'm sure that everyone's devices will be operating so in spec, and the algorithms designed so carefully, that there will never be any possibility that the harmonics bleed over into the audible and drive everyone within hearing distance nuts with the annoying sounds? Great idea!
People who design, build and profit from things like this do not deserve to eat, pay rent and taxes or... erm... breathe.
And neither do the sites that advertise this way.
This perpetual motion machine Lisa made is a joke, it just keeps getting faster and faster. - Homer
News about ad networks doing evil tracking and such comes up all the time, but I have to wonder what all that data is any good for? I don't use ad block and yet all the ads I see tend to be either be pretty unimpressive and untargeted. They might know that I am male and they might be clever enough to show video games advertisement on a video game site, but that's about it. In a lot of ways the targeting makes the ads actually worse, as they end up covering a far narrower range of products and lead to a lot of repetition. Youtube can be notoriously bad at this, showing you the same ad 20 times in a row. There are also some ads that are extremely personalized, but they are unimpressive in the other direction, Amazon ads for example will just show me products that I just watched on their site. So won't show me anything new, just stuff I am already familiar with.
Never seen ads that actually extrapolate my behavior and interest and end up recommending me a product that I would actually be interested in buying. I found good old untargeted advertisement on TV or magazines far more useful for that, as that showed a lot of products that I didn't even know existed.
The Echo is always listening and likely keys into commercials playing on your TV and radio. Actual program material may include the signals, too. All reported back to the mother roach.
Something about this claim doesn't add up. A process like this surely couldn't listen all the time without hijacking the operating system. And the article states that apps with this framework embedded aren't listening all the time and yet are able to pick up these audio beacons. So you need to be running a specific set of apps, and these have to be in a position and state to pick up a signal. Surely this would draw a significant amount of power and only gain haphazard results? It would also definitely fall into the category of malware –any apps doing it would be barred.
You should be careful being so categorical calling bullshit before doing more research. What is described here has been demonstrated in practice. http://www.gizmag.com/malware-jump-air-gap/30056/
Ultrasonic response is not something most devices are good at. We, unsurprisingly, tend to design your sound systems around what we can hear. Particularly when you are talking cheaper equipment the high frequency response of speakers and microphones is often not very impressive. There's also the issue that the digital audio compression we use for things, like TV broadcasts, deemphasizes high frequencies.
So for this to work they need:
1) A TV broadcast with sufficient audio bitrate to get their high frequency signal encoded (the AC-3 streams usually used in ATSC broadcasts can be any bitrate from 64kbps to 448kbps).
2) Encoded in such a way by the broadcaster that the high frequencies are preserved to a sufficient amount that their signal isn't distorted.
3) Reproduced by speakers good enough to produce their signal, but to do it at a sufficient level to be picked up (speakers roll off at more extreme frequencies).
4) Picked up by a microphone with sufficient range to be able to receive such a signal and isn't being occluded too much be being in a pocket or something.
5) Processed by a program running on the device, that has control of the microphone at the time the signal is playing.
Ya... While that isn't impossible, that is not likely to work any real amount of time. To have any good chance of working you'd probably have to push the signal down in to the audible range, which would of course piss people off to hear spurious high frequency noise. Likewise for it to be of any use the user would need to have an app on their device that is running. The mic doesn't magically record everything that comes in and store it for anything to access. A program has to be running and take control of the microphone to be able to get any input from it.
This sounds like an advertiser pipe dream, not something that has been tried with real technology in realistic settings.
People seem to think that ultrasonic communication is some kind of magic. It isn't. I mean it can be done, no question, you can encode information in sound, and you can do it in sound frequencies above human hearing. However that doesn't mean you can do it with any arbitrary device, or under arbitrary conditions.
there's no "Decline forever" option.
Yes there is. It is called death and is a part of nature.
Well people --- you're just in a pickle because you've let 'em abandon THE SWITCH. How was grandpa sure he could get some shut-eye without the vacuum cleaner going round in circles? How'd we know that when we flicked on that AM radio, the batteries in it would be just as good as we left it? When we put down the phone how'd we know the gub'mint wasn't listening? We had honest to God switches, little bits of metal with springs that snapped 'em so far apart those electrons would just stay put.
Now all you have are little copper titty-buttons on the sides of things, and you've got chipsets to manage the buttons, see? And everything is really connected all the time to these chips, and it's all programmable. It's all flashable. It's all exploitable. There was a time when people liked switches on things because they liked control. You could actually beat your competition if your thing had more switches than your competition's thing, even if some of them were silly. But something changed, and now consumer focus groups and product design engineers try to eliminate as many controls as they can. When we started seeing switches disappear from things we thought engineers were stupid. Turns out engineers were doing it because they thought people were stupid.
If you think you have a Power button that's an actual Power button --- well you don't really. There's probably a timer in there somewhere I could exploit to tell your thing to turn on again. And why would I bother? I could just take control of your thing and make it sing and beep like it's shutting off and once you see that dark screen you'd be none the wiser.
Sometimes I used to send a WAKE-on-LAN packet to my buddy's computer the moment he sat down at his desk in the morning, just as he was reaching for the power button. He'd hear the computer beep and withdraw his finger, puzzled. Took him a while to figure out what was happening.
We now worship the Golden Calf of the Software Sandbox... and we expect our devices to be on their Super Duper Boy Scout Best Behavior. Hope that works out for everyone, but I don't want to hear any whining when shit happens. Google offering a 'Decline Forever' button,
Shoo Google, don't bother me,
Shoo Yahoo, don't bother me,
Shoo Amazon, don't bother me,
Nothin' ever turns off
and I ain't gonna pay
gimmie everything for free.
I'm going to thwack off the MONSTER FRANKENSTEIN KNIFE SWITCH that I have all my modern tech wired to, and get some serious shut-eye.
NO CARRIER
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
Just open PrivacyGuard in Android and turn off Microphone access to everything except the Phone app.
This practice of spying on people should be made illegal and with severe penalties for any company that uses this type of method either directly or through a third party.
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Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
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10.) Protect vs. caps
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12.) Keep you off dns request logs
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APK
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What's better?
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Wake up and stop feeding the beast and devaluing yourself and your family, or go on sleeping your way into the warm embrace of fascism with a smiley-face where you have given others all the tools to manipulate and monitor you. If you choose to snooze your freedom away, do not complain about any of the limitless snooping and encroachment that lies ahead.
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Addons add complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
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It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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In its 32-bit model also https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C communique
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7.) Protect vs. trackers
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12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on anything webbound (ie email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily controlled data
16.) Do all that & block ads better than addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
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ClarityRay defeats it by dumping addons in use in a browser via native browser methods!
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PrivacyBadger adds complexity from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
What's best?
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It's GUARANTEED safe & clean per it being checked by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
When I plug in a mini-jack-adapter into my laptop without any headphones connected audio stops working.
First: It's possible to detect information encoded in a high-frequency signal using a lower-frequency sampling, so do not be so quick to dismiss this based on a simple assumption about what you presume are the limits of specific consumer gadgets that you do not even own. I am personally unaware of the specific frequency responses of all the mics in all the consumer gadgets on the market and less-so for gadgets not yet being sold, but well-aware that code can be put onto a gadget to make better use of the hardware that is in a consumer's hands than the default software does, or worse, pretends to.
Second: Like most of these panicky, sensational click-bait stories, there's much to be suspicious about, BUT there's also some value there as a cautionary warning about the future. It's a bit like the apocryphal "boiled frog" tale - if you are not paying attention as the encroachments on your life and privacy ratchet-up, you will one day wake up and realize you no longer HAVE your privacy and freedom, and your kids will never even know what your generation threw away.
Going to be depressing for them to see what i do when i view and ad... absolutely nothing.
the question is why does a phone intended for *human* consumption even allow frequencies beyond human hearing?
But Audiophiles! And Golden ears!!! And 192Khz 24bits!!!!!
Maybe you can't hear the difference, but that's because you didn't buy the necessary "Monster" polarized cables.
It really change the warmth of sound !!!! And the ultra-sound cause harmonics!!! (*)
(sarcasm over)
(* = actually true depending on the installation. but has the exact opposite effect: these harmonics are distrotions and generally degrade the output quality by outputing singal that was never here in the first place)
More seriously:
- Technical limitation: it's simpler and cheaper to have a microphone and a ADC that can pick up higher frequencies, and then filter them in software, rather than design a microphone that has perfect pick-up in the human hearing range but abruptly stops at the hearing limit and has no distortion.
(I think Xiph have a few documents about this. Or was it one of the anti-Audiophilie post of some real-world-physics-based-science blog ?)
So: your phone and lots of other electronique device can hear above the 10-16 Khz limit because hearing at 24-48Khz and downsampling causes less harmonic distortions. But afterward the rest of the audio software pipeline works in a reasonable audio bandwidth.
(Unless you consider a rogue piece software that on purpose keep sounds in the 16-24Khz range - such as adware)
- Technology: smartphones use piezo speaker, instead of magnetically driven. These can have good response beyond the human hearing range. (In fact, the ultra-sound emitter on your car's sonar parking assistance is very probably a piezo speaker).
So if your smartphone has 192Khz/24bits DAC (because "audiophiles"! because in fact it's not much complicated to handle higher bitrates/audio bandwidth, and that makes a bullet point for maketing to boast about),
and the audio circuit lacks proper high quality filters (because it's cheaper)
and the audio device is a piezo (like in anything smaller than a speaker set),
your smartphone can output ultra-sounds (as do any speak-set using a piezo for tweeters).
And unlike the recording situation, it doesn't even require a rogue software: CD quality (44 ksample) or higher (48 ksamples) is considered the golden standard at which most audio pipelines operate. And thus any software could output 22Khz-24Khz sounds if they like.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Cue-in highly paid youtubers that make public announcement that low-pass filters are hurting the internet economy.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
First of all, other than ethics, this is awesome technology... Truly, ad- and porn-sellers are at the forefront of it all.
But is this really true? I mean, speakers and microphones are both designed to produce/recognized sound useful to humans (except some exotic devices meant for dolphins, I suppose). Making them do a reasonably good job on the entire human-audible spectrum is a non-trivial task already and different devices do better/worse on different parts of the spectrum.
Why would a designer of a mobile phone bother with the frequencies, which a human can neither produce nor hear anyway? It certainly increases the costs of both the design and each individual device... Unless, of course, it is to enable exactly the kind of things discussed in TFA...
So, if we really do carry such hardware in our pockets — and neither TFA nor links from it list specific brands/models — then our fingers of blame are to be pointed at the hardware-makers.
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& admit that the waters (threats online) around you have grown!
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Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ your pens (trolls) & keep your eyes open the chance won't come again!
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1. Mics don't pick up ultrasonic
Actually they do, on purpose.
It's simpler and cheaper to pick-up a wider range and filter afterward.
Than managing to produce a "perfect" microphone that has I high response on the whole range of human hearing, and drops sharply outside without causing any harmonic distortion.
Mics that pick up ultrasonics + software filter is cheaper than high quality mic + high quality hardware filter.
So most mics can pick up ultrasonics and do. (all it takes is one rogue software NOT to filter them).
2. Speakers don't reproduce ultrasonic
You subwofer might not, indeed.
But the cheapo piezo that is most small electronics device and used as a tweeters in speaker systems can produce them without any problem.
So overall lots of devices could produce them without you knowing (or with only your dog knowing).
3. And even if these somehow did, Nyquist already limits it all
Yup Nyquist. Nyquist predicts that the max frequency will be at half the max sampling rate.
Most audio pipe-line work at CD quality (44 ksamples) or higher (48 ksamples).
That makes a max of 22-24Khz. Well above the typical 10Khz that most people tend to hear.
And that's without taking into account the tendencies of some audiophile on insisting to run everything at 192Khz 24bits.
It's completely useless for humans, but that would help a bit this whole story.
Look at a high-end mic's response curve.
Which is high-end, and thus tries to mimick human range (plus some headroom to avoid distortion).
Low quality cheap microphone might accidentally have weirder response curve. (Specially piezo-based one. They would suck at the low range, the would have abnormal high ultrasound drop off, and they are dead cheap).
Most barely get above 16 kHz, after which they drop off very fast.
...which is well enough above the typical 10Khz limit that most human hear.
High-freqs are directional, meaning if you get off-axis even a little, even more drop-off.
so what? the point of advertisers isn't to generate some ultra-high bandwidth transmission techniques that can carry 1Gbps data over 10km.
The point is only to get some very basic presence/absence (some ad is playing on some TV nearby the phone) and maybe a few bits worth of data (enough to transmit a tag, so the server might be able to know that AD n xyz that got sent to device #A was heard by device #B and thus both device probably belong to the same person).
And that doesn't need to be a constant flow of information. If the ad presence/absence works a couple of time per day, that's already enough data for marketeers.
If the tagging works well enough to match device a couple of time per months, its already enough for marketeers to wet their pants and/or order an extra round of blow.
All BULLSHIT.
bullshit that has already been demoed in conferences.
the news isn't that you can do communication over ultra-sonics using of-the-shelf parts. that has been known for years.
the news is that some advertisers are interested to actually do it in the wild.
The internet at play and the eager ignorants ready to believe anything it proclaims.
That's Ars. They tend to have a little bit less dummy content than your garden variety of "internet-crackpot-theory-cesspool".
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
Come gather round people wherever ya roam & admit waters (threats online) around ya have grown
Accept it soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If yer time (speed) to you's worth savin'
You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone (infected)
For the times they are a-changin' (antivir & firewalls = ineffective vs. modern threats online -> http://www.dshield.org/diary/A... + http://www.dshield.org/diary/I... & http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... )
Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ yer pen (trolls) & keep ye eyes wide: Chance won't come again - Don't speak too soon the wheel's still in spin! ... & there's no telling who that it's naming (APK>)
Oh the loser will be later a win! For the times they are a'changin'
Come senators/congressmen please head the call - Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall!
He that gets hurt (users) will be he who has stalled (being infested)
Big battle outside ragin'!
It'll soon shake yer MS Windows & rattle FIREWALLS ( http://www.symantec.com/connec... )...
For the times they are a changing!
Come mothers & fathers throughout the land ( & don't criticize what ya can't understand (hosts) Yer sons & daughters (ME) = beyond MEDIA command!
Yer old road's (above firewall/antivirus + inferior inefficient browser addons) rapidly agin'.
So get out of the new one if ya can't lend a hand!
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn: The curse it is cast (ad hominem attacks + abused downmods): The slow one now will later be fast as the present now (browser addon adblockers) is later be past (hosts)
The order is rapidly fadin'! (1st one now ("AlmostALLAdsBlocked" dying rapidly) will later be last - For the times they are a-changin'!)
APK
P.S.=> All I have to say to those who downmodded me is above courtesy of Bob Dylan & the film "The Watchmen"...
... apk
Paragraph 7 (in a blue box)...
"As of April of 2015, SilverPush’s software is used by 67 apps and the company monitors 18 million smartphones."
Come gather round people wherever ya roam & admit that the waters (threats online) around ya have grown
Accept it soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If yer time (speed) to you's worth savin'
You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone (infected)
For the times they are a-changin' (antivir & firewalls = ineffective vs. modern threats online -> http://www.dshield.org/diary/A... + http://www.dshield.org/diary/I... & http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... )
Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ yer pen (trolls) & keep ye eyes wide: Chance won't come again - Don't speak too soon the wheel's still in spin! ... & there's no telling who that it's naming (APK>)
Oh the loser will be later a win! For the times they are a'changin'
Come senators/congressmen please head the call - Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the hall!
He that gets hurt (users) will be he who has stalled (being infested)
Big battle outside ragin'!
It'll soon shake yer MS Windows & rattle BOTH DNS AND FIREWALLS ( http://www.symantec.com/connec... )...
For the times they are a changing!
Come mothers & fathers throughout the land ( & don't criticize what ya can't understand (hosts) Yer sons & daughters (ME) = beyond MEDIA command!
Yer old road's (above firewall/antivirus + inferior inefficient browser addons) rapidly agin'.
So get out of the new one if ya can't lend a hand!
For the times they are a-changin'
The line it is drawn: The curse it is cast (ad hominem attacks + abused downmods): The slow one now will later be fast as the present now (browser addon adblockers) is later be past (hosts)
The order is rapidly fadin'! (1st one now ("AlmostALLAdsBlocked" dying rapidly) will later be last - For the times they are a-changin'!)
APK
P.S.=> All I have to say to those who downmodded me is above courtesy of Bob Dylan & the film "The Watchmen"...
... apk
Yes, what about the poor children with their sensitive hearing, and dogs, cats, chickens and cockroaches ... An advertiser who elects to disrupt their lives with horrible noises should be ashamed (and sued).
Hey, don't pretend that you haven't any chickens in your house. We can hear them via the microphone installed in your thermostat, we can see them from your television and we can smell them via your smoke detector.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Kaminsky redirect poisoning - 99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. it.
Open DNS resolvers (not OpenDNS) get exploited by malware A LOT!
Rogue DNS servers are DNS exploit (even in routers not just system IP stack settings).
* Using hosts w/ fav sites you hardcode in 'em YOU AVOID ALL THOSE DNS SECURITY ISSUES ABOVE easily & IT RESOLVES FAR FASTER THAN CALLING TO REMOTE DNS SERVERS (especially exploited or downed ones noted (dns goes down a LOT)).
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Hosts combined w/ OpenDNS compliment one other.
I don't resolve 'every host-domain there is' via hosts, only my favs @ top of hosts (20 of 'em beating indexing past 2++ million records).
It's where ANYONE spends MOST OF THEIR TIME online - & it's faster + more efficient vs. calling to remote DNS servers.
Placement of favs thus, for FAST RESOLUTION from memory locally (hosts cache like any file) additionally saves CPU cycles, RAM, + I/O turning off a slower usermode clientside DNS cache service instead opting for the kernelmode diskcache (no context switch overhead to the IP stack either this way).
The rest of my hosts files' entries are 3,782,195++ blocked entries vs. malware & ads of many kinds.
I use REMOTE FILTERING DNS SERVERS blocking out malicious sites/servers/hosts-domains via DNS blocking (not locally here as a separate redundant wasteful recursive server or a service/daemon).
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OpenDNS:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
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It LIGHTENS remote DNS loads - admins of 'em should like it! Especially since DNS goes down a LOT!
How do I make my hosts (& do reverse dns pings for FAV sites for faster, more reliable, & safer connections)?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
With much easier understood & edited data vs. DNS rules by far.
APK
P.S.=> Locally setup DNS eats more cpu, RAM, & I/O needlessly (hosts do the job w/ less complexity + room for exploit, actually COMPLIMENTING remote dns) & MORE ELECTRICAL POWER (especially if setup as a separate machine)... apk
I used to care about my privacy and ad profiling a lot. I still put around 10k entries in my hosts file blocking ad domain, I use adblock and I also allow cookies using white lists, blocking everything by default. However, I do not care if anything slips by anymore. Why?
Two reasons:
- I do not have time or resources to bother with big companies. They will always find a way to achieve their goal.I just take general precautions and invest my time in my own business.
- I never act on ads. I have never bought anything that I saw on an ad. I can't even remember ever clicking on an add willingly. If I need anything, I have my trusted places that I go and I show the middle finger to everyone else. Especially those, who tried to make be believe I need their sh*t.
I guess the voices weren't just in my head...
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
This technology has been around for at least 15 years. AC Nielsen used to collect viewer stats via a wearable device that listens to (human inaudible) sounds from radio and TV.
Could this be built into phone apps like Shazam? Shazam needs microphone access. That app seems built for collecting information for advertisers so it seems a likely candidate to me. There are lots of popular phone apps that request mic access even on iOS: Skype, Telegram, Dolphin Browser, Shazam, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. We need a way to tell which apps are doing this.
It also appears that even on iOS if you give an app microphone access then the app can access the microphone in the background:
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
This message is encrypted with Quad ROT-13 to protect the author's copyright under the DMCA.
Does this mean that some of my "tinnitus" may actually be electronic devices conspiring against me, as I've known for years, or should I take those anti-psychotics my doc prescribed?
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talk
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talk
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talk
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing (adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Easy data control
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = on devices natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN operation (as 1st resolver).
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Ab+'s a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts use 3-11mb w/ my program initially). Even FireFox 41 adblock eats 65++mb http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/...
---
ClarityRay defeats it seeing addons used via native browser methods!
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Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in slower usermode (w/ more messagepassing overhead + context switch vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
See subject & my post on that note backed by undeniable, concrete + verifiable facts to that effect -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
"My name is Ozymandias - Look on my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
APK
P.S.=> Quoting Ozymandias from the film "The Watchmen" regarding his affinity for my namesake "Alexander The Great":
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & so began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware/antivirus), Oil (addons), Nuclear Power (DNS & routers) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers..."
... apk
Come gather round people wherever ya roam & admit that the waters (threats online) around you have grown
(... & accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone!)
If your time (speed) to you is worth savin'? Oh, Ya better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone (being infected)
For the times they are a-changin' (antivir & firewalls = ineffective vs. modern threats online -> http://www.dshield.org/diary/A... + http://www.dshield.org/diary/I... & http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... )
Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ your pen (trolls)
&
Keep your eyes wide: The chance won't come again - & don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin!
(... & there's no telling who that it's naming (APK))
Cuz the loser now will be later "the win"!
For the times they are a'changin'...
Come senators/congressmen please heed the call - Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall!
Oh, He that gets hurt (users) will be he who has stalled (being infested)
Big battle outside ragin'!
It'll soon shake yer Linux/OS X/MS Windows & rattle DNS/BrowserAddons/Antivirus & FIREWALLS ( http://www.symantec.com/connec... )!
For the times they are a changing!
Come mothers & fathers throughout the land!
(... & don't criticize what ya can't understand (hosts))
Your sons & daughters (ME) are beyond MEDIA command!
Your old road's (above firewall/antivirus/dns + inferior inefficient browser addons) rapidly agin'.
So get out of the new one if ya can't lend a hand!
For the times they are a-changin'...
The line it is drawn (ad hominem attacks): The curse it is cast (abused downmods)!
(... The slow one now, will later be fast - as the present now (browser addon adblockers) will later be past (hosts))
The order is rapidly fadin'!
And, the 1st one now ("AlmostALLAdsBlocked" dying rapidly) will later be last!
For the times they ARE a-changin'...
APK
P.S.=> All I have to say to those who downmodded me is above courtesy of the film "The Watchmen"...
... apk
Come gather round people wherever ya roam & admit that the waters (threats online) around you have grown
(... & accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone!)
If your time (speed) to you is worth savin'? Oh, Ya better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone (being infected)
For the times they are a-changin' (antivir & firewalls = ineffective vs. modern threats online -> http://www.dshield.org/diary/A... + http://www.dshield.org/diary/I... & http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... )
Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ your pen (trolls)
&
Keep your eyes wide: The chance won't come again - & don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin!
(... & there's no telling who that it's naming (APK))
Cuz the loser now will be later "the win"!
For the times they are a'changin'...
Come senators/congressmen please heed the call - Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall!
Oh, He that gets hurt (users) will be he who has stalled (being infested)
Big battle outside ragin'!
It'll soon shake yer Linux/OS X/MS Windows & rattle DNS/BrowserAddons/Antivirus & FIREWALLS ( http://www.symantec.com/connec... )!
For the times they are a changing!
Come mothers & fathers throughout the land!
(... & don't criticize what ya can't understand (hosts))
Your sons & daughters (ME) are beyond MEDIA command!
Your old road's (above firewall/antivirus/dns + inferior inefficient browser addons) rapidly agin'.
So get out of the new one if ya can't lend a hand!
Oh the times they are a-changin'...
The line it is drawn (ad hominem attacks): The curse it is cast (abused downmods)!
(... The slow one now, will later be fast - as the present now (browser addon adblockers) will later be past (hosts))
The order is rapidly fadin'!
And, the 1st one now ("AlmostALLAdsBlocked" dying rapidly) will later be last!
For the times they ARE a-changin'...
APK
P.S.=> All I have to say to those who downmodded me is above courtesy of the film "The Watchmen"...
... apk
See subject & APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
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FREE & not 'souled-out' to advertisers + adds speed, security & reliability & does FAR more w/ FAR less more efficiently vs. redundant browser addons & locally installed DNS servers @ home + fixes DNS' many security issues & it stops a LOT of tracking @ webpage + DNS levels combined too from 1 file you already NATIVELY have - firewalls do the rest (on lesser used IP address based tracking vs. host-domain name type).
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It obtains data vs. online threats & for adbanner blocking from 10 reputable sites in the security community!
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It SPEEDS YOU UP 2 ways (adblocking + locally cached in RAM favorites placed @ the TOP of hosts for fastest resolution speed vs. remote DNS also aiding reliability) vs. other "so-called security 'solutions'" SLOWING YOU!
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It does all that via something you natively have vs. "bolting on browser addons 'MOAR'" that's usermode slower & increases messagepassing, cpu + ram overheads!
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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* "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend".
APK
P.S.=> By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
"The image this title brings to mind is of a mighty military commander, one who can at a mere word summon rank upon rank of protective power" from https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... & THAT WORD = hosts!
(Accept NO substitutes!)
...apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talk
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talk
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talk
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing (adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Easy data control
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = on devices natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN operation (as 1st resolver).
---
Ab+'s a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts use 3-11mb w/ my program initially). Even FireFox 41 adblock eats 65++mb http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/...
---
ClarityRay defeats it seeing addons used via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in slower usermode (w/ more messagepassing overhead + context switch vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER vs. hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe per 57 antivirus programs in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
a 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
... apk
Come gather round people wherever ya roam & admit that the waters (threats online) around you have grown
(... & accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone!)
If your time (speed) to you is worth savin'? Oh, Ya better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone (being infected)
Oh the times they are a-changin' (antivir & firewalls = ineffective vs. modern threats online -> http://www.dshield.org/diary/A... + http://www.dshield.org/diary/I... & http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... )
Come writers & critics who prophesize w/ your pen (trolls)
&
Keep your eyes wide: The chance won't come again - & don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin!
(... & there's no telling who that it's naming (APK))
Cuz the loser now will be later "the win"!
Oh the times they are a'changin'...
Come senators/congressmen please heed the call - Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall!
Oh, He that gets hurt (users) will be he who has stalled (being infested)
Big battle outside ragin'!
It'll soon shake yer Linux/OS X/MS Windows & rattle DNS/BrowserAddons/Antivirus & FIREWALLS ( http://www.symantec.com/connec... )!
Oh the times they are a changing!
Come mothers & fathers throughout the land!
(... & don't criticize what ya can't understand (hosts))
Your sons & daughters (ME) are beyond MEDIA command!
Your old road's (above firewall/antivirus/dns + inferior inefficient browser addons) rapidly agin'.
So get out of the new one if ya can't lend a hand!
Oh the times they are a-changin'...
The line it is drawn (ad hominem attacks): The curse it is cast (abused downmods)!
(... The slow one now, will later be fast - as the present now (browser addon adblockers) will later be past (hosts))
The order is rapidly fadin' & the 1st one now ("AlmostALLAdsBlocked" dying rapidly) will later be last!
Oh the times they ARE a-changin'!
APK
P.S.=> All I have to say to those who downmodded me is above courtesy of the film "The Watchmen"...
... apk
FWIW, the Librem computers (https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15) do feature real switches for all radio-related links, and mic.
I'm not one of the first buyers, but clearly that'll be the machine replacing my curent mac when it fails.
The merchandise does not get to turn itself back in for a refund, and any refund would go the the customer, which in this case is the various advertisers who paid google, facebook, instagram, pinterest, etc for your personal info and that of your friends and family. Oh, and if you had the slightest clue about how computers work, you'd know that binary data cannot, once let out "into the wild", ever be recalled --- so in soup-NAZI style: "no refund for you!".
Show me how to edit the hosts file on a non-rooted android or buzz off apk.
i don't really suffer from chronic tinnitus.. it's just the fucking ads on television..
and that can be cured easy enough, unlike tinnitus.
In addition to things already mentioned (nyquist, speaker/mic response, mics not turned on) the really big reason this won't work is because almost all commercial audio transmission is highly compressed in the frequency domain. Inaudible frequencies got unceremoniously tossed to reduce bandwidth.
An engineer who ran for Congress. http://herbrobinson.us
"Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa (366380) on Saturday May 16, 2015 @11:40AM (#49705641)
See subject & see that quote above...
APK
P.S.=> So bite me troll... apk
"NOD32 detects a trojan in APK's HOSTS bullshit." - by Khyber (864651) on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:02PM (#50370415)
VirusTotal & NOD32 SHOW CLEAN IN ITS EXES
https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
There's only 2 exe's & 5 text files in it - The exe's are proven clean above in 2 links from VirusTotal & installer's a SFX rar (keeps it 2mb smaller) - that's NO virus per VIRSCAN http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
(Unless YOU know way that .txt files are "viruses")
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"he's tying to get your fucking information." - by Khyber (864651) on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:02PM (#50370415)
My program doesn't transmit outward ONLY intake of data from 10 reputable security community sources!
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"APK is apparently too fucking stupid to do this at the ROUTER level where it's most effective" - by Khyber (864651) on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:02PM (#50370415)
You believe in "eggshell security" which fails-> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
COMPETENT NETWORK ADMINS DO MORE THAN PERIMETER SECURITY @ ROUTER LEVEL - they get bushwhacked ALL THE TIME in DNS hijacks!
(Right down to endpoints level in PC workstations also using tools you already have in hosts + firewalls (vs. "piling on 'MOAR'" that's inefficient & not as effective in slower usermode browser addons)).
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"Windows 10 has hardcoded IPs and bypasses HOSTs." - by Khyber (864651) on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:02PM (#50370415)
Windows ONLY bypasses hosts files for Windows update (Win8 & below) & for tracking "telemetry" in Windows 10 (this is going to KILL Windows 10 -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ) - test it yourself, that removes it.
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"Browsers can bypass HOSTs as well." - by Khyber (864651) on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:02PM (#50370415)
WTF? They'd be bypassing the IP stack if hostname is used ala http://slashdot.org/ (not http://216.34.181.45/ hosts are part of it - not impossible!
APK
P.S.=> "EAT YOUR WORDS"... apk
Can adblock+ do 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop C&C talk
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop C&C talk
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop C&C talk
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (4 reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoning
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phish
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get you past dns blocks
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up surfing (adblock & hardcoded favs)
14.) Works on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) EZ data control
16.) Do all that & block ads better vs. addons more efficiently
* ANSWER ="NO" on ab+ doing it as well or @ ALL + hosts = on devices natively.
APK
P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN operation (as 1st resolver).
---
Ab+'s a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte... (hosts use 3-11mb w/ my program initially). Even FireFox 41 adblock eats 65++mb http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/...
---
ClarityRay defeats it seeing addons used via native browser methods!
---
Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com... & ABP bought out adblock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
---
Ab+ adds complexity in slower usermode (w/ more messagepassing overhead + context switch vs. hosts in kernelmode).
---
AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...
---
What's best?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o...
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