Every time I visit another website, and then come back to XDA (yes I do close out that window before coming back to XDA), I see an advertisement for that website on XDA ? (or should I say, products advertised on that website)
Well, not every time, but .................
Happens to me too... I see mostly photo lens ads xD
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I am pretty sure that will happen on any side you visit...thats how add revenue is so popular
Is there a setting you can adjust under Internet options to minimize this ?
Also, according to "Hotmail," if you close out the previous web-page, that's supposed to prevent this.
There is a way indeed... It's called ad-block and cookies clear on browser exit
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I'll give it a try, with reservations. Hope it doesn't turn out to be one of these: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/01/winsoftware.shtm
Why does it even matter? I personally never even pay attention to any of the ads.
Skellyyy said:
Why does it even matter? I personally never even pay attention to any of the ads.
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Takes longer to load pages on sites that run many ads.
OK, I just made a post in the off topic photo thread about the Panasonic Lumix ZR3, and now I'm seeing ads for the ZR3 on XDA!!!!
I've read an entire book on XP pro from cover to cover, owned 6 laptops, understand the in's and out's of converting and burning video's/CD's.
But would somebody please explain to me what's going on here ? And/or refer me to some appropriate tutorials.
Thank you
They know everything about us lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting
jaszek said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting
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Ah ha, the tip of the iceberg.............
Yup, XDA hasn't invented some awesome method, it's just the standard ad technology from the provider (doubleclick or dart iirc)
There's an opt-out on the ad network's site, to disable the tracking.
Is it a perk of being a recognised dev that I never see ads? I recently saw the site when I wasn't logged in and was like whaaaaaa?
Archer said:
Is it a perk of being a recognised dev that I never see ads? I recently saw the site when I wasn't logged in and was like whaaaaaa?
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It is. I thought that you would have had to actually go in and enable it yourself but maybe they do it for you automatically. To answer your question though, Yes.
But shhhhh..... That might be a secret
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There's an opt-out on the ad network's site, to disable the tracking.
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Could you please provide a link to this, thanks.
TravisBean said:
Could you please provide a link to this, thanks.
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I need to know which adverts it is you're seeing that are using this...
If you hover over them, try and get the domain name of it. If it's a google/doubleclick one, head to http://www.google.co.uk/privacy/ads/ for information about this. That's the google UK link, but there will be a suitable one for your region too (and I think it's a generic thing anyway)
Arent they called ad sense or something like that?
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I need to know which adverts it is you're seeing that are using this...
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"That was just taken with a Panasonic Lumix ZR3 in Auto mode."
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There is an app called "My Account" in the market by T-Mobile that allows you to view account data such as minutes used/available, billing balance etc.
The app is free and to me its helpful. Just thought I'd share...
yea
i LOVED it when i put it on my phone. No matter what company you go through, the webpage, billing, minutes of use, txt usage, is horrible. This app made it VERY easy to read, use, and even pay a bill (IT EVEN TELLS YOU THE BATTERY LIFE, CONDITION etc, also has payment history that isnt tied to that programs usage to pay bills, all your payments are shown)
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Doesnt sound like it's a horrible app from your description
I love it
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Doesnt sound like it's a horrible app from your description
I love it
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i agree it definately is a nice app to have laying around, nice UI as well
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Doesnt sound like it's a horrible app from your description
I love it
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I had to re-read what he wrote as well, but he meant that every other tools a company used to provide account information had been horrible, and this app is the exception.
I absolutely love it.
That's amazing! I'm hoping it's from Tmobile so personal info isn't stolen, but considering it finds the info without me logging in, it MUST have access to tmobile's servers.
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That's amazing! I'm hoping it's from Tmobile so personal info isn't stolen, but considering it finds the info without me logging in, it MUST have access to tmobile's servers.
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Yeah, it's official from T-Mobile. They announced it first in their official forums, so no worries!
They seem like they took all precautions by not allowing wifi enable checking.
Sugar!!!!!
Thanks, this is great! Beats using the browser to get to my acocunt info
Good o'l Tmobile. Finally an application I can recommend to customers. It also has some really neat steps for Trouble Shooting that may answer some questions without having to call in if you're having problems. So check it.
oops
Mikey1022 said:
Doesnt sound like it's a horrible app from your description
I love it
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heh, yea wrote that quickly while at work. Completly failed on the spellcheck
Yeah its a pretty useful app. Especially considering my bill is due tomorrow lol.
Can't find this on the UK market, can somebody upload the apk for me?
Please
Does any one have the 1.0 version of this app. I downloaded the 1.1 update and now i can not use this app because it only requires 3g and edge. I only have wifi but they took that off for secority reasons. if you have 1.0 please back it up and upload. thanks
My Account 1.0.0
Can Someone upload the newest version ?
I just tested this with my G1 on Tmo in the UK and it doesn't work properly. It shows someone's account details, but they are not mine. I'm not greatly surprised it didn't work or I would have expected to see it on the Market in the UK. I am surprised that it shows someone's details though rather than an error!
Aleks
lolz i have the same, it's not my account info what the application shows.
Then moan when you have lost all your apps ????…
Well use titanium backup it will save people time answerin your post
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stevenc19 said:
Then moan when you have lost all your apps ????…
Well use titanium backup it will save people time answerin your post
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OMG You have won first prize for most useless post on this forum
Seriously fella anyone that flashes roms a lot trust they know already
shadowch31 said:
OMG You have won first prize for most useless post on this forum
Seriously fella anyone that flashes roms a lot trust they know already
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well i had some guy who flashes alot complain to me cause he lost all his apps with no back up lol and what do i win????
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well i had some guy who flashes alot complain to me cause he lost all his apps with no back up lol and what do i win????
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You win.....
Well bugger all actually
You have won me over with the post though, made my night reading it last night
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You win.....
Well bugger all actually
You have won me over with the post though, made my night reading it last night
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yay i win
Or, just go onto the online android market and it saves all your apps there and do ota installation for them.
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Or, just go onto the online android market and it saves all your apps there and do ota installation for them.
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Me and this Android online market (https://market.android.com/) website don't like each other...
There is a problem with this website's security certificate.
The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.
Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.
We recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website.
Now call me a tight arse security freak but seems to me that a company the size of google could sign their certificates correctly.
Guess me and this online market will never be doing business.
Not too long ago there was an article posted on XDA talkin about a new app for honeycomb. It was suposed to pick up the radio signals from near by phones and decrypt them and allow you to listen in on the calls made from it and also look through the contents of the phone. Now I can't find it anywhere? Can anyone help me with a link to the article or a link to DL the app?
Probably the dev got sent to Guantanamo...
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Probably the dev got sent to Guantanamo...
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Lol!
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SirLegolas said:
Probably the dev got sent to Guantanamo...
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sssssssssssssssssssssssssssnap
SirLegolas said:
Probably the dev got sent to Guantanamo...
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lol yea, i wish i could find it though, seems like it would be fun to play around with, i knew i shoulda downloaded it when i first saw it. well if anyone else happened to see it then let me know
If it was not an April Fools prank then it was almost definitely very illegal.
Listening into other cell phones would fall under wiretap ordinance. It might be a bluetooth hack, which would still be illegal but not as bad, since you are talking about looking through the contents of a phone. Bluetooth (short of a exploit) would not let you look through the phone arbitrarily either though.
Even if this kind of an app was real, why in the world would you install it? Seems like just asking for serious trouble, serious as in jail time serious.
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Not too long ago there was an article posted on XDA talkin about a new app for honeycomb. It was suposed to pick up the radio signals from near by phones and decrypt them and allow you to listen in on the calls made from it and also look through the contents of the phone. Now I can't find it anywhere? Can anyone help me with a link to the article or a link to DL the app?
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http://getandroidstuff.com/download-ispy-android-app-access-devices-storage-listen-phone-call/
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http://getandroidstuff.com/download-ispy-android-app-access-devices-storage-listen-phone-call/
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Good stuff, why would somebody want to install something like this, probably unsecured cheated ppl.
Evo Better Than The Best...
This.... cannot be a real app.
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If it was not an April Fools prank then it was almost definitely very illegal.
Listening into other cell phones would fall under wiretap ordinance. It might be a bluetooth hack, which would still be illegal but not as bad, since you are talking about looking through the contents of a phone. Bluetooth (short of a exploit) would not let you look through the phone arbitrarily either though.
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It was an aprill fools day prank.
And I downloaded it and inside the apk there were a sorry guys, this is a...
Lol
So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
http://jdsawyer.net/2011/07/02/put-it-in-the-cloud-are-you-nuts/
For the average user they can't cause any harm for storing music files or videos to have access to them elsewhere. So no reason for me to stop using it.
I sense lawsuits from somebody.
To add some facts to that: Dropbox already modified these changes, clearifying that those are legal terms they need to technically operate their service.
Read the lower part of this post: thinq.co.uk/2011/7/3/dropbox-terms-service-target-your-stuff/
A Dropbox spokesman:
Some of you have written us with very understandable concerns about the legal-sounding parts. In particular, our new TOS talks about the licenses we need to run Dropbox. We want to be 100% clear that you own what you put in your Dropbox. We don’t own your stuff. And the license you give us is really limited. It only allows us to provide the service to you. Nothing else
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However, users should be alarmed.
Yeah, came across this at bleeding cool. Com, from a Greg Rucka twitter (comic book writer), thought there would be some interest here. The main point someone was putting forth is that we are not the customers with dropbox/Facebook etc, we are the Product/Merchandise ...
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Shady! I haven't trusted (or used) Facebook for many months now. If you investigate their history it's more than a little sketchy. They don't want your information ... 'just because'.
It's really not that shady; it's just a bunch of legal jargon stemming from outdated laws they have to put into the agreement to protect themselves when storing millions of people's personal file's. Nothing will come of this, because there's no way a lawsuit will be able to get anything out of them
MySpace is the site with all the "weirdo's"..I haven't been there since college..2004 lol
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So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
CRAPP!!!!!!!!! was thinking about using drop box for game apps and other backups.. on the account that i flash roms constantly... but damm wat do i do now? anyone still say its safe to just back up game data on this? or any other app that would do that? thnx in advance..
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rafiqzadah said:
WarrGrinn said:
So, anyone afraid of dropbox now, lol.
CRAPP!!!!!!!!! was thinking about using drop box for game apps and other backups.. on the account that i flash roms constantly... but damm wat do i do now? anyone still say its safe to just back up game data on this? or any other app that would do that? thnx in advance..
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I know its kinda backward, but depending on the size of stuff just email it to yourself. With the size of hotmail and gmail these days a few gigs worth of attachments might just be ok. And if there 'stories', ie your a writer IIRC you've just copyrighted your work by mailing it to yourself (someone might want to clairify or correct that statement, just a thought bouncing around in my poor brain, lol).
Edit, just found this:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/ubuntu-one-files/com.ubuntuone.android.files
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Somebody I don't know said a bunch of crap about me publically on Google+, and tagged me in the posts. I know I can't untag myself from them, but unless they actually visit this guy's page, will followers of me on Google+ see these tagged posts?
It depends on who he posted them to. You can select to make anything you post totally public. Post a link and I'll see if I can see it for you.
Other than that, Google must surely give you a way of untagging yourself for this very reason. Get in touch with them and ask the question.
The post was totally public, and he has no connection to me through anyone following me.
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I'm just curious if anybody following me can see it on their stream or anything.
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Well, I have another Gmail account and I made a Google+ account there, followed myself with the original account, and the other account. I don't see that post on the new account following the one with the tagged posts. So I should be good, right?
It sounds like it. TBH, I doubt many people can say for sure as Google+ is so different to the Facebook that we're used to.
I think you've done the best thing you can to test it.
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It sounds like it. TBH, I doubt many people can say for sure as Google+ is so different to the Facebook that we're used to.
I think you've done the best thing you can to test it.
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Yeah, I mean I think I tested it...I made a new Google+ account, added my account with those tags and I didn't see any of the posts.
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Yeah, I mean I think I tested it...I made a new Google+ account, added my account with those tags and I didn't see any of the posts.
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D'you want me to add you as well, just to double check?
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D'you want me to add you as well, just to double check?
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I'll PM you.
I can't see anything about you on any post mate - looks like you're safe
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I can't see anything about you on any post mate - looks like you're safe
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How far back did ya go? These posts were at like 6:30PM or 7PM Eastern US Time, so like 15 hours ago.
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How far back did ya go? These posts were at like 6:30PM or 7PM Eastern US Time, so like 15 hours ago.
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I went back 24 hours. There's nothing about you at all in my stream.
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I went back 24 hours. There's nothing about you at all in my stream.
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K good. So nobody else can see it unless they go to the guy's page. Which wouldn't happen because he lives 4000 miles away and has no connection to me. But there HAS to be a way to untag myself, but I've been looking for hours on this and all I'm seeing is untagging pics.
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K good. So nobody else can see it unless they go to the guy's page. Which wouldn't happen because he lives 4000 miles away and has no connection to me. But there HAS to be a way to untag myself, but I've been looking for hours on this and all I'm seeing is untagging pics.
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Like I said earlier, the only thing I can think of is to ask Google. You can't be the 1st person that's needed to do this.
They don't really have a support email I can contact for this type of thing. I sent feedback and posted something on their forums. I'm just worried about somebody seeing this crap. I muted the post, that's about as far as I can go.
But, you said you didn't see anything...
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They don't really have a support email I can contact for this type of thing. I sent feedback and posted something on their forums. I'm just worried about somebody seeing this crap. I muted the post, that's about as far as I can go.
But, you said you didn't see anything...
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I know it's probably a longshot, but you could try asking the guy to remove it. If he does then great. If he doesn't then you're no different than you are now.
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I know it's probably a longshot, but you could try asking the guy to remove it. If he does then great. If he doesn't then you're no different than you are now.
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Yeah I did, he hasn't replied yet. Judging by his past posts, he'll probably screenshot the message I sent him and post that too.
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Yeah I did, he hasn't replied yet. Judging by his past posts, he'll probably screenshot the message I sent him and post that too.
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He sounds a right arse. I reckon you're safe, unless he's purposely added any of your friends to his circles.
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He sounds a right arse. I reckon you're safe, unless he's purposely added any of your friends to his circles.
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I have my circles hidden, so he can't even see that.
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I have my circles hidden, so he can't even see that.
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Very wise. I reckon you're pretty safe mate. I'd forget about it.