Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪

6 hours ago (Received 9 minutes ago)

Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪
6 hours ago (Received 9 minutes ago)

🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.

The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)

#privacy #infosec #privacymatters #Apple #iOS #meta
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A GET request sent by Instagram when the notification was shown on screen.

#apple #privacy #infosec #ios #meta #privacymatters

in reply to Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪

Hubert Figuière

in reply to Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪 9 minutes ago

fortunately Apple thorough app review and strict privacy policies prevent that. #sarcasm

#sarcasm

Austin Nix

1 hour ago (Received 59 minutes ago)

Austin Nix
1 hour ago (Received 59 minutes ago)

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 months of heavy beta testing, iOS 26 will be released to the public tomorrow. Who's getting it on launch day? Who's waiting until iOS 26.1? Who's already got the RC because they participated in the beta cycle? Who's not getting it at all either because their phone isn't supported or because they use Android?

in reply to Austin Nix

Kelly Sapergia

in reply to Austin Nix 59 minutes ago

If there aren't any serious bugs, or if the ones present don't impact me, I may get the upgrade tomorrow.

Kevin LaRose, 8647

23 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago)

Kevin LaRose, 8647
23 hours ago (Received 1 hour ago)

#A11Y #BlindTech I’m a user of whatifsports.com, specifically its simleague baseball feature. For some unknown reason, the website has stopped working regularly over the past week or so. Combo boxes fail to appear, although I see they are there if I use the JAWS cursor. In some other instances, whole parts of the website don’t present at all. Even more strangely, this behavior happens on both #Chrome and #Firefox but I can still access everything on #Edge just fine. I’m tempted to install #NVDA to see how things perform with it, but I’ve never used it so I suspect there’s a learning curve. I’m just flummoxed as to why the website has started acting like this.

#a11y #firefox #chrome #nvda #edge #blindtech

in reply to Kevin LaRose, 8647

NV Access

in reply to Kevin LaRose, 8647 1 hour ago

I'm not familiar with the site itself, but for NVDA, we have a "Switching from Jaws to NVDA guide" which should help ease the transition: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…

Plus of course, NVDA is completely free, so you are most welcome to have it installed alongside Jaws and use both (not at the same time though - definitely exit one before starting the other :) )