Ah I see your edit now, thanks (and see how it was assumed implied :) )

iOS lets you create “secret chats”

How? Not natively unless I’m mistaken

In 2019, The North Face faced consumer backlash and apologized after its marketing agency surreptitiously added photos featuring its apparel to Wikipedia articles on popular outdoor destinations.

The North Face - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face

Edit: they also sent a cease & desist to The South Butt a decade before that

“Hi I wasn’t paid six dollars on Fiverr to post here” (does increase costs obviously but marginally for high-margin/volume products)

Ahahahahaha one of the best I’ve seen thanks

Impressive. And perhaps also clever, depending on whether that was what you predicted would happen! :)

And you never mentioned anything related to litigation, it was just a polite recording request? Maybe you mentioned the dishonesty, or kept it generic…

I can imagine a world where big tech is proud of being so enticing, so invaluable, that a country codifies a right to use their kinds of services into law. - My two cents there on a different HN comment talking about regulating some service providers like utilities.

Escalation to their buddies inside the company failed, that’s the wild bit in a huge way.

Most interesting speculation was probably someone saying something about anti-money laundering laws more or less including gag order-style provisions. So if the gift card thing tripped a filter, then maybe no one at the company would be able to help, and at that point, I suppose they’d need to take it to the courts(?)

Food for thought:

Always room for disagreement

If the article were written 10 years ago I would’ve just assumed they had used something like:

https://fotoforensics.com/

Not sure that’ll work, I’ll paste the Wiki here

Beginning with Part 1 of 1,204:

Anybody hold onto all their old electronics just in case in spite of the financial/resource “waste”?

Aha, shrewd…

Thank you

In the end, we opted for a simple strategy, sidestepping GitHub’s aggressive vendor lock-in: leave the existing issues open and unmigrated, but start counting issues at 30000 on Codeberg so that all issue numbers remain unambiguous. Let us please consider the GitHub issues that remain open as metaphorically “copy-on-write”.

Do you know anything about the referenced vendor lock-in?

That’s so cool, the integrated quality levels

Impressive. Thank you for sharing

Softest paywall ever - they do such good work, they can have an anonymous email of mine no problem

Magic link’s so annoying though, just wanna password (they’re journalists not techies though is the long and short of it)

:) I even made a shortcut to set flashlight brightness to about 1% which is lower than it’s possible to set it via UI. It’s a little buggy hence employing a very advanced technique of covering the majority of the LED with a finger. Cheers to your next late night bathroom run or whatever.

Oh awesome even the iPhone 11 does too.

You have to go back to the iPhone 6 to find a phone that is guaranteed not to be patched against this:

“iOS 15.8.4 and iPadOS 15.8.4
Released March 31, 2025
[…]
WebKit
Impact: Maliciously crafted web content may be able to break out of Web Content sandbox.”

or this from Sept

So that’s why people must be generally OK. There can’t be massive numbers of people using the 6 or earlier anymore. Well not super massive. Wonder how often that web content is maliciously crafted to break out on them… I’ll have to make that thread because I’m really curious about this. How many people are vulnerable, how desirable and easy to deploy is the exploit…

Wow you’re definitely really deep into the 15% (I’m making that number up but there must be so few people outside of tech who even use a single external monitor?)

They buy the Mac, they open the Gmail and the Facebooks, they call it a day… I’m thinkin’

Wonder if I can get a realistic estimate on this kind of thing