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This is my "shitlist", or list of things I don't like (with links to why I don't like them. This is a list of public figures and brands, nothing personal. If you're on this list you're probably famous enough to not have to care.
I would like to mention that the omission of a brand or figure on this list does not make them good. "Good brands", in my experience, are just brands about which less is known. I am also a human and therefore biased. You're welcome to suggest additions to this list via a pull request on this website's git repository, information about this can be found on the site index. Or just email me.
Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content (The Hollywood Reporter; Cullins, Ashley)
Amazon: Cops Can Get Recordings From Ring, Keep Them Forever, And Share Them With Whoever They Want (Techdirt; Cushing, Tim)
Amazon Fire TV Update Bricks Hacked Devices (Hackaday; Osgood, Rick)
Amazon Told Police It Has Partnered With 200 Law Enforcement Agencies (Vice; Haskins, Caroline)
NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board As Director (ZeroHedge; Pseudonymous ("Durden, Tyler"))
Once Again, GDPR Is A Potential Privacy Nightmare: Amazon Sends 1,700 Voice Recordings To The Wrong User In GDPR Request (Techdirt; Masnick, Mike)
See: Google
See: Google
Apple apps on macOS Big Sur bypass firewall and VPN connections (Apple Terminal; Sami)
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (Reuters; Menn, Joseph)
Developer ID certificate revocation (Johnson, Jeff)
iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment (GitHub; Anonymous)
"On Big Sur, trustd is in Apple's 'ContentFilterExclusionList' ....meaning firewalls can't block it!" (Twitter; Wardle, Patrick)
Your Computer Isn't Yours (Paul, Jeffrey)
Let's Reverse Engineer Discord (Medium; Wells, David) (Archive link)
Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed (The Next Web; Mihov, Dimitar)
I now have an Oculus Paperweight (Reddit; u/mud_juggler) (Archive link)
- "I have also...received an automated block..." (Hacker News discussion of "I now have an Oculus Paperweight"; dessant) (Archive link)
"I've just discovered that a Facebook employee reimplemented the app...and published it using the same name...so I can no longer publish my app without renaming the project." (Hacker News; dessant) (Archive link)
Google AMP Can Go To Hell (Polemic Digital)
The Google Cemetery (WPKube)
Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition (The Verge; Hollister, Sean)
Google's Play Store is giving an age-rating finger to Fleksy, a Gboard rival (TechCrunch; Lomas, Natasha)
Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (SparkToro; Fishkin, Rand)
See: Apple Computer
See: Apple Computer
See: Apple Computer
4 Shady Facts Netflix Doesn't Want Viewers To Know (Cracked; Wears, Adam)
At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (The Wall Street Journal; Ramachandran, Shalini; Flint, Joe) (Archive link)
See: Facebook
Campus Staff Took Advantage of Weaknesses in Admissions Processes to Inappropriately Admit 64 Students as Favors to Donors, Family, and Friends (Auditor of the State of California)
"[Apple] has pushed a silent update to all Macs removing a ...web server installed by Zoom" (Twitter; Wardle, Patrick) (Archive link)
FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking During COVID-19 Pandemic (Federal Bureau of Investigation Boston; Setera, Kristen)
Foreign intelligence operatives are reportedly using online platforms and video-conferencing apps like Zoom to spy on Americans (Business Insider; Sheth, Sonam)
Google Told Its Workers That They Can't Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore (BuzzFeed News; Dixit, Pranav)
The 'S' in Zoom, Stands for Security (Objective-See; Wardle, Patrick)
Two more macOS Zoom flaws surface, as lawsuit & government probe loom (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike)
US Senate tells members not to use Zoom (Ars Technica; Stacey, Kiran; Murphy, Hannah)
Zoom admits some calls were routed through China by mistake (TechCrunch; Whittaker, Zach)
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says (Ars Technica; Brodkin, Jon)
Zoom macOS install 'shady,' plus video chats aren't end-to-end encrypted (AppleInsider; Gallagher, William)
Zoom Meetings Aren't End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing (The Intercept; Lee, Micah; Yael, Grauer)
Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! (Medium; Leitschuh, Johnathan) (Archive link)
Zoom updates macOS installer to remove malware-like exploits (AppleInsider; Neely, Amber)
Zoom for iOS shares data with Facebook even if users don't have an account (AppleInsider; Peterson, Mike)
The complete truth about Joe Biden's LGBT record (OUTspoken*)
Unpacking Kamala Harris's Record on Trans and Sex Work Issues (them.; Sanders, Wren)
* Possibly untruthful source
Title (Platform/publisher; name) (Archive link if website is down, paywalled, or SNS)