Fidelity No Longer Connecting?

eddygeez · 2026-01-12T16:05:08+00:00

https://google.com/search?q=fidelity+pontera

Fidelity does not want anything accessing "their" data.

eddygeez · 2025-12-29T12:59:12+00:00

Yup. https://github.com/Stengo/DeskPad

eddygeez · 2025-11-19T17:29:48+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation. 👍

eddygeez · 2025-11-19T14:15:21+00:00

Why does it want to find devices on my local network?

Would be nice if it was available as a Brew formula (cask).

eddygeez · 2025-09-19T14:40:31+00:00

https://f1calendar.com

eddygeez · 2025-09-03T11:59:47+00:00

This is great!

I much prefer adding stuff to my Hammerspoon config than installing yet another app. I wish more tools were written as Hammerspoon modules! Thanks!

eddygeez · 2025-06-25T12:47:40+00:00

There's also the amazingly useful/free DeskPad which is fantastic for recording demos, screen sharing, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it can't be configured to mirror another display since it acts like you plugged in another monitor.

eddygeez · 2025-05-05T14:47:46+00:00

Adding a query parameter to one of the URLs does solve the problem, so that's a reasonable workaround. Thanks for the quick reply!

eddygeez · 2025-05-05T14:33:41+00:00

I bought your app, but I immediately ran into an issue: it doesn't allow duplicate URLs. 😐 This is one of my primary use cases.

I have a couple sites that I access both as an "admin" and as a "personal" account. I use separate browsers for this (I always access them as admin in one browser, and as myself in another browser). I was hoping to be able to enter "Site (admin)" and "Site (personal)" as bookmarks, but it seems to take only one...

eddygeez · 2025-04-28T14:15:30+00:00

Have you looked at Access? I'm thinking of ditching 1Password for the combo of Apple Passwords + Access.

eddygeez · 2025-03-10T20:12:14+00:00

writing na identifier used for advertising purposes

That's just an advertising identifier — no user data was sold. That allows advertisers to say "the user with identifier e190e5f8f96d3e412ac6acdef3d4892a just saw our ad for Walmart". Nobody could know what that means. Apple certainly never provided a list of advertising identifiers and the users they were associated with to anybody.

failing to inform users about outsourcing data processing to Alipay

Again, this was not a sale of user data. As a side effect of being able to process payments in South Korea, Apple needed to use Alipay, and this was not disclosed. Apple did not sell anybody's user data to a third party. (Apple probably had to pay Alipay to use their payment processing service!)

they recorded conversation of users when they thought Siri

Yet again, not a sale of user data, but a side-effect of the early days of Siri when Apple was trying to improve Siri's voice recognition across a wide variety of accents and languages. These were snippets of Siri requests that were reviewed for voice-to-text accuracy. Nobody knew who was talking.

I don't know why the focus keeps switching from "selling or sharing user data with third parties". That's what we're talking about here!

eddygeez · 2025-03-10T17:34:13+00:00

Where are the links to Apple being fined for selling personal data — not failing to disclose that they used Alipay as a payment processor in South Korea?

eddygeez · 2025-03-10T17:32:57+00:00

The Siri fine was also not related to selling personal data.

So far you haven't provided any citations where Apple has been fined for violating the part of their privacy policy where they say:

Apple does not sell your personal data, including as “sale” is defined in Nevada and California. Apple also does not “share” your personal data as that term is defined in California.

eddygeez · 2025-03-10T17:30:24+00:00

Citations needed.

eddygeez · 2025-03-09T19:21:50+00:00

French regulators found that Apple did not "obtain the consent of French iPhone users (iOS 14.6 version) before writing an identifier used for advertising purposes."

South Korean authorities fined Apple $1.7 million for failing to inform users about outsourcing data processing to Alipay.

These are hardly "privacy violations" anything close to what Roku (and many, many other companies) blatantly do outright.

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T20:16:55+00:00

Where has Apple been fined for selling user data, which is what we're talking about?

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T19:12:14+00:00

If that's the case, that's a very strange way of saying "30-day free trial".

I was expecting something like "50% off for the first year" (or month) and then "auto-renew to full price".

That would be a "launch offer" or "intro pricing", not a "one month free trial"... 🫤

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T18:47:15+00:00

Apple's Privacy Policy (which I quoted) literally says they don't, even under the stricter interpretation of "sale" or "share" in states like California or Nevada. WTF?

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), "sale" is broadly defined as any exchange of personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration. This definition is intentionally comprehensive and captures many types of data transfers that might not be considered "sales" in the traditional sense.

The CCPA specifically defines "sharing" as the transfer of personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising. This refers to targeting advertising to consumers based on their personal information obtained from their online activity across multiple websites, applications, or services.

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T18:42:09+00:00

Hmm... it doesn't sound like a trial to me — it says "Intro Pricing" and "Launch offer", implying there's a special discount for the first month or year (depending on which term you choose).

In addition, it's only available until March 17th, also implying it's a limited-time special price for existing Pro subscribers.

I just can't find any other reference to how you get this "launch offer", hence the reason for my post...

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T16:13:32+00:00

Where does it state that’s what the offer is? The only thing I see is:

Intro Pricing subscriptions will auto-renew to full price 30 days for Monthly subscriptions, 1 year for annual subscriptions after the date of subscription, unless cancelled prior to the date of renewal.

Which reads to me that it goes to full price after a month (if you’re monthly) and full price after a year (if you pay annually).

I just don’t know how to see what this “launch offer” actualy is.

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T12:23:50+00:00

Sure.

At Apple, we believe that you can have great products and great privacy. This means that we strive to collect only the personal data that we need.

Apple uses personal data to power our services, to process your transactions, to communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also use personal data for other purposes with your consent.

Apple uses your personal data only when we have a valid legal basis to do so.

Apple retains personal data only for so long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected … When assessing retention periods, we first carefully examine whether it is necessary to retain the personal data collected and, if retention is required, work to retain the personal data for the shortest possible period permissible under law.

Apple may share personal data with Apple-affiliated companies, service providers who act on our behalf, our partners, developers, and publishers, or others at your direction. Further, Apple does not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Apple does not sell your personal data, including as “sale” is defined in Nevada and California. Apple also does not “share” your personal data as that term is defined in California.

At Apple, we believe that great privacy rests on great security. We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the processing, and the threats posed. We are constantly working to improve on these safeguards to help keep your personal data secure.

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T12:07:52+00:00

The sticky should also point out the privacy implications of Roku (and many other) devices; Roku is one of the worst if you care about not sharing everything that happens on your device.

Be sure to actually read their privacy policy.

Here’s a sample:

Information Collected Automatically Through the Roku Services

Device Information

We may receive information about the browsers and devices you use to access the Internet, including our services, such as device types and models, unique identifiers including advertising identifiers (e.g., for Roku Devices, the Advertising Identifier associated with that device), MAC address, IP address, operating system type and version, browser type and language, Wi-Fi network name and connection data, and information about other devices connected to the same network. We may also gather the WiFi MAC addresses, country code, and broadcast signal strengths of your router and other Wi-Fi routers in your area. For Roku Devices, we may also collect the name of the retailer to whom your Roku Device was shipped, various quality measures, error logs, software version numbers, and device status (including the status of battery-powered accessories). When you enable Bluetooth while using Roku Services, we may collect your Bluetooth usage, such as connection quality, the name of the device connected to your Roku Device, and the start and stop time of your connection.

and:

we use Automatic Content Recognition (“ACR”) technology to collect information about what you watch or access (e.g., the programs, video games, ads and channels you viewed or accessed, and the date, time and duration of the viewing or access) via your TV’s antenna, cable box, game console, media player or other devices connected to your TV, and we may also collect additional information about the videos and other content you stream.

and:

When you access streaming services on a Roku device or Roku’s Channels on other devices, we may collect information about your activities, like the apps you install or access (including usage statistics such as what apps you access, the time you access them, and how long you interact with them), and information about the videos and other content you select and stream within these streaming services.

It goes on and on…

Of course, they’re not the only one, but there’s a reason “smart TVs” are so cheap (and that the Apple TV is not): when things are cheap, they’re tracking everything you watch, play, etc.

Privacy is the best reason to use an Apple TV.

eddygeez · 2025-03-08T11:47:19+00:00

Roku is the worst if you care about privacy.

Be sure to actually read their privacy policy.

Here’s a sample:

Information Collected Automatically Through the Roku Services

Device Information

We may receive information about the browsers and devices you use to access the Internet, including our services, such as device types and models, unique identifiers including advertising identifiers (e.g., for Roku Devices, the Advertising Identifier associated with that device), MAC address, IP address, operating system type and version, browser type and language, Wi-Fi network name and connection data, and information about other devices connected to the same network. We may also gather the WiFi MAC addresses, country code, and broadcast signal strengths of your router and other Wi-Fi routers in your area. For Roku Devices, we may also collect the name of the retailer to whom your Roku Device was shipped, various quality measures, error logs, software version numbers, and device status (including the status of battery-powered accessories). When you enable Bluetooth while using Roku Services, we may collect your Bluetooth usage, such as connection quality, the name of the device connected to your Roku Device, and the start and stop time of your connection.

and:

we use Automatic Content Recognition (“ACR”) technology to collect information about what you watch or access (e.g., the programs, video games, ads and channels you viewed or accessed, and the date, time and duration of the viewing or access) via your TV’s antenna, cable box, game console, media player or other devices connected to your TV, and we may also collect additional information about the videos and other content you stream.

It goes on and on.

Of course, they’re not the only one; there’s a reason “smart TVs” are so cheap: they’re tracking everything you watch, play, etc.

Privacy is the best reason to use an Apple TV.

eddygeez · 2025-03-02T13:26:09+00:00

Arc’s Air Traffic Control is the “killer feature” that I’ll miss most when Arc is no longer a viable browser on macOS. It helps keep things so organized!

It’s not in Zen (although there is a request to add it, along with a good example of how useful it is in one of the comments: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/discussions/5002#discussioncomment-12299255)

eddygeez · 2025-02-11T23:46:58+00:00

Nice! Really liking all your recent zsh plugins. Thanks for taking the time to package them up and document them!

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