Hacker News with Generative AI: Tracking

Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo (github.com/hybridgroup)
Go Haystack lets you track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive "Find My" network.

Bluetooth, Tracking, Apple, Open Source

361 points by deadprogram 17 days ago | 114 comments

Show HN: Never let friends forget who is the winner (shmelo.io)
A scoreboard for competitive games to track results, rankings, and winning streaks

Games, Competitive Gaming, Scoreboards, Friends, Tracking

5 points by itsikap 18 days ago | 5 comments

We know where your car is (DE) (spiegel.de)

Privacy, Germany, Automotive, Tracking

10 points by deanc 29 days ago | 3 comments

WordPress.com's owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine (theverge.com)
WordPress.com’s owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine.

WordPress, Web Hosting, Business, Tracking, Data

3 points by CRConrad 81 days ago | 0 comments

Tracker Beeper (2022) (berthub.eu)
A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google?

Privacy, Software, Google, Tracking

394 points by gaws 83 days ago | 77 comments

You can track changes someone makes to their Instagram account (github.com/ibnaleem)
📸 an Instagram tracker that logs any changes to an Instagram account (followers, following, posts, and bio)

Social Media, Tracking, Instagram, Data Analysis

8 points by hellowastaken 105 days ago | 4 comments

Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs (arxiv.org)

Smart TVs, Content Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Tracking

159 points by some_furry 123 days ago | 155 comments

Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking (engadget.com)
Mozilla is the latest company to get in trouble with the EU. Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla for setting a Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA) feature to default without informing its users. Noyb claims the setting impacts millions of Europeans.

Privacy, Mozilla, Firefox, Europe, Tracking

7 points by speckx 124 days ago | 0 comments

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature (noyb.eu)
Today, noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. In essence, the browser is now controlling the tracking, rather than individual websites. While this might be an improvement compared to even more invasive cookie tracking, the company never asked its users if they wanted to enable it.

Privacy, Browsers, Mozilla, Tracking, User Consent

156 points by robin_reala 125 days ago | 130 comments

Show HN: Toolstash – Track your tool collection with AI (toolstash.com)

Tools, AI, Software, Tracking

17 points by Shpigford 180 days ago | 0 comments

Google Chrome Will Track You for the Next 200 Days–Then It May Get Worse (forbes.com)

Privacy, Google Chrome, Tracking, Surveillance

14 points by marban 225 days ago | 19 comments

Forget Copilot+, Windows is already tracking everything you do (xda-developers.com)