So.

So… WhatsApp bring back ads, although they promised to not bring ads anymore. That’s why the co founder said to not use WhatsApp anymore. Just THINK, people! Use Telegram or Signal if you want to be safe!

Originally shared by Android Police

WhatsApp to monetize by selling ads and charging business users.

Reddit just passively demonstrated that using SMS 2 factor authentication is needy unsecure nowadays!

Reddit just passively demonstrated that using SMS 2 factor authentication is needy unsecure nowadays! So guys, use other forms of 2FA! SMS is shit! 😎

Originally shared by Artem Russakovskii

Reddit got hax0red.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_you_need_to///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

That is very good!

That is very good!

Originally shared by 9to5Google

YouTube Music will get bi-weekly updates w/ SD card support, audio quality, & more planned by @technacity

With YouTube Music now several weeks old and rolling out internationally, Google is ready to improve and regularly update the streaming service with new features. The music offering will see functionality updates every two weeks, with a number already on…

http://9to5google.com/2018/08/01/youtube-music-updates-new-features///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

Apparently, Google is using the Beta testers literally as guinea pigs (which is good):

Apparently, Google is using the Beta testers literally as guinea pigs (which is good):

“Several times in this interview we’re going to hear about Google’s experiments on the beta population, which is something I wasn’t aware of until now. The “infrastructure” Poiesz talks about is most likely the A/B testingavailable through Google’s Firebase developer console. Though Firebase, app developers (in this case, Google) can remotely swap bits of code in and out of an app for testing, all without having to update the app through the Play Store. For users this is invisible, and you’d never know a test was happening unless you noticed whatever was changed. I haven’t heard of A/B testing happening at an OS level in production, but apparently people on the beta builds get to be Google’s guinea pigs. So a future note for people running beta versions of Android: don’t take battery life or performance issues too seriously, you might just be being experimented on.”

They can actually SWAP OUT CODE WITHOUT ROLLING AN UPDATE OUT to experiment with power efficiency! 😍😍

That explains why battery is very inconsistent throughout the beta tester community (including me).

I might actually right now having a battery test on my phone! That’s super fascinating 🤯🥰

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/p-is-for-power-how-google-tests-tracks-and-improves-android-battery-life///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js