It’s also a good way to keep the little ones from accidentally charging up weird things from the apps they download.

My 67 year old Mom’s phone probably has ALL of these on it :( Every time I see her phone it has like 500 notifications and 75 apps running.

Parents, luddites, kids, etc.

Bugs: New Joker Malware sends user notifications at random times, but never more than an hour apart, repeatedly saying that something is wrong with society and informing user that the malware is in fact crazy and unpredictable, as well as sending user links to shock websites. Malware also automatically subscribes user…

The same people who view untrusted email attachments and links. 😏

I think you nailed it, kidiots... who probably don’t read lifehacker... so really the story should be “Uninstall these 24 android apps from your kids’ phones, then set up parental controls over what they can download and install on their phones, and make sure that your credit cards aren’t stored by google.”

Boomers.

Another alternative: Never give either Google Play or Apple iTunes/App Store your credit card. If you already have, delete them. Buy gift cards and keep low balances for both accounts.

Same. I thought it was probably the result of poor pseudo-random hashing in some of those automatic passwords generators.

When I saw the title of this article I thought - “Hmm must be a cool math thing where lots of things hash to that”.... read the article “FacePalm... people are dumb....”

You’re on Gizmodo.

It’s almost like...you don’t understand how deep Amazon’s roots are, and you certainly didn’t read the article.

Did you and I read the same article? Your takeaway shouldn’t be that “Amazon retail is scary.” Then again you posted this 4 minutes after the article went up, and this is a long article, so...

I’m a software developer, our primary product is a touchscreen POS system for retail locations. We pay Amazon to use AWS for several things in our product and not only do the vast majority of our clients not know that, the vast majority of their customers have even less idea. You can literally walk into a store,…

Getting banned from Amazon as a customer on their retail site is unlikely to touch anything to do with AWS, which is really the more pervasive aspect here.

“virtually”, so you removed maybe 1% of Amazon from your life. You’re still using services hosted by AWS, so you don’t get to take the high road yet.

If you read the article, you’re here on this site, which is hosted by Amazon, thus giving it revenue. The problem is not just shopping from Amazon anymore.

I did consider the same thing when I read that, but I’m not sure that’s the main thing we should take out of this article.

Good. Hopefully Kelly and his enablers let something slip in their haste to make everything look above-board.

Stalkers aren’t limited to sex workers, that is the issue, even celebrities have them and their career are already legalized .