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Postpaid plans (the traditional ones which have contracts) usually give discounted or free phone upgrades while prepaid does not, so they can bring the price down.
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If a you manually copy text then that's a "gesture". Sites are able to add malicious code when you copy text and this won't change as far as I know. In terms of security, it's horrible but not new.
Comment · 4 years ago
Looks blocked to me.
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It's not a huge battery drain when I use it at all. Google already has a history of where you go so I don't even know why they would need more battery for it.
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It's mainly the "&" which does it, which is pretty common.
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I agree, although there are hint links on each answer which generally give you the selector you are "intended" to use
Comment · 4 years ago
I saw a few of livestream scams happen real-time so let me explain what I saw. I didn't see it on YouTube but I saw it on Twitch a few times and I never saw anyone mention it before.

Short answer is it's an evolution of the Elon Musk Twitter scams where people are told to send crypto (Usually bitcoin) to an address to double it. The main difference than the traditional scams is with livestream you have an audience - the chat.

Tens of thousands of viewbots to bring the counter on the livestream high and then the chat is flooded with chat messages but fake accounts that I can see how people could think they were real. Things trying to convince you that it is safe, that it worked, and even talking with each other asking how easy it is. It doesn't matter if the account is banned after 20 minutes or more, it's already done the damage.

First time I saw this was about ~6 months ago. It was a fake account with a similar name for a Dota streamer. They had fake footage of the game and I was pretty shocked. It had something like 10,000 viewers and after reporting the channel it was still up for a while.

Other times I've seen it with Elon Musk with footage of the Tesla plant talking to a reporter about crypto. I can see how the voices can be fakes as well and how much potential it can have when combined with the chat. These were up for less time.

Comment · 4 years ago
For me I had to disable a newish setting called "Prefer Fuel-efficent routes". It's in navigation settings.

It too aggressively took me on a highway and I don't even think it was too effective in being fuel efficient.

Comment · 4 years ago
Searches for "bifl" within the URL. As others have said though, I find it easier to only use "site:". Like "site:reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife"
Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.w3fools.com/ explains most of it but as explained it apparently mostly resolved the past issues

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