Another one is if you remove body sensor permission for Google play services. Once you do that, Maps will keep on showing an error notification every few minutes.
I take great care to separate my browsing sessions. Still I find YouTube recommendations on my main account on topics that I watched on another machine in my home network. My typical setup involves:
1. Virtualbox VM restored to a snapshot after each usage (browser completely clean, never uses my main Google accounts here)
2. Firefox on main machine with clear all cookies set, ublock origin. Rarely logs into my main Google account, if I do, always in incognito.
3. pfsense with block lists for Google & Microsoft
4. Mobile with Disconnect tracking blocker (mobile wide) plus Firefox focus & Firefox set to clear all history on exit.
Still Google manages to track me. Whenever I see those recommendations in YouTube, I feel like Google is mocking me - "ha ha do whatever you want, you can never hide from us".
Check how unique your fingerprint is using panopticlick[1] and try to fix it by adopting more common settings.
Also don't use Firefox Focus: it has telemetry and shares data with a third party[2]. Use the german version[3] if you must, it has telemetry disabled by default.
You jest, but having worked in the ad tech industry, I can say this is actually a completely viable means of tracking people. This is why you don't load uBlock Origin into your Tor Browser or use a custom User-Agent string while using your VPN. Everything you do that is different than what everyone else does (i.e. the default) is a means of identifying you. And if I could do it at that startup, certainly Google can do it in a million more ways a million times more accurately.
If the bin is big enough or merges with other bins, it becomes the new norm.
Tor Browser has a strong "disable JavaScript" option that is relatively popular; the remaining vector is then tracking images and the rule would be to check for Tor exit node that hasn't downloaded the image cookie.
Even with JS on TB tries to reduce impact of such history based attacks.
Changing your user agent is also probably a bad idea. There are other ways to detect browser, so you're pretty unique of you're using Firefox on MacOS with a Chrome for Windows user agent.
Are gays getting a bad reputation in India just because of being gay?
>I think homosexuality gets a bad rep in Kerala because of all those nasty ammavans (uncles) not-so-subtly molesting young boys at the back of buses and movie theatres.
But first, there will be maybe a billion coming north. And there will very likely be concentration camps.
Edit: Also, please don't read my comment as being anti-immigrant. What concerns me is the likely authoritarian response from US governments. And I'm concerned both for them, and for me.
Same here. As another Indian who wants India to be self sustaining, its high time we start focusing on creating a organic growth environment for Indian companies.
I am from India. I just got my I140 (for green card) approved and got 3 year extension for my h1b that is valid till half of 2021. I am going back next month. I don't want to spent the next 50-150 years being an h1b slave.
In my country (India), quitting is a nightmare, especially in the IT consultancies. We have to serve a 3 months notice period. HRs and managers will threaten you (had multiple personal experiences). Then if you somehow quit, you are still at the mercy of previous manager and HR for service (experience) letter, which is needed for future jobs.
If you are on H1B, quitting can be even more challenging. Some companies that sponsor your visa from India wants you to serve a 3-12 months notice period. You cannot quit from US, you have to come back to India and quit. Otherwise, you have to pay several lakhs of rupees to the company. Its not just Indian companies, some US companies who are top in what they do in the world also do this.
I have been wanting to quit my current job working for the US division of an Indian IT company for a while now, but the thought of having the talk with my manager makes me anxious. Same manager threatened me last time with service letter, and he got what he wanted.
I'm in Australia. Notice to serve is 2-4 weeks, some get 'stress' sick leave for the period, but most don't. Threatening you how? In AU its criminal, nobody does that.
No letter is required here for the job, but references are. Just names and phone numbers of mates you worked with, checks are done on personal level, not through HR.
First time I wanted to quit was when they forced me to relocate from one state to another. They just decided among themselves and asked me to relocate. I luckily found another job within 3 days, and went to resign. The manager yelled at me and said I have no way but to move to the other place and serve 2 months notice. I didn't give in, and ended up quitting in 2 weeks. On the last day, the manager said "don't take it personally, its just business". Thankfully, they didn't create any issues after that. I had a friend who had to pay 2 lakh rupees bond amount since he quit 3 months before his 2 year bond expired.
Second time happened when I was in US. They were forcing me to go back to India, and I found another job. Went in to quit and the manager indirectly told me that I may face issues with my service letter. I ended up not quitting because of all the stress and uncertainties.
We need this service letter for finding new jobs in India, and may also be needed if applying for green card.
On what legal grounds are they asking you to pay them money? Did you sign a bond or something similar on joining? I have heard anecdata of that not being enforceable.
Company HR will ask you to sign a bond once you get selected in the visa lottery. We have to sign this bond if we want them to go ahead with our H1B process. This is different from the bond they have for freshers (which usually lasts for 2 years at the start of your career).
Once we sign this bond, we have to accept whatever salary they offer for our onsite assignment (deputation to US). People won't even know their US salary until 1 or 2 days before travel. Then come to US and work for them for the bond period doing whatever they tell us to do. If we were to quit during this time for another job in US, HR can treat us as "absconding" and refuse to give the service letter unless we either pay the bond amount or come back to India and serve whatever notice period is on the bond.
>> People won't even know their US salary until 1 or 2 days before travel
That is messed up. Why is that "service letter" that valuable?
On a side note, as an H1B holder, I am really happy with a current administration's crackdown on work visa abuse. Companies like yours seriously need to be dealt with.
I don't know about India, but in UK if you have a notice period on your contract and leave before it's served, then the company can totally sue you for the work you promised you would do and didn't. So yes, a company can totally say "you can leave right now without working your notice period, but you need to pay us the equivalent of your salary for that time". Or they can say you can't leave until you worked the last day of the notice period - it's their right and something you have agreed to in the contract.
His words after joining Intel: "That was the first time I found out all these managers in US blatantly use h1b situation to make people work more than others".
Looking at the comparison for Kerala, I really feel sad and worried. It doesn't look like much improved for my state during this period. And everyone likes to talk about Kerala being number one!
