Preliminary analysis from the dept of trust me bro.

Is this nature…IN MY NATURE??

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The real research: https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

Here is the boiled down points from this

1. you open a page that has an ad served from Discovery-Tech ad inventory

2. the ad has a standard script in to that calls back to the home server and passes your advertising ID (cookie ID on desktop or mobile ID on mobile) plus your IP

3. there is a third party that has compiled a list of ad ID + IP that effectively de-anonymizes users. This is used to target specific people. The info passed by the ad is compared against the target list. If there is no match to the target nothing further happens.

4. if a match is found it returns javascript that runs on the page. It finger prints the device then it checks for an exploit.

5. if the exploit it is looking for is found the exploit corrupts memory in the rendering engine, achieves native code execution, escapes the sandbox, and installs the spyware.

And, yes, ad blocker software would stop this. If the ad cannot render it cannot call back to the mothership. The only exception to this would be if the ad was served first party, like the website you were visiting was also hosting the ad. Or if you are on a device using a browser that is part of a app that does not have ad blocking, like the built in browser for instagram.

Here is what they did not say

We don’t know which browser, OS, or application vulnerability was used at Al Jazeera. It could be a unknown zero day one or a one that is known but only works on certain older versions of software.

Adding in a standard YSK how to delete your advertising ID from your mobile device.

The irony of linking to an article about forced identification that requires you to login and pay to read it without trackers or a giant banner that covers the article.

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RIP to my right boob for sure.

But yes, I agree you should learn how to do a self check and also do about once a month in the shower. About half of the women in my support group found their cancer from self exams.

Its pretty quick less than a min for both, you raise one arm then starting at the nipple you will press fingers in to the breast. Then press the tissue in about 1 inch apart spacing and move in a circular direction around the nipple and increasing the circles outward to the armpit. Make sure you get all the way in to your armpit too.

You are looking for anything that feels texturally different, it could be a divet or indent or it could be a lump or bump. In my case it was wide and flat and just a bit harder than the tissue around it and it was on the far right side of my right breast, almost under the armpit.

Wait this looks awesome! I have been looking for something exactly like this.

Lifelong estradiol exposure at the level and ages trans women take it for HRT might actually increase trans women’s risk over the baseline of 12% for cis women. If we would take trans health care seriously we might be able to find out for sure.

Few studies have examined the breast cancer risk in transgender women. The most robust evidence to date is from a Dutch study in 2019, which found that breast cancer was more common in trans women (average age was 31) who undergo hormone treatment than cis men, but less common than in cis women.

But also this is the only study of its kind that has even been done and they found the exposure to hormones increase the risk during that exposure and the cancer characteristics of the breast cancer resembled a more female pattern. The more major conclusion for this is we cannot treat trans women’s breast cancer prevention the same way we treat cis women (average age was 31, for cis women this is ~61–62 years old), but we need to first take ANY trans healthcare seriously to follow up on this.

EDIT also to all my friends who have breasts, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What better thread to hijack about this than a boobie thread. If can remember the game the Oregon trail, you should get a mammogram. If you have ever walked in to a Blockbuster, you should get a mammogram. If you can hear the teacher calling his name in your head in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, you should get a mammogram. If you can’t get a mammogram due to your age, you should learn how to do a self check and do these once a month.

Cis men can lactate and get ductal breast cancer, which is cancer of the milk ducts.

Its just much much rarer than cis women.

The ship’s 21 crew members were safely evacuated and no injuries were reported, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

All I care about in the article

So the average voter is very easily influenced by online bot farms, that tracks.

Hey me too! Best decision could have done for myself, I feel like I am super charged now and my guts have never felt better.

A knave.

you are unlikely to have to right to get an appointment for one.

Again, this is not a universal experience.

Its strange that you just replied saying “you are unlikely to blah blah” to a comment where I said I had to LIE in order to get it scheduled because they were not going to let me have one until I was 50. They were going to let me go on my way for the next 8 years with just a normal breast exam that found nothing. Then they found cancer which was only at stage 1 because I pushed to have my cancer screening done at 42 and not 50.

So nice for you that you don’t have to fight for your healthcare, but some do and its a PITA.

Nice, that is great to hear. I had to lie to the nurse to get scheduled for a mammogram at 42 years old and it ended up being cancer, so definitely YMMV

The Manosphere/alpha/beta/sigma BS is the real astrology for guys. Crypto is not a pseudo science its just gambling.

Nothing infuriates me more than when they ask me to reduce my 20 char alphanumeric+symbols unique password to a 4 char numeric pin for my security.

The most frustrating part of this is if you are under a certain age (at least in the US) its very difficult to get preventative screening. If you are under 40, you have to FIGHT to get a mammogram and usually have a lump you can feel and do an additional appointment before they will scan you. Also good luck getting a colonoscopy before you hit 50, if you are under 40 you have to be actively bleeding out of your ass to get a doc to schedule one.

EDIT: guys you can tell me all day how easy your personal healthcare experiences have been and it doesn’t change the fact that many many people do not have the same easy time getting preventive testing done as you and many times they use your age as the reason. This is relevant because the article is talking about cancer rates raising among YOUNG people. Not the old farts that are over 50.

Don’t drink anymore but loved me some neat gin in my time. The more juniper the better. St. George’s Terroir and Never Never Triple Juniper were my poisons of choice.