One approach on iOS is to store unique identifier in the “Keychain” (or iCloud itself) which is data kept in the cloud tied to a user’s Apple ID account. Of course this is only an impediment to a determined stalker (who could create a new Apple ID). But a determined stalker could also use a fake name and get a new phone number.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25276393/how-to-ban-an-i... for more details.

>One approach on iOS is to store unique identifier in the “Keychain” (or iCloud itself) which is data kept in the cloud tied to a user’s Apple ID account

Wouldn't it be obviously visible because you can see the app/file on icloud?

Also, I'm pretty sure the keychain idea is banned by app store guidelines.

Haha, the funny thing is that the service isn’t even storing that piece of data – the user is! So GDPR, etc. should be covered.

Although, if the user finds out about the mechanism they can just delete the entry from their keychain.

That keychain is different from the publicly viewable one in settings

I think you are incorrect. I've looked into my Keychain Access > iCloud on Mac and found some entries that seemlike they were created with the APIs you suggest.

E.g. WizzAir has three entries: `WizzAirLogin.username`, `WizzAirLogin.password` an `WizzAirLogin.firstName`.

Or Spotify stored `com.spotify.login.credentials`, `com.spotify.connect.lastStoredDataKey` and `com.spotify.connect.iplSessionHistoryDataKey`.

If that's true (and only the app who stored the item can retrieve it) I wonder who is responsible for GDPR regarding its storage.

Is the app responsible? But it cannot even access the data after it is deleted.

Apple? They have no idea what the data is.

User? They don't even know about the data and cannot access it either.

No one?

The article does state that she was fired.

> Amar was fired in October and Javice, in November.

vc.ru has similar content but in Russian. It seems to be a bit more business focused than HN though.

I haven't taken this route specifically, but a lot of Amtrak routes don't follow roads and don't have great cell service.

Almost all long distance Amtrak routes deviate quite far from civilization. Once you’re out of the cities and away from a highway you get cell pockets.

I think Klarna can charge slightly higher fees to merchants (it looks like they charge up to 6%) as sales increase with buy now pay later. Also they probably think they can make money off of servicing the debt (late fees, interest on balances).

Not sure if it would work well for paying hourly contractors (they were credit cards so can't be used at an atm), but i've had good luck with creating lots of cards with Divvy in the past. They support weekly/monthly/all-time spending limits so you can control how much they spend and while they didn't have an API they didn't have a problem with me automating it myself.

Looks interesting but the "credit" aspect tends to complicate things and doesn't really fit my needs.

> "something like almost 40% of young people when they're looking for a place for lunch, they don't go to Google Maps or Search, they go to TikTok or Instagram."

That might mean something like looking to see what restaurants friends have posted about, not necessarily searching.

This and looking at local town tags to find neat little restaurants and stuff; they’re all on Instagram for sure. My wife finds so much great local food on Instagram. Google just shows the chains and fast food garbage.

Huh, that is actually really interesting. I'm tempted to try this out!

It’s an app - about 200,000 daily active users.

For context our ads are run entirely on mobile (have updated the post to reflect that). We had an initial consultation with them before turning on ads and they even gave us an estimate. Our implementation was pretty simple too, we just sometimes showed the user an ad when before they could chat with a bot.

I got banned for something than I think is related, showing ads with little content around.

Google loves to make people spend time skimming text to gather what they need.

While $150m does seem like a lot, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of that value was in the lease until 2074 that Cedar Fair changed the terms on (they only get a 6-11 year lease now). Since the area is now prime real-estate, it has a lot more value to a land-owner knowing that they won't have to lease it to an amusement park for another 50 years.