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- How to hide your iPhone's unique name from apps (and why you should) https://mashable.com/article/apple-iphone-privacy-setting-advertising-identifier/ 7 comments privacy
- spoof or hide unique machine identifiers, fingerprinting & user agent https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/9kyngw/spoof_or_hide_unique_machine_identifiers/ 23 comments privacy
- Firefox Add-on Canvas Defender "creates a unique and persistent noise that hides your real canvas fingerprint" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-canvas-fingerprinting/ 21 comments privacy
- Research reveals remarkable ‘barcode’ neural activity in chickadees | Thanks to unique barcodes, chickadees can remember where they hide the food. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00235-6#secsectitle0025 4 comments science
- A new population of blue whales was discovered hiding in the Indian Ocean; the whales in the group seem to sing a unique song. It joins only a dozen or so other blue whale songs that have been documented. The find is a great reminder that our oceans are still this very unexplored place. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/science/blue-whales-indian-ocean.html 558 comments science
- Hong Kong police say officers will wear unique identifiers as force defends recent treatment of journalists:Police have announced that frontline officers will wear white identification tags with “operational callsigns” which are unique to each officer,amid criticism of police hiding their identities https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/29/hong-kong-police-say-officers-will-wear-unique-identifiers-force-defends-recent-treatment-journalists/ 55 comments worldnews