The results were alarming, with 15% of the top 100 subreddits found to have content that was likely posted by bots or corporate trolls, specifically aimed at promoting certain companies or organizations.
The study found some (likely) bot/corporate troll content in 15% of the top 100 subreddits. That’s completely different from what the article’s headline claims.
Edit: Also, the “New Study” as the headline calls it is apparently from 2020.
(here’s a link to the article without paywall if you want to read it for yourself)
Can you even completely disable boot logos? When I select the option on my machine, it just shows the IBV’s (e.g. AMI) boot screen with its logo instead of the mainboard manufacturer’s logo.
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Brute force also doesn’t necessarily mean brute forcing each character. If the password consists of relatively few dictionary words like this, it could be brute forced in a matter of minutes (depending on computation power, hash function used etc. of course).
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It encodes the contents of the search bar.
E.g. for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&pp=ygUTZmlyc3QgeW91dHViZSB2aWRlbw%3D%3D
ygUTZmlyc3QgeW91dHViZSB2aWRlbw==
isfirst youtube video
in base64, which is what I typed into the search bar to find that video.Not sure if that’s actually useful for tracking or if there’s another technical reason for it, but at the very least it could accidentally expose your search terms to others if you end up sharing links like that.