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I was checking my Pi-Hole and noticed a lone spike of 700+ requests coming from my phone (Android 16) this morning. Upon checking the logs, it's all bogus domains corresponding to package names of apps I have previously installed via the Play Store, but never on this phone.

Going further back in the query log, I realized it also includes the package name of an app I developed years ago but never published on the store, nor on this phone. There's also a whole bunch of my browsing history apparently, domains I haven't visited in years - from the age of some of them I'm pretty sure it's Chrome history, as I only used Firefox sync for a brief period and my local history is <1y.

What the actual fuck? This is a Nothing Phone 3a, updated to Android 16 just a couple of days ago.

Found this while surfing the webz, thought you might it as interesting and amusing as I did. Hopefully it's not too OT.

It's a mix of piracy history, code golfing, free speech activism, art, digital community, and general ingenuity that ends up being a critique of digital copyright under the DMCA. Also found the quote at the end of the table to be sadly still very relevant.

As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never hear a real American talk like that. -- Frank "I am the law" Hague (1896-1956)