WEBVTT - Reelgood Makes the Most of Your Streaming Subscriptions 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.520 What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.720 on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the stuff 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.479 that I think you should know about happening in the 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:19.960 tech world. It is also where I answer the questions 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:28.840 that you send me, whether it's by mail, email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, telegraph, 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.280 carrier pigeon, Carrier pigeon. There's producer Megan. Welcome to the show. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:33.840 Hey, what's going on? 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.159 What happened to the hey? Hey hey? 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.680 I've never had a you had a. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.120 Little catchphrase hello Yeah, Nope, you had one a little bit. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.120 You were like, hey, hey. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.640 Hey, hey, I think that was one time. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.360 I remember it. I think the community remembers it well. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.160 But anyway, how's it going? Good? Good? 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:55.600 Some crazy stories this week? 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:00.880 This was a secretly weirdly busy week. And I mean 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.400 everything from like how are you the head of Amazon? 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.560 And have your iPhone hacked? Yeah? I mean, what is 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.360 going on there? I did a really cool story this 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.680 week with a contact lens that is like this. There 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.280 are some stories you go on and I this happens often, 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.760 but not you know me, Like I most of the time, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.000 when I get a story or I see something in 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.720 real life, I kind of give you like the real deal. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.680 I'm like, here's what's going on with that? Yeah, So 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.320 I'm not that impressed most of the time. Other times 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.400 I'm like, this is really cool. Here's why. Contact Lens 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.080 was one of those moments where I'm like, this is 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.199 amazing and this is the future, even though I didn't 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.800 believe it would be. It really what they showed me 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.240 in that room was like whoa. It just it had 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.559 me thinking for the rest of the day like, wow, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.959 this is really cool. Then another thing that did is 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.840 this app I'm gonna talk about later. That is just amazing. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.960 For when it comes to, you know, finding all the 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.600 stuff that's streaming on your like Netflix and Disney Plus, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.480 it's so crazy out there, like I don't know what 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.920 do you have? What's streaming services? You have got Apple. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.920 Tvababy Plus, Apple TV, Netflix and Hulu. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.280 And like, just so I'm imagining every night when you 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.920 want to find someone to watch, it's like you know, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.360 ping pong between these things and you're like, oh, let 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.799 me check this and let me go back, and then 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.800 your brain has to make a decision and then you 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:16.399 go back into that thing and then you're like, Okay, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.760 let me find that again, it's such a mess right now, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.240 it's too much. This makes cable TV look like a 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:27.560 cakewalk streaming services right now for reals. Anyway, all right, 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.679 well let's just get right into it, because there's a 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.120 lot of stories this week, and the first one that 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.360 I just think is insane is this Jeff Bezos, you know, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.280 head of Amazon, trillionaire getting his iPhone hacked. Now, when 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.000 I first heard this story and I heard that his 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.880 his phone was hacked, I was like, oh, well, clearly 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.480 it's an Android, because there's no way what they're talking 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.120 about could be done on an iPhone, like everything sandboxed. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.160 Everything kind of runs in its own little world and 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.920 nothing kind of talks to each other. But no, this 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:55.639 was an iPhone. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.519 Ten Do you picture him with an Android? 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.760 I did when I heard this story. I was like, oh, 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:00.520 it's probably some. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:02.760 Probably as an android. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:03.880 No, I just I don't know. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.840 I mean, like I I have no I I was like, oh, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.960 iPhone interesting, it's very ihe I. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.040 Don't know if most people care. Maybe you do, but 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.280 I really am interested in what people carry around as 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.519 their phone on a daily basis. It's like it's very intriguing. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.880 Like did he update right, Like did he upgrade right 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.119 when the new iPhone came out? 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.320 Like I wouldn't know because he has an iPhone ten. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.800 So he's clearly rocking, not even like the TENN S 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.480 or the TENNS max or multiple eleven too, I don't think. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.120 So that's kind of tough to to juggle multiple phones. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.480 I mean I do that, and it's it's hard, not easy, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.840 all right, So what happened He was having a WhatsApp 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.680 conversation with a Saudi prince, right, is that what it is? 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.120 A Saudi prince? Yeah, And next thing you know, the 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.920 Saudi prince sent some sort of video to his phone, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.440 and his phone was hacked, and now all of a sudden, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.200 the data on his phone went from an average of 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.720 four hundred and thirty kilobits per day to one hundred 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.680 and twenty six megabytes a day. So it just started 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.480 siphoning off information from his phone. Now, I don't even 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.600 understand how that would work on an iPhone because for 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.240 anything to get access to your phone, if it's a 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.160 regular app, you have to give permission, Hey can we 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.760 access your contacts? Can we access your photos? 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.280 Just suck out. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.520 But so I think the theory is that this was 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.279 operating on kind of the inside of his phone, like 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.520 a at a very base level of his phone that 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.880 had access that most apps don't have. So it's really weird. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.520 It's like some super like deep stuff going on here. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.920 But long story short, I was just trying to figure out, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.680 like what's the takeaway for me and you, because if 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.880 this can happen to Jeff Bezos, this can happen anyone. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.920 And the reality is apparently he had a setting toggled 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.640 on that was in WhatsApp, and this isn't a lot 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.239 of apps steal Yeah, please let others take all my info. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.839 That is basically auto down load media. So when you 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.440 get a file sent to you, like a video, it 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.320 will download it to your phone automatically. And that's convenient 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.240 because then you don't have to wait. Like let's say 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.120 you send me a video file, I don't have to 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.520 wait for it to download, Like when I get to 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.920 my phone and open it up, it's already there. It's 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.480 been delivered, it's been signed to delivered that yeah, and 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.200 I think most people do. But you should probably turn 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.680 that off. And it's on WhatsApp, this is on on sapp. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.200 But this has to do with a lot of different 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.200 apps out there. Most of the time, the first time 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.400 you use a messaging app, it'll say like, do you 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.880 want a preview of a link? When someone sends you 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.440 a link? And I always turn that on because I'm like, yeah, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.040 it's easy to see, you know. It shows you like 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.960 a little web page or like a little if someone 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.640 sends you an Instagram link, it'll send you like a 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.200 little you know, a little preview of what that link 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:44.599 can take. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.240 Inspiring so many hackers right now. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.320 I mean you have to be pretty heavy duty to 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.440 figure out a hack like this, Like this is really 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.479 this is like government based, this is this is like 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.919 super duper intelligent. You can't you and I could not 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.440 do this right, Like I could be like, hey, what 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.040 was your secret code word again? And you might be like, oh, yeah, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.200 it was pigeon, and I'm like, oh, thank you. Wait. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.440 What what I'm confused about is like there's so many 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.320 layers to the story, Like did they meet once? 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.320 Yeah? I think they were friends. I think they were 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:14.960 I think they had. 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.760 A meeting and they friend hacked him. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.279 No, I think no, that's that's it's all concluded. And 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:21.680 I don't know. I'm not going to get into the 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.200 whole Saudi prince relationship thing, but it is fascinating. It's 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.039 also fascinating to me. I've always been fascinated by the 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.320 idea of like Jeff Bezos' everyday life, Like what it's 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.560 like to wake up, like have breakfast in his house, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.880 like go to work, like get to to get to work, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.800 like be out, be throughout the day. Like what does 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.640 he do for lunch? She's like, uh, you know, to 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.800 his assistant, like, can you order me WI typical egg 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.440 whites and spinach? He does, Yeah, he does whatever anyway, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.960 All right, time for the first question. Enough about Jeff. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.560 Okay, so if you want Rich to answer your tech question, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.880 go to his website site Rich on tech dot tv 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.520 and hit the contact button to send your question. So 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.960 this first question comes from Diane. I need help in 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.960 switching from Google to one of the more secure search 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:18.080 engines that you mentioned this morning. So this was back, yeah, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.600 a couple a couple of days ago. She said, she's 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.640 seventy eight and she does not understand She yeah, she 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.440 does not understand most of the jargon associated with computers. Anyways, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.640 So can we go through some of the websites that 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:32.520 we mentioned. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.120 Okay, and she wants to know how to switch to 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.680 those okay, because I mentioned on TV that you know, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.160 like okay. So this all came about because I talked 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.720 about that one search that Verizon one, and then I 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.840 gave you know that like protects your privacy. We talked 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.040 about this extensively in the last show. The other ones 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.920 were Duck dot Go, Startpage, dot com, and then something 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.800 called quant out of France. So Diane is asking. I 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.680 said on TV, you can switch your default search engine 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.240 on iPhone, on Android, on the on Chrome, on your desktop. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.640 Pretty much any web browser lets you switch your default 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.560 search engine. So on iPhone, you go into your settings 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.720 and then you look for Safari, and under Safari you'll 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.080 see more settings, and you go and you look for 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.280 search engine, and inside there you can select which search 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.280 engine you want to use. Now, on iPhone, as far 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.520 as I can see, with Safari, it doesn't seem like 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.680 you can put in your own. I only see Google, Yahoo, Bing, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.920 and duck duck Go. So if you wanted one that's 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.600 more private, duck dot go. Now you can also download 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.880 a whole web browser that like like I think duck 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.480 duck go has like its own app I'm sure these 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.640 other ones do as well, Like one Search. I'm sure 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.520 they have like their own apps that you can download. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.319 If you're on Android, you probably love Google, so you're 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.880 probably not gonna change your stuff. And on android's tracking 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.600 in a lot of different ways, so it may not 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.839 make that most sense. But you can open up Chrome. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.920 You can go into menu, which is the three little 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.920 dots in the upper right hand corner, Settings and search engine, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.319 and on Chrome you can set it to whatever you want. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.280 And I had a lot of luck setting it to 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.880 all kinds of things very easily. The main thing is 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.679 that you just have to use that search engine once 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.719 on your phone or on Chrome rather and it then 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.120 registers in the list. It'll be like, oh, do you 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.040 want to we noticed you use this? Do you want 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.760 to set that as your search engine? And on Chrome 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.360 desktop you go into Settings, then search Engine, then manage 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.120 search Engines, and again you just look at the list 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.760 of all the places that you've used for search, and 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.320 it comes up with a lot of websites like you 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.880 can even set like Macy's dot com as you like 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.720 to fall search. It's like every time you search, it's 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.080 like it comes up yeah, like whatever close match your search. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:38.800 I don't know if you can actually do Macy's, but 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.920 it does come up with like almost every website you 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.320 go to that has a search bar. Let me just 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.640 see you real quick. So if I go to manage 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.520 search engines, yeah, like you can set it as anything 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.920 like you can even Yeah, you can basically set it 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.120 as anything Amazon, whatever you want. So you just click 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.240 the three little dots next to the search engine and 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.920 you set it as your default. Now, the only thing 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.199 I will say with that is I tried doing this 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.959 to start Page for like literally one search, and I 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.080 couldn't deal with it because you don't realize just how 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.560 much Google presents you information without you having to do 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.240 a lot of work. So, with the example of start Page, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.280 which I thought was good because it gives you Google results, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.560 I just search for CVS pharmacy. And now normally if 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.320 you do that on Google, you're gonna get a little 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.479 thing at the top that shows you your closest CVS 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.240 in a map, along with a website link, along with 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.120 a button to call that or a map so you 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.480 can get directions to it. Versus, if you don't have 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.160 Google set and you just have start Page, you're gonna 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.439 literally get like CVS Pharmacy a link to just like 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:44.680 general the web page. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.000 Yeah, and it's like that, I don't know where you 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.040 they don't know where you are. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.720 It doesn't help, right exactly. So anyway, there are some 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.280 quirks associated with switching your search engine, and I'm not 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.280 ready to do that. I personally love Google. I love 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.800 the personalization, I love how it knows about me, and 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.280 I love all that stuff. So I'm good with it 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:07.040 for now. Speaking of privacy, so if you thought your 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.400 iCloud backups were encrypted and safe and secure, well not 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:16.360 so much. There's a report from Reuter's that says Apple 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:21.760 considered making iCloud backups the most secure they can be, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.760 which is called end to end encryption, but they decided 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.280 not to because the FBI complained to them. Now, this 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.240 is a report from sources. This is not fact, but 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.640 this is what they are reporting, and it is no 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.959 matter what the story is, whether Apple succumb to pressure 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.839 or not, it still tells us a lot about our 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.320 iCloud backups. And to me, this was news to me 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.480 because if you go on Apple's website and you look 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.200 at the iCloud backup, it says encrypted. It does not 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.440 say end to end encrypted. Now what does that mean? 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.800 It means that Apple, even though your iCloud backup, which 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.480 has your texts in it, it has your contacts, it 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.679 has all your I Cloud information, your photos, who you call, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.120 all kinds of data. I mean, there's just a ton 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.199 of data in there. Well, it means that Apple can 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.640 unlock that data. They hold the key to the encryption 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.760 on their end. So when the FBI comes to them, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.160 it says, hey, we know you won't help us unlock 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.360 Megan's phone because we get it you don't do that, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.960 but do you mind helping us out by giving us 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.920 just a copy of Megan's last iCloud backup? And they say, 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.520 do you have a warrant? You? What's this for? Blah blah, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.640 And according to this article, like ninety percent of the 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:35.200 time they say yes. Wow. So even though you thought 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.360 you were being safe and encrypted, not really. The government 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.560 can kind of have almost direct access to your data, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.319 which is kind of scary. Everything, I mean pretty much 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.520 everything is in iCloud. Wow. So yeah, So the way 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:52.360 around this is basically, if you want a fully encrypted 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.920 backup of your phone, you have to ditch iCloud and 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.720 you have to go back to plugging your phone into 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.880 your computer and using iTunes and making sure that you 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.400 select the option that says, well, now there's no iTunes 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.839 but music. No, it's actually through Finder now. So you 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:08.480 would just plug it in, your phone would show up 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.040 and Finder, you would click your phone name and then 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.080 look up in backups and make sure you click the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.120 option for encrypt backup. And so once you do that, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.640 it will be encrypted and nobody can have access to that. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.800 Like that's it. And if you forget your code or 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.480 your pass code to your phone, your SOL, you'll have 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.200 to start over. So wow, yeah, kind of crazy, but 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.840 I'm glad. No matter what if the report's right or wrong, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.800 like whether Apple's to come to pressure because they were 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.280 going to encrypt them two years ago. Whether that's true 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.120 or not, it doesn't really matter. It has now brought 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.560 light to the fact that Apple does not fully encrypt 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.079 these things, so that's kind of important for consumers. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:43.960 Now people know. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:44.280 Yep. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.440 This next question comes from Tiffany high Rich today, without 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.840 any new update. I started getting ads when I opened 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.000 a text message, mostly for games, and I have to 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.880 close out the AD tech to continue to read the text. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 Is this new and how can it be stopped? PSI 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.360 have a Samsung Galaxy and have been with Sprint for 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:07.680 at least twenty years. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.880 This is an interesting one because this is I think 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:18.440 a Android only issue because on iPhone, again, like I've said, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.720 when something's in the background, it's not running. So even 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.200 if there was an app, the worst it can do 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.560 on your phone is really send you a notification like 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.760 you've seen notifications spam. My kids download these games that 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.280 I call them tycoon games that they want you to 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.560 play all the time, so they're always sending you notifications 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.920 like hey, your villagers are going hungry, make sure you 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.120 play hop back in the game, or you know, one 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.480 thousand more gold coins till you reach the top of 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.120 the mountain or whatever it is. Or your amusement park 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.360 is looking low these days, can you build a new ride? 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.880 Whatever it is? It's garbage and so I but that's 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.160 how they spam you on iOS. That's like kind of 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.920 the extent of it. On Android. Apps in the background 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.760 can do a lot of stuff. They can serve up ads. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.680 They and take over a full screen ad with a 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.760 little tiny X in the corner or no x. It 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.200 makes you pause before you can do anything. Yeah, and 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.280 this can happen while you're not using the app. So 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.360 my theory is that some app that she downloaded onto 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.920 her phone is serving up these ads in the background, right. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.840 Like maybe her child downloaded something, if. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.240 She has a kid, and like, yeah, and so what 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.360 I would do is I would go through your entire 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.520 app list and I would go through and uninstall anything 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.640 that you don't use. And it could be, if I 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.080 had to guess, it's probably a free game that's doing it, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.160 or it could be something more evil. I don't know. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.880 I'm not sure, but it's crazy. It's just weird that 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.040 it's probably not like something that's coming from the phone, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.120 I don't think. But I would again just go and disable. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.840 If you can't uninstall an app, disable it and then 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.480 restart your phone and see if they still persist. But 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:53.880 that's that's kind of annoying. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.880 I mean, that's got to be really cool, getting an 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.560 AD every time you open a text. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.880 Like, yeah, I mean, it's odd that it's happening when 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.120 she's opening the text. And yeah, it could be that 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.760 she's using a third party text messaging app that maybe 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.600 does have ads, but it usually wouldn't be that intrusive 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:11.840 even if it was, but it could be. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.120 Yeah. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.760 Speaking of apps, quake Alert USA now available. If you 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.920 live in the Los Angeles area or the California area, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.560 it is essential that you have one of these earthquake 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.040 early warning apps. And this is one that I've been 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.040 talking to the developer for about two years now, and 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.040 it took him a while to get this to market, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.080 but it is here. It's called quake Alert USA and 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.520 it basically the first day of availability, they had tens 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.160 of thousands of downloads and they actually even had their 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.400 first alert, So this was crazy. This guy sent me 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.000 the message that his app was now available, and I've 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.320 had it on my phone since two years ago. He 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.040 gave me access to the beta, so I've had it 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.400 for a while now. But so the first night that 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.720 this is available, there's an earthquake in the LA area, 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.360 which I felt this one yep, quacker Alert USA, and 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.239 I actually did not get an alert. And I asked him, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.320 I said, Josh, the guy who created it. I'm like, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:09.920 what's the deal? How come I didn't get an alert? 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.720 And he said, well, you were actually not in the 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.240 area of alerts, so you have to be in a 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.760 certain magnitude and a certain shaking feeling. Now, the difference 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.080 between this app and a lot of the other early 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.280 warning apps is that you can actually set a threshold 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.800 for how hard the shaking is to alert you. Okay, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.640 So if you want every single alert for like even 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.600 the lowest threshold of shaking, you can get it. Or 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.239 if you only want somebody that's really gonna, you know, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.520 rock your house back and forth, then you can set 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.600 it that way as well. And you also get a 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.919 countdown to shaking, which I think is really interesting. So 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.960 it will count down on your phone screen earthquake in thirty, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.280 twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven, and it gives you 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.000 instructions on what to do. Now. I did not grow 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.320 up in California, so I did not know about this 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.320 whole like get under a table thing. I would have 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.000 run outside. And when I met Josh and interviewed him 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.960 the first time, he's like, what are you doing an earthquake? Oh, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.520 I'm getting out dodge, I'm gonning, I'm running outside. He goes, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.760 that's how you get killed, because guess what's gonna fall 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.280 on top of you? Something from the top of the 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.840 building that you just ran outside. From I said, oh interesting, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.840 I never thought about that safest place go under a table? 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.720 Did you know this? Did you grow up and learn this? Yeah? 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:21.919 I did never learn this. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:22.920 And you cover your neck? 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.200 Oh interesting. I would cover my phone screen. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.280 I know you would. That's the first thing you like, 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.720 where's my phone? I can't drop yet? 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:36.320 Okay, Uh anyway, so download it Quake alert USA. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.080 Okay, So this next question is from Tony. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:47.719 Oh Tony, hold on, this is for Tony. Remember that? 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:48.680 Do you remember that? 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.520 What's that from Tony the Tiger? Yes, which I love. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.200 That's like one of my favorite cereals. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.920 So you know they make chocolate now everything is chocolate now, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.480 Like every that I had as a kid is now 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.840 there's a chocolate version. So okay, my kids are obsessed 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.119 with cereal. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:07.640 But I miss it well because. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.119 We don't have a fridge in the text studio. I know, Jason, 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:12.440 we need a. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.840