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How the fuck is it possible to airdrop files to strangers’ phones?
That’s a massive invasion of privacy. Just imagine getting a notification on your phone while you sit on the bus, and when you click on it, it’s a pic of the guy sitting in front of you jerking his cock.

Fun fact: The Chinese government can routinely overcome the encryption used by AirDrop, which allows them to track users and get their phone numbers and email addresses.

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it’s not possible anymore iirc because of a recent update. you can enable universal receiving but it turns off after a few minutes always. OOP is making this story up most likely.

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Or they meant Quick Share on Android, but I doubt anyone actually uses that.

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most likely its just a joke. “i airdropped this to everyone at [location]” has become a trope thats almost its own meme format and doesn’t require any proof.

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32 points

I hate this. I loved always having airdrop for everyone on and I’d sometimes randomly get funny pictures airdropped and would airdrop funny pictures back. Sometimes even having a random conversation with a stranger in the same place.

This was genuinely a great feature (and something you explicitly disable), so it really sucks that this is not possible anymore (as the setting doesn’t exist anymore / turns off automatically after a few minutes).

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I’ve never had airdrop but this sounds like fun. I would have loved this feature too, even if it meant an occasional unsolicited dick pic.

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Maybe Briar? It’s P2P chat app.

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

I never tried that. It sounds like it might have been fun with a burner.

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i think what u r describing is pictochat, not airdrop.

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…no, I’m describing AirDrop

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Just imagine getting a notification on your phone while you sit on the bus, and when you click on it, it’s a pic of the guy sitting in front of you jerking his cock.

Unironically this happened to me in middle school. It’s not even a hypothetical situation, it’s just what people do lol

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Because sometimes you need to transfer something to people not in your contacts list but is physically with you.

You have to turn it on to accept other people sending and it shuts off automatically after 10 minutes, and you have to accept the file as well.

Fun fact: China and every other government can track your phone through its connection to the towers and it giving away your IMSI. They don’t need AirDrop to know who is behind what number at what location.

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China forced Apple to only allow airdrop to all for a few minutes at a time, as apparently it was a popular way to spread Winnie the Pooh pictures

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It was actually digital leaflets, not Winnie the Pooh. (source)

I know it’s not your fault, but honestly, the Winnie the Pooh meme is so overplayed. It distracts from the real, documented activism happening in China and brings up a tired, dehumanizing joke over an incredibly serious issue. It feels ignorant and reduces the gravity of what’s happening there. Again, I know you didn’t mean it this way—it’s just a broader problem with how the English-speaking internet often frames these discussions.

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When they’re physically with you and willing to accept files from you, they can give you their number or scan a QR code on your phone.
In any case, airdrop requests should by default be ignored if the sender isn’t in your contacts, with an option to toggle that.

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Or I can turn on AirDrop temporarily and let them wirelessly send it? How the fuck is handing your phone over to someone better? And a QR code is just annoying compared to tapping a name in a list and the other person accepting your request.

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oh no my chineseeroos!!! xi jingping is going to airdrop his dick pics to my mother!

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They’re going to lift your bank and house info oh noooo

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20 points

Twitter, ew

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literally the least disturbing thing abt this post but go off

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I’d argue that Twitter is the most disturbing part. Imagine being a furry who still uses Twitter. What the fuck has to have gone wrong in your life to still be using Twitter as a furry?

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the biggest flaw with lemmy is that none of yall can conceptualize how difficult it is to convince your entire friend group to migrate platforms

the furry community on twitter is and almost always has been massive. (edit: i think i was corrected by an actual member of the community below, im slightly misinformed here) nothing went wrong—things just haven’t gone right yet to get them to transfer like journalists and activists have.

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10 points

Twitter is far more disturbing than a bit of weird furry artwork, nazi bar or whatever it is people say.

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16 points

smh my head, Luigi Pawgione was right there!!

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11 points

Heh, I didn’t know Luigi liked Breloom. Fine taste in Pokémon. I’m all in for this badass grass type becoming an obscure symbol for class war.

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Thanks for explaining it, that was the only thing I was confused about.

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Bullet seed hit 3 times

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4 points

based

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