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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source
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solardev ◴[30 Mar 25 01:03 UTC] No.43520222[source]▶
Privacy issues aside, it's kinda cool reading about how Indians use their phones, and also how they use English. I'd never heard "beyond the pale" before, and I'm still not sure what the idea of "multiple Indias" means when some of them are Mexico and some are Africa...?

I've also never heard of the majority of the apps being analyzed or tracked. Must be such a different world out there.

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1. nsonha ◴[31 Mar 25 16:19 UTC] No.43536750[source]▶
In some former colonies, the dialect can be a snapshot of the language back in colonial time. Happens to names as well as expressions.

I learned this watching a stand-up routine by Malaysian comic Nigel Ng. He was explaining his first name.