He was told the usual: laws, security, geopolitics. But then he stumbled across something odd – an old post claiming someone had tracked their AirPods using Find My on Baengnyeong Island, a remote Korean territory. If the feature was illegal under Korean law, he thought, why did it work there? […] users were able to find lost backpacks, wallets and AirPods for the first time, along with some long-overdue peace of mind.

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      5 days ago

      Because all of these “news” websites are infested with annoying Ads that make it frustrating to read and most articles are only actually worth a paragraph worth of actual useful information and the rest is fluff, added to lengthen the article so that you have to scroll more and see more Ads. The above 4 lines is all I cared to know from the article

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        How else do you suppose the free news website subsists? And out of the 40 stanzas here only the first 8 have ads. I strongly disagree with the notion that non–pyramid-style articles are filled with fluff.