Guys - I have a way that we can collectively and passively redpill the masses. It's called "beaconing". Advertisers and retailers have been using this technology for years to market products and attract customers. I’ve actually been implementing it in a company I work for.
The basics are very simple. All Android phones made in the past few years have a feature called “Nearby” which, when Bluetooth and Location (GPS) are enabled, scan your surroundings for bluetooth beacons. These beacons are typically running a protocol called “Eddystone-URL” which allows for a 40 character message and a URL to be sent to any phone in range that has Bluetooth and GPS turned on. (Note: This does NOT work with Iphones)
Here’s the great thing: You can turn any Android phone into a beacon – for free. There’s an app in the play store called “Beacon Toy” (I don’t know if there’s an Iphone equivalent). Install it on your phone, turn on your Bluetooth, and create a “Eddystone-URL” beacon. Whatever you name the beacon will be the message it transmits (remember, 40 character limit), and it has a built in link shortened. Also: Whatever link you choose to use it MUST be httpS url or it will not work. There is a built in url shortener & verifier that will test your link. You can even set up multiple beacons to broadcast a variety of things.
Arbitrary Examples:
Beacon name: “White genocide in SA” Link to news article
Beacon Name: “Blacks commit majority of murders” Link to FBI stats
Beacon Name: “You’re being manipulated” Link to Sinclair Youtube collage
Be creative. Imagine being in a college classroom, a train station, an airport, a mall… just going about your day while dropping truth bombs on everyone around you, shattering the narrative and their social media safety bubbles. If you’re tech savvy enough you can tie your links to Google analytics and see how many people are actually reading them.
If you REALLY wanna go nuts you can buy a long range standalone beacon. For example: kontakt.io has a “tough beacon” you can buy for $20. It’s weatherproof and has a 70 meter (~230 feet) range. These can generally be programmed from an app on your phone. You could set it with a generic message & link that you control on the backend – IE it’s just a re-direct link whose target you can change on the fly. Set one of these up and hide it in a planter at the park, under the seat of a subway car, or just keep it in your glove compartment as you drive around. The battery lasts for 2 years and they can’t be turned off, not that a layperson would know what the fuck they are if they were found anyways.
I’m pondering ideas on how we could collectively pool results, which I don’t think would be very difficult, but I’m NOT a web developer. I’ve also set up a Twitter account on this premise (@beaconsoftruth) but I haven’t decided what, if anything, to do with it yet. I don’t have a tripcode or anything so I’d probably just use it for ID confirmation purposes.
Thoughts/opinions/suggestions? Let’s discuss.
Eli Adams
This has potential. Perhaps one page full of redpills or categorized on one page that everyone's beacons can point to.
Julian Bennett
Great idea. Even a page full of properly sourced memes/infographics would be good. People tend to look at pictures more than walls of text.
Easton Sullivan
If each category has it's own page then different urls can be assigned to each page, and you should be able to see what categories get looked at the most. The question I gave is if your beacon message can be identified to you.
Wyatt Brown
Bump for you OP. This is a great fucking idea. I'm going to do this.
Daniel Barnes
No, it's totally anonymous. However if you tied it to Google analytics on your real email address then Google would be able to ID you, obviously.
Anthony Ross
Can it be traced to my phone? How exactly does it advertise the link to them? Like what does it look like on their phone, is it an add does it make their browser automatically go to a page or smth? What about legality?
Jonathan Hughes
This is a really good idea
Liam Rodriguez
Theoretically someone might be able to figure out what MAC address the msgs are coming from but that is not enough to ID you.
It pops up as a notification on the dropdown, much like when a Wifi network is available. If they tap on it it opens their browser. There is no sound/vibration notification. Google's way of be "non-intrusive".
Anthony Morris
I'm trying to grasp this, since OP doesn't really explain it.
It sounds like you can turn your bluetooth-capable device (e.g. your phone) into a transmitter which feeds other bluetooth devices a short message and a url for some reason.
How do people see the message and url however? I don't know.
Aaron Green
okay, that explains how they see the message then.
This would be trivial for people to do and virtually impossible to track. It's completely decentralized, nobody is going to be able to collate what device gave what message to whom without physically getting those devices. It's not like TCP/IP where messages are being routed through shit that keeps logs. You''d basically be a walking billboard and anyone near you gets the message.
Disable/delete the app or change the message and voila.
Biggest danger would be the app itself being spyware. So first thing that should be done is getting an open-source version which people can verify is safe and not tracking what messages they're sending.
Nathan Cooper
I don’t have an Android, how is the information presented to users? Wouldn’t they have to specifically request it? Who does that?
Asher Jones
See
If you have 2 android phones at your disposal you can try it yourself. Install the app on one and set up a beacon. on the other phone make sure GPS and Bluetooth are turned on. Within a few minutes pull down the notifications area on the recipient phone and you should see the notification. It doesn't ALWAYS work, this isn't perfect technology, but it works more often than not.
Joshua Anderson
>Biggest danger would be the app itself being spyware
That's a fair point, I haven't really delved that deep into the app itself. There are alternatives though, "Beacon Toy" was just the first one I tried.
Mason Ortiz
When they click the notification, they are in effect granting permission for a browser to open the link.
Carson Lopez
Also: >enabling Bluetooth on your device ever Don’t do this anons. I’m fine with people following OPs suggestion but please know that Bluetooth is the number 1 security risk for any device.
Parker Flores
If you're worried about that you can always use an old/deactivated shitphone.
Wyatt Kelly
Man, the potential for malware abuse is amazing.
How the fuck did google et al think this was a good idea?
This won't last once it starts rolling, OP. Everyone will roll out updates to fix it, not just because it's spreading messages (((people))) don't want normies to see, but also because it's a massive attack vulnerability. Imagine getting your phone pwned just because you had bluetooth on and walked through a crowd and clicked a link from something like "Hey, you looked cute" sending them to an unsafe site.
As always, advertisers are literal cancer
Jason Campbell
I suppose malware abuse *is* a possibility, but just opening a link doesn't grant permission to actually install something.
Hudson James
So android users traveling just get a barrage of notifications as the pass from beacon to beacon? It sounds awful. I really really like the idea, but I still don’t think anyone should use Bluetooth ever.
I hope dedicated anons buy the standalone transponders though ( but use more click-bait titles than outright redpills) Cool idea but not worth the risk for a phone.
Eli Sanders
It doesn't, but browsers always have holes with new ones found all the time.
While yes, you shouldn't have to worry if your browser takes you to an unsafe site - even better would be not going to an unsafe site in the first place.
But I guess it's more important to advertise to people than it is to keep their device from being pwned.
Caleb Sanchez
Fine, I think the standalone beacon is a wiser choice. Don’t use Bluetooth!
Angel Rivera
>barrage of notifications
Yes and no. Like I said, there is no physical notification - no ring or vibration. 99% of them won't even know they have it until the next time they unlock their phone.
Christopher Russell
Hey man I didn't make the technology I'm just using it :)
Jordan Turner
Bumpity cuz I like this.
Dylan Miller
p.s. OP if you really want to get this going, simplify your original post, give people links to doing it so that it's really easy for them to get the ball rolling, give them samples to use, and keep a thread up over the next few days unless/until it stays up organically
t. Jow Forums influencer
Jordan Turner
I would agree, it's just that virtually everyone already has a phone or 2 and can do this absolutely free.
There's all kinds of beacons you can buy dirt cheap though. Just take a peak at amazon.
Kevin Gomez
I'll try to compile some redpills and set up a few links to them for people to get started.
Brody Rodriguez
Also if it doesn't roll, try again in a few months and then give up on it
This place is chaos incarnate and sometimes good ideas just don't get traction because wrong time/place/people, but if you simply can't make something stick, it's because it's a bad idea and nobody cares.
You'll know you're having some success if shill/marketer groups start attacking the threads and trying to generate completely off-topic discussions/rants/arguments. That means someone else sees what you're doing as a threat - you see this most often when Jow Forumsacks try creating new cultural norms (fashwave aesthetic, architecture, art) or pursue really dangerous stuff like a white-only religion (the only way to truly defeat the jew).
Adam Baker
bump. I'm not smart enough to work with you but good luck and godspeed
Nathaniel Watson
Good points. I actually considered holding off on posting this with Jow Forums being down all day I figured most of the threads would just be "REEEEEEing" about it, but meh. I'll keep promoting it for a few days and see what happens.
Christopher Bailey
If you can install an app on your phone you're smart enough ;)
Bentley Mitchell
Sorry to take up so much time (at least im bumping) but I’m imagining a passenger browsing their phone with Bluetooth on. Do they passively see the messages or do they have to manually check them?
Nolan Rogers
I’m genuinely shocked I haven’t been called a shill yet for pointing out the danger of using bluetooth.
Austin Jackson
It shows up in the "pulldown" from the phone's home screen.
Imagine for a moment you've got a couple new emails in the gmail account thats synced with your phone. You pull down the notifications menu to check the subjects/check the emails/etc. THAT'S where it shows up.
Justin Smith
Nah you're good. I think anyone with a basic understanding of technology knows that Bluetooth isn't the safest protocol. I'm MORE surprised Shareblue hasn't tried to deride/derail this idea. There isn't fuck all they could do about it and it probably scares the shit out of them, kek.
Hunter Cook
upvote
Luis Gray
Here, I'll do you one better. I just set up a beacon to redirect to Amazon. This is how it shows up on my phone (removed identifying info). Notice how I pulled down the notifications to view an email and it popped up underneath? That's how they show up.
Okay not ideal but not bad. Wouldn’t a hypothetical passenger have dozens or even hundreds of these though?
Jordan Russell
An average person would not read that much. Articles should be tagged with questions so the visitor could select "b-but assad gassed his own people" - and there would be some reference or evidence that it didn't happen. It would be like a game: protect your own bubble. And if you "lose" you become redpilled. I know this sounds retarded, but you have to realize, you have to preprocess the information somehow for it to be digestible enough for the masses.
Cooper Garcia
Not unless you're actually broadcasting dozens of different links. The recipient phone only displays it once, it won't spam them over and over with the same thing unless it changes.
Jordan Martin
I was under the impression this was a common technique for advertisers, as per your post. Is it still pretty rare?
Cooper Collins
Ya know I should point out, as I've spoken to dozens of companies in the industry while trying to find a solution for my own, that this kind of technology is being actively explored for WiFi as well.
Caleb Fisher
It is *fairly* rare as it's not the most reliable thing in the world. You're more apt to see it in large chain stores in major metro areas promoting a sale or something. Many of them, though, use it to monitor traffic flow in their stores without actually sending a message. There's a whole world of this shit out there, you'd be amazed what can be done without you even knowing about it.
Jeremiah Brooks
I already false flagged my WiFi by naming it “Israel>USA”
Michael Nguyen
It's going to take some serious redpills to wake some people up.
