I think this helped me in getting the job I currently have at Amazon. At the time at least, the interview for new grads was done entirely online. I performed much better in this than any of the other on sites I did because I could focus exclusively on the problem at hand.
After a few years of experience that I've gained, I don't think it would matter much, but as a new grad there is a lot more stress and you likely haven't worked in a professional setting so you're not entirely certain what is expected of you and how "good" the interviewer is themselves.
Usernames like this aren't allowed on HN because of their trollish property: they distract, if not outright troll, every thread the account posts to. I've banned this account for now, but if you want to rename it, we can do that and unban it. Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is best.
If you avoid tracking you will see a difference in ads but the most immediate confirmation is the number of captchas you run into, everywhere. Without tracking, everyone thinks you're a bot.
I think its less to do with iOS vs Andriod, or more to do with giving away your information. I'm sure there's ways to make your Andriod become equally as "secure" with the local data as iOS, but iOS makes it easy
You are commenting in a fanboy thread. Don't take it personally. HN is not more "enlightened" than the rest of the internet when it comes to fanboy stuff.
After a few years of experience that I've gained, I don't think it would matter much, but as a new grad there is a lot more stress and you likely haven't worked in a professional setting so you're not entirely certain what is expected of you and how "good" the interviewer is themselves.