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Oh FFS. Read the article. The image is blurred, but if you click through it's not. So this basically just resorts image search for NSFL and NSFW images back to

Oh FFS. Read the article. The image is blurred, but if you click through it's not. So this basically just resorts image search for NSFL and NSFW images back to text links. Unless you log in to enable image links.

cptcobalt 4y ago
I did read the article, and I do think the we both understood the interaction impact similarly—yeah, you can click to unblur an image, but you can't change the global preference without the login. Requiring a login to change a preference rather than something that could be stored in a very simple cookie deanonymizes you, and creates an extremely clean audit trail of your usage patterns. There's far more friction in making scores of google burner accounts than it is to rotate VPNs and Incognito windows, if you're so inclined to obfuscate your trail. That's bad.
- giantg2 4y ago
  "Requiring a login to change a preference rather than something that could be stored in a very simple cookie deanonymizes you," Of course. That's basically step 1 in every proposed plan to prevent minors from accessing porn on the internet. Step 2 is verify age and linking it to the account.
  - gjsman-1000 4y ago
    If there is no shame in using porn, and nobody cares, you have nothing to fear™.
    - anonymouskimmer 4y ago
      Yeah. I'm reminded of the news article a decade or more ago about this guy who bought porn or something like that. The company didn't deliver IIRC, and instead tried to extort money from the purchasers by threatening to doxx their purchases. And this guy straight up took them to court to get his money back.
- anonymouskimmer 4y ago
  So you make one burner account that you only ever log into from a VPN. Google gets slightly more relevant data, but it doesn't get linked to your main account. Or you make a separate account for each one of your fetishes or NSFL investigatory journalism. Hopefully that isn't scores of accounts.
user3939382 4y ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- anonymouskimmer 4y ago
  The "Read the article" was used primarily as an emphatic for the following sentences, not a literal. The part of the article that highlights this particular point is also easy to miss (one very short sentence immediately beneath an image). And not all of us fully and thoroughly read articles (as indicated by my user name).

cptcobalt 4y ago

I did read the article, and I do think the we both understood the interaction impact similarly—yeah, you can click to unblur an image, but you can't change the global preference without the login. Requiring a login to change a preference rather than something that could be stored in a very simple cookie deanonymizes you, and creates an extremely clean audit trail of your usage patterns. There's far more friction in making scores of google burner accounts than it is to rotate VPNs and Incognito windows, if you're so inclined to obfuscate your trail. That's bad.

giantg2 4y ago
"Requiring a login to change a preference rather than something that could be stored in a very simple cookie deanonymizes you," Of course. That's basically step 1 in every proposed plan to prevent minors from accessing porn on the internet. Step 2 is verify age and linking it to the account.
- gjsman-1000 4y ago
  If there is no shame in using porn, and nobody cares, you have nothing to fear™.
  - anonymouskimmer 4y ago
    Yeah. I'm reminded of the news article a decade or more ago about this guy who bought porn or something like that. The company didn't deliver IIRC, and instead tried to extort money from the purchasers by threatening to doxx their purchases. And this guy straight up took them to court to get his money back.
anonymouskimmer 4y ago
So you make one burner account that you only ever log into from a VPN. Google gets slightly more relevant data, but it doesn't get linked to your main account. Or you make a separate account for each one of your fetishes or NSFL investigatory journalism. Hopefully that isn't scores of accounts.

user3939382 4y ago

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

anonymouskimmer 4y ago
The "Read the article" was used primarily as an emphatic for the following sentences, not a literal. The part of the article that highlights this particular point is also easy to miss (one very short sentence immediately beneath an image). And not all of us fully and thoroughly read articles (as indicated by my user name).