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by 3xblah 8y ago
When you use a home VPN server, is the VPN server running on a computer located at your home and reachable on the open internet? If yes, do you have fixed address or do you use dynamic DNS?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
His blog post pays no mention of users whose DNS queries are being redirected. Isn't that a privacy concern? Hotels and ISPs sometimes set up captive portals that intercept and redirect port 53 to their own choice of DNS servers. As s
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It looks like they may be using Perimeterx Bot Defender. Note Bloomberg is not blocking any access without Javascript or cookies enabled. Perimeterx is a service that purports to stop "bots" by using heuristics to produce a "
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Is Bloomberg blocking the Internet Archive? http://web.archive.org/web/20190206043030/https://www.bloomb...
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by 3xblah 8y ago
To extend the functionality of the browser. What you say is true, so the question is why is it on and not off by default? Does it imply that a webpage without Javascript is not useful?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I reckon the key word in this comment is "approximately". I might still be able to get what I need from a site that someone believes is "completely broken", including on repeat visits, without using Javascript. Sometimes
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I was able to access all the content as either html or md. I could also download PDF and other formats. I am not using a javascript-enabled browser.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
No need to enable it. It is on by default. :) If it were off by default, would web developers cater to the incredibly small percentage of people who change default settings to turn it on? Why is there even a setting? How many people would
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by 3xblah 8y ago
# lang={en,fr,ja,zh} https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/details.html https://legacy.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/bagder/http3-ex... https://legacy.gitbook.com/d
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I was thinking that users would share relevant portions of these archives with their friends, etc. directly, without a middleman. They have already shared the content of the archive via Facebook. Nor was I thinking of a "Facebook alter
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I apologise that he used your site as an example. Nice work, BTW. The question we were discussing is whether a user who "just wants to read an article" needs to keep Javascript enabled for every website she visits, or whether she
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by 3xblah 8y ago
If the issue is exploring new websites posted to sites like HN, then occassionally you do see these framework driven client-side rendered designs (let's call them "blank pages"). I agree it is depressing to see when people p
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by 3xblah 8y ago
In my experience disbaling Javascript and Flash will stop autoplay. If you have examples, please share as I would like to test. Can you point me toward me some of the depressingly large examples of websites that require Javascript in order
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Facebook allows users to easily export their data as a compressed archive. Why not have the third party app access exported archives and not Facebook servers? This way users could at least be made aware of the features they are missing. On
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by 3xblah 8y ago
This sounds like case of bad default settings. AFAICT users were previously able to turn off autoplay in the settings. For Firefox, about:config then media.autoplay.default and set to 1. For Chrome, chrome://flags#autoplay-policy
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by 3xblah 8y ago
He mentions a number of "de-Google" measures. Here is one he omitted: What if those running websites stopped treating "Googlebot" as different from any other "bot"? No more preferential treatment for Google. Wh
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by 3xblah 8y ago
There was a PBS documentary not too long ago about workers in the Phillipines tasked with reviewing all content that is posted to websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. By the looks of it, they may easily match or exceed the daily
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by 3xblah 8y ago
This is a provocative comment although it begs the question: Can you easily run OpenWRT on Orange PI 3 immediately after purchase? If not, I think that could be a factor in why someone might pay more. They might want to leverage the work o
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by 3xblah 8y ago
If I understand this correctly he is saying that much of the private information collected is actually not needed in order to achieve the desired outcome ("everybody wins"). He points out that tracking companies pay websites to al
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Scannning the comments here it does not appear anyone is considering the cost of network activity and bandwidth. The user is subsidising the tracking. Google does not pay for the cost of the user's internet access or her mobile data pl
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by 3xblah 8y ago
If the website can be accessed by others . I could take a picture of a map and share it on my LAN via httpd so all my computers can access it. I am the only user on the LAN. It is not the "website" aspect that would implicate co
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Many years ago, in the heyday of domain speculation (after the dot-com crash), some of the largest domain speculators became registrars to gain advantages such as the one you mention. This conflict of interest was not limited to registrars.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"4. Not all records in the zone file are valid domains. Some do not have a WHOIS record and may act as honeypots to catch people distributing and using zone files without permission." It has been a while since I looked at the com
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I don't follow your reasoning. The question is why every time the user wants to look at a map she needs to let Google know, using computer network access for which the user must pay. Paper maps or maps stored on physical media do not h
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Let's say you're using a Google API like Maps, and you snapshot sections of their maps and store them on your computer so you can access them anytime without making API calls. This would sure save a lot of unnecessary network usag
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Thank you! Problem solved.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Correction: When I suggested alternative search page set to POST, that was a mistake. I actually meant alternative endpoint that accepts GET and returns clean (=unprefixed) result links. Sorry for the inadevrtence.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Then you cannot do diff a.htm b.htm Send the output to /tmp or some directory mounted as tmpfs. My working directory is always mounted tmpfs. This is how I keep things fast and clean.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Here is another perspective from a non-developer user on those reasons and the resulting tradeoff (of allowing DDG to trivially track which result links are followed): 1. Privacy conscious users can control whether a Referer header is sent
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by 3xblah 8y ago
True. More commonly, I see banner/figlet/etc. type fonts put into html apparently for no purpose other than artistic reasons.

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