HL33tibCe7

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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
My reading is that nothing in the argument depends on the exact resource in question being a font, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t generalise to other resources.
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
What value exactly is there in Google seeing that IP X requested font Y, assuming there’s no Referer header - which there won’t be, assuming Referer-Policy is set sanely (which by default it is in all browsers)?
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
Non-technical users that I’ve seen interacting with these prompts literally just look for the button with the most prominent colour and click it. Frankly, I’ve even found myself doing this without thinking on occasion. The prompts are beyon
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
Reductio ad absurdum: if serving fonts from Google is “unnecessary” and leaks information, so would be using any CDN service to deliver any content.
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
Unfortunately, GDPR is an insane web of laws and regulations that any non-lawyer has absolutely no hope of understanding.
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
Frivolous lawsuits, maybe, but frankly that’s irrelevant to the discussion at hand, which is the legislative liability of running a website. I’ve never heard anything even close to what the GP describes happening in any other country.
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
If you read the followup, that man ended up getting his money back. Additionally, it would be astronomically unlikely to make a mistake like that nowadays because confirmation of payee is used so widely (banks check that the name of your re
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
The trouble with Joe Rogan is that he tends to invite people on who agree with his existing worldview (in this case, vaccine skepticism), and he tends not to challenge them whatsoever, so they are allowed to spout whatever nonsense with zer
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
I agree with this, but this is something that needs to be done on the societal level. Doing this individually will be nearly impossible without impacting the social life of the child involved, which no parent wants to do. I think the vast m
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
Yes, although keep in mind that these efforts have strong cross-party support. This isn't only an issue with the Conservative party.
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by HL33tibCe7 5y ago
I'm sure our politicians have been discussing this on their E2E encrypted Whatsapp group chats