SimeVidas

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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Also, page 35: > The French haven’t had paint for a long time.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Is there a browser extension that does this?
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
You’re confusing ads with tracking. Do we have any proof that regular, old non-tracking ads could not sustain a top website? I’ve heard stories that websites can actually earn more by excluding all the ad tech middlemen from the equation.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
As seen on AVGN.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Is the presentation un-scrollable just for me?
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> What do they do all day? The only reason I leave the house is to buy groceries, basically.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Any HTTP header can be used to build a fingerprint. Should we remove HTTP headers because of that? No.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> Reject all is pointless. You can do it in browser already. No, you can’t. You can block cookies. GPC enables the ”I reject” signal, so websites that honor GPC don’t have to ask you (i.e., no cookie banner)..
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
There is only an option to reject all cookies via GPC https://globalprivacycontrol.org/ . Some sites have started to respect it.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
I use Feed Preview https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feed-preview/
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
The recommended place to report such an issue is https://webcompat.com/
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
tl;dr Google: More control to us, please. Amazon: No.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
AFAIK, the only un-fingerprintable browser is Brave (because it randomizes certain web API return values between navigations).
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
I wish the English language had two different “they” words for when it’s referring to the subject vs. object of the preceding sentence. The ambiguity of pronouns is so annoying.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
451: Unavailable due to legal reasons in Europe.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> all this hardening stuff should ship out-of-the-box. I mean, Brave kinda does that. It’s much more “hardened” by default.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Those tracking links are so annoying. They make it hard to see where the link is actually going. A newsletter could be linking to Wikipedia, but if you open the message in Gmail, there could be two or more layers of trackers in that URL. Ex
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
For a second I thought this is a domain.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
FWIW, I can’t access some US news sites from Europe because they “value my privacy and haven’t implemented GDPR yet.”
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> checkbox/radio inputs can be used to toggle state with `:checked ~ .foo` selectors What kind of state do you mean? Could you give an example?
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
“Site” is defined in the HTML Standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/origin.html#same-site
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> Yet Google’s reputation is so god-fucking-awful Where? In the HN bubble? Ok.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> Second, I don't see that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013656 was snarky or did those other things. It’s a blatant shitpost. That person is not interested in a discussion, and I’m not going to waste my ti
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
> Don't be snarky. > Eschew flamebait. > don't post shallow dismissals Will you also ban the other person for being snarky and all the other things I quoted? If yes, then I’m fine with a dual ban.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Watch amateur documentaries about obscure topics on YouTube.
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
Web apps have become so powerful on Android lately. What good reasons are there to still go native today?
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
It’s not shipping yet https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/gqi4MDQDw...
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
There’s a feed for Nightly: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/nightly/notes/feed/
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by SimeVidas 5y ago
No, Brave removes everything that has to do with Google from the browser.

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