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by __ka 7y ago
https://beta.cliqz.com/ is currently available as any other webpage, and will continue to be available in the same way in the future. I think what's being referred to is another search product (search as you type) we h
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments(bookofbadarguments.com)
2 points by __ka 7y ago|1 comments
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by __ka 7y ago
Reading big difficult books is offered as a way to teach reasoning from first principles. On how to go about it: "We have our recommended ten-stage process for reading such big books: 1. Figure out beforehand what the author is trying
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by __ka 7y ago
> it's legal wise the same as a cookie I am not sure that is the case. GDPR makes provisions for personal data that can uniquely identify users. Blanket statements like: Local storage is not allowed I think are misleading. The state
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by __ka 7y ago
I think a more robust (and privacy-preserving) way to calculate uniques ( per time-frame as well) is to make use of the local storage / indexDB in the visitor's browser. This is how it would work: - Visitor X lands on your website
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by __ka 7y ago
Very interesting. > The iSmell failed to get the interest of the public. When looking at what went wrong for the iSmell, it is revealed that the missing link was a market survey. According to Startupover’s Andrea Dusi, the iSmell “was de
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Ask HN: How would you transmit smell over the web?
4 points by __ka 7y ago|4 comments
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Surviving a Climate Crisis – Lessons from History(aeon.co)
5 points by __ka 7y ago|0 comments
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by __ka 7y ago
Anolysis stands for Ano[nymized] [Ana]lysis. It's a new approach to do telemetry without sending unique identifiers (like most analytics / telemetry) systems do - but focus on goal attainment at a group level. This makes work hard
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by __ka 7y ago
It's still not perfect, but should be usable. Many thanks for the feedback :))
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by __ka 7y ago
> 1) Trackers Stats. This feature is powered by another project we run, where we measure the tracking landscape in the web (most popular domains): https://whotracks.me . Details on how that works can be found in our paper [0].
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Show HN: Whotracks.me - Tracking the Trackers(whotracks.me)
12 points by __ka 7y ago|0 comments
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by __ka 7y ago
There was a reply to the parent comment (mine), that appears to be removed, but that we believe it still deserves to be addressed. -------------- REMOVED COMMENT: -------------- Is data collected by Cliqz Browser and your search engine used
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by __ka 7y ago
We could not agree more. We tried our best to make a case why the data or privacy dichotomy is a false one, especially in the context of building a search engine - one that is competitive and independent. Our rules are: no personally ident
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by __ka 7y ago
I agree. That data should stay with their rightful owners - the data subject. I believe that we have fundamental issues with personal data ownership in the web for two reasons: 1. People do not believe web is real life. In the physical worl
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by __ka 7y ago
I understand why universities would get the benefit of the doubt, but I am not sure having search engines be a government service would be a very good idea.
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Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy(0x65.dev)
77 points by __ka 7y ago|26 comments
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by __ka 7y ago
Yep, we'll try to push an update in the coming days for a more meaningful interface and result language detection.
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by __ka 7y ago
They largely are. Here's an interesting thread, which I and people from DDG partcipated in a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653476
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by __ka 7y ago
We're trying to get a version that works with javascript disabled (for TOR), but are trying to avoid having to maintain two separate clients. We'll try to push it out soon. Many thanks for the feedback on our beta.
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by __ka 7y ago
Sorry you feel that way. In the Cliqz browser you search as you type. To search and serve results we need to know the query. We will have an article on exactly this product in a week or so. We will also be sharing more details on the proces
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by __ka 7y ago
Yep, the The Accept-language header seems the most reasonable to go for. Will try to get it out as early as possible.
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by __ka 7y ago
Many thanks for the feedback. We'll add the language autodetection for the interface and results this week. There is no profiling taking place. The country is just to select what index you would like results from - we'll try to ma
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by __ka 7y ago
There is - click the settings icon on the top-right corner. Then click on Sucheinstellungen, and under Sprache choose English.
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by __ka 7y ago
I am not a historian, but I cannot think of any empire where there was no coercion. I read it in this context: Empires must fall, because "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Disclosure: I work at Cliqz.
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by __ka 7y ago
Try to run this test. If you query "what is my ip" in duckduckgo, or any of the other ones I mentioned, you will notice in the description of one of the top results this IP: 207.46.13.147. It's a BingBot IP [0]. It's a g
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by __ka 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you're essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud e
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by __ka 7y ago
DuckDuckGo is already partnering with Bing - that's where they get their results from.
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Google to use fourth-price auction for places on search engine choice screen(android.com)
16 points by __ka 7y ago|3 comments
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by __ka 7y ago
Maybe you already do it, but I think integrating adblocker functionality when loading JS sites would be desirable to reduce load time. And if ads are what the API user is interested in, perhaps add a flag for whether or not one wants ads to

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