a_imho

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by a_imho 8y ago
Blocking is good, obfuscation is better.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Data from temporary logs will be moved (anonymized) to permanent logs. For me this reads as: once it is there, it is not your data anymore, not from Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox and not PII, so we can do ~whatever we wish. IANAL but it l
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by a_imho 8y ago
Absolutely nothing. Which is coincidentally the answer to the question What does Moz://a have to do with any of this? too.
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by a_imho 8y ago
After reading the article I don't get the author's problem or the proposed fix.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Foxshedding
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by a_imho 8y ago
What if an AI could tell you how best to organize your company? Companies organize around office politics, in my experience efficiency is quite low on their priority list, especially in big enterprises.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Dumb phones have a real edge when it comes to battery life, privacy and ease of use.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Sometimes less is more. Consider with a dumb phone you don't have to turn off notifications and disable apps (some are not even possible btw) ootb. Or don't have to do this again when an update changes it on a whim.
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by a_imho 8y ago
4) Dumbphones work for week(s) with one charge, a big pro in my book 5) Probably phone home less data about you and your connections 6) Don't fuel your FOMO and don't feel like you are on pager duty ...
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by a_imho 8y ago
Companies not playing by the rules are fined, shocker. Guess we will have the same outrage when(if) GDPR hits, despite said tech companies are fully aware they are blatantly non compliant.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Google is a serial offender at this point and we are not even into GDPR territory. It seems these fines might actually be too low if they can't keep Google's hands off the cookie jar.
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by a_imho 8y ago
People write legacy systems from day 0, especially in resume driven development.
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by a_imho 8y ago
In this case, taking the submitter's history into consideration, I would be tempted to call it marketing though.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Probably the latter, plenty of (US based) tech companies operating in these countries without a problem.
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by a_imho 8y ago
It is an obvious outlier though.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Well, consider V4, Romania, Croatia etc.
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by a_imho 8y ago
Mainland Europe has even lower salaries in a similar timezone.
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by a_imho 8y ago
To achieve such effect as presented above you need to use Server-Sent Events (SSE) I was wondering whether it is possible to achieve the same effect without client side JS, perhaps with HTTP2 push?
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by a_imho 8y ago
I can only assume that this delay to show a kilobyte of text is purposeful and meant to further steer users to the app Many sites do this with GDPR opt-outs , which ironically are non compliant on multiple accounts.
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by a_imho 8y ago
I won't contribute because speech interfaces are imo terrible and against the proliferation of Echo and Duplex like services, but the data collected is listed here https://voice.mozilla.org/en/privacy
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by a_imho 8y ago
My guess would be lobbying. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/end-of-an-open-source-e...
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by a_imho 8y ago
Great summary, hopefully the EU can deliver what these companies are asking for.
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by a_imho 8y ago
GitLab offers a blanket checkbox on signup with a bunch of legalese, there is no fine grained opt-in to the data collected. Worse, as you said, it is all opt-out.
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by a_imho 8y ago
I think we agree context is important. However GitLab is collecting IPs in combination with hostnames, not to mention the rest of the traffic that could easily be used to fingerprint users.
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by a_imho 8y ago
In the EU IP alone could be considered PII, it would seem logical that hostnames are too, but I never saw it spelled out. The counters are sent in combination with these identifiers. The summary above is compiled from GitLabs own sources.
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by a_imho 8y ago
It might be interesting to someone that GitLab is not seem to be compliant with current European data regulations (GDPR), it is worth reading their terms and privacy statements [1][2]. E.g. even self hosted GitLab phones home in opt-out fas
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by a_imho 8y ago
Disagree, there are many ways to financial stability besides taking money from a direct competitor. Are they that cash strapped?
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by a_imho 8y ago
FWIW the major factor driving user experience is content blocking. It is good to know the subtle diffrences, but any browser that ships with content blocking enabled by defult smashes the browser with the fastest rendering speed when it com
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by a_imho 8y ago
Thanks for this, I never seen it once mentioned anywhere. The thing is most sites seem to acknowledge the existence of GDPR but barely any makes an effort to be compliant. And I don't mean data requests and deletes, but basic things li
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by a_imho 8y ago
nor do bikes ride that close together In my experiece they absolutely do, but it is rare to see a big pack together.

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