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by bad_user 3y ago
The parent complains that lawmakers don't understand fingerprinting, or that companies like Google are trying to avoid the regulation of fingerprinting by focusing on cookies. Such statements are false. You're moving the discussio
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by bad_user 3y ago
In the EU, as far as the ePrivacy Directive (cookie law) is concerned, fingerprinting is similar to using a tracking cookie, even if no cookies are actually involved. And as far as GDPR is concerned, fingerprinting can identify a visitor, i
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by bad_user 3y ago
IANAL, but as a layman, I don't think I agree with your article. But thanks for the links. I don't think the difference between hours and days is relevant, unless the law says that there's a difference. Setting user prefe
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by bad_user 3y ago
Alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Brave Search don't have cookie banners. Google is far more widespread, but just because Google does something, that doesn't mean it isn't wrong. I will give Google credit for their consent dial
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by bad_user 3y ago
You and the parent are conflating GDPR with the "ePrivacy Directive" (cookie law). GDPR doesn't say much about cookies. What GDPR says is that you have to have a legal basis for processing user data. For example, a DPA just r
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by bad_user 3y ago
DPAs seem to be understaffed and overwhelmed. On the other hand, people said that nothing would happen to the likes of Google or Facebook, as they'll just work around it. Well, that prediction aged poorly, the lawsuits have been progre
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by bad_user 6y ago
The solution is regulation. But that could take another decade to materialize, or more, so what do we do until then? On an individual level, yes, the solution right now is to avoid some services.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Safari doesn't have the privacy extensions of Firefox (e.g. uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Multi-Account Containers), or custom search keywords. I use Firefox on iOS actually, because I get to sync my custom search keywords. Also in my
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by bad_user 6y ago
That may be, but it may not be a causal difference. Steve Jobs may have had to say no a lot, but that may be because he was presented with a lot of opportunities; opportunities that are less available to less successful people. I also imagi
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by bad_user 6y ago
Self-hosted FreshRSS + Reeder 4 on Macbook / iPad / iPhone, to connect to my FreshRSS instance. I used to use Newsblur, great choice if a service works better for you.
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by bad_user 6y ago
Link, please :)
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by bad_user 6y ago
OMG even better :-)) My mind did not parse anything after ":"
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by bad_user 6y ago
Love this one — somebody is trying to rename "package.json" into "package": https://github.com/dinosaurjs/website/pull/28
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by bad_user 6y ago
Where do you see the constructive criticism in this thread?
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by bad_user 6y ago
Also, the glycemic index is bullshit, as it won't predict the blood glucose response of an individual to a meal, because that depends on the person's health (diabetic or not), time of day (e.g glycogen stores depleted or not), or
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by bad_user 6y ago
Those optimizations make it possible for prices to keep dropping, for food to be very cheap and plentiful. Global hunger has dropped to an all time low, since 1950 or so, because of that. Yes, squeeze that marginal profit, please. I was bor
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by bad_user 6y ago
If you don’t want to use Google Analytics, respect your users’s privacy, while still getting feedback on visited articles, you can always self-host a first-party Matomo instance. You can, for example, disable its tracking cookie, anonymize
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by bad_user 6y ago
One pet peeve is that I'd like to search Hacker News, however searching with Angolia sucks (via !hn). I get more relevant results if I do a site:news.ycombinator.com filter in Google. Would appreciate a bang for searching on HN that us
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by bad_user 6y ago
The reverse of that coin is that abuse of freedom is turned into an excuse for restricting freedom. It's the modus operandi of authoritarianism.
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by bad_user 6y ago
> - physical activity reduces the risk of many cancers Logical fallacy.
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " we know that things like bad diet, inactivity, obesity and alcohol can also cause cancer " No, we actually don't know that. I would say that correlation isn't causation, but for at least 3 of those factors I'
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by bad_user 6y ago
Emacs has been my editor of choice, but I've been changing my preferences. Some pros: You can be sure that this editor will still be available 30 years from now, and that by learning it today, that knowledge won't become irrelevan
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by bad_user 6y ago
The long term support of that CMS also matters. Exported HTML/CSS/JS files look more and more like binary blobs. If you can't edit those pages in 10 years from now, without yet another expensive migration, then in retrospect
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by bad_user 6y ago
Can you point to any large Go project that isn’t a mess? I agree that from a single sample you can’t reach conclusions, but “it was their fault” isn’t a great defense.
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by bad_user 6y ago
That's awesome to hear, thanks! Also I like the new version on Android, hopefully it will reach feature with the older version.
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by bad_user 6y ago
On the ad-blocking side, Android fans are blowing this out of proportion. First of all, Safari’s content blockers, while far less capable than uBO, are pretty adequate for the time being. In my experience, iOS Safari + Wipr is fine. Also, a
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by bad_user 6y ago
I very much agree, but... > They recently purchased exclusivity for Joe Rogan, if you want to listen to him in the future you have to use Spotify. Joe Rogan's podcast is anti-science crap. That it moved to a walled garden, restric
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by bad_user 6y ago
> But freedom to run software is a separate issue. It isn't, because it's tied to security. I don't understand why a company, like Apple, shouldn't be allowed to create locked-down devices. This practice isn't
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by bad_user 6y ago
> " I don't understand why that matters? " It matters because convincing people to eat soy in the western world does absolutely nothing for the Amazon forest. It's a false narrative. It's also untrue that the Ama
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by bad_user 6y ago
> Brazil is a net exporter of food, so there goes that narrative Yes, but it doesn't export that food to western countries. In the US for example, less than 10% of beef is imported, and most of that is from Mexico and Canada. Bel

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