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by byoogle 13y ago
This Verge article [1] says “The company will open source the vast majority of its code for the phone in order for third parties to properly audit its techniques, find holes, and ultimately help to improve the product.” 1. http:/&#x2F
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The Super-Secure Blackphone Is Here, But It’s Not NSA-Proof(mashable.com)
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The problem with WhatsApp’s privacy boasts: They’re not true(pando.com)
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by byoogle 13y ago
The site doesn't seem to say a thing about what they actually did to make money (the AngelList description does, though).
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by byoogle 13y ago
Hmm, that FAQ isn't the best (will fix). This explanation is better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6888514 . If you install Disconnect first on Firefox then install other filtering add-ons (ABP et al.), you shoul
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by byoogle 13y ago
Disconnect, which I work on, is designed to filter requests faster: https://disconnect.me/faster . Disconnect also does some fancy visualizations, if you're into that sort of thing: http://youtu.be/Lvem1
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by byoogle 13y ago
Congrats on your first post! [1] 1. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html
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by byoogle 13y ago
Cool, ping me if you need help (byoogle everywhere).
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by byoogle 13y ago
> You are suggesting that Disconnect knows exactly which 3rd-party is legit when visiting a web page. Yes! You now know how Disconnect works - Disconnect's filter list is based on weekly crawl data that identifies what the most prev
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by byoogle 13y ago
[You think maybe you should start identifying that you're promoting your own product with these comments?] The first thing I tried when I wrote Disconnect was to block every third-party domain. Within an hour, I realized that I broke t
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by byoogle 13y ago
[Replying to aroch, who's too nested.] > And how exactly is it trickery if users have to opt-in to the program and they're told what the program does? Ghostery seems to rely on vague messaging (last I looked, they don't ac
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by byoogle 13y ago
That's a pretty cheap shot: * Disconnect has more than a million active users and Ghostery has more than two million. * Disconnect is also as public as ABP: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect .
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by byoogle 13y ago
As of the last time I tested: * Chrome, Safari, and Opera give precedence to the newest extension - if that extension blocks a request, older extensions don't see the request. * Firefox gives precedence to the oldest add-on.
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by byoogle 13y ago
quesera described what's sneaky about Ghostery - their users think they're protected but aren't and don't know they're sending data to Evidon that the company sells but are: > So you offer a very useful product,
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by byoogle 13y ago
See the commit message at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commit/691897e21d... . The unencrypted list is at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/b27abbf033c
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by byoogle 13y ago
Thanks. #2 first: Code to block everything marked as content with one click was either just checked in or is about to be. For #1: Disconnect groups tracking requests by company. If you want to see all the Google services that Disconnect fil
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by byoogle 13y ago
Ghostery's game seems to be tricking users into sending their data to Evidon. Going off the company's own numbers, something like 45% of Ghostery users send Evidon data (by comparison, only 2% of Firefox users share data through T
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by byoogle 13y ago
To answer your reply to my reply: > Given the results, I am quite surprise you would say "look to be first parties serving content for the page". I believe every single domain name you listed (except the Google and Twitter doma
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by byoogle 13y ago
Not true, Disconnect detects 13 trackers on http://www.washingtonpost.com/ . If you're running multiple filtering extensions all at the same time, install order matters as far as which extension sees which HTTP requests
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by byoogle 13y ago
I work on Disconnect and don't quite understand what your page is getting at (you probably ought to be disclosing that this is your page and project, btw). If you consider the Guardian page, for instance, all the domains you've li
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by byoogle 13y ago
This. I work on Disconnect. I don't understand why any hacker would still put Ghostery on their machine: * Ghostery is run by former ad execs (7/9ths of their executive team): http://www.evidon.com/our-team * They
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by byoogle 13y ago
Obama didn't read The Mythical Man-Month.
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About 5% of the YC applications so far are for nonprofits(twitter.com)
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by byoogle 13y ago
Actually, I think Opera has the same policy as Mozilla. If you reply to the reviewers (who are very responsive), they seem to let you minify as long as you show them the unminified sources. Our extension ( https://addons.opera.com
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by byoogle 13y ago
> This is backed by hard data on malicious attacks from the Dept. of Homeland Security and the FBI. These seem like nice, trustworthy sources.
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by byoogle 13y ago
> State may finance the project through ad sales. We'll just go ahead and let these advertisers spy on you instead.
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No password is safe from the new breed of cracking software(dailydot.com)
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by byoogle 13y ago
I maintain a library (a more comprehensive fork of AdBlock's porting library) that emulates most of the Chrome API in Safari: https://github.com/disconnectme/port (we use this library for Disconnect). Now that Ope
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3D Gesture Control Is an Area of Focus We Likely Don’t Need or Want(techcrunch.com)
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by byoogle 13y ago
Sort of. :-) We're using iOS's VPN capabilities but not actually running a VPN. As the Wireshark session in the video shows (but please verify yourself!), blocked tracking requests never leave your iPhone or iPad (are never sent)

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