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by byoogle 13y ago
This: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authe... .
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by byoogle 13y ago
I don't know of any, but I imagine there are a bunch on YouTube and so forth. I will say that of the two, Charles is the easier to use and I don't think too hard to figure out without any docs.
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by byoogle 13y ago
I'm one of the Disconnect devs and these definitely aren't stupid questions: 1. Unlike that other "privacy" cough extension, Disconnect doesn't send any data (user or otherwise) to Disconnect servers. In other wor
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Online tracking explained with puppets [video](youtube.com)
2 points by byoogle 13y ago|0 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
We saved you a click. :-) Disconnect blocks (2,000+ tracking sites) by default. The number of requests in the dropdown menu should add up to the number of requests in the toolbar counter (we do group requests by company, which Ghostery does
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by byoogle 13y ago
Disqus is in the Content category, which isn't blocked by default (reason: users seem unhappy when we block content-y things like videos, photos, and comments by default). But you can still check the adjacent box to block Disqus (your
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by byoogle 13y ago
I think this is a good analogy. I was involved with indie bands in the 90s and startups now (disclosure: I work on Disconnect, a Ghostery alternative) and have been saying how much the scenes are alike. But the band - I mean, startup - has
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by byoogle 13y ago
Thanks! Good feedback. The numbers indicate requests (as in HTTP requests) attempted by the tracking companies. Green (or checked) indicates the requests were blocked. Gray (or unchecked) indicates they were allowed. We'll beef up the
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by byoogle 13y ago
Ghostery claims 8 million users are opted in to "share" their data. From the informal polling I've done of Ghostery users (I work on an anti-tracking alternative called Disconnect), I believe less than 1 in 10 of those users
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by byoogle 13y ago
Thanks. Disconnect currently has the biggest list of tracking sites of any app (well over 2,000 sites). And our filtering engine is written differently than other apps (no slow regexes). In practice, we benchmarked the 1,000 most popular si
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by byoogle 13y ago
Yeah, I think later this week. (We actually had a Coinbase implementation before we launched, which we decided to pull last minute because we thought there was a little too much Bitcoin and Coinbase uncertainty at the time.)
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by byoogle 13y ago
Opt in for what? They say to "share" your data with Ghostery, but what they do is sell your data to advertisers. Shouldn't an anti-tracking solution be more transparent than the problem?
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by byoogle 13y ago
Done :-): https://disconnect.me/ https://github.com/disconnectme
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by byoogle 13y ago
I just mentioned Disconnect, but I make Disconnect. :-) You should try the new Disconnect (Disconnect 2) which has a lot more features than Ghostery and is even rated higher by users than Ghostery is. We just launched Safari and Opera versi
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by byoogle 13y ago
Isn't there a big difference between asking users to opt in to "share" their data with Ghostery (which is what Ghostery says) and asking users to opt in to have their data (what data, btw?) "sold" to advertisers (wh
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by byoogle 13y ago
Ghostery claims that 45% of their users (8 million out of 18 million) are opted in to send Ghostery their browsing data. I wonder if even 1% of those users know their data is being sold to advertisers by Ghostery. I have trouble believing t
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Roll over Einstein: meet Weinstein(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by byoogle 13y ago|0 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
Oh yeah, our original Firefox add-on was outsourced ... and I think kind of sucked. I learned not to do that (even though the devs were and are great). Thanks a lot for the feedback on the new UI.
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by byoogle 13y ago
Breaking literally every tech blog would be way hard to do. :-) We've gotten literally two bug reports about broken blogs of any sort in the last year (I just checked; and both are now fixed, btw), so I assume there aren't issues anymore.
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by byoogle 13y ago
Lifehacker just did a comparison of popular privacy extensions and called Disconnect the best (over Ghostery and others): http://lifehacker.com/the-best-browser-extensions-that-prote...
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Review of Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks"(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by byoogle 13y ago|0 comments
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by byoogle 14y ago
Since I've never heard my entrepreneur friends say stuff like that about 500 Startups ;-) and it's probably too soon to rank accelerators on performance, I went looking for something more scientific. This evaluation is the best I could find
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by byoogle 14y ago
#2 at what? (Or did you mean: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%232 )
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Cracking AES-256 DMGs(blog.whitehatsec.com)
8 points by byoogle 14y ago|0 comments
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by byoogle 14y ago
I think for almost all cases, there are simpler solutions: * Use secure cookies (set the secure bit so these cookies are only sent over HTTPS) for authenticating on your HTTPS site * Use a separate domain for embeds ("youtube-widgets.com" i
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by byoogle 14y ago
Disconnect blocks stuff, too. But if you unblock something (e.g., to see comments on TechCrunch), you shouldn't have to be exposed to session hijacking. That's why we added this feature.
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by byoogle 14y ago
IIRC, the default font sizing on iOS was weird without that rule. But I didn't realize we broke zooming. I did accessibility work in my last job, so I feel pretty dumb now. Will fix.
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Widgetjacking: Why more social widgets mean less secure Wi-Fi(blog.disconnect.me)
17 points by byoogle 14y ago|9 comments
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Mozilla’s Collusion add-on ported to Chrome(blog.disconnect.me)
1 points by byoogle 15y ago|1 comments
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by byoogle 15y ago
When you’re on first-party sites like Facebook and Google, the add-on isn’t meant to block anything. The blocking kicks in when you’re on third-party sites that otherwise send your browsing history to Facebook, Google, et al. Give our new F

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