cirno

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by cirno 7y ago
This sounds very relatable to me with other topics. I have serious problems with obsessions in this vein that I believe to be pure-O (just the obsessive part of OCD) related, or in other words, an anxiety disorder. My mind latches onto thin
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by cirno 7y ago
Checking the user-agent string for scrapers doesn't work anyway. In addition to using dozens of proxies in different IP address blocks, archive.is spoofs its user agents to be the latest Chrome release and updates it often.
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by cirno 7y ago
> That assumes many things, the first being that someone thinks you're important enough to archive, and that you were important enough to archive long ago. This is exceedingly rare for that middle ground you're discussing. What
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by cirno 7y ago
That was true of the old internet, and might possibly be true still, but not for long. Nowadays we have archive.org and people who wish to datamine and hoard things. I can absolutely see someone coming out with a search interface to browse
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by cirno 7y ago
Google has begun OCRing text inside screenshots to show up in search. I've seen it happen first hand.
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by cirno 7y ago
Worst case, take a photo of your screen with another phone. The harder it is to scrape the content, the more vulnerable the content posted there will be, which will make it that much more desirable a target to scrape.
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by cirno 7y ago
> They don't want their daily utterances to be a matter of record. Experience being stalked and harassed online for years and you'll hate it as well. Imagine in your 30s having your job threatened because you made a dumb post w
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by cirno 7y ago
It's an act of duplicity. Google wants you to believe both that it can detect a website owner doing bad things (blackhat SEO, click fraud on ads on their site to earn more money, etc), yet simultaneously that they can catch any bad act
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by cirno 7y ago
Step one is getting people inside Google, Twitter and Facebook to stop ranking toxic and polarizing content so strongly in search, images, videos and recommendations. They'll say it's the AI, and it's only giving people what
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by cirno 7y ago
> People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it Can you really not imagine a world where a person accidentally or in poor judgment uploads something
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by cirno 7y ago
> Shouldn't people be happy that someone else can keep their life together? There are entire large groups of people in this world who feel the need to drag other people down with them. Some of them are extremely good at it. Pray y
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by cirno 7y ago
> They couldn't shame corporations into taking down sites they disagree with. Just host your site behind Cloudflare and optimize it for Google SEO. With the admitted and notable exception of two websites, they'll host absolutel
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by cirno 7y ago
This applies every bit as much to Google's web search as it does YouTube search. I know of many marginalized people targeted by online hate groups that have been smeared with proven-false allegations and doxxed online, and these stalki
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by cirno 7y ago
What about people who don't want stupid comments they made online when they were 14 permanently indexed and searchable for all of time by the Archive Team? Yes, they may have posted to Yahoo! Groups back in 1999 when they didn't
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by cirno 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. A bit disappointed it only counts for extremely illegal content. There's a lot of really negative stuff out there that is blatantly false and manipulative (Ripoff Report, Tumblr callout posts, etc) and it's a
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by cirno 7y ago
BAT was also known for becoming the primary funding mechanism for an infamous website dedicated to stalking and harassing autistic people. This led to a lot of complaints sent to Brendan Eich and his employees, which they were understandabl
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by cirno 7y ago
Since the Cliqz devs are here, and this engine is based in Germany, a question: does your search engine have any mechanisms for reporting abusive URLs (doxxing, targeted harassment, revenge porn, etc) beyond right-to-be-forgotten, or are yo
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by cirno 7y ago
I understand that, and I don't think websites should be deplatformed just for saying unpopular things. But when a site clearly crosses into blatant criminality, it's disappointing when everyone who has the power to rein them in (G
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by cirno 7y ago
Not to mention, CloudFlare has become synonymous with hosting and protecting the worst websites on the internet, with currently only two exceptions made, seemingly at the CEO's whim. CloudFlare protects websites dedicated to doxing, st
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by cirno 7y ago
"Potential victim" sounds a lot like precrime in Minority Report. Either people are once a criminal, always a criminal and should be permanently extricated from society; or people have the ability to grow and deserve a second chan
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by cirno 7y ago
Yes, but you can't prove why you never get a callback from a job application.
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by cirno 7y ago
I hope that for your own sake, you are never in a position where you are unable to find work because employers stumble across false allegations made against you that are shown as the top result for your name on Google search. Because that&#
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by cirno 7y ago
I have done a significant amount of research into this, and compared results through multiple search engines. I am confident this is mostly specific to Google. I would prefer not to name the sites in question, because they are borderline il
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by cirno 7y ago
Let's address the elephant in the room: the problem lies with Google. Prior to this recent NY Times article, why is a family brawl with minor injuries and no charges that took place in 2008 shown on the first page of results when someo