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by commoner 5y ago
It is not the responsibility of Internet users to ensure the jobs of people in the advertising industry. Compelling users to view ads (when they view other content) to protect those jobs would be an infringement on individual rights for a v
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Calling ad blocking "theft" is an absurd take. It is not theft to only consume part of the content that is provided to you. There is no law that requires the viewer to consume all of the content provided in a format, in any countr
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by commoner 5y ago
> YouTube requires you watch ads to use their website, so not doing that is piracy. Piracy is another word for copyright infringement. Blocking ads on YouTube is not piracy because you are not violating copyright law (in any country that
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> I was shocked when uBlock got flack for arranging an "Acceptable advertising" practice on their filter. The Acceptable Ads program started in AdBlock Plus (owned by Eyeo) in 2011. In 2018, uBlock (not to be confused with the
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I used the words "balanced diet" to rule out, for example, someone eating only fruits and nothing else. I hedge my words carefully because I don't want to make overly broad claims that are not backed by evidence, as you are d
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People are disagreeing with you because you claimed, without evidence, that eating fruits and whole grains is similar to consuming sugar-sweetened foods and beverages.
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by commoner 5y ago
Nutrient density is not a measure of calories per mass or volume (energy density). This is what nutrient density means in the context of nutritional science:[1] > The nutrient density standard, as defined by the FDA, is the ratio of the
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by commoner 5y ago
I fully understood what you wrote, and I am not buying your argument. A claim of tortious interference would be rejected by the court because nobody was actually harmed.
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Joe Rogan is also free to leave Spotify if he doesn't want to stay on it for any reason. There's nothing wrong with that, either. If there's strong evidence that someone committed a crime like tax fraud, then they should be i
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> In the 2 prospective cohorts with many repeated measurements of diet and up to 30 years of follow-up, we observed that a higher intake of fruit and vegetables was associated with a lower risk of total mortality and cause-specific morta
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> Potassium deficiency is very rare Potassium-deficient diets are not rare. Using the U.S. as an example, only 3% of people in the U.S. consume adequate levels of potassium in their diet according to the most recent NHANES survey.[1] The
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> Metabolically, fruit is not very different from “sugar sweetened foods and beverages” (and imho gram for gram, fructose is worse than sucrose). The same goes for whole grains. Most fruits* and whole grains have higher fiber content, hi
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That's a poor analogy, since the artists are walking away from the situation entirely. If a friend of yours starts inviting over someone who does things you find distasteful, you have the right to stop spending time with them. There is
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> And if I'm not mistaken, even on HTTPS sites, the domain is visible in the request in plaintext too. I originally misread this sentence. Yes, HTTPS requests expose the domain/subdomain name in plaintext to support Server Name
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by commoner 5y ago
(2017) Non-paywalled link (PDF): http://mdrf-eprints.in/1071/1/Associations_of_fats_and_carbo...
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While encrypted DNS does conceal the domain name from the ISP, it also prevents the ISP from intentionally returning an incorrect IP address in response to a DNS request. This behavior is known as DNS cache poisoning[1] (or DNS spoofing) an
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I don't know of a keyboard that replicates Swype's exact behavior (swiping from the Swype button to C or V). For rapid text manipulation, AnySoftKeyboard lets you swipe up from the spacebar to show a utility menu with buttons for
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Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer(github.com)
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The original link ( https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/26/can-you-use-the-tor-browse... ) is to a comment in the Ghacks article's comment section made by "Tor11.0 NetworkDisabled". The "Beginner
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by commoner 5y ago
Yes, disabling site-specific zoom is one of the things that Resist Fingerprinting does.[1] If you want to use site-specific zoom while keeping Resist Fingerprinting enabled, the Zoom Page WE add-on[2] should allow this. I've just tried
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I don't think this is true for anyone except those who have a substantial stake in AAPL (or any other company that profits from repair restrictions). A competitive repair market for Apple products (and the resulting changes in the mark
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Through the Tor Uplift Project,[1] Tor Browser's Fingerprinting Protection feature is now available in Firefox on desktop and Android. The feature makes Firefox hide some pieces of identifying information from the sites you interact wi
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by commoner 5y ago
Section 7 of GPLv3 nullifies additional restrictions that are attached to the client (with a few exceptions):[1] > All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10
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Yes, the argument is wrong. Freedom 0 allows User A to run their own instance of the F-Droid server as they wish. It does not allow User A to compel User B to run User B's instance of the F-Droid server the way User A would like it to
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F-Droid specializes in free and open source software. It does not specialize in software rejected from other app stores. F-Droid is also available on all Android phones, rooted or not. Android allows apps to be sideloaded if no app store me
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That would be a fine option if it were fully supported by Safari. This excludes all web apps that require push notifications (including a hypothetical web app for Signal in China) until Safari implements the Push API on iOS. Safari would al
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by commoner 5y ago
Your questions are answered in the filing: https://www.scribd.com/document/555427906/22-01-27-Utah-Et-A... U.S. antitrust law does not require the existence of a monopoly for a violation, just sufficiently anti-co
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> Today it’s forcing them to open up payment gateways, tomorrow it’s forcing them to put a police backdoor in iMessage. There is no U.S. antitrust provision that would force Apple to place a backdoor in iMessage. And if iMessage is compr
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I support Pine64’s ongoing efforts to make the PinePhone into a viable Linux phone. But the existence of the PinePhone doesn't justify Apple's anti-competitive actions. If you want to exclusively download apps from the App Store a
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Nitter is great. The Privacy Redirect extension can automatically redirect your Twitter page loads to Nitter: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect If you are on Android, you can also use the free and open s

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