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by corvallis 9y ago
That's nice, but you were commenting on workers who would potentially need BART to get home after being released from work at a late hour. We are able to do so.
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by corvallis 9y ago
Please check your comment about BART schedules. BART guarantees a ride to your destination from any point in the system if you get into a station by midnight. The last train from Embarcadero station to Pittsburg leaves Embarcadero at 12:26
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by corvallis 10y ago
I can tell you exactly when the threshold was crossed for me. I'm pretty removed from the tech industry but many of my friends are in tech so I try to keep up. One day, I was searching for a photo of a jacket that I wanted to sell on e
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by corvallis 10y ago
I deleted Facebook about 2 months ago. Nothing bad happened. In fact, I feel relieved more than anything that I don't have this data-collecting overlord following me around. Also it takes out the stress of possibly "missing"
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by corvallis 10y ago
Would it be possible that he googled you, or you googled him after the meeting, that one of you searched for the others' LinkedIn or other similar sites (or on FB itself), and that the Facebook cookies/trackers connected the two
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by corvallis 10y ago
Something to keep in mind is the population that typically has chronic Hep C requiring this drug. It's IV drug users who share needles. Think they have $84K? Nope. Think they have insurance? Nope. Guess who pays for it. Oh that's
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by corvallis 10y ago
I think you solved this! I actually use the Apple mail client, so I get my spam mail and my personal mail in the same interface. My angry deleting of cookies and web history following the Criteo email would have cleared any log ins, but I h
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by corvallis 10y ago
I went to confirm that I only had the three extensions (ad block, ad block plus, and ghostery) and when I clicked into the ghostery settings, it turns out that none of the trackers were selected to be blocked!!! Not sure how long it was lik
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by corvallis 10y ago
Yes, I use Safari! I actually have cookies set as "from current website only" - I wrote the wrong one and edited. I suppose it's possible that one of my contacts entered in my personal email in some new website/app refer
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by corvallis 10y ago
I could swear up and down that I have never used my personal address on any website/app ever. (I use my "spam" address for all internetting.) So if I had accidentally opted in somewhere, it would have been with my "spam&
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by corvallis 10y ago
I already block third party cookies. I have it set to allow cookies "from current website" only. I had once tried to set it to never but then I couldn't log in anywhere so that was a bust. I really don't know how they wo
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Ask HN: Question from a luddite re: cookies/web tracking, particularly by Criteo
3 points by corvallis 10y ago|11 comments