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by dessant 7y ago
What percentage of your income goes to taxes? In the EU almost half of your income would be withheld for different taxes, and depending on the country, you would also get absymal health care, with a system that forces you to pay out of pock
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by dessant 7y ago
NVIDIA has also removed the possibility to set up an NVIDIA SHIELD TV without a Google account, there is no option to skip logging in during setup. The requirement for a Google account is not advertised on their site [1]. Other devices with
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Google either doesn't care about intent, or their systems have consistently bad judgment. I've lost count of the horror stories about indie bloggers getting a ban from AdSense when it was time to receive their first check, and bei
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Mozilla runs an automatic check on all extension versions before they get published, and Recommended extensions also go through a manual review before publication. Listings which do not participate in the Recommended extensions program may
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by dessant 7y ago
Obfuscated code is not allowed on any of the browser extension stores. Mozilla requires the attachment of the original source code if you use a bundler such as webpack, or if the code is minified . Only reviewers have access to the source
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by dessant 7y ago
Thanks for the details, I think that sounds reasonable. Do you have access to the documents during the verification process, or are users redirected to the KYC provider to upload them? If you don't have access to the documents, what pe
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by dessant 7y ago
As I understand it developers have to submit a government ID to withdraw their tokens. https://help.namebase.io/article/usgrydy7da-kyc-restrictions This is a bit concerning, and it practically negates the privacy claim
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It can be fixed by spending hundreds of dollars a year on a code signing certificate.
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Windows 10 does the same for most newly released executables.
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It actually goes to Verisign, a for-profit company.
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> Lots of under construction gifs Which ones were your favourites? http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/
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Those with an ad blocker are missing out on the full Tripod experience, make sure to turn it off for maximum fun.
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I think you're still missing the point. Google transmits personal data to their servers without user consent. The value of x-client-data is personal data, because it is associated with an IP address during transit, due to how HTTP requ
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An IP address is itself personal data, it does not have to be associated with other personal data. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo... > Collecting IP address alone, and no
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by dessant 7y ago
GDPR treats an IP address as personal data. The data is not transmitted through an anonymizing network, so Google has access to the user's IP address when they receive the data. Anything that is associated with personal data also becom
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by dessant 7y ago
Apple is not engaged in illegal data harvesting to gain a competitive advantage over other services in the same space. Google's collection of personal data with the x-client-data header without user consent is illegal under GDPR.
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I think the Widevine CDM request is needed for the service to function, though they could certainly delay it until a website requires DRM. GDPR allows the use of personal data without consent when it is required to provide a service for the
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This is the equivalent of a protest, people are objecting to Google's illegal data harvesting practices in places that receive engagement, since that's the most effective way to get the word out and warn others. Google's reas
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by dessant 7y ago
I think extensions can filter out the x-client-data header, though Google should definitely make this data collection opt-in. GDPR is very clear about this data being personal information [1], since Google has access to the IP address on th
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by dessant 7y ago
You were right: https://twitter.com/NSAGov/status/1224456957622472706
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You're sweet, thanks a lot!
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NSA has just shut down the proxy. The link was a Google Doodles game.
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Until then, you can use my browser extension to solve them: https://github.com/dessant/buster
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by dessant 7y ago
If that's the case, they are being sloppy, considering that everything under www.google.com is proxied through their servers, not just specific reCAPTCHA assets. Gmail by NSA: https://captcha.nsa.gov/intl/us/g
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by dessant 7y ago
I doubt Google Drive is a keylogger. Apps should be able to register global shortcuts and get notified when a shortcut is triggered. There is an open source client app for Google Play called Aurora Store, it lists declared permissions and k
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Hi shawnyou! I think you've made a great leap by releasing this product, but there are some issues that might sabotage your efforts. The pricing page on your site is full of broken English. You've put a lot of effort into coming u
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There are places where people make less than $80/mo, but they still have dreams and awesome ideas, and to deny them the opportunity to start programming and share their work because they can't afford to pay up is apalling.
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> Apple gear is no longer as comparatively expensive as it used to be It still is if one can't afford it. Apple could provide macOS and iOS VirtualBox images for developers to build and test their apps. > why complicate their bus
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Though we should shed some tears for those who just try to sell their apps and make a living, after already being ripped off for expensive equipment and an annual developer account fee. If Apple would care, it would be possible to charge
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The extensions were temporarily removed from AMO, but blocklisting was not enacted, so around 1 million existing installations have remained operational while Mozilla was waiting for weeks for Avast to submit an update. The initial update f

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