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by dessant 7y ago
Equating the concerns of a citizen over their perceived loss of civil rights with the concerns of dictators isn't really a productive approach. If anything, it dismisses and further polarizes people.
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Facebook has been doing everything in their power to gradually erode people's privacy, so their business model is strongly consumer-hostile, unless contributing to the erosion of civil liberties and human rights isn't considered h
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by dessant 7y ago
I don't think she has made her wishes known. She was religious, just not a churchgoer.
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The funeral was paid separately on top of the money the pastor coerced them to give to the church. There is no agreement involved when you're told your mother wouldn't be buried with what you perceive as dignity, and you're m
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by dessant 7y ago
With the popularity of 10+ minute videos that obfuscate the content to drive more ad revenue, a TLDR for YouTube videos would be a fantastic initiative. It could work as a community service, perhaps as a browser extension, though curating t
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by dessant 7y ago
Through manipulation and coercion. They were told by the local pastor that she wouldn't get a religious funeral unless those taxes were paid.
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by dessant 7y ago
There is a voluntary church tax paid by members of the Reformed Church in Europe. My grandma did not attend church in the last few decades of her life, and she did not pay this tax. My parents were forced by the local pastor to pay those ta
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by dessant 7y ago
My grandma died when I was 12 and my parents were forced to pay the voluntary church taxes my grandma did not pay in her last 20 years, most of their salary went to the pastor that month who didn't even issue an invoice. The pastor was
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by dessant 7y ago
Google is also going forward with deprecating the blocking portion of the webRequest API, it is already in Chrome Canary. The change will break extensions, and will make several use cases impossible which are not related to ad blocking, but
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by dessant 7y ago
This article rises a lot of unanswered questions about how does Google exactly reveal user data to the advertiser. Are they referring to the filters the advertiser used to target the ad and the search keyword, or something more? > By syn
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by dessant 7y ago
This seems to be the end of the road, unless Google increases the reCAPTCHA quota of Yahoo Groups. Let Google and Verizon Media know with a tweet: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdavid
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by dessant 7y ago
What prevents Verizon from donating the Yahoo Groups database to the Internet Archive? What does Verizon have to gain from preventing the archival of Yahoo Groups?
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by dessant 7y ago
Of course, but Brave should allow creators to withdraw their tokens, without converting it to fiat. Not even users can withdraw their tokens without submitting an ID, let alone creators: https://cryptobriefing.com/brave-cash
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They require PII because they can, not because they are legally required. To accept cryptocurrencies and allow people to withdraw them into a wallet, you do not need to verify their identity, unless the tokens are exchanged to fiat on the p
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by dessant 7y ago
We appreciate your openness about how you collect data, but that's still not enough because literally every other advertising company is deceptive when they talk about privacy. The openness must be paired with privacy that is guarantee
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by dessant 7y ago
I'm one of those people who remains skeptic about the anonymity of the tracking Cliqz does in general. Obviously people have a hard time believing any company that is in the advertising space and preaches about privacy, mainly because
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by dessant 7y ago
Install Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin to see how ads and tracking destroy mobile performance. The setup I described loads pages faster than Chrome.
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by dessant 7y ago
Google could restrict the content loaded in AdSense iframes and apply AMP restrictions to ad content only. They also have the means to limit the number of ads partners can load on a page, and restrict the overzealous use of Google Tag Manag
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by dessant 7y ago
I believe Yandex has the best reverse image search engine on the web today, Google's image results have considerably deteriorated in the past few years. Though if you're looking to compare stock photo prices, the engines of stock
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by dessant 7y ago
> Getty has been criticized for selling the rights to photos that are freely available in the public domain. Searching for images on the web can sometimes mitigate this issue. Search by Image (maintainer here) can help you to quickly fin
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by dessant 7y ago
Most web developers do make fairly lean websites, but that is not enough when ads and a dozen tracking scripts which in part are supplied by Google are slapped over their work.
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by dessant 7y ago
Again, install Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin, and see your opinion change about the main reason mobile sites are slow. Pages load fast and are responsive even on older phones if you use an ad blocker. https://play.google
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by dessant 7y ago
AMP is not the savior you describe it to be, and web developers are not against lean websites. The real bloat comes from ads and excessive tracking, and you can test that by installing uBlock Origin in Firefox for Android and see for yourse
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by dessant 7y ago
EU citizens can submit formal complaints to the European Commission for suspected infringements of competition rules. Here is more information on how to file a complaint: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/contacts/e
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Malware is not defined by what it does, but whether or not its actions conform to user intent and approval.
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It does, but people rarely take the time to report illegal behavior that they encounter online.
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Windows Defender is a performant alternative to all the junk antivirus companies put out. At this point it's fairly well documented that having a third-party antivirus product running on your Windows device often exposes you to securit
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> Do not attempt to decompile or modify engineer any software included on Buy Me A Coffee site. This is also a bit dated policy. I've reported bugs on Patreon before that involved looking at the source code and modifing it, but it d
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Of course, some products require data collection to function, and I agree that in such cases data collection should be kept at a minimum. I was referring to products such as Windows. The consumer versions of Windows do not have UI controls
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Is there a detailed writeup on the Human Web proxy network, specifically on the data transmission? It would be interesting to see how does it prevent Cliqz and proxy server operators from learning the user's IP address. Was Tor evaluat

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