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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
There are many cases where Google has used dark patterns to gather data from users. Now, the ToS may mention those cases clearly, but that's not an excuse for the Google's behavior. Recent examples: Google tracking users per Chrom
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Private Prefetch Proxy Explained(github.com)
2 points by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago|0 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
Do we know the reasoning behind the bias?
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
I don't understand how gnucash is more critical than Arduino, wine or nginx. Is gnucash very widely used?
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
Exactly. Besides privacy and obvious web-centralization issues, there are bunch of security issues associated with proxying the traffic. Apple and Mozilla brought these issues to the attention of Google during SxG spec discussions. At that
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
I commented on [1] too, but it's worth mentioning here as well as it clearly shows the stark difference between Google and Apple/Cloudflare. Apple/Cloudflare are working on privacy-friendly protocols that reduce the amount of
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
What a stark difference between Google and Apple/Cloudflare. Apple/Cloudflare are working on privacy-friendly protocols that reduce the amount of information exposed to them. At exactly the same time, Google is working on proxying
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Quicklink – Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching during idle time(github.com)
1 points by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago|0 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
How do you guarantee anonymity to the users filling out the survey? The surveyor could send different increment URLs to different users.
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
For Enterprise Android devices (i.e., the one owned by the employer), the employers always had the option to install device management policy and disable parts of the phone based on those policies (e.h., remotely disable phone of an employe
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
> A search engine from a non-advertising-supported company is great news. Currently, Apple actually gets money from Google for selecting the latter as its default search engine. Not only Apple will lose that money but would also need to
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Apple develops alternative to Google search(ft.com)
26 points by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago|15 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
> No the concern is they aren't subject to the laws of our land What specific laws of the US land are they not subject to?
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Connect, No Matter the Speed(medium.com)
1 points by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago|0 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
Agreed. In my mind, if the server is using plain HTTP, and the attacker has control over parts of the network, then plain-old DNS is not the only attack model. The attacker does not need to hack DNS, they can just manipulate the content on
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
> If so, then they fire up Nginx and serve poisoned PDFs to anyone who connects to it. Even if the attacker redirects the traffic, it still needs to serve the HTTPS/SSL certificates. How will the attacker do that?
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
It's not Google that's preaching this. It's Chrome. Sure, Chrome is owned by Google. but at the scale of Google, you might as well consider them as independent organizations.
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by eh78ssxv2f 6y ago
> so that basically your client gets to pick the second 1/2 of your address now. And the nice thing is, most major platforms will actually run multiple addresses in parallel, allowing new connections to use a new address while old c
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
Google is probably so big that we might as well consider Chrome and rest of the Google as separate entities.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
They could use video conferencing.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
That's a very "brave" position. We will show you ads without following laws of the land (Ctrl-F "FTC" in the github thread). If the user falls for our unlawlful ads, then it's the user that's stupid?
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> It's obviously legal when companies in the industry do it. I'm not familiar with specific laws in UK, but it's possible that the industry has to seek a license before they start experimenting with explosives.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
Does anybody has examples of websites that do this? It would be useful to see this in action.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> We've never done anything like "swapping ads with their own". If I use the Brave in its intended mode, then EFFECTIVELY it does swap ads. By intended mode, I mean the way Brave is supposed to be used. From [1], here are
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
That's great. When is it coming to Stable? Also, des the ad traffic generated by Brave also goes through the Tor?
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
How is the user's IP address hidden from the servers?
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> Separate to this, Brave has a rewards system users can choose to enable which can show OS-level notifications of advertiser content in a privacy-respecting way. Can somebody expand a bit on how the ads are shown in privacy-respecting w
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
I'm still confused by this study. If the brave browser is not contacting the backend, how does it fetch the latest ad block sets or the native ads? It seems like the browser has to contact its own servers to do any of these things.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
How would this work with third party cookie blocking that Chrome is planning to start ( https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-... )?
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Google is warning Edge users of security risks, suggests switching browsers(techspot.com)
3 points by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago|0 comments

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