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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
In terns of privacy, does it actually help with reducing IP based fingerprinting? I looked up Wireguard and Mullvad help pages, but could not find anything. Only thing I found was Mullvad saying [1] that it uses static IPs and it's not
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
There might be a small subset of websites that do not show popup. However, the question is whether the users adjust their browsing behavior based on those popups or not? If the users have just become acclimatized to clicking on them, then t
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Guy Says Google Maps Told Him to Cross a Frozen River, So He Did (and Fell)(autoevolution.com)
1 points by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago|0 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
This article is also from 2014. I wonder if the return process is smoother now.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
AFAICT, the author does not explain it, but why did the author chose this benchmark? Is it a good approximation of what webpages do in the wild?
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Spoiled by the Web(cloudfour.com)
16 points by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago|0 comments
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Spoiled by the Web(cloudfour.com)
2 points by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago|0 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
The "change" that Amazon keeps can be fixed irrespective of how they distribute the money to the authors. Lets say user pays $10/month fee. Amazon decides it wants to keep $2 and distribute $8 to authors. Now, there are diffe
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
To some extend, it's reasonable. If somebody works at Apple, they might have access to internal iOS code or knowledge of upcoming APIs which gives them an advantage over external app developers. The person working at Apple need not be
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
I agree that nobody needs to shed tears for Google. However, what's more concerning here is that it's the users who would face the brunt of this decision.
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
I think the defaults matter a lot in such cases. Does anybody remember if that checkbox for installing google chrome was checked in by default or not?
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Building a more private web: A path towards making third party cookies obsolete(blog.chromium.org)
287 points by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago|200 comments
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
I'm confused about their business model now. If they are opt-in, then why would anybody opt-in to them?
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
It seems I'm in a minority here, but I was never comfortable installing any adblock extension because the existing request blocking API means that the extension would see all web traffic generated by me (including private URLs that are
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> The bar is whatever I WANT it to be, it's my machine, and it's pretentious of a software developer to assume they know what I'm using the software for and what my best interests are. For all they know I'm using the
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
Oh, I did not know that. Are you sure that enabling studies also means that user's data is sent to Mozilla without consent? Are you sure about this? I'm asking because there I can imagine that there is a benefit for Mozilla to dev
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> And now Mozilla are saying that the "fix" is to allow them to install & run "studies" on my machine? What are they smoking? Can you elaborate what's your concern with "studies"? By installing Fire
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by eh78ssxv2f 7y ago
> I can boot up almost any 20 year old piece of Windows software and it'll work fine, it might not make sense in the current world but it won't go "2019? Fuck off!" Is that really true? Would it connect to 802.11m WiF
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
> Their own customers Can you explain what you mean? Chrome does not have any customers. > And what delicious irony if they couldn't solve this with HTTP/2 because of servers not implementing the spec correctly or having wei
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
> "Note that all of these things that they are removing for “security”, could simply be gated around a permission prompt you’d have to accept, as with the contact list, or location." I think letting the user decide on permissio
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
This is true, but Google is also adding more search surfaces (e.g., google home, assistant etc.). So, it's possible that they might attract proportionately more users using these surfaces.
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
Seattle times published data of percentage of unvaccinated children in Seattle schools ( https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/are-measles-a... ). Each and every school in top 10 is a private school. In Sea
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
Yeah, I found the article to be very confusing too. The author seems to be upset that the driver and the passenger lost a lot of money/ body parts, but Grab did not lose anything. Sure, but the author fails to explain why Gab should
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
Yes, I heard 2E being recently mentioned in a public elementary school. So, it seems it's still in use.
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
I do not know of any place that widely proves that "state-owned and state-controlled companies" are stealing trade secrets. Individuals, sure. State-owned companies? I would like to know the proof for this.
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
> You can’t just leave the country and expect the new host to not care! That's not a fair comparison. If any law was broken, it was definitely not broken on US soil. It would be like US arresting people that it thinks committed murd
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
> China and their state-owned and state-controlled companies are stealing trade secrets and military technology instead of developing it on their own. Do you have any evidence for this? Have we arrested any US citizens for selling/l
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
> That's true, but Google is one of the companies that pushed very hard to make the current situation socially acceptable Do you think the current situation would not have happened if Google was not there?
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
Honestly, that just seems like a coincidence. Do you have thoughts on how that information got transferred?
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by eh78ssxv2f 8y ago
There are some nice things about the new UI: e.g., it's possible to take actions (such as delete) on a email in the inbox in 1-click. It's also that gmail now has lot of new things. e.g., snooze, integration with tasks which proba

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