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by ev1 6y ago
I contributed a bit to XBMC in the past, and in comparison, .. well, I'm not too sure how to describe this. Plex is like everything wants to be proxied over the plex.tv cloud, want a plex SSL certificate, tunneling (ok, NAT is common a
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by ev1 6y ago
I anal, but from what I've read DMCA anti-circumvention of access controls applies even if it's the string backwards or ROT13'd, because intent.
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by ev1 6y ago
I think the argument here is that explicitly, you can't with wget. youtube-dl specifically has circumventions for access controls for things like encrypted HLS, YouTube's ciphered player, etc.
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by ev1 6y ago
The site starts with "secret courts issuing dns takedowns" and "#covid1984" on every page. The content is stuff like "Climate alarmists–from the Pope to Rabbis to Greta–are calling for a Sunday “Green Sabbath,” forc
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by ev1 6y ago
Plex feels so incredibly over-monetised that I don't treat it as similar to Kodi or XBMC at all.
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by ev1 6y ago
What is equally, and how would this be determined? A top percentile salary in Romania would likely result in not even being able to rent a microstudio or afford food in San Francisco.
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by ev1 6y ago
> [DMCA] section 1201 creates a potential legal obstacle for a researcher or coder if a software vendor employs mechanisms that control the way copyrighted software or other materials can be accessed or used. Many people think of section
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by ev1 6y ago
If you enable fingerprinting resistance/block their attempts to run a significant amount of privacy-violating JS, you risk permanent account lockouts. This includes non-VPN. You can get account lockouts for "suspicious" on st
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by ev1 6y ago
In every modern apartment building I've lived in, there is only an ethernet port in the wall.
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by ev1 6y ago
CCPA exists.
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by ev1 6y ago
I'm not joking, but the real problem here is all the hot steaming dogshite that they choose to load, not really the number of requests, IMO. Many of those requests are also running GPU code to fingerprint clients. Canvas and WebGL. To
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by ev1 6y ago
This is not sarcasm. I've encountered news sites that do over 15,000 requests and load chains and waterfalls of tracking, invasive garbage, stuff that is illegal in Europe, from over 250+ domains on a single pageview.
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by ev1 6y ago
this is going into some real "blursed image" territory.
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by ev1 6y ago
This sounds even more legally questionable, where you are replacing others' ads with your own.
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by ev1 6y ago
The boxes have the ability to try to DHCP-release-renew your IP to get a new one after being banned for spam/fraud/DDoS/etc. However, this is not how these residential proxies are sold- mass market ones with millions of IPs a
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by ev1 6y ago
I am an administrator on a forum that was attacked heavily by these "residential proxy services"; most of the time the users have agreed to a hidden EULA somewhere like at installation time of the extension buried deep within. But
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by ev1 6y ago
The world is not ready; the world will silence the messenger.
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by ev1 6y ago
NTT the carrier and NTT Docomo (the horrid mobile phone provider that I was forced to use on a trip there) are different, probably.
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by ev1 6y ago
This is spam, they are just spraying the equivalent of calendar invites
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by ev1 6y ago
To me, this just reads like him obnoxiously spamming social media endlessly.
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by ev1 6y ago
> Ok, but now the resource is in my cache, so from now on they will think I'm gay? This resource is just generic, so probably not, but if you actually visited grindr's site without adblocking heavily, they load googletagmanager
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by ev1 6y ago
There are several data-broker-esque "services" that actually do this already with FB, Google, etc assets (favicon.ico and similar, loggedIn urls, ...) to check whether you have visited those pages, or whether you are logged in to
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by ev1 6y ago
For anyone else still confused: CVS is an American retailer that typically issues receipts with additional advertising, bad low-value coupons with paragraphs of exclusions, on the bottom of a receipt. This makes a single-item purchase resul
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by ev1 6y ago
You clicked an ad, not YouTube. You never went to YouTube. To be specific: you clicked an ad that says 'www.youtube.com' next to the title - NOT the url bar. Advertisers can put any domain they want there. It does not need to be a
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by ev1 6y ago
It's a difference in goals. - Hobby kid doesn't want to overpay, shut everything down - Business absolutely doesn't care about spend, if they get some kind of marketing result traffic spike they just want the site to stay up
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by ev1 6y ago
What is 'low level'? It depends on what the product is and what tier of bullshit it implies. For example: "Free photo editor" but the free plan does not allow saving. "Free CMS" but you can only have one page a
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by ev1 6y ago
It's difficult to do raw socket (not QUIC) UDP over browser.
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by ev1 6y ago
If you do host large-ish files, even a couple MB JPGs, your personal finance wouldn't be happy. I've had some images hit reddit (hotlinked) and exceeded 10-15TB per image, and that cost under $10 at other (non-AWS/Azure/
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by ev1 6y ago
HN probably expects a somewhat technical explanation, not a rant about Big Banking being overlords. Even if it might be correct..
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by ev1 6y ago
FB app, and several merchants run .swf and java applets that request MAC locally and upload it. Also enumerate WebRTC for lan FB used to also websocket portscan your localhost + LAN on login from a fbsbx.com domain that also attempted to lo

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