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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"One thing that's very notable is, they agreed to do all this stuff back in 2011, and it looks like they didn't live up to the promises then. So the question is, what makes us believe them now ? ... Yes, I mean, that's
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Is DNS configuration ever considered as a factor in "DNS performance"? IME as an end user, it makes a significant difference. For example if it takes seven queries to resolve a name "A" versus two queries to look up a
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
What I meant was sharing not browsing data but DNS lookup data . As always, too easy to be misunderstood in comments like these.
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Today, it is standard procedure for many companies to vacuum up as much data as they can by getting users to agree to long, impenetrable terms of service. Companies might not even know how they will use the information being collected
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"But as well intentioned as that step may be, it addresses only a symptom of the problem of the extensive surveillance of Americans , not the root of the problem." - Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017, visiting fe
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"... a crappy data sharing service." Do you mean OpenDNS?
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
It works with elinks. When the page is loaded, press backslash key (view page source). See below for sample. I dont use Chrome. Cant comment on that. <meta charset="utf-8" emacsmode="-*- markdown -*-&q
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"I do also think that, you know, Facebook has a responsibility to its users to protect their data and not just to protect it but make sure that people understand what data they're producing and whether they own it, who has acc
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Look at enough bullshit highly curated vacation photos on Facebook and you're bound to find the truth of your life gradually, then suddenly, more depressing than it probably is . ... I quit Facebook a year ago, and when people a
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Prior to April of 2008, Plaintiffs had written the first Survey, Petition, Polling, Quizzes and IQ Test applications to appear on Facebook and ranked as one of the largest Facebook application developers in the world." Source:
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"The guy who was showing me around pointed out where they were building "apartments for our people to live". "So they'll work on campus, they'll eat on campus, they'll socialise on campus and now they&#x27
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Heres something that I noticed earlier today that might be of interest: 420 million Facebook profiles uploaded to archive.org http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/03/the-kiwi-s...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Sorry about that. Its just a brief article. Heres a no-Javascript version: curl -o 1.htm http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reportedly-deleting-controversial-internal-
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Meanwhile: http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reporte...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
http://fortune.com/2018/03/31/facebook-employees-are-reporte...
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Data on 420M Facebook users from 2007-2010(newshub.co.nz)
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
It does work without JS. For elinks, try pressing the backslash key.
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
If the user is being shown an advertisement when opening a local software program then that means a request is being made automatically to some remote server. That is data collection. If the user clicks it, thats more data collection. An
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
http://bgr.com/2018/03/29/apple-new-privacy-features-ios-11-...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Heres Wikipedia: "Stub resolvers are "minimal DNS resolvers that use recursive query mode to offload most of the work of DNS resolution to a recursive name server." A stub resolver will simply forward a request to a recursive
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
They may spin it as necessary for "diagnostic" purposes or some such, to improve "user experience". This may be true but at the same time they reserve the right to use the data however they wish. It may have much highe
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"In reality, Apple collects more information about its customers than Facebook because it offers more products and services." Was/is all that data collection necessary? Did they (or Microsoft) make decisions about data coll
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/16/silicon-v...
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"When in doubt: authoritative servers 'host' DNS data, 'resolvers' look up things over at authoritative servers and clients run 'stub resolvers' to look things up over at resolvers." What about progra
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Facebook has tapped one of its most veteran execs to lead all of its consumer hardware efforts, including the mysterious Building 8 division responsible for its forthcoming video chat device. Andrew "Boz" Bosworth will ove
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
This one is my favourite: "This is so disappointing, wonder if there is a way to hire for integrity. We are probably focusing on the intelligence part and getting smart people here who lack a moral compass and loyalty." Note how
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"Almost all of the shares [COB+CEO] controls get ten votes each, but public shareholders only get one vote per share. That gives [COB+CEO] over 50% of the voting power even though he only owns about 16% of the shares ." Question:
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
Emily Waite: "Mark Zuckerberg has never really understood privacy. From Facebook's earliest days, he figured people [incl. Boz?] would eventually grow comfortable sharing everything with everyone -indeed, his business depended o
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
http://www.debath.co.uk/ https://github.com/lkundrak/dev86
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by feelin_googley 9y ago
"questionable contact importing practices" Now this seems like something "no one" (other than "techies") would really care about, right? Yet he is calling this out specifically. This just shows that people ins

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