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by g-b-r 1y ago
I have to change two settings to be able to see plain http things, and luckily I only need to a handful of times a year. If I'm really curious about your plain http site I'll check it out through archive.org, and I'm definite
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by g-b-r 1y ago
The alternative of the article was ACME vs other ways of getting TLS certificates, not https vs http. Of course plain http would be, generally, much more dangerous than a however complex encrypted connection
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by g-b-r 1y ago
For god's sake, however complex ACME might be it's better than not supporting TLS
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by g-b-r 1y ago
> Some people don't want to be forced to run a bunch of stuff they don't understand on the server It's not just about not understanding, it's that more complex stuff is inherently more prone to security vulnerabilitie
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by g-b-r 1y ago
I mean, it could theoretically have been to provide plausible deniability, but it seems extremely more likely to have been incompetence and carelessness (and if they were also sending everything to Israel, it was probably through some unenc
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by g-b-r 1y ago
I know some people who quickly give up and renounce using the service, when they run into hCaptcha puzzles. I've been bewildered for some time as well, honestly, it took me a while to figure out the first I ran into. And trying one now
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by g-b-r 1y ago
Any directory that Google lets you access , which is very far from every directory. For example, without using Google'' backup you can't backup the data of other apps, such as games' progress.
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by g-b-r 1y ago
It really could.
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by g-b-r 1y ago
It's probably Play Integrity, indeed, which most of all checks if the user downloaded the app from the Play Store (and so requires a Google account, and being logged in to it on the phone).
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by g-b-r 1y ago
There's a lot of good that happens via internet communication, social media is inherently toxic. Despite some crazy wider definitions I ran into, social media traditionally meant things similar to Facebook, so real names, over-sharing
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by g-b-r 1y ago
Accordingly would be with (violent) words. Could you tell us where you're from, anyhow?
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by g-b-r 1y ago
It's a feature for high quality console ported games, not for apps that few years ago did the same things using a lot less resources
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by g-b-r 1y ago
There's no need for a login to track you with "first-party cookies", looking at the IP is perfectly adequate, at most adding some fingerprinting if you really want. The only problem is that then the tracking companies have to
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by g-b-r 1y ago
I don't recall a browser that didn't let you disable third-party cookies; given how long ago cookies were introduced, I could have forgotten about it, but I'm at least sure that Mozilla always supported it. Firefox, especiall
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by g-b-r 2y ago
That's true
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by g-b-r 2y ago
(it's NBC)
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by g-b-r 2y ago
There was also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848858 , that had been flagged. I vouched for it for the moment (I don't see what would make these posts unsuitable for the site), we'll see :/
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by g-b-r 2y ago
> Android can play more than 2 media streams at once. From what I can glean that's only if the apps allow that, by not requesting the audio focus, and the documentation recommends to request it. It's indeed very rare to find tw
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by g-b-r 2y ago
He probably meant free ram And it wouldn't be a potato were it not for the operating system and the apps' increased usage
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Google's stock apps have been steadily growing in size as well
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Let's not pretend that all developers care, please. I'm far from sure that the majority cares, either.
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Well, it actually did happen to me (precisely to pay the rent), and I burst into applause after reading your blog post
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Uhm I think Google Play now always only sends you only the resources for your device and language? (except for the few old apps that are exempt from giving the signing key to Google)
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by g-b-r 2y ago
God I thought I was an idiot, that game seemed so hard!!! I'm so glad to have read this xD (back then I didn't even know what piracy was, it was just a game that someone gave me)
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by g-b-r 2y ago
I personally didn't mind it, usually, for most games it was better to have the manual in front in any case
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Hmm, I had bought a PC release of it at a newstand and it didn't have that protection
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by g-b-r 2y ago
A lot of people back then didn't realize that there were these secondary checks, I wouldn't blast GOG.
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by g-b-r 2y ago
No
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by g-b-r 2y ago
You could require having your claims verified by a trustworthy party (or at least a court) before being able to send them. The lack of verification, even just of the sender's identity, is just insane.
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by g-b-r 2y ago
Or a reputable one with that line of code included (in one of the updates, after having built a good reputation); maybe dormant until a certain date.

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