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by gcb0 8y ago
go read: verizon supercookie
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by gcb0 8y ago
article starts so well, outlining the lack of true decentralization of today internet and how connection providers control everything as consequece. then it mentions block chain, failing to realize that miners can monopolize it just like am
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by gcb0 8y ago
yes. I block iframes globally and the web never been better. it will show a checkered pattern with a link to open the frame in another window. so you don't even have to whitelist sites or anything. if you care about the frame, like for
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by gcb0 8y ago
link has the 2008 opinion of a federal reserve vice president, on why the middle class is doing just grand. why on earth would I even bother to read it?!
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by gcb0 8y ago
you all should install uMatrix webextension and stop just "wishing". the future is now :)
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by gcb0 8y ago
just because it works better than placebo doesn't make it the best treatment. all over the world, terapies works better than antidepressants, with infinitely less undesirable side effects for patient and society. yet in the US it is v
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by gcb0 8y ago
I don't know based on what you are saying that, but all US cellular operators already told shareholders their billion dollar plans for 5G as far as last year.
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by gcb0 8y ago
great. now we are on the other side, with the moon landers deniers?
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by gcb0 8y ago
wow. that last paragraph was a little heavy handed on forcing a completely new topic and new facts wasn't it?
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by gcb0 8y ago
"$" ?
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by gcb0 8y ago
nobody is seeing this for what this really is: Apple users compromised by internal agent. Nation states already paid google employees to target gmail etc. now they targeted an apple employee to make this mistake which allows any targeted at
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by gcb0 8y ago
your problem is being poor. if you had opted to be born rich, your friend's charity would have bought your car over the appraised value and you would have made a profit! all with tax free dollars all around.
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by gcb0 8y ago
some americans have really weird meanings for some words. such as left to mean center-right, and liberal to mean companies employing dozens of lobbyists trying to influence a very strong State. oh! and "decadent" as a praise for c
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by gcb0 8y ago
ozark is the definition of open cable tv. its a breaking bad clone.
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by gcb0 8y ago
but the translations on those cases are always weird. for example, even for their own content they have dumb rules such as having french subtitled and french dubbing, but unless you're in France you won't have the option of french
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by gcb0 8y ago
a phising attemp that emulates a OS window in html is lame and should have been spoted a mile away. real popups open as tabs to begin with.
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by gcb0 8y ago
Netflix is dead. their content quality is already "daytime cable tv" quality. and this proves they have no good product people anymore.
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by gcb0 8y ago
this already happens. one case I know about: tatoo artists travel the world for work as guests in different studios. most do so under tourism visa sice its only a couple months each place. their managers (and online forums) already have a
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by gcb0 8y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/trading
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by gcb0 8y ago
And we as a society know that and think it is normal. Crazy.
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by gcb0 8y ago
how is any of this different than "hotlinking" the A or IMG tag in html? it adds absolutely nothing besides that.
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by gcb0 8y ago
All those companies sell the "anonymized data" to everyone. for example "ad X shown to user Y targeted on Z at time T" And if you happen know user Y matches user earenndil in a data set you control, now you know user ea
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by gcb0 8y ago
great. now draw a few hundred more n. and don't forget the min-max values.
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by gcb0 8y ago
ironically instead of just giving me a link, now dyckduckgo results list will track me to known which link I clicked. this is the beginning of the end for duckduckgo :(
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by gcb0 8y ago
"it doesn't have a default theme" ...One paragraph later "here's a business card in the default theme" technically, it have all the themes to the point that picking up individual color for everything make it a
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by gcb0 8y ago
so, taking off in an airplane should rank very high on that list. the "potential" for all the things listed there is very high. also love the "but not limited to" before a laundry list. that is the definition of "a
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by gcb0 8y ago
lineage os uses kernel and drivers as binary blobs from the oem themselves. not to mention most images ship with gapps anyway.
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by gcb0 8y ago
apple marketing sells you the idea that they are much better... sad that even people here fall for that. 10% of their monster revenue is selling your data to advertiser backchannels.
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by gcb0 8y ago
you gave an idea for a weekend project. posting here in case I change my mind and slack on something else. instead of deleting facebook (or not having it), create a shell profile, just enough for you family to pointlessly add. then subscrib
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by gcb0 8y ago
from that egoistically lawless point of view, they will do better on each privacy violation that gets reported as it signal better return for the investment of advertisers.

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