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by gorhill 12y ago
I usually refer new users to this one page which shows that the extension can also be used in "allow-all/block-exceptionally" mode, which mode is less likely to break web pages (ABP, Ghostery, Disconnect etc. all work in such
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by gorhill 12y ago
> Does that mean these whitelistings only apply to pages in a Google subdomain Yes, the top-most left-most box is for choosing where the rules apply, I call it the scope selector. " " = global scope " .example.com" =
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by gorhill 12y ago
Thanks for the nice words, it does help the morale. Regarding javascript execution there are two cases: External javascript: won't execute because the net request for the external resource is blocked. Inline javascript: won't ex
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by gorhill 12y ago
I wish I had EFF's clout behind my work too[1]. In the last few months, I have been completely dedicated to write an extension which completely informs the user about what a web page does, and gives the user full control over what we
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Show HN: Blocking JavaScript execution reliably in Chromium-based browsers(github.com)
7 points by gorhill 12y ago|0 comments
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by gorhill 13y ago
> it's not possible to unambiguously segment the text into distinct letters (which is a necessary first step in any OCR engine that I'm aware of) This made me realize I never saw such a thing as OWR, i.e. a software that would
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by gorhill 13y ago
I didn't think about trying this. With your example, the results appear to be all from the same web page, but that is an illusion, it's just the search engine returning first the results for which the letter case matches. On the t
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What is the "_sm_byp" query parameter seen on countless URLs?
8 points by gorhill 13y ago|5 comments
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by gorhill 13y ago
I am pretty sure he was joking. But there are cases though where the speed does matter. Cool d3 animations for example.
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by gorhill 13y ago
That benchmark measures only the computation of the whole diagram -- which is the sole purpose of the library. The rendering, if any, is left to the caller after the diagram has been wholly computed, so there was no point for me to measure
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by gorhill 13y ago
Same there (try 10000 sites, click "Benchmark"): http://www.raymondhill.net/voronoi/rhill-voronoi-demo1.html The difference has narrowed though, FF used to be much, much slower than chromium.
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by gorhill 13y ago
I have cookies disabled and yet it says "Cookies enabled: Yes". I did verify there was no "Cookie" header sent. What's with that?
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by gorhill 13y ago
I don't particularly need a regex course, but I have to say, this site is so nicely designed, so easy for the eye. A good way to practice regex is to use one of the many online regex tools to validate your understanding. My current fav
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by gorhill 13y ago
There is also this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871331
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Front page of "top 15 most popular news websites" = 698 scripts, 389 cookies(github.com)
2 points by gorhill 13y ago|0 comments
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by gorhill 13y ago
The extension did more than just add ads. A javascript listener for the click event was attach to each link on the result page. If the user hovered with his mouse over a link, he couldn't tell the link would lead him to http:/&#x
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by gorhill 13y ago
> All the "keylogger" stuff is just rumors started by people who are either incapable of reading a sentence from start to end or are knowingly lying about it I went ahead and looked at the code after downloading the zipped exte
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by gorhill 13y ago
I wrote an extension (HTTP Switchboard) which can log and filter behind-the-scene requests, which also comprise net requests made by extensions. I suppose this could be used to validate that an extension connects to a remote server. In any
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by gorhill 13y ago
The most concise argument a user can bring to this "debate" is to simply block all of these trackers/analytics/etc.
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by gorhill 13y ago
And that's why it feels so good to block all hits to `google-analytics.com`. There is a choice of extensions that do the job. Sites which do not work because of that blocking are probably very rare.
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "How is it different if the device in question is instead a cruise missile? A rifle? A knife? A fist?" I am pretty sure it's easier to dehumanize people when they are merely pixels on a screen.
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by gorhill 13y ago
This just shows that even when shielding successfully against all other known mean of tracking [1], ultimately fingerprinting still can accomplish something re. tracking. Of course if a user doesn't care about other means of tracking,
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by gorhill 13y ago
Well I am using my own extension, with which you can block selectively cookies/javascript (among other stuff) and... With cookies/js/plugins enabled I get: 1 in 3,719,197. With cookies/js/plugins disabled I get: 1 i
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "They didn't use any JavaScript to get this information" Then what are the five "no javascript" messages I see?
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "But it should only take one screenshot every 30 seconds" The bug is in my reporting tool I just realized. Yes, it reports only each time the screen change. Sorry about that. About multiplayer, understood, make sense.
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by gorhill 13y ago
[nothing wrong, except my brain]
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by gorhill 13y ago
Why do you need 20+ screenshots of the game screen within less than a second?
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by gorhill 13y ago
Very nice.
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by gorhill 13y ago
That really look great on video, I definitely will have to check this. I started playing the first Age of Empires such a long time ago. After Age of Titans (my favorite of all -- the God powers added a lot of fun), I didn't like as muc
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "How much did the OP pay to use Facebook as a social platform?" Spare me the "pitchforks". Nothing is free. We all pay for what appears to be free, the price is just very well hidden in the current case. Advertised

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