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by gorhill 13y ago
Order for 198: ^[^o].....?$ Probably not what was wanted, but it works (or maybe it was to trick people onto a false path)
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by gorhill 13y ago
Backrefs (201): (...).*\1
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by gorhill 13y ago
Plain string: just 'foo' works.
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by gorhill 13y ago
Exactly. This article brought back memories. Actually I realized, why not just put this stuff old time onto Github. There is no real use if only to remind people how different it was back then when you wanted to make a game... Some people w
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "Miles were never free. They just used to be paid for equally by everyone--including people not using credit cards! In effect, it was a sales tax imposed by Visa and Mastercard on everyone." You say that as if this new policy
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "they should be dealing with other error cases anyways" Especially when "Access to all your contacts" (or whatever) is really not needed for the application to work correctly.
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by gorhill 13y ago
All these abusive permissions are an excellent opportunity for GNU-licensed software (free, no ads, only strict minimum of required permissions -- all honestly explained) to thrive on Android.
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "[You think maybe you should start identifying that you're promoting your own product with these comments?]" Your going personal. I am talking about the extensions, not you. If for-profit companies are going to claim to
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by gorhill 13y ago
What was not blocked: == Disconnect: * s3.amazonaws.com * cloudfront.net * echoenabled.com * troveread.com * trove.com == Ghostery: * s3.amazonaws.com * echoenabled.com * platform.twitter.com == HTTP Switchboard * echoenabled.com For HTTP S
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by gorhill 13y ago
I just tested the front page of wired.com with this new page I just assembled to quickly check what blockers are not blocking: http://raymondhill.net/httpsb/har-parser.html . Despite "Adobe tag" marked as bl
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by gorhill 13y ago
I tested what is available on Chromium. Request Policy is not available for this platform.
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "prove me wrong" This is a terrible answer: you are suggesting that Disconnect knows exactly which 3rd-party is legit when visiting a web page, and somehow you can vouch that none of these hostnames is a threat to privacy (th
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "look to be first parties serving content for the page" "look to be"? How would javascript code know that? I measured something, and that is the result of my measurement. People can make an informed decision with pr
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by gorhill 13y ago
I don't know about either... https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/How-does-HTT...
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by gorhill 13y ago
Doesn't that fulfill all your points: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard Posted on HackerNews two days ago.
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by gorhill 13y ago
No. I prefer the scientific approach. At this point, I just reported what I observed. Maybe somebody will come up with a sensible hypothesis as to why a value changes so often. Google could just come forward and tell us the exact meaning of
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by gorhill 13y ago
That part (value of `S`) changes everytime the tab loses focus: pref=[...]:S=J3ITrb9DNMWLQBzc What kind of "preferences" changes in that way each time the user browse away the page and how does it help "user experience"?
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by gorhill 13y ago
What a coincidence... I was just a few seconds ago, before taking a break to read HackerNews, investigating an issue with a Chromium blocker ( https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/79# ), and was pu
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by gorhill 13y ago
Is it the nemo file manager? under some circumstances, nemo starts to hog memory and CPU. It has to be killed. It will restart ok when you open the file manager again. Aside that annoyance, all has been working fine. I don't recall exa
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by gorhill 13y ago
Fixed: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "Still not crazy about it." It worked very well from here. Went down to 100px wide and whole site fit in neatly. edit: fixed wrong quoted sentence.
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by gorhill 13y ago
Just to add to my previous reply, one of the venue I would like to see more from content providers is micro-tipping. Provide a way for the readers to micro-tip for an article they liked, etc. There are a lot of new ideas out there with a lo
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by gorhill 13y ago
To me it's more a matter of ad and content providers adjusting to reality than playing pretend. My view on this is that by blocking ads, I am actually helping these providers by telling them a piece of reality: I don't care about
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by gorhill 13y ago
It's working for me if I whitelist `feedly.com`.
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by gorhill 13y ago
It's in the extension's pop-up menu: click the top-right icon, and there is the option "HTTPSB on/off" (recording continues though even if off, so one can still see what is going on in the page).
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by gorhill 13y ago
Fair enough. Yesterday night I also added the following in the first paragraph of the README file (and detailed description in Chrome store): "As of December 2013, the extension comes with preset blacklists totalling over 45,000 distin
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments" What is the first purpose of a megacorp (or any corp)? To increase shareholders' equity. Nothing wrong with that, but let's
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by gorhill 13y ago
I think you can find some sort of answer by looking at the most popular extensions on Firefox: * AdBlock Plus * NoScript * WOT * Ghostery * Better Privacy * DoNotTrackMe https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ext
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by gorhill 13y ago
> "the title nor the github account are up front about is that this is an ad/privacy blocker that comes with a rather large blacklist" This has been there for two months: https://github.com/gorhill/htt
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by gorhill 13y ago
"Allow users to disable/enable preset blacklists" https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/78 This was on my todo list, but there, I formalized it.

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