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Soham Tracker(sohamtracker.com)
3 points by hlau 1y ago|0 comments
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An Honest Remembrance of My Friend & Co-Founder Mani Gandham(saturation.substack.com)
2 points by hlau 3y ago|3 comments
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by hlau 3y ago
manigandham was a fairly active HN user.
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by hlau 5y ago
Am I the only one who’s annoyed that the message is gated and that FB somehow needs to track everyone who has seen what I imagine amounts to a mea culpa for their clusterfuck of a week. It’s so weird reading about Web3 and the focus presuma
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by hlau 5y ago
Really surprised to hear that you’re not getting the relevance out of Google. Are most of your searches in a specific domain that’s somehow not covered properly by Google? And is there a search engine that does a better job for you? I’ve tr
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by hlau 5y ago
I actually wrote a deep dive on Apple’s pivot to privacy. https://saturation.substack.com/p/apple-facebook-and-the-glo...
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Apple, Facebook and the Global Race for Privacy(saturation.substack.com)
1 points by hlau 6y ago|0 comments
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by hlau 6y ago
My company actually did a very extensive study on this and found that the majority of websites utilize dark patterns. Only 25% of sites are even legally compliant even after deploying consent management software. Companies are openly flouti
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Let's talk about why privacy settings are a problem(cnet.com)
1 points by hlau 7y ago|0 comments
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'A shit show': uBiome (YC S14) just cut half its staff(businessinsider.com)
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by hlau 7y ago
If you think influencer marketing and product placement are already at capacity you have no idea how much worse it's about to get if ad blocking gets much worse. And the irony is that, by design, you won't know a good chunk of the
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by hlau 7y ago
There definitely is an either/or because blocking of one channel will naturally necessitate money/barter flowing to the other channel. One is at least transparent and regulated, the murky world of influence peddling isn't sin
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by hlau 7y ago
I'll be the first to admit that the existing advertising ecosystem is broken, primarily due to misaligned incentives across the board. But, given a choice, would you rather have a clearly labeled thing that you know is an ad transparen
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by hlau 8y ago
The foundational work he did was definitely impressive. But the fact that it fell to one guy also spoke to how low the stakes were at the time.
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by hlau 8y ago
The IANA was responsible for assigning IP addresses back then. It was basically one dude, Jon Postel( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel ), until it was formalized as an organization in 1988.
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by hlau 9y ago
I highly doubt that most of the investors in ICOs are all that interested in the core business. They're interested in an arbitrary security loosely linked to the core business appreciating that is referred to as a token because calling
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by hlau 9y ago
You just need a whitepaper. And a whole lot of blockchain "experts". Because what makes a biz work is not the soundness of its ideas but the fact that it has its own coin.
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by hlau 10y ago
The IAB (digital ad trade group) is proposing a new standard called LEAN in response to ad blockers. These ads are supposed to be non-invasive. The public comment period has been extended to Dec 22. This is the public's chance to shape
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Want to stop annoying ads? Now is your chance(iab.com)
3 points by hlau 10y ago|1 comments