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by jkp56 7y ago
It's one cat and millions of mice that multiply rapidly. Ads networks that use random unpredictable domains are intractable by the static blacklist approach. Not only that: ads networks can watch the public blacklist and adjust their d
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by jkp56 7y ago
Which is same as banning ad blockers. With the declarative API you can't know what domains this website connects to and you can't prevent it from connecting to bad domains. Moreover, trackers and ads can choose a random domain to
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by jkp56 7y ago
I don't understand your point. It doesn't matter what the language is: JS, Lua, Python, C++ or even Rust. What matters is the API the extension has access to: tab URLs, web requests, storage, network, DOM read only or read write.
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by jkp56 7y ago
Everybody misses the point. The declarative API takes control away from the user. Currently you can block everything except the useful content. With the declarative API you can block only trackers A, B and C, but not C and D, because C and
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by jkp56 7y ago
This law is a step in the right direction, although in its current form it's toothless and uses disgustingly submissive language (e.g. the user may not out or the user needs to be informed about how theur data is going to be abused). T
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by jkp56 7y ago
I'm an expert. The correct answer is to not log any PII data. Logging obvious PII because it might be useful in some hypothetical future sounds like plain incompetence. If you really need to log PII, log it separately and set clear pol
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by jkp56 7y ago
This is plain truth, not nonsense. You can go and start a corporation any time. If it appears successful, you need to hire a CEO and a bunch of other people. At that time you'll own nearly all preferred shares that give control. Despit
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by jkp56 7y ago
Brad Smith clearly wants to corner software engineers and leave them no choice, but to unionize. I understand that this is not Brad's idea and he just delivered the message from the MS board meeting. However the big tech does need regu
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by jkp56 7y ago
Neither engineers not execs really make decisions to be good or evil. They implement the will of major shareholders who actually run the company. Satya Nadella has maybe 100s of millions, while the capitalization of MS is 1 trillion. This m
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by jkp56 7y ago
I was told by a Google HR that on average a candidate tries 4 times before passing the interview. That's believable because when any of the 5 interviewers saying "probably not" translates to a no hire, stars really need to al