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by k1m 9y ago
It actually is pretty standard. Sweden has done it in many other cases. As Wikileaks highlighted when this was made into an issue.
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by k1m 9y ago
It's worth noting that David Allen Green is not a neutral commentator here. He was very clearly against Assange early on. See this piece where Glenn Greenwald debunks some of his falsehoods. https://www.theguardian.com/
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by k1m 9y ago
Applying for asylum is also part of the rule of law. It was granted based on real concerns. Since backed up by UN legal experts who found in his favour.
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by k1m 10y ago
From The Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAcdV019oMQ :)
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by k1m 10y ago
My Block Ads! site https://blockads.fivefilters.org tries to detect your browser and recommend a suitable version of uBlock Origin. Links to Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Edge extensions. Intended to be an easy way to get f
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by k1m 10y ago
I didn't find a way to fix something at the bottom of each printed page with CSS either. Not sure if there's a solution today. I looked into it last in 2014. And yes, Chrome had removed multi-column printing. It's supported a
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by k1m 10y ago
A better reading experience. If you like to print articles to read offline, you can either rely on the publisher's own print stylesheet, or use an application like ours. It uses the same formatting for all articles and adds columns. It
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by k1m 10y ago
There's a lot of nice things you can do in CSS for printing. I worked on a project to make web articles printable. The last version focused more on doing the printing via the browser using CSS for creating columns. Here's a video
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The Cold, Hard Facts of Life – A Reappraisal(medialens.org)
2 points by k1m 10y ago|0 comments
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by k1m 10y ago
I often want to share an article but hate the fact that people who'll click will expose themselves to a lot of crap if they're not running a blocker. Obviously I'd rather not link to such sites at all. But with so much of the
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Show HN: Ad-block-promoting URL shortener(blockads.fivefilters.org)
5 points by k1m 10y ago|3 comments
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by k1m 10y ago
> There are no "good guys" on the other side. People shouldn't track me, that one's obvious, but they also shouldn't advertise at me, ever. Agree. I think it's unfortunate that so much of the debate around a
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by k1m 10y ago
This looks really nice. We've got something similar (written in PHP) at FiveFilters.org http://createfeed.fivefilters.org
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by k1m 10y ago
Exactly. I find it bizarre that so many here seem to see this as no big issue. An application touting itself as something to keep you safe on the web uses its website to advertise malware, and the author of this application goes to great le
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by k1m 10y ago
By going to him, which they have been happy to do in many other cases, and have finally agreed to do in this case after the UN criticised the way they have treated him.
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by k1m 10y ago
Ecuador did not refuse. They are the ones who wanted Assange to be questioned in the embassy in the first place. But obviously there is a procedure for this to happen, and as another commenter says, a date has now been set. The Swedes, afte
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by k1m 10y ago
Sorry you had trouble with the Android app. Anything in particular that bugged you? It's essentially a simpler interface to our web service. The same one used by the web app. So results should be the same from both. But you cannot see
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by k1m 10y ago
We only sell the Android app. Haven't noticed a huge difference there. I'm sure it would affect it if Amazon created an alternative. As for browser extension use, it's not something we actively track. But active user stats, r
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by k1m 10y ago
We do not add ads to the articles. Our project goal is to promote independent, non-corporate media, so on occasion we have added links to criticism of certain corporate media outlets at the end of articles coming from said media.
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by k1m 10y ago
That's correct. It goes to your Amazon.com Kindle account. But we also let users download EPUB and MOBI versions directly without sending to Amazon servers. So that's also an option if you prefer to side load the files.
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by k1m 10y ago
I'm the creator of the FiveFilters.org Push to Kindle service. The technical difference, as far as I'm aware, is that the Amazon version works by using Javascript on your browser to identify the content block and send it to your a
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by k1m 11y ago
Because how else would you find such a service? :)
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by k1m 11y ago
No, it consists of 2 tests at the moment: 1. Tries to load a file called ads.css which is usually blocked in default installations of many blockers relying on Easy List. 2. It uses gstatic.com to check if acceptable ads are being allowed -
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by k1m 11y ago
> It's a lot harder to remove ads from TV so no one seems to think they are unacceptable, no matter how terrible they are. I think they do. And if it were as easy to strip ads from TV as it is for the web, you'd be hearing plen
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by k1m 11y ago
You would if it was as easy as installing an ad blocker.
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by k1m 11y ago
> If ad blocking continues to grow, which we hope it will, other ways of funding will be found. This is one of those ways, so not sure why you think our piece shouldn't be taken seriously.
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by k1m 11y ago
The Guardian is still heavily dependent on advertising and turning more and more to shady native advertising deals. They took oil money for example at the same time as they were running a 'keep it in the ground' campaign. Media Le
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by k1m 11y ago
You can, but why not opt in to acceptable ads? Why do we have to opt out? uBlock Origin does the right thing - assumes you want all ads blocked. By the way, we're in no way affiliated with uBlock Origin. Just think it's currently
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by k1m 11y ago
Thanks! :)
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There are no acceptable ads(github.com)
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