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by marichards 8y ago
Brave decided to protect users by default from privacy concerns, it may not be perfect, I'm going to give it a go and see. Firefox offers various privacy features (check about:config), but they're opt-in and typically have a bar t
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by marichards 8y ago
I support the motive, but it appears to have been hijacked to include companies that don't protect privacy. Happy to amend this response if creator finds a way to moderate it, but for instance MixPanel stole usernames and passwords ear
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by marichards 8y ago
The company that man-in-the-middles much of the net, boasts it is reducing the risks of others being able to man-in-the-middle some metadata.
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by marichards 8y ago
Except, by default their primary product was the interface by which may of their users got targeted. They've sat on their hands on privacy for years, offering features for the informed minority, not protecting the majority of their use
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by marichards 8y ago
Sadly, they removed this too. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im... To whoever restored the anchor element doc, thanks, I hope it stays there or they suggest a better alter
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by marichards 8y ago
I'm tired of complaining to companies about microtargeting on their websites or security failings like leaking reset passwords. There's a serious knowledge gap between how businesses think the web works and how it actually does an
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Mozilla staff insist on removing referer warnings from docs(developer.mozilla.org)
4 points by marichards 8y ago|2 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
Why do we trust this statement? It's coming from a company that plays loose with the law and has had some of the biggest fines ever thrown at it. Sorry, but with no way to validate this claim, it is meaningless.
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by marichards 8y ago
If the marketplace was full of independent trackers (which I'm not suggesting is a good idea, because third party trackers are bad in the first place), then as they get compromised, only a small subset of data is lost... The chance of
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by marichards 8y ago
This is not GDPR friendly. Executing third party JS on your website is an access to the page content, so unless the customer never had any user data or sensitive data on the page, they'll have to categorise simpleanalytics as a data pr
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by marichards 8y ago
When all you need to do breach someone's privacy and often the law is publish: <a href="https://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> then you need to learn about security and privacy and how to de
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by marichards 8y ago
Why is Google instrumental? I can use the internet without Google. Search engines like DuckDuckGo are free. Other email like ProtonMail is available for free. You can run free services and use different ad models, they don't have to b
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by marichards 8y ago
If you run an ad campaign at a targeted audience, why can't the campaign have a specific page marker (campaign=only-christians (coded as AB1)) that reveals personal data? We never had a choice of an alternative model. The monopolies in
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Why Am I Seeing This? Interesting Facebook Ads from Our Political Ad Collector(propublica.org)
1 points by marichards 8y ago|0 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
I'm under the impression Firefox intends to do DOH with Cloudflare shortly. Does this allow Cloudflare to tie together user sessions to different HTTPS domains? If X and Y are Cloudflare fronted domains, can they now pair sessions? I&#
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by marichards 8y ago
So DNS over HTTPS sounds great.
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UK political party response to losing membership data to Facebook(drive.google.com)
1 points by marichards 8y ago|0 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
We need experiments like this. Clinical studies, try to address various factors beyond does the drug technically work, but does it work in practice (coping with people doing everyday things like having dementia, drinking or babies). We have
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by marichards 8y ago
Facebook is evil. Obviously, the "devil" is evil, but is his finger? Is his kneecap? Is his moment eating lunch? We don't judge an entity as evil or not because all components are not evil, we judge it based on its broad acti
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Third Party Apps: The Next Big Data Sharing Scandal?(forbes.com)
1 points by marichards 8y ago|0 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading technology in some situations. Okay, but which situations? Edit: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec... Is Intel recommending HT is turned off?
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by marichards 8y ago
IE was terrible for anyone not using Windows. They encouraged ActiveX and didn't keep to web specs. Imagine if they'd kept their monopoly and we'd all had to stay on Vista and Windows Mobile because it was the only way to br
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by marichards 8y ago
Market size matters. Also, I'm guessing a complaint has to be brought to the EU before they'll investigate. Are there any official complaints against Apple?
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by marichards 8y ago
You don't need any apps when you startup your phone except one to download the apps you need. So factory reset should show a view of select your appstore (Google, F-Droid, etc). Once that's installed you're ready to go.
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by marichards 8y ago
Unless meat was part of the sales pitch or contract, they can probably choose the menu they cater regardless, so this seems fine. However I do think the expenses part seems wrong. Employers should not dictate restrictions on breakfast, lunc
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Cookie Consent? “No problem”(clearscore.com)
1 points by marichards 8y ago|0 comments
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German court issues first GDPR ruling(natlawreview.com)
265 points by marichards 8y ago|81 comments
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by marichards 8y ago
The press gets hold of it and realises that they're littered with Facebook and Google integrations, their consent policy is little better and then they decide that they're going to publish this? The press has been suckered into th
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by marichards 8y ago
I'm not sure they sell it. If I'm reading their dialogue correctly, they appear to just give it away which is either a lie or even more worrying.
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Lets get rid of tracking on the UK's NHS(change.org)
18 points by marichards 8y ago|3 comments

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