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by neiman 6y ago
Afaik GDPR allows harvesting of data as long as I agree to that in the user agreement. The problem is of course that more than once I found out the user agreements after purchasing the product, when it was too late. (I live in the EU, so GD
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by neiman 6y ago
Thanks, looks great.
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If I had the resources, I would establish an organization for privacy badges for products. From "absolutely anonymous", through "necessary violations of privacy for function" till "unnecessary harvesting of data&quo
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Slippery slope, people, it's a slippery slope.
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I's a guide on how to pay privately with cryptocurrencies. You should still report and pay tax for private cryptocurrencies. Privacy and tax evasion are not identical..
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Respecting video games is great, but like you don't respect a movie as "the best meal I ever had", you also don't respect a game by putting it in a "recommended reading list".
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by neiman 6y ago
Great. I think that social media concept is awesome. I want to follow people in my feed, I want to create discussions with them. But how those main social networks did it, with likes or other shallow simplifications of human response, with
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by neiman 6y ago
I agree. Sometimes it feels that companies throw any possible value out of the bus in order for the perfect UX.
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The Segway idea lives, it turned into the e-scooter and create an urban mobility revolution.
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Like other people here, I think it's technologically interesting. Also, like many others, I don't see any great practical use-cases for this right now. However, "if you build it they will come". I'm excited to see w
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by neiman 6y ago
They're building a software, not a service. They can't control what their users do with their software, in the same way that Microsoft can't control if you use Word to re-publish Harry Potter under your name. Evaluate them by
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> E2EE is essential for a modern life which isn't a hellish surveillance dystopia, and the detection and prosecution of child rape is criminally underfunded. Yup. This.
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> Phone numbers are also very easy to obtain anonymously, so I am not sure SMS verification would help track down abusers when it'll lead to a prepaid SIM or some innocent user's phone that happened to be compromised by malware
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by neiman 6y ago
True dat. Personalization is super important (in any software), it's a shame that in general, it's not being the focus of most of them.
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Introduction to Dwebsites(blog.almonit.eth.link)
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I was referring to this comment, I agree with what's written there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077187
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That's a brilliant proposal.
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> feel like as a society we've swung so far away from institutional trust The main mistake is that you compare, emotionally at least, Apple to an institute. But it's not, it's a commercial company. "We" never had
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by neiman 6y ago
Is there a size limit of on the files? This was the issue with all WebRTC file sending websites I saw so far.
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by neiman 7y ago
I'm from Almonit, one of the organizations mentioned in the article. We create a decentralized search engine for Dwebsites, almonit.eth . It also got a (almost) complete list of existing Dwebsites. We also got browser extensions for ac
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by neiman 7y ago
Only if you're a partner, so - no.
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by neiman 7y ago
Lol they offer free ads because there's a financial crisis, they probably lost of customers and they're trying to attract new ones. Fine. I offer free ads for 3 months worth 1B$ in my website, can I use it now for PR as well?:-)
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by neiman 7y ago
Nice! What does "quality" mean for SVG icons though? I could choose the resolution to be whatever I want.
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by neiman 7y ago
I can't bring myself to read those tweets till the end. I'm not a native English speaker though, is it me or them?
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by neiman 7y ago
> Typical web/app tracking is orders of magnitude cheaper than research. It doesn't just ethics, and I think it should be "first, do no harm", as in, first, be ethical. Btw, opt-in metrics are ethical and cheap afaik.
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by neiman 7y ago
I run a geek-tech blog in Hebrew. I used analytics for a while in the past, but the numbers were completely off. There were posts with almost more comments than visitors based on the analytics. Took me a while to realize that most of my rea
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by neiman 7y ago
Everyone should feel ad about being subject to metrics, because anyone can be manipulated given the right knowledge about them.
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by neiman 7y ago
It's funny to say "100% green", since in this particular case you need also to look how much pollution was made in the building process of a yacht, and if the price pays off with it being 100% green.
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by neiman 7y ago
I just don't think most "people get annoyed" by such things, definitely not "annoyed AF", besides some very impatient people who'll always find this or other reasons to be annoyed.
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by neiman 7y ago
> His mom ended up calling my sister or our landline to check up on her son. It was annoying AF. What you call "annoying AF" was reality for many many years, and yet people were not constantly annoyed..

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