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by r3bl 8y ago
It's not enabled by default immediately, but I've heard it will be in less than a week.
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by r3bl 8y ago
It's a simple problem of where the market is. India, Russia, and Brazil isn't the target market for people like Schneier. If you narrow the market to the US, Statista reports that Telegram has twice as many users in the US as Vibe
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by r3bl 8y ago
Specifically, it's the EasyPrivacy list that blocks it. That list is one of the default ones in uBlock Origin. The beauty of Matomo is that you can configure it to read the data from the server logs. No need for me to bother with adblo
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by r3bl 8y ago
> malware blacklisting "services" If you're thinking of Google Safe Browsing (used by both Chrome and Firefox), you're wrong. It works the other way around: Google sends you the list of undesired domains, and your cli
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by r3bl 8y ago
Same thing: convenience. Find the phone, unlock the phone, find and open the app, find and click the control. That requires some effort. Saying commands, having physical buttons at the expected location in your home, NFC tags.. there's
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by r3bl 8y ago
Buy a bunch of third-party apps (like Sunrise and SwiftKey) and slowly but surely integrate them into your own products (like Bing and Outlook) to gather more data? I'm entirely used to one of them (SwiftKey) and I've tried severa
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by r3bl 8y ago
I believe you're describing F-Droid.
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by r3bl 8y ago
Disclosure: I've used to work for OCCRP. That's a platform designed for journalists that indeed contains a lot of scraped data and leaks. It cross-references them, so you can type in a name of the person/company and see the d
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by r3bl 8y ago
There are three major music publishers (UMG, Sony, Warner). As long as you have contracts with them, you'll have nearly everything. Spotify's not the only competing service that has almost everything. Tidal, Google Play Music, App
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by r3bl 8y ago
I can tell you the models that Google hands out in Advanced Protection packs at some privacy-oriented conferences: 1. Feitian FIDO MultiPass 2. Feitian ePass FIDO NFC
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by r3bl 8y ago
I find it hard to believe that tech-savvy people click on something on a new tab page instead of doing Ctrl+T -> first two letters -> enter. Since there's a whole lot of space to fill in while doing that, it might as well show yo
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by r3bl 8y ago
> and Windows its relatively simple too since they added BitLocker in 10. Not really. OEM installs have it, but Windows 10 Home doesn't. If you're on an OEM install and decrypt the hard drive once, you won't be able to re-
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by r3bl 8y ago
You can encrypt /home/<user> relatively easily, but you can't avoid having to type in two passwords if you want FDE. You have to decrypt the hard drive to reach the login screen, and other users would have to do the sam
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by r3bl 8y ago
> Facebook spokesperson Jay Nancarrow told TechCrunch that the settings “are not new,” adding that, “the setting applies to any phone numbers you added to your profile and isn’t specific to any feature.” They're not joking when they
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by r3bl 8y ago
They're planning on rolling out the system nation-wide in 2020 and making it obligatory, and nobody knows how exactly that system will look like. However, there's over a dozen of local projects already in place, whose participatio
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by r3bl 8y ago
Yeah, there is — if you live in a western state. There's mostly just originals everywhere else. While some of them are fun to watch, I find it increasingly difficult to justify its price. What else is there? Hulu is US-only, YouTube Re
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by r3bl 8y ago
Even the popular registrars accept Bitcoin payments and offer free whois protection. All that is left is a temporary email address and not using your own IP. I'd call that reasonably anonymous. Pay attention to the TLD, because it migh
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by r3bl 8y ago
Trying to convince me to set up a subscription upon any visit (and especially upon the first visit) isn't gonna be very effective. It requires thought and some calculations. "Liked it? Pay me $2" is a way more simple decision
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by r3bl 8y ago
> 3rd party ads are bad for privacy. But browser extensions are even worse. Nope. I willingly installed a browser extension. Waaay more different than clicking a link to site X and 3rd party injecting itself. > Besides, using this thi
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Skype web is now blocked in Firefox(reddit.com)
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by r3bl 8y ago
Absolutely not. Facebook comments aren't much better than YouTube, especially non-English ones that Facebook doesn't bother moderating at all. With about 97% of social market share in my country and a real name policy, it should
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by r3bl 8y ago
As someone who owns a 2-in-1 (Lenovo Yoga 900 series), it works almost perfectly out-of-the-box. Screen rotation, pen support, virtual keyboard, they're all there and get the job done. The only thing that doesn't happen out of the
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by r3bl 8y ago
Scroll a bit down and you'll see a "free plan" (above the FAQ). It's not that easy to find, but it's there. As long as you don't care about using third-party clients (free plan has IMAP/SMTP disabled), it&
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by r3bl 8y ago
Yes, your sample size is one. Netlify is also built with React and its homepage loads amazingly fast (<1MB in size).
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by r3bl 8y ago
Use your own domain and just switch email providers? Yeah, it costs a bit and requires some understanding, but at least among the HN crowd that's not an unsolvable problem.
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by r3bl 8y ago
Nextcloud uses it for at least three purposes: /.well-known/carddav (redirects to contacts), /.well-known/caldav (redirects to calendar), /.well-known/webfinger (for discovering users via ActivityPub).
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by r3bl 8y ago
That's how I refer to all the notifications that I didn't expect and don't need. As far as I know, there's no universal term for them. Since we already associate darkness with bad UX patterns, "shadow notifications&
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by r3bl 8y ago
Do you hide tweets liked by the people you follow? Shadow notifications? "In case you've missed it" sections? After a few refreshes of my Twitter homepage in a short time span, I did a little research: I've edited the CS
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by r3bl 8y ago
Do they need to solve it or do they need to provide me with the tools to help me filter them out? If you build a cockpit by measuring everyone's dimensions and averaging them, you'll end up with a cockpit that fits nobody[0]. I be
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by r3bl 8y ago
On top of that, Facebook and I have a different view on what constitutes as an ad. A Facebook page that I'm following paying money to reach me is an ad according to Facebook. To me, that's extortion. On the other side, we have not

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