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by seieste 7y ago
The cynical part of me thinks this is the real reason to get rid of the headphone jack -- to make it inconvenient to turn off bluetooth.
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by seieste 7y ago
I'm not sure. bitL deleted his/her earlier response saying we had to test it for ourselves
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by seieste 7y ago
I think bitL is saying that reddit embeds some sort of tracking script in “soon-to-be-banned subreddits” that they don’t embed in normal subteddits, and that you can tell this from notifications within Tor
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by seieste 7y ago
I don’t think you can disable AMP if you’re not signed in.
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by seieste 7y ago
This seems to be a way for Google to make revenue from news sites and is a clear abuse of monopoly power. When I click on an AMP news link, I see a “carousel” at the top that shows multiple news articles. I can go to various articles on a t
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by seieste 7y ago
I believe this is part of a greater Google strategy of using their monopoly power. I’ve noticed that in the last week, Google no longer provides a link to the non-amp version of pages. Previously, you could press two button taps to get to t
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by seieste 7y ago
If the data differs between users, then it can be PII — this is confirmed by the fact that browser fingerprinting works.
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by seieste 7y ago
DOH makes Pihole ineffective.
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by seieste 7y ago
Until recently, few pharmaceutical companies pre-registered antidepressant trials, which allowed them to selectively publish. This means that antidepressants may be nowhere near as effective as commonly believed, and so doctors are overweig
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by seieste 7y ago
They said it would affect people with scores <4.6, which is high enough to catch a lot of people.
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by seieste 7y ago
The cutoff is 4.6, which could be achieved by just 1 bad rating out of 10. (E.g. one 1 star and 9 5 star reviews)
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by seieste 7y ago
The data policy of Polar is unacceptable to me. I’d like to be able to read PDF’s without third party connections to multiple sites, which Polar seems to do. I once spent part of an afternoon looking at where I’d need to remove analytics, o
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by seieste 7y ago
I think there are three reasons it makes sense: 1. The company enabled several different organizations to spy on dissidents (it’s easier to sue one than many) 2. The company advertises its services to be used as such, and 3. It’s easier to
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by seieste 7y ago
What’s your full name, phone number, and street address? If you want privacy, then don’t post online.
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by seieste 7y ago
This seems like it could help the problem but there are serious consequences to enacting it. Inheritance tax is making it expensive to trasnfer a family-owned farm down the generations, and as a result they are sold to corporations instead.