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by skaul 1y ago
(disclaimer: I lead privacy at Brave and wrote the article) > How am I supposed to use Brave or Signal if the setting to disable this feature is not accessible because I can't even see the settings screen first? Brave's impleme
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by skaul 1y ago
(disclaimer: I lead privacy at Brave and wrote the article) Windows lets browser apps (more technically, apps that have an `http` or `https` protocol handler registered) to use `SetInputScope` function to set `IS_PRIVATE` for a window. We w
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by skaul 2y ago
(Disclaimer: I lead privacy at Brave) Mozilla uses the core protocol for Divvi Up for its privacy-preserving advertising. Brave recently wrote about why we disagree with the design of that system: https://brave.com/blog&#x2F
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Brave will debounce all Google AMP cache URLs to the publishers' sites(twitter.com)
36 points by skaul 4y ago|10 comments
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DuckDuckGo to Now Block Microsoft Trackers(thurrott.com)
26 points by skaul 4y ago|0 comments
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by skaul 4y ago
I thought this was what MuleSoft was designed to be, though I haven't kept track of what it looks like now
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by skaul 4y ago
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/11750 describes the more technically-involved part of the feature - we had to make sure that we detect an AMP page before it gets to the Chromium renderer process, in
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by skaul 5y ago
Brave has an option to block cookie notices - you need to enable the "Filter obtrusive cookie notices" list in brave://adblock. https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1488989740690853888 We&#x
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by skaul 5y ago
(disclaimer: I work for Brave) Just to be clear, no ads are "replaced" when a user opts-in to seeing Brave ads. Ads and trackers are blocked on all websites by default when you use Brave. IF a user opts-in to viewing Brave ads, TH
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by skaul 5y ago
In case folks are interested, I wrote an open source Chrome extension that removes the FLoC API on every page load so websites can't get your FLoC cohort ID: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/floc-bloc
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FLoC Block – Extension to Remove FLoC API from Chrome(github.com)
3 points by skaul 5y ago|0 comments
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by skaul 6y ago
I read the article, and it's a little concerning that a social media platform founder is getting upset by questions about platform speech regulation, which is a pretty basic product concern. I like the idea of a Twitter-like platform t
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by skaul 6y ago
Really wanted to try it out, but would have been nice if there was some demo or something before they asked for my email
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by skaul 6y ago
If you want to submit an account deletion request, you can do so here: https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center/
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by skaul 7y ago
With the DP3T derivable day keys, you could identify that you were actually in contact with the same infected person multiple days. If the server ships 14 * (# of people infected) every day to every user, instead of just (# of people infect
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Browser-based consent – the case of WebRTC(shivankaul.com)
2 points by skaul 8y ago|0 comments
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by skaul 8y ago
Fascinating how none of the Hacker News comments on a similar story some months back (employee defecting to another company with driverless-technology trade secrets) talked about Anthony Levandowski's nationality or race.
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by skaul 8y ago
About federation in particular: Moxie wrote about why Signal is unfederated a little while back: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ It has some interesting insights into when federation works and whe
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Ethereum Scam on Brian Acton's #deletefacebook Tweet(shivankaul.com)
2 points by skaul 9y ago|1 comments
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by skaul 9y ago
Good idea. The issue I guess in this case was more that we weren't originally using a VLA member but a zero-length array through a language extension.
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Zero-length arrays in C: A cautionary tale(shivankaul.com)
3 points by skaul 9y ago|2 comments
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S.E.C. To Let All Companies File I.P.O. Documents Secretly(nytimes.com)
1 points by skaul 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Brief intro to NFA, DFA and how they relate to regexes(shivankaul.com)
1 points by skaul 9y ago|0 comments
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Split Stories by Splitwise(youtube.com)
1 points by skaul 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Random news headline every time you open a new tab(chrome.google.com)
1 points by skaul 10y ago|0 comments
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by skaul 10y ago
My interview was for a full time SDE role.
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by skaul 10y ago
Thank you.
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by skaul 10y ago
Because not everyone [lives in the US | has a North American passport | can afford to not care about money].
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by skaul 10y ago
Exactly. I respect Amazon as a company, and wanted to work there at the time. Wasn't quite expecting this.
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'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience(shivankaul.com)
911 points by skaul 10y ago|510 comments

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