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   by snyderp 5y ago

   I work at Brave as "Senior Privacy Researcher and Director of Privacy". I responded to many of these same accusations when they were made Friday, that time on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO&#x
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   by snyderp 5y ago

   For anyone interested in this blog post here, the full conference paper version is here: https://www.peteresnyder.com/static/papers/easylist-sigmetri...
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   by snyderp 10y ago

   Just a note on this (I'm the lead author on the paper author), the blocking rate has to do with the reduction in JS usage when you install popular blocking extensions. So its not that extensions block SVG directly, its that AdBlock Plu
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   by snyderp 10y ago

   Paper author here. The blocking % referenced, and discussed in more detail in the paper, is the % of times a feature is used when someone visits the page, but ISNT used when you visit the page with AdBlock Plus and Ghostery installed. In o
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   by snyderp 11y ago

   I'm single, gay, in Chicago, just hit my thirties, one very good relationship, a few shorter / smaller ones. I'm not great at dating, and I'm in a field that isn't exactly drenched in outgoing gay guys (academic co
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   by snyderp 11y ago

   I think the strongest case for including it in the browser is that the browser is supposed to represent the interests of the user, not the website author. I'd bet just about anything (though am open to being proved wrong) that when use