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   by surround 6y ago

   I owe it to this comment for finding the parable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758407 With the author’s name (Perry E. Metzger) I was able to track down an archive of the original Usenet post.
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   by surround 6y ago

   This parable from 1993 sums it up nicely. > There was once a far away land called Ruritania, and in Ruritania there was a strange phenonmenon -- all the trees that grew in Ruritainia were transparent. Now, in the days when people had liv
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   by surround 6y ago

   But that bridge in Australia isn’t on an intersection. There’s plenty of room for a hanging bar.
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   by surround 6y ago

   http://isThisYourPaperOnSingleServingSites.com
5. 335.▲
   by surround 6y ago

   This is a good question and I would like to discuss it. If the government is able to passively collect metadata from your ISP, couldn’t they do the same thing with a VPN company?
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   by surround 6y ago

   That’s what I said. VPNs are good for “location spoofing,” i.e. changing your web-facing IP address to a different region. VPNs are great for this purpose. The issue is, VPN companies (Mozilla included) are marketing their service as one th
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   by surround 6y ago

   > At Mozilla, we are working hard to build products to help you control of your privacy and stay safe online. > We know that we are on the right path to building a VPN that makes your online experience safer Commercial VPNs are good f
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   by surround 6y ago

   There are already alternative front-ends for YouTube, Facebook, and Reddit. I’d love to see one for Snapchat and Instagram, although it looks like one for Snapchat would be incredibly difficult.
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   by surround 6y ago

   Isn’t Show HN for this purpose?
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    by surround 6y ago

    > All Zoom users will continue to use AES 256 GCM transport encryption as the default encryption, one of the strongest encryption standards in use today. I’m glad that Zoom is finally implementing E2E encryption, but I hate that they hav
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    by surround 6y ago

    Facebook has been (successfully) evading ad blockers for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21688816 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/3367
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    by surround 6y ago

    Mail app.
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    by surround 6y ago

    Notifications.
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    by surround 6y ago

    I prefer Firefox, but Bromite is probably the most privacy friendly Chromium browser for Android.
15. 345.▲
    by surround 6y ago

    Then download Firefox or Firefox Preview and install the uBlock Origin extension. To block ads in other apps, use AdAway (for a rooted device) or Pi-hole.
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    by surround 6y ago

    This is a limitation of iOS. Android browsers can support extensions just fine. In fact, every browser on iOS is just a skin of Safari since the App Store doesn’t allow 3rd party browsers. Safari does have a “content blocking API,” but it’s
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    by surround 6y ago

    http://archive.is/mTOUo
18. 348.▲
    by surround 6y ago

    Try disabling generic cosmetic filters in uBlock.
19. 349.▲
    by surround 6y ago

    Make sure to report unblocked cookie banners to the Easylist developers https://forums.lanik.us/
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    by surround 6y ago

    Number 3 from the Facebook News list is “Trump will return to campaign trail with rally in Tulsa” Whereas the Facebook popular list has nothing explicitly about the Trump/Biden race.
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    by surround 6y ago

    Popular news stories on Facebook: mostly right wing. Stories on Facebook news: mostly New York Times. Does the title really fit the article?
22. 352.▲
    by surround 6y ago

    The link must begin with http(s):// https://google.com . (Notice how the “.” isn’t included in the hyperlink)
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    by surround 6y ago

    > Once it was decided that domain names should be arranged hierarchically, it became necessary to decide what sits at the root of that hierarchy. That root is traditionally signified with a single ‘.’. In fact, ending all of your domain
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    by surround 6y ago

    I wish that DuckDuckGo would focus more on their search engine. DuckDuckHack was responsible for instant answers, but they discontinued it in favor of developing their browser extension. https://duckduckhack.com/ Their brow
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    by surround 6y ago

    I don’t mean to belittle your project - Consolidated block lists like yours are still important for people who are using the traditional etc/hosts file. I believe the Pihole project would like to focus more on the software and less on
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    by surround 6y ago

    How to make a block list: 1) Find a bunch of high-quality block lists on the internet which have been painstakingly curated my their maintainers for many years 2) Combine it all into one big list. Tell everyone that you will quickly whiteli
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    by surround 6y ago

    Another article, which includes the wallpaper in question and the reason why it crashes the phone. https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-wallpaper-image-android....
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    by surround 6y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23404432
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    by surround 6y ago

    One thing that I haven’t seen mentioned is that IA allowed authors to remove their books from the national emergency library. This doesn’t make publishers happy because they can’t make the decision for their authors.
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    by surround 6y ago

    It’s nearly impossi ble to read on mobi le. Luckily, most b rowsers have some s ort of a “reader mo de” which solves th e problem.