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by tlibert 6mo ago
If a user has an "opt-out" button or signal it should be wired up to a system that functions as such. This is just a software engineering, you could vibe-code a fix in ten minutes.
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by tlibert 6mo ago
If you read the report this is why I say network traffic with a Sec-GPC: 1 (GPC opt-out) should return a 451 automatically instead of a cookie, and how the Meta Pixel code can wrap a GPC conditional around execution. That's why they a
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by tlibert 6mo ago
This is a phenomenally stressful day, I pissed of Google, Microsoft, and Meta in one shot, and they will come after me again. We do it because we believe in our product, and we'll stand the test anybody - even BigTech - puts us to: h
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by tlibert 6mo ago
The report is specifically ads cookies and includes links to primary source disclosures on the websites of the companies mentioned. We did not count things like DDoS cookies, login tokens, and the like. We operate with unparalleled precis
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by tlibert 6mo ago
Hi, I'm Dr Tim Libert, founder of webXray who did this audit. Happy to answer questions from YC'ers. [Note, stepping away for some mental health exercise, stressful day!] I also want to push back on Google telling the press our
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by tlibert 6y ago
If politicians are incentivized to protect jobs that’s a good thing, no?
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by tlibert 6y ago
Next stop: telepathy.
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by tlibert 6y ago
“Sold as” != “proven as”
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by tlibert 6y ago
Arthur C Clark has addressed this general point in his first law: “ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably
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by tlibert 6y ago
Yeah, those morons at NASA'S Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory sure have no idea what is a good use of their time.
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by tlibert 6y ago
To pseudo-quote quote Clay Shirky: nothing will work, everything might.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Correct, apologies for being cryptic.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Well, the weavers did fight back on their own behalf.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Clearly one of us has more faith in automation.
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by tlibert 6y ago
We all can eventually be replaced and should be careful what precedents we establish now. “First they came for the warehouse workers...”
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by tlibert 6y ago
Got locked out of Amazon account weeks ago, requires a phone call to fix. That tiny bit of friction has gotten me off my last few Amazon purchases and I’m grateful for it.
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by tlibert 6y ago
They’ve had nukes for a while, unfortunately this could be viewed as the patient approach.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Electoral results speak conclusively to their relatively small numbers.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Lots of luck in academia, he’s taking a risk at assistant level.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Money is to fund research, not personal use. Job security highly dependent on bringing in grants.
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by tlibert 6y ago
So out law web scrapping entirely?
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by tlibert 6y ago
I’ve had several such burritos when I lived in NYC.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Real Solutions (tm) are indeed nice, but hackers get shit done - this is an utterly shameless hack, and I do it myself.
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by tlibert 6y ago
Faculty member at a top-tier CS school. For most of the faculty where I am, an hourly consulting fee in the range of $500-1000 is reasonable. If you take the low-end of that range ($500) x 3 hours of class time per week ($1500) x 12 weeks
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by tlibert 7y ago
They initially approached me and I pitched an idea I thought they'd reject out of hand (an op-ed about tracking on the page you're reading). I thought they wouldn't get back to me after that, but they did, and they were wond
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by tlibert 7y ago
also, they came up with the awesome title!
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by tlibert 7y ago
I wrote the op-ed and I give the NYTime a huge amount of credit for publishing this. On more than one occasion I've had reporters at other major papers be interested in doing a story on my news privacy research and had had the storie
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by tlibert 7y ago
I've made this point on here before, but what HN readers take as common knowledge is still pretty confusing and opaque to most people. To my knowledge a major newspaper has never published something like this, so I give them a ton of
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by tlibert 7y ago
Author here, happy to answer questions about the op-ed or the research. Hugely impressed the NYTimes let me do this!
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by tlibert 7y ago
He utterly mangled it, but there is an experiment which proves the underlying concept (which I'm guessing was his intent, live testimony is hard): Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake Objective: Using

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