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by u-dissolve 7y ago
Google profits from advertising; Google collects data for advertising. Apple profits from iPhones; Apple conforms to censorship to keep their biggest (population-wise) customer. Companies are driven by money, not goodwill. Apple only pushed
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
Apple does not advertise their streaming service as "family-friendly." It's surprising that they didn't make a single bid on a show as big as South Park.
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
I made the title that because it was the part of the article I was most interested in. I changed the title to "Apple won't bid on 'South Park' streaming rights fearing controversy and China" in order to better refle
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‘South Park’ Nears $500M Deal for U.S. Streaming Rights(bloomberg.com)
26 points by u-dissolve 7y ago|13 comments
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
Yes, but brute forcing would take longer to do. Could they also hash it, say, a few thousand times in order to increase the cost of brute forcing? Isn't some layer of obfuscation better than a bare IP address?
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Ask HN: Could Wikipedia show hashed IP addresses instead?
1 points by u-dissolve 7y ago|2 comments
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
From a HN user who used to work on circumventing ad-blockers: "The hardest to beat is uBlock Origin" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21036260
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Block Me If You Can: A Large-Scale Study of Tracker-Blocking Tools (2017) [pdf](sba-research.org)
1 points by u-dissolve 7y ago|1 comments
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
I don't think the course itself breaks any criteria. It was just a big loop, so any slopes or tailwind would not help the runner. "Each lap of the course featured two 4.3-kilometre (2.7-mile) out-and-back stretches... There is onl
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
What, specifically, made this attempt (and the Breaking2 attempt) not eligible for a world record? Pacemakers are allowed under IAAF criteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athle... https:&#x2
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
This simply isn't true - your most sensitive information is not public, yet is shared with 3rd parties. From their privacy policy: "We collect location information about you including your IP address, your location, browser info
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
This reminds me of the time when stack exchange updated their terms of service to include an arbitration clause. The community was in uproar over this decision, yet the clause stands to this day. https://meta.stackexchange.com&#x
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
It doesn't matter how they are using the data, what matters is how they can use the data. We shouldn't trust that they will always do the right thing for citizens' privacy.
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by u-dissolve 7y ago
tosdr.org (Terms of service; didn't read) is a website that simplifies website's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to make it easier for people to read. Stack Overflow is given the lowest rating (class E) in terms of user rights