andersju

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by andersju 8y ago
Plenty of terminal-based options (e.g. Lynx) for Gopher. Gopher pretty much died long before Google was a thing. Here's a good article: https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph... (lo
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by andersju 8y ago
Yeah, I have to update that part. This works in Edge (as well as FF, Chrome, Safari) to kill referrers completely: <meta name="referrer" content="never"> Should also note that it's possible to have fall
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by andersju 8y ago
For sure, it's just hard to tell them apart from a technical point of view. Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) [0] does make it possible with a Tracking Status Resource's same-party property [1], but it seems like almost nobod
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by andersju 8y ago
Hey, I'm the main author of this. Happy to see that people like it! As I wrote elsewhere in the comments we're planning to redesign the results page and rewrite all the text later this year. The current page hasn't changed mu
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by andersju 8y ago
Definitely. Planning to redesign and rewrite the whole results page later this year.
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by andersju 8y ago
Just a historical note that I found interesting - it was in fact obvious (to some) already 22 years ago. From RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0), May 1996, 10.13 Referer [sic]: "Note: Because the source of a link may be private information or ma
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by andersju 8y ago
Indeed. I'll change "Input URL" to "Checked URL" or something like that.
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by andersju 8y ago
Looks like you missed the : in http:// . I'll remove the http:// from the placeholder, though, as it's not actually necessary.
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by andersju 8y ago
Noted, thanks! I'm planning to redesign the whole thing in a couple of months. I'll definitely keep that in mind. /author
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by andersju 11y ago
Yup. It's the untouched gif he sent me.
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by andersju 11y ago
Seeing the interest this generated, I'm working on a follow-up :)
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by andersju 15y ago
Unfortunately this is not just a UK thing. Every EU country is forced to do this. A similar law was passed in Sweden just the other week and will come into effect on July 1, despite heavy criticism from pretty much everyone. So how could th