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Protecting the Authenticity of the Genome Record(projecttimestamper.org)
3 points by arthuredelstein 24d ago|1 comments
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by arthuredelstein 3mo ago
Typically adblockers block ads and trackers, but Privacy Magic does much more than that: - Fingerprinting resistance: Privacy Magic hardens canvas, time zone, battery, audio, and many more APIs to block fingerprinting - Third-party cookies:
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Show HN: Privacy Magic – a Chrome extension to protect your privacy(privacymagic.com)
1 points by arthuredelstein 3mo ago|1 comments
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by arthuredelstein 7mo ago
That is very sad news. I knew Ralph at Brave. He had such a calm, kind presence.
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Signal feature request: mesh networking(community.signalusers.org)
3 points by arthuredelstein 8mo ago|0 comments
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Protecting Humanity's Musical Heritage(projecttimestamper.org)
3 points by arthuredelstein 8mo ago|0 comments
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Timestamping a collection of human-created music(projecttimestamper.org)
3 points by arthuredelstein 8mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Project Timestamper: Protecting human culture and science from AI fakes(projecttimestamper.org)
2 points by arthuredelstein 1y ago|1 comments
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by arthuredelstein 1y ago
Project Timestamper is an open-source effort to digitially timestamp real human works of art, movies, literature, and science as they exist today, before AI-created content begins to pollute humanity's cultural heritage with false memo
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Book Excerpt: Beyond the Code, Setting You Up for Success as a Software Engineer(bytc.info)
1 points by arthuredelstein 2y ago|0 comments
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Beyond the Code: Determine Your Destination(bytc.info)
1 points by arthuredelstein 2y ago|0 comments
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SurvivalScores.org – monitoring treaties critical to the survival of humanity(survivalscores.org)
2 points by arthuredelstein 3y ago|0 comments
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by arthuredelstein 3y ago
I hadn't seen that post, but it's great! This project was largely inspired by my experience with Clojure, and my wanting to have a similar capability when writing JS code.
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Show HN: hakk -- a REPL for developing Node.js programs on the fly(npmjs.com)
2 points by arthuredelstein 3y ago|3 comments
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by arthuredelstein 3y ago
hakk is a new REPL-based tool for developing Node.js programs. hakk runs your .js source files, and updates your program as it runs whenever you make a change. Unlike the built-in node repl, hakk lets you re-define consts, functions, and cl
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by arthuredelstein 3y ago
Hi! Author of PrivacyTests.org here. Thank you very much for the comment. (I only just saw your reply.) PrivacyTests is very much a work in progress, and all feedback is much appreciated. GPC does differ from Do Not Track in that the former
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by arthuredelstein 3y ago
Total Cookie Protection partitions all cookie-like data ("state") between the websites you visit, not just cookies. For a technical discussion, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privac
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by arthuredelstein 4y ago
Let's Encrypt is incredible. Thank you!
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by arthuredelstein 4y ago
Hi -- I'm the maintainer of privacytests.org. To be clear, most of these tests were built before I applied to work for Brave. And I am committed to keeping the tests impartial. I do hope to include telemetry tests in the future.
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by arthuredelstein 5y ago
> Oh ok. That does make sense. Hopefully you read my comment as feedback and not super negative. It was helpful feedback. I value all critiques because they help me make the site better. > Just some verbiage on each test would be wond
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by arthuredelstein 5y ago
Hi -- thanks for the comments! > it would be very helpful if the table of test results were furnished with a glossary that: There is some explanation for each test -- to see these explanations, you need to click on category titles, test
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by arthuredelstein 5y ago
Thank you for the feedback! Granted, blocklists (lists of tracking domains or URL query parameters) can be circumvented by a determined attacker. Indeed, I agree that blocklists aren't sufficient on their own for a browser to provide s
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by arthuredelstein 5y ago
Agreed -- in the future I'm hoping to have a page showing results with browsers with various privacy-helpful extensions installed.
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by arthuredelstein 5y ago
Thank you for the feedback -- I agree more context and explanation is needed for each of these tests. In the Blob case: the test code is storing a unique string in a Blob URL under one website (first party), and then attempting to read back
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Privacytests.org: open-source tests of web browser privacy(privacytests.org)
5 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|0 comments
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Firefox 91 Introduces HTTPS by Default in Private Browsing(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|0 comments
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Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing(blog.mozilla.org)
695 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|224 comments
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Firefox 90 introduces SmartBlock 2.0 for Private Browsing(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|2 comments
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Firefox 89 blocks cross-site cookie tracking by default in private browsing(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|0 comments
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Firefox 89 Upgrades Private Browsing Windows with Total Cookie Protection(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by arthuredelstein 5y ago|0 comments

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