notamerican

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by notamerican 7y ago
You're assuming I care about what Google does ;)
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by notamerican 7y ago
Then, as mentioned in the article, the you could filter on the word "click" too.
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by notamerican 7y ago
"Ratio of servers hosted in countries with mature legal frameworks (needs work)" is one that's pretty hard to measure and has huge capacity to misinform. The US, UK, Russia, 5 Eyes countries, China, the EU; everyone has a sta
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by notamerican 7y ago
And yet, flattery is not money.
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by notamerican 7y ago
I think the point of the ID is (partially) to reduce the chance that ad agencies will use scummy workarounds. If the ID isn't guaranteed to be there, I can see them using the scummy ways instead.
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by notamerican 7y ago
I did not know what. You sir, have made my day.
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by notamerican 8y ago
You can have issues opening an account in the UK if you're not allowed to get credit, since many bank accounts include free access to credit, or an overdraft facility, that you can't turn off or decline. You can be banned from get
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by notamerican 8y ago
> not like the garbage you see on ATMs and gas pumps though What don't you like about these buttons? As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this is a proved design that works well for a great number of people. Plus, the elderly &#x
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by notamerican 8y ago
Nobody mentioned the Euro Zone before you did; they're talking about Europe "as a continent", for the most part. Living in the UK, national payments are instant , with very few exceptions. And having lived in both Switzerlan
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by notamerican 8y ago
That money has to come from somewhere; I'd happily pay for Firefox but most people wouldn't and it's not cheap developing a browser. Their outreach, web literacy, and STEM education work is also not cheap and is doing amazing
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by notamerican 8y ago
That being said, you don't need to provide your real identity to sign up; in fact, you're encouraged not to. So, it's a lot harder to identify a particular user. Switzerland has _extremely_ good banking privacy laws so they c
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by notamerican 8y ago
That's exactly how it should be! The developer version isn't behind any barriers - it's trivially easy to find and install - and it keep the majority of people from installing some of the most malicious extensions.
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by notamerican 8y ago
> Public search for sources of other people's breached personal data via monitor.firefox.com That page is powered by haveibeenpwned.com. Mozilla just made a fantastic security tool available to user who don't know about Troy&#x
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by notamerican 8y ago
I fully understand. If you can't trust Proton then you don't _actually_ benefit from anything. If it helps however, ProtonVPN is by the people behind ProtonMail, the security-first email provider. They started in CERN as a mission
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by notamerican 8y ago
> There is a similar thing in SIM-cards Got any good resources on this subject? I'd be interested to know more :)
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by notamerican 8y ago
Well, not if you're physically located in in the U.S. at the tome, but the GDPR effects non-EU businesses and governments as long as the person involved is an EU citizen.