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by pierrefar 3y ago
I replied in detail elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993739
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by pierrefar 3y ago
A search engine index is an economic exchange between the website and the publisher. To massively (over)simplify the argument to its essence (and ignore other important points): the publisher goes through the trouble and expense of creating
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by pierrefar 3y ago
There is a a difference between a human being able to access content vs a search engine indexing it (and in the case of Brave, "licensing" it on). I share your concern about Google having this much power, and I'd add that Mic
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by pierrefar 3y ago
This is explained more in the article I referred to, but briefly: Brave delegates crawling to normal Brave browsers, so it's a huge IP addresses pool, not a single IP address or range. Also, these search crawls by the browser do not id
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by pierrefar 3y ago
That would be bad, and it is already bad that Google and Microsoft control so much of search queries, but the decision about which search engine indexes a website is purely the publisher's.
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by pierrefar 3y ago
The major problem with Brave search is their position about indexing and licensing content against the wishes of the website publisher. Their robot does not identify itself, meaning the publisher cannot use the standard robots.txt to block
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by pierrefar 4y ago
This article is way out of date and wrong, although published recently (at least according to the timestamp). Google's official position was published on 8 February here: https://developers.google.com/search/blog&#
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Welcome to Apple(members.tortoisemedia.com)
4 points by pierrefar 7y ago|0 comments
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by pierrefar 7y ago
In simplified terms, did you find everything you could have possibly found? Looking at the formula in the article, it includes the false negatives, that is, items you misclassified as negatives when you should have considered them positives
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by pierrefar 7y ago
Looks like the stages of mitosis (cell division): https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mitosis-and-cell-d... The faint lines are the cell walls and the bright spots in the middle would be the DNA. I can belie
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by pierrefar 7y ago
Very neat. I built a virtually identical internal tool for Blockmetry. A couple of tips from experience: 1. Add other browse extensions, and you'll see a big difference between their effects. Defaults matter a lot in this space. 2. Com
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by pierrefar 7y ago
No that's not a solution. It's the tracking that counts, not the cookies. I commented elsewhere on this thread more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394661
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by pierrefar 7y ago
Before anyone thinks this (and similar) approaches are a way around the GDPR's cookie consent tracking crackdown: It's not. The GDPR talks about online identifiers, of which cookies, IP address and fingerprints are examples. If yo
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by pierrefar 8y ago
Congrats on the launch. The privacy policy is very not suited for this service. The most important point is that you're based in Germany based on the address in the policy, but there isn't a single mention of the GDPR. That and th
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by pierrefar 8y ago
Here is a write-up of the decision from EU’s highest court on this topic: https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-... It’s easy to see why quote I gave says what it says with this context. Also
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by pierrefar 8y ago
Yes, and also cookie IDs. Both are called out as examples in recital 30: “Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie id
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by pierrefar 8y ago
To add to the key point about privacy, this research from Princeton is really illuminating and scary: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...
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by pierrefar 8y ago
Looks good! I'm the founder of a similar service (Blockmetry). Obviously non-tracking web analytics is the future! I'm curious why you chose to host the data yourself instead of giving customers the data immediately at the point o
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by pierrefar 9y ago
Speaking of commas, you're missing one after the end of the interrupting phrase in your last sentence (should say ", as well as the state of Maine,"). It's a pet peeve bigger than the lack of Oxford commas, and definitel
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by pierrefar 10y ago
I don't have access to the raw log files from the customers, so can't give you a percentage. All I'll say confidently is that my service processes a lot of bot traffic that needs to be filtered out before reporting. BTW, are
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by pierrefar 10y ago
> a lot of bots still don't execute JavaScript I operate a service that measures this (see another comment on this discussion), and all I'll say is you'll be very surprised how many bots actually execute JS, especially ste
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by pierrefar 10y ago
I run a service called Blockmetry [0] that measures exactly that, directly from pageviews. Some numbers get published regularly [1]. The percentage from August (last public number) is 5.2% of non-bot JS-enabled pageviews did not fire the an
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by pierrefar 10y ago
Append hl=hi query string parameter to the page to get it in Hindi (hi is the language code for Hindi). Example: https://www.google.com/trends/home/all/IN?hl=hi
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by pierrefar 10y ago
(Former Googler worked on this topic and now help businesses with this kind of question) The short answer is focus on what is best for your users and what they expect, but there are a couple of things you need to do for best indexing in som
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by pierrefar 10y ago
FWIW, the FTC is getting really interested in influencer marketing. Also from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/ftc-to-cr... Or ask your favorite search engine about FTC influencer
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by pierrefar 11y ago
Hi This is a new service to measure ad blocking rates accurately by any combination of device type (mobile, desktop/tablet) and country. Mention HN and I'll bump you up in the beta queue. Ping me any questions. Thanks!
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Show HN: Measure ad blocking rate by device type and country(deliberatedigital.com)
1 points by pierrefar 11y ago|1 comments
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by pierrefar 12y ago
I work at Google in web search, and I have a few comments about this discussion. Firstly, I think this whole discussion about page speed is the wrong way to approach it. The primary motivation for page speed should be user happiness, which
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Not just user privacy: HTTPS is also for website owners(pierrefar.com)
2 points by pierrefar 12y ago|0 comments
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by pierrefar 12y ago
This suggests something else is going on. Please post in the forums with the site details.

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