typis7

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by typis7 11y ago
The article mentions the difficulty of preserving or changing the privacy settings in Windows. Ironically if you want to prevent Firefox to "phone home", you will have performs many obscure tasks: https://www.mozilla.or
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by typis7 11y ago
I'm not involved in Mega anymore. Neither in a managing nor in a shareholder capacity. The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud. He used a number of straw-men and business
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by typis7 11y ago
Don't forget that you can whitelist domains, or disable/enable them per session.
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by typis7 11y ago
Pretty much this: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Note that certain adware/spyware domains, like google-analytics( look at the tags <maybe-spy> and <maybe-ads> ), are commented out, so edit the f
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by typis7 11y ago
Where is the information being scraped from? I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert. Seems to be from here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges https://wikitech.wik
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by typis7 11y ago
Don't worry, there are additional blocked domains just for that. :-)
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by typis7 11y ago
Captchas are dismissive towards users. You throw humans and robots in the same basket and tell all of them to solve a puzzle or you won't talk to them.
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by typis7 11y ago
I blocked the domain. If the site presents me with a re-captcha, I don't even have to think whether to use that site.
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by typis7 11y ago
Practically speaking, you will get advertisements, that have a measurably larger chance of you following up on them, i.e. targeted adds.
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by typis7 11y ago
Fabricating facts and using ad-hominem is not a very good way of backing up your arguments. Quote from the paper: We use the public GREYC keystroke benchmark database for this work. It is one of the largest databases (in term of number of
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by typis7 11y ago
By knowing in advance what the ratio is. Such a great system will do really well in the real world. ( You have a very ironic username given the circumstances. )
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by typis7 11y ago
I wonder how popular are NoScript/AdBlock percentage wise these days?
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by typis7 11y ago
I think you misunderstood the intention of this feature. The goal is to identify and/or profile users that themselves use just a regular log-in. This can be then used to improve targeted marketing, selling that information to third-par