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Yes, given the decades worth of damages it has caused by being an inferior quality software product (no quality control) and the anti-competitive tactics used to ensure that consum…

Having trouble with the LA Times site? Try without Javascript curl https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-27/irs-website-hack-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-all-caps?_amp=true…

I only meant TV ads. As for trying to guess about me, I watch almost no TV in recent times, though I did watch it back in the 80's and 90's. I am basing this opinion on only small …

Direct to consumer TV ads for pharmaceuticals were illegal in 1981. This did not change until 1997. As I remember it, in the few years after 1997 there were still relatively few dr…

There is also a browser-free method. Localhost proxy, e.g., haproxy, that rewrites User-Agent header according to URL and/or Host header.

What if more users install the browser extension/add-on that automatically changes the user-agent string based on domain name, e.g., for Instagram it changes to a random mobile use…

Yours truly would never submit a video promoting cryptocurrency. Just discovered account was compromised. Password has been changed.

"This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers." "Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention -- it helps us detect bots wh…

"I'm in the process of reading the book _Why Nation Fails_. The central thesis is that rich and poor countries are separated by inclusive vs extractive institutions. It seems to re…

As I read the parent comment, the point is not that Andreesen could singlehandedly make a difference with his investments. The point is that his words do not match his actions. His…

The author is a VC who almost exclusively funds software-based businesses where "build" generally refers to intangibles and businesses based on intangibles. He refers to Western/Am…

I have thought about this for decades. Using web-based HTML forms for transmitting information, whether e-commerce or otherwise, is often overkill. There should be a standardised f…

Disable Javascript.

Why not just serve plain HTML pages like C2 wiki used to do. Why use Javascript and Google Analytics. Why ask why. Fact: It took more work for someone to convert the HTML to JSON, …

To get an index of all C2 wiki pages curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/ > 1.html To get a wiki page in JSON and convert it to textfile without using gratuitous Javascrip…

Would it be fair to explain this move as a "user retention" tactic. Perhaps it becomes a more difficult decision for teams to close out their paid accounts, even amidst an economic…

Correction: In the example, there should be an additonal \r\n after "Connection: close".

Doesn't Google have millions of dollars in cash on hand. Perhaps it could pay YouTube content creators. Google sells ad sales services utilising, in part, data collected on YouTube…

"I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection." A while back, some HN commenters in a Wireguard thread tried to argue that all home conne…