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ElbertF

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About ElbertF

Founder of Wappalyzer

https://alias.io https://www.wappalyzer.com

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    Comment #47886980

    Hi everyone, I’ve been working on an iOS app for Pente and wanted to share it here. For anyone new to it, Pente is an abstract strategy game where you win by getting five stones in…

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    Comment #33912532

    I was expecting this: https://youtu.be/5UuFqQXWneM

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    Comment #33267058

    I created a browser extension for exactly this called Demodal: https://github.com/AliasIO/demodal

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    Comment #33189175

    https://github.com/wappalyzer/wappalyzer You’re welcome to help out. :)

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    Comment #33160117

    I think you meant https://pinboard.in .

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    Comment #30356291

    I do this on my website with paywalled information. It respects upper/lowercasing and spacing but randomises each character. Anyone can disable the CSS blur but the data is still o…

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    Comment #29973268

    I created this browser extension to solve a personal annoyance. It automatically removes obnoxious prompts on websites that interrupt your reading, like prompts to sign up or enter…

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    Comment #29930059

    Nice! Managed to shave off a couple of bytes: setInterval("l=loopTapApp;b=l.getBallAngle();[a,c]=l.arc;b+6>a&b-6

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    Comment #29335444

    The CloudFront savings add up to about $100/mo. Still pretty negligible.

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    Comment #29062501

    True. Not the same thing but an equally disastrous outcome.

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    Comment #29061132

    Years ago I ran into this issue with MySQL, storing four billion rows with a unique ID.

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    Comment #25853728

    1.5K installs so far, versus 1.5M on Chrome and 90K on Firefox. Hard to say what the percentage will be.

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    Comment #25816649

    We finally ported Wappalyzer across to Safari. The process was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so we had …

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    Comment #25653090

    This motivated me to finally port Wappalyzer to Safari. It was fairly straight-forward but Safari doesn't implement every API that Chrome, Firefox and even Edge support, so I had t…

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    Comment #15546877

    Good question, I don't know. I could fail the verification if it doesn't match.

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    Comment #15546071

    Thanks! Will do.

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    Comment #15545735

    It's challenging to find a balance between security and not hindering legitimate customers. Telling them the order went through when they mistyped their card number isn't great. I …

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    Comment #15545402

    I was looking at that. It's not available in my country but I requested an invite. Thanks!

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    Comment #15538867

    I send a verification link to new email addresses before accepting payments. They do click them.

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    Comment #15537215

    Thanks for the suggestion. I do this manually and never won a dispute. I suspect the fraud is being committed by a single person or group of people for the purpose of testing stole…

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    Comment #15537038

    This is off-topic but is anyone else dealing with an insurmountable number of charge-backs selling digital goods using Stripe? I'm using Radar, Sift Science, email verification, CA…

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    Comment #7918669

    Not quite! The browser extensions are stand-alone tools that analyse web pages right in your browser. Wappalyzer also has PHP, Python and Ruby drivers that allow you to run it serv…