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uBlock blocks these for me (note these are domains, so it's probably blocking more than 1 script from some of these): addthis.com, adnxs.com, bing.com, crwdcntrl.net, disqus.com, d…

Weird. I'm in the UK, and just chose the 'I want to cancel the order' option. The email confirming my request and the email confirming the refund had been accepted literally arrive…

Well, actually... http://blog.codinghorror.com/a-ssd-in-your-pocket/

I have uBlock and Ghostery enabled in Safari, and this site didn't pick up either.

Mobile is exactly where you don't want to rely on this kind of fingerprinting. Especially on iOS, it's a platform with only one rendering engine and no plugins. Here's what it mana…

"Buy a new computer so you can run our over engineered adverts properly." At the very least adblockers will catch up.

As a story it was good, but as a game the backlash it received was fully justified. It reused the same areas and assets to the extreme. You literally spent all your time running ar…

There were rumours the PS3 would use single use discs that locked themselves to a particular PS3 before it launched. http://www.joystiq.com/2005/11/08/playstation-3-wont-play-us...…

I'm sure advertisers would still pay the same rates for junk mail that nobody sees, and it wouldn't reduce the value of the junk mail to those advertisers.

Be careful with that, I had them do the same thing to me (after I asked them not to) and the goodwill suddenly ended after a few months. Took hours to get it sorted and refunded, a…

Interestingly, O2 seem to compress CSS as well. Had a client with a problem on a mobile site I just could not reproduce. Turns out it only happened when connected to O2s data netwo…

It's the carrier that disables tethering based on the network profile. An unlocked iPhone can tether just fine out of the box, until you put a SIM card in that doesn't allow it.

In cases like that I'd use the short url that Google provides ( http://goo.gl/maps/4y1Xg ). If Google is down then you can't view the map anyway. Sites providing their own short ur…

And it breaks the back button when it does it.

I'm going to guess that the €700 figure is a reseller. It's £239 including 20% VAT in the UK, which works out to €300. Of course it's not actually in stock, so carriers are chargin…

The problem here is that it's not just a Chrome Developer account, it's a Google account. There may well be an automated process to lockout users that owe them money. Steam has a s…

Apps like 1Password sell an app, the online sync can be through whatever service you want, 1Password already got paid. Evernote/LastPass/Xmarks make their money selling the service…

Just tried deleting a photo, and it looks like they remove the image straight away in that case: http://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2010/10/08/92944289... Hopefully it just t…

That's mostly because they're harder to get rid of than Scottish currency. Only the major supermarkets seem to accept them.

Recently became required by the EU for all websites to notify users of cookies, so don't expect the notifications to go away. Better implementations don't move content around the p…

This works even better if you know what the deals are ahead of time, either from searching online or by knowing someone that works there.

You can get this from most places now: 'Hi, I was just running through the troubleshooting steps with one of your colleagues and I got cut off. He said he was just going to put me …

SkyDrive fails if you have certain characters in filenames. Characters that are perfectly valid on OS X. When I tried SkyDrive I got 50+ warnings that files hadn't been synced beca…

Isn't this vague enough that a site with an image is infringing? "Sure, they requested the web site, but they never explicitly said they wanted the image, and now you've gone and s…

I like the idea, but won't this prevent you from accepting cookies if the site has actually bothered to ask permission before adding them?