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Maybe we were just too early. When I first wrote that post, years ago, I expected most people to ignore it as tinfoil-hat stuff. But as time has passed, people are becoming more aw…

> Musicians find gigs through it. Businesses list specials, trips, blogs, etc. Also students are highly reliant on it. These types of loose connections but strong network effects a…

Creating an account with a fake name doesn't help. Facebook will ascertain your real name through a combination of: - knowing who you communicate with - tracking your online behavi…

Salim here. I agree with the 'mindlessly easy' part. I've noticed the lack of convenience, especially in sharing the little moments. As for replacing a personalised news feed, I st…

I'm the guy who wrote that post - My guess is the front page might block urls that have been posted before. This post finds its way to HN every 6-12 months as a fresh post. Still, …

The issue with technical interventions is that you're still allowing FB to collect information on you via other means via their TOS. I haven't read the latest TOS but at the time I…

Would love your thoughts. This has been a side project for a while, but thought I'd kick it out and see if it's worth giving it some more attention. The approach was to find the me…

Thanks - I'll update the post.

If only we could have webpages on our mobiles, eh? :)

Thanks - that's helpful feedback for me to see how this can be read. I think that even if someone doesn't have anything to hide, there are still issues that are relevant to them. S…

I thought of this too. The problem is that adding noise doesn't throw off the existing signals. All you can do is try to introduce new patterns, like try to convince the linear reg…

Sorry - I just picked a theme and never thought to browser check. Weirdly, I run FF on Linux and it looks okay. Anyway, I'll try to tweak the font. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks for raising that. I've clarified in the post: There are marketplaces to buy and sell consumer data orginally started around credit agencies and direct mail companies, then g…

Good point, thanks. I should be clearer - Facebook sells ads but reveals data to third parties, who sell data.

Good point on it sounding nutty though. I just added a reference to this http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-22916329 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/02/03/facebook-linkedin-g... I think I had a few more in the sources section at the bottom of the post too…

They've introduced an optional feature that records media around you. Based on their past record of changing defaults, I think it's a reasonable possibility that this feature will …

wyck - I quickly wrote this for my immediate family and posted as-is. I'm actually a big fan of Thiel and see the positive sides of the theory as well. To someone not from our tech…

tl'dr; A couple of months back I posted an article about Gmail retention (see here) in which I showed that Google not only saves copies of your unsent messages, but virtually every…

I created an email list if anyone who wants to be updated: http://eepurl.com/FeE2z

I also see the potential for global companies - Some of the stories I've heard around African Fintech point to a more grounded approach, with systems built around political redunda…