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andersju

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About andersju

https://anders.unix.se / @ndrsju

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    Comment #18101668

    Plenty of terminal-based options (e.g. Lynx) for Gopher. Gopher pretty much died long before Google was a thing. Here's a good article: https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/ri…

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    Comment #17851015

    Yeah, I have to update that part. This works in Edge (as well as FF, Chrome, Safari) to kill referrers completely: Should also note that it's possible to have fallback values ( htt…

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    Comment #17848757

    For sure, it's just hard to tell them apart from a technical point of view. Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) [0] does make it possible with a Tracking Status Resource's same-pa…

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    Comment #17848359

    Hey, I'm the main author of this. Happy to see that people like it! As I wrote elsewhere in the comments we're planning to redesign the results page and rewrite all the text later …

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    Comment #17848174

    Definitely. Planning to redesign and rewrite the whole results page later this year.

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    Comment #17848164

    Just a historical note that I found interesting - it was in fact obvious (to some) already 22 years ago. From RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0), May 1996, 10.13 Referer [sic]: "Note: Because the…

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    Comment #17848109

    Indeed. I'll change "Input URL" to "Checked URL" or something like that.

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    Comment #17848100

    Looks like you missed the : in http:// . I'll remove the http:// from the placeholder, though, as it's not actually necessary.

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    Comment #17848084

    Noted, thanks! I'm planning to redesign the whole thing in a couple of months. I'll definitely keep that in mind. /author

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    Comment #10473964

    Yup. It's the untouched gif he sent me.

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    Comment #10473953

    Seeing the interest this generated, I'm working on a follow-up :)

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    Comment #2590970

    Unfortunately this is not just a UK thing. Every EU country is forced to do this. A similar law was passed in Sweden just the other week and will come into effect on July 1, despit…