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A lot of failures here: 1) Caller-ID spoofing. It straight out should not be possible to spoof government phone numbers, 911, etc. My Android has "Scam Likely" show up when a scamm…

https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2019-01-01%20to%3A%40Re... Looks like they've gone by @AlphMedia and @PLRExpress in the past.

>The last fit of madness will be a hidden session in Chrome browsing the web on your behalf, building up a bogus profile for the ad networks, and the ad networks trying to figure o…

Custom date ranges on mobile work for me, just use the before: and after: operators. For example before:2018-01-05

Reduce the demand for it. Include easily accessible "article only" mode, make your site friendly to current Reader Modes for all major browsers. No obtrusive ads, no 500 trackers b…

"That is, until they discovered that Cylance also had whitelisted certain families of executable files to avoid triggering false positives on legitimate software." Surprised to see…

Next up, banning video tutorials on how to use youtube-dl.

Why would the ThredUp example not fall under current regulations against false advertising? If I say "This dress was bought 4 minutes ago!" or "Hurry now! Only one left!", those st…

People trusted the news a lot more when it was 3 TV channels, the NYT, and your local newspaper. So maybe yes, it is time to do that.

As a left leaning person, absolutely! I viewed a few of hbomberguy's tamer videos, next thing you know I've got videos with commenters suggesting we bust out the guillotines. But h…

A far cry from the conservatives of my time, hence the "alt" label. As the article mentions, how much discussion of a balanced budget is there in any of these videos? Do you think …

So long as advertising revenue rules everything around me, I don't see this problem going away. Whether it's addictive right-wing videos or addictive left-wing videos, websites lik…

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha Just because someone, either by choice or necessity (have you tried to stop using all ad-supported resources? You've practically gotta be a hermit)…

Gotta give money to the winning team... Alphabet: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000067823&cy... Apple: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000021754&c…

Yes, it'd be easier to compile a list of large free Internet services that aren't evil or annoying. 1. Wikipedia 2. Hacker News 3. Stack Exchange 4. Github and Gitlab

How trustworthy are they? I feel very iffy about sending my DNS queries to some random company in Moscow.

True, but a lot of people who don't, get their browsers installed or recommended to them by people who do.

I try my best to pay for ad-free/premium services whenever I can, but it's one thing for me to do so, and quite another for the billions of people significantly poorer than me. Mak…

https://i.imgur.com/wbqIOFI.jpg Just took that screenshot, it's sending about ten analytics requests EVERY MINUTE. I pay $30 a year for it. But hey, they may as well get a few cent…

Reddit's rules against giving out personal information, so thousands of Redditors don't bombard the startup with angry comments or worse.

Do you have any data supporting this assertion that access to and ability to freely communicate information leads to less radicalization, rather than more? I look at the Internet, …

The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was tr…

weather.us as well, they even have the 50 different ensembles for the Euro. Very surprised it's free but I ain't complaining.

Adhell 3 on Android is non-Root and system-wide.

I've seen quite a few paywalled articles posted, where someone else posts a link to "theoutline.com" to bypass paywalls, or just straight out copy/paste the article text.