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kretor

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    Comment #32153143

    What browsers lack per-domain cookie controls?

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    Comment #30104153

    Sounds like "377071" is the correct response.

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    Comment #29949349

    From the article: "In this cohort, the risk of MS increased 32-fold after infection with EBV but was unchanged after infection with other viruses."

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    Comment #24825626

    Not "very few other sites", it's around 700 sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819473

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    Comment #21654223

    I don't think those tweets are gone. The "Tweets & replies" section of your profile ( https://twitter.com/eggsome/with_replies ) has two tweets that seem to match your description:…

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    Comment #21503897

    The 30k rules limit is not final. > we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules. ( https://blog.chr…

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    Comment #21503820

    With Google's new API, all ads can still be blocked. There will be a limit for network request blocking rules, but it's very high so that normal users don't reach it. And for those…

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    Comment #21503779

    > we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules. ( https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-…

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    Comment #21235727

    Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review tea…

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    Comment #21229035

    But then there's also this -- leftists preferring the Financial Times: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-t...

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    Comment #21025300

    There's a browser extension which clicks away the consent dialogues for you: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ It lets you specify a global setting to what extent you want …

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    Comment #20989503

    Tavis Ormandy, who discovered the latest and several other Lastpass bugs, has these password manager recommendations: "KeePass and KeePassX are both good choices. If you really mus…

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    Comment #20989405

    Password manager recommendations from Tavis Ormandy, who found the bug: "KeePass and KeePassX are both good choices. If you really must use an online one, at least LastPass are res…

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    Comment #20644302

    This report has a screenshot of one of the domains: https://newfoodeconomy.org/grubhub-domain-purchases-thousand...

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    Comment #20638778

    tl;dr after reading Google's blog post ( https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/advanced-prot... ): Google Chrome will now detect, if you have sync turned on, if your accou…

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    Comment #20494562

    This has been reported before, though not for extensions specifically: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=329125 The result back then was that the reported behav…

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    Comment #20173447

    The parent didn't encourage companies to use any legal means necessary. You can't know their stance about this.

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    Comment #20069304

    Prediction: In a year, adblocking extensions on Chrome will still block the same percentage of ads from Google's networks as they do on Firefox. Care to make a bet?

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    Comment #20058951

    Chrome security lead Justin Schuh says he is responsible: "The sole motivation here is correcting major privacy and security deficiencies in the current system. I know, because I s…

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    Comment #20058874

    The rule limit will be increased: "We are planning to raise these values but we won't have updated numbers until we can run performance tests to find a good upper bound that will w…

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    Comment #19499550

    Problem doesn't occur for me. Sounds like a bug

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    Comment #19226899

    He starts talking about it at 1:04:08: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGchhsKhG-A&t=1h4m8s

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    Comment #19217083

    The webpage you linked is from last year I think. Article 13 has since been updated

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    Comment #19188123

    When users try to install a Chrome extension, the browser is telling them what permissions it needs, e.g. the capability to read browsing traffic. So you could just decline the ins…