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> It also seems like this type of obfusction probably never was particularlly effective. It actually is effective - at least it was a few years ago. See these tests: https://www.jo…

Hi folks, I wrote a server which presents your browser's TLS Client Hello message in multiple formats. It can be used directly or in CI tests to check for TLS privacy pitfalls (ses…

Also 061C, E0001, E0020...E007F. And probably others, yes. The list at https://invisible-characters.com/ might contain more. > Unicode is a deep dark forest. Oh, indeed.

Zero-width characters can be used to covertly watermark text and to figure out who copied text from a page and pasted it somewhere else. Server software can encode a hidden number …

Vim does not display them all. The only program I checked which displays all such characters is `less -U`. You can test using this file: https://gitlab.com/nervuri/nervuri.net/-/ra…

You can disable all phoning home. Have a look at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making... Having a single setting that does all of this would indeed be nice.…

The ECASH act is so far my favorite initiative for private online payments. A government-issued open-source anonymous digital dollar, functional both online and offline, no blockch…

The ability to make large anonymous digital transactions do make corruption and tax evasion easier to get away with. As for sanctions, I imagine they can mostly be enforced by look…

> - With the exception of e/OS, all of the handset manufacturers examined collect a list of all the apps installed on a handset. /e/OS is no exception. I looked at the requests mad…

Advertising is pollution for the environment in which our minds breathe. While it may not be possible to ban completely, the idea is worth exploring and pushing towards. Maybe rele…

Bombadillo: a non-web browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25223184 - Nov 2020 (50 comments)

Thanks! It can be hard to find these things.

> there are loads of programs for polling+downloading+caching+converting news feeds Please list a few. They might come in handy. I know of feed2exec (programmable feed reader): htt…

> Also, is Lawrence Lessig still active? He hosts https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/