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Who invented "clickbait". What is the purpose of "clickbait". Non-profits supporting investigative journalism like MuckRock are to blame. MuckRock is not selling advertising, but d…

Fair question. Im not the author so can only make a guess (other readers of HN surely know far more than I about these subjects). However I suspect the rationale is related to what…

Heres the issue with Proton's marketing that no one is mentioning. The CEO keeps making claims about "Swiss law" as if it is something to be desired. However he never adds any cita…

"An extremely simple CLI that composes well with UNIX pipes" Just for fun, I occasionally experiment with proposed "post-quantum" encryption solutions and one in particular called …

"Unfortunately they're solving the wrong problem." Heres the description of Rumble: "Rumble enables the spread of messages in an epidemic fashion using automatically formed and opp…

"No matter what Apple and ProtoMail and similar companies tell you, you cannot buy privacy off-the-shelf." The cost is personal time and effort, not money. The software needed is g…

Generally I use custom utilities for HTTP generation, URL extraction, chunked transfer decoding, URL encoding/decoding, GZIP/ZIP/PDF/MP4 extraction, etc. Thus I can use any TCP cli…

I wouldnt trust any of them to be honest. Privacy policies really arent worth anything. I would look for websites that generally do not ask for data. Then send them the minimum dat…

Nothing is even defined. There is nothing in this policy that obligates the company to do, or restricts the company from doing, anything. This is the way most tech company "Privacy…

Devils advocate: Why trust the policy. Can you enforce it. If yes, then how.

"Their homepage says..." Is the parent suggesting that no one should bother to read the Terms and Privacy Policy, linked to from the homepage. https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy…

Referenced in the article https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-vivek-ramaswamy-put-wokeism...

Why do you need users to sign in. Do they really want to sign in. What do they get out of it versus what do you get out of it Using Sign in with Google just encourages use of Googl…

If you make a test page, then post it to HN, perhaps we can provide some "demonstrable popularity" to give you some data to present for your business case. :) I am a heavy text-onl…

But you cannot/will not name the offshore 3d party service

Conventional wisdom is that home internet service provider IP address blocks are unsuitable Does same wisdom apply to cloud service provider IP address blocks

"I had Windows computers back in the day, late 90s, where I only upgraded the hardware, not the OS." How would that be possible since Windows almost invariably came pre-installed b…

Advertising targets1 trust Google. There is no reason for them not to trust this company. Google has the privacy of its advertising targets as its highest priority. Mozilla gets 90…