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I replied in detail elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993739

A search engine index is an economic exchange between the website and the publisher. To massively (over)simplify the argument to its essence (and ignore other important points): th…

There is a a difference between a human being able to access content vs a search engine indexing it (and in the case of Brave, "licensing" it on). I share your concern about Google…

This is explained more in the article I referred to, but briefly: Brave delegates crawling to normal Brave browsers, so it's a huge IP addresses pool, not a single IP address or ra…

That would be bad, and it is already bad that Google and Microsoft control so much of search queries, but the decision about which search engine indexes a website is purely the pub…

The major problem with Brave search is their position about indexing and licensing content against the wishes of the website publisher. Their robot does not identify itself, meanin…

This article is way out of date and wrong, although published recently (at least according to the timestamp). Google's official position was published on 8 February here: https://d…

In simplified terms, did you find everything you could have possibly found? Looking at the formula in the article, it includes the false negatives, that is, items you misclassified…

Looks like the stages of mitosis (cell division): https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mitosis-and-cell-d... The faint lines are the cell walls and the bright spots in the mid…

Very neat. I built a virtually identical internal tool for Blockmetry. A couple of tips from experience: 1. Add other browse extensions, and you'll see a big difference between the…

No that's not a solution. It's the tracking that counts, not the cookies. I commented elsewhere on this thread more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20394661

Before anyone thinks this (and similar) approaches are a way around the GDPR's cookie consent tracking crackdown: It's not. The GDPR talks about online identifiers, of which cookie…

Congrats on the launch. The privacy policy is very not suited for this service. The most important point is that you're based in Germany based on the address in the policy, but the…

Here is a write-up of the decision from EU’s highest court on this topic: https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-... It’s easy to see why quote I gave says wha…

Yes, and also cookie IDs. Both are called out as examples in recital 30: “Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools a…

To add to the key point about privacy, this research from Princeton is really illuminating and scary: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfil...

Looks good! I'm the founder of a similar service (Blockmetry). Obviously non-tracking web analytics is the future! I'm curious why you chose to host the data yourself instead of gi…

Speaking of commas, you're missing one after the end of the interrupting phrase in your last sentence (should say ", as well as the state of Maine,"). It's a pet peeve bigger than …

I don't have access to the raw log files from the customers, so can't give you a percentage. All I'll say confidently is that my service processes a lot of bot traffic that needs t…

> a lot of bots still don't execute JavaScript I operate a service that measures this (see another comment on this discussion), and all I'll say is you'll be very surprised how man…

I run a service called Blockmetry [0] that measures exactly that, directly from pageviews. Some numbers get published regularly [1]. The percentage from August (last public number)…

Append hl=hi query string parameter to the page to get it in Hindi (hi is the language code for Hindi). Example: https://www.google.com/trends/home/all/IN?hl=hi

(Former Googler worked on this topic and now help businesses with this kind of question) The short answer is focus on what is best for your users and what they expect, but there ar…

FWIW, the FTC is getting really interested in influencer marketing. Also from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/ftc-to-cr... Or ask your favorite search…