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TLDR: This is digital identity obfuscation for web privacy. Advertising and marketing networks have gotten exceptionally good at tracking people across the web. For example, if you…

Two weeks ago my clickbait blocker was posted on Hacker News and people were kind and thought it was okay. So now I'm posting an enhancement to google and bing searches that I just…

This was definitely a consideration. It was why there is a blacklist feature and why only links of a certain length and certain type are analyzed. Any suggestions can be made on gi…

Good point. There is some consideration for building an option to limit the number of links analyzed. So if you set it to 5 or 10, then the tool would stop at that limit. Feel free…

Thanks for the comment. There is a new version under development that will use a different approach. Most likely a neural network.

Thanks. This was built because someone posted an ASK HN a few weeks ago. They wanted to know if there was a way to stop clickbait. The text frequency approach seemed like the simpl…

Thanks for the comment. There have been a lot of studies done using the general TF-IDF approach. You can read about it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf There is also…

Thanks for the suggestion. The code is open sourced on github. Feel free to do a pull request with your approach and I'll take a look at it.

This is an experiment in React Native to see how far its performance could be stretched versus pure native code. Don't expect super fine grained motion control. It just hooks the a…

React Native experience was really quite nice. The android and ios versions have almost the exact identical logic and about 50 percent of the same codebase. I imagine as the androi…

interesting. i was under the impression you could just create a snapshot (before destroying the environment) and then restore as needed. am i missing something? Edit: http://docs.a…