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It's Time to Panic About Privacy

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Re: It's Time to Panic About Privacy

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Post by Shengbo »

charliepark wrote: post #8

Pretty shitty to have absolutely zero keyboard interactivity on that page. Tabbing gets you … the NYT homepage, a bunch of YouTube videos — which you can't even see on the screen — and a "privacy project" link of some sort.

On my end it was completely unresponsive even to clicks until I refreshed the page twice.

Re: It's Time to Panic About Privacy

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Post by blakesterz »

I didn't get much out of that, but the very last page says "This column is part of The Privacy Project, a series from The New York Times Opinion." which does seem much more useful and has a bunch more:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-pr...

And yes, The Privacy Project has a bunch of trackers on it.

Re: It's Time to Panic About Privacy

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Post by kristianc »

This makes a pretty anodyne set of talking points around privacy and wraps it in the web version of a PowerPoint. In text form, this would barely qualify as a blog.

On a more general point these articles really should do more to balance the privacy constraints against the benefits.

Google is not just 'a free service', it is all of the world's knowledge, plus mapping, plus email, plus god knows what else all completely on demand, five nines reliable and free to the end user.

Re: It's Time to Panic About Privacy

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Post by draw_down »

charliepark wrote: post #8

Pretty shitty to have absolutely zero keyboard interactivity on that page. Tabbing gets you … the NYT homepage, a bunch of YouTube videos — which you can't even see on the screen — and a "privacy project" link of some sort.

Holy shit, is anyone here interested in discussing the actual story?!
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