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It should also be a law that customers can not be opted-in by default, or through consent buried in a 100 page TOS agreement. There should be a requirement that the question is presented to the user in a clear way.
It is. The consent has to be explicit and informed.
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>By the way, if you are a programmer and you implement those sleazy dialogs, think about your life choices. I'm sure this stern talking to really made them evaluate their life choices. We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned. We all have to be the change we want to see.
> We need more people on HN to take a stand like this, downvotes be damned. As the funding dries up the community will close ranks even more so. We are already getting to the point on this forum where anything not outwardly positive (not even "negative") said about certain subjects is instantly donwvoted. Being as how downvoting is something that requires 500 karma, these are not bots or spam accounts; they are veter…
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HN is ycombinator, which are the people who helped make reddit happen. Is it really that big of a surprise they're doing stuff like this?
I am not defending HN/YC here, but the user's noted irony is referring to TFN, located at the-tls.co.uk, not talking about HN/YC.
By the way HN by the way seems to be the nicest site in terms of privacy, simplicity and page load times.
I have been mulling cancelling my Facebook account for a while now. Today as I was browsing I saw several Scientology ads. I know Facebook doesn't have an agenda per se - you have the money, they have the adspace - but I was still struck by the brazenness of advertising something whose ethical dubiousness has been so thoroughly publicized. Facebook will never change unless they are forced to. We have signed away perh…
Step 2: Download your backup copy of horribly over-compressed images and videos that Facebook ruins on your behalf
Step 3: Deactivate and cancel your Facebook
Step 4: Enjoy life
>But the pop-up won’t let us pass without clicking “agree”. Opting out is an illusion. I mean this is a weird way to phrase it but you definitely cannot participate in modern society without hindering yourself in various meaningful ways if you do not "opt-in" to giving up your privacy. "Opt-in" requirements have consequently struck me as "privacy theatre" which mostly irritates. I don't see any solution for the curre…
>> But the pop-up won’t let us pass without clicking “agree”. Opting out is an illusion. You can generally just delete the popup from the DOM.
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> I have been mulling cancelling my Facebook account for a while now Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years: 1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then 2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next 3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then 4. Delete the Faceb…
>Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years The main issue, at least for me, is that everything social that is happening is arranged through Facebook. My kids school events, social events in the town i live in, hell even the good old paper adds from our local grocery store has been replaced with posts on Facebook. Everything is announced and coor…
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" Do we call out the people working on Tor or encryption because of how it is used by some to cause harm? " I am pretty sure, they thought alotabout the pros and cons of their work and decided a long time ago that the positive outweight the negative a lot. But what is the social positive in intentional programming dark pattern UI? I don't see any.
A few possibilities: Disagreeing it is a dark pattern to begin with. For example, see how many people love opt out consent for organ donation and overlook the consent implications it has in that case. Another example is requiring email address at signup, is that actually needed and is it a dark pattern to not allow a person to sign up until they provide one, even though a more industrial user could give you a fake/te…
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Since when? I've never been asked for a selfie. If you must, it doesn't seem like a big problem still. Go to thispersondoesnotexist.com, hit F5 a few times to find a nice portrait, then Google "driver license template" and apply basic Photoshop skills.
It probably means you're using your real name and/or your real phone number. Or have an established account with photos of you. I did not check if images from thispersondoesnotexist.com would work to pass the selfie check, but my guess is that they wouldn't. A professional portrait of someone from a Western country who has never been seen on any photos Facebook owns, not even in the background? That's a red flag. Als…
I do not believe they check it; if you provide an ID scan, it's good enough.
Because you have no choice but to join.
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Pi-Hole does support regex and wildcard based blocking
regex is _extremely_ resource inefficient and should not be used with large sets of rules. Dnsmasqs domain redirecting feature (address=/adhost.com/#) is not supported by pihole. Is there any other way to wildcard block full domains in Pi-Hole? Look for example in your list: d41.co, admaster.com.cn, mixmarket.biz chances are extremely slim that all (current) hostnames of those type of domains are currently being bloc…
No, it's not. Is there something wrong with their implementation?
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regex is _extremely_ resource inefficient and should not be used with large sets of rules. Dnsmasqs domain redirecting feature (address=/adhost.com/#) is not supported by pihole. Is there any other way to wildcard block full domains in Pi-Hole? Look for example in your list: d41.co, admaster.com.cn, mixmarket.biz chances are extremely slim that all (current) hostnames of those type of domains are currently being bloc…
If the regex rules do not require backreferences, it should be possible to implement them in such a way that they run in constant time with respect to the number of rules.