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Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Site: "This website has no tracking or analytics." Privacy Badger blocked tracking from: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.youtube.com Because If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked.

The same-origin policy prevents Google tracking in a iFrame from identifying the parent site, so technically "This website has no tracking or analytics." is correct. It does expose you to Google's analytics for the iFrame however, so it's down to how you define "this site"...

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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post #55

Site: "This website has no tracking or analytics." Privacy Badger blocked tracking from: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.youtube.com Because If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked.

The same-origin policy prevents Google tracking in a iFrame from identifying the parent site, so technically "This website has no tracking or analytics." is correct. It does expose you to Google's analytics for the iFrame however, so it's down to how you define "this site", but as the owners of the site don't have access to that tracking information, the statement seems fair.

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw they actually live on a sailboat and have sporadic internet access and limited electricity, so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face.

The problem is that none of their problems are real problems and there's nothing to minimize when they're not real. You cannot minimize made up first world problems

No, they really do live on a sailboat with intermittent power and internet access. Unless you take "made up" to mean "as a result of their choices" these are real problems, and ironically enough not problems faced by most people in the first world.

https://checkpointgaming.net/features/2020/05/making-games-a...

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect. Can't recall where though.

I believe duckduckgo offers a similar warning when playing videos from search results.

It also uses YouTube-nocookie.com, which turns off targeted advertising or tracking. You are still tracked, but views aren’t linked or ads aren’t linked to your account. YouTube docs call Privacy Enhanced Mode for Embeds.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en#zippy...

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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I love their work. I’ve also been working on some video to teach people how to publish their own book (the first of which I’ll make available free when it’s ready). Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce. I’m considering MP4 or WebM in HTML and wilder ideas like…

The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

What I do (first of all for performance) is use YouTube links and have a script that prepends each `a.embed` link with an "embed" button. The button turns the link into an embed and back.

https://dbohdan.com/assets/embed.js

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post #216

"Go slow, and fix things." Stark contrast from the core attitude of mainstream extractive tech work, and a necessary ethos amid a growing storm of complexity that humanity increasingly depends on We are trying to go slow and fix things biologically that our natural evolution has left us vulnerable to. Cancer, prion diseases, etc. Yet we have resigned the evolution of information tech over to God as we haphazardly rac…

> amid a growing storm of complexity

I value your way of putting it. "Storm" carries with it all due nuances and, indeed, "complexity" is a touchstone.-

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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post #216

"Go slow, and fix things." Stark contrast from the core attitude of mainstream extractive tech work, and a necessary ethos amid a growing storm of complexity that humanity increasingly depends on We are trying to go slow and fix things biologically that our natural evolution has left us vulnerable to. Cancer, prion diseases, etc. Yet we have resigned the evolution of information tech over to God as we haphazardly rac…

In this respect, their page for hacking baguettes by sun&sea is my personal favourite https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking_experiment.html 100Rabbits is like the coming true of Grothendieck's 1972 permatech lecture given at CERN* https://github.com/Lapin0t/grothendieck-cern >"I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that preva…

Thank you, au contraire, for that wonderful link in your comment, and that marvelous quote, and your thoughts.-

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love their work. I’ve also been working on some video to teach people how to publish their own book (the first of which I’ll make available free when it’s ready). Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce. I’m considering MP4 or WebM in HTML and wilder ideas like…

The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

I disagree. That is the prettiest and the purest solution!

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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post #55

Site: "This website has no tracking or analytics." Privacy Badger blocked tracking from: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.youtube.com Because If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked.

It makes me sad that this is the top comment for this link to Hundred Rabbits.

I feel it’s such a “I am very smart gotcha” comment that isn’t helpful in any way.

It distracts from the actual topic.

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