Leaking URLs to the Clown
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Leaking URLs to the Clown
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Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#2So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too.
Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#3Can’t tell if “clown” is an incredible typo in the submission or some comment on the owner of the offending platform, but either way I’m all about it
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#4So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too. Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
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Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#5Can’t tell if “clown” is an incredible typo in the submission or some comment on the owner of the offending platform, but either way I’m all about it
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Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#6Can’t tell if “clown” is an incredible typo in the submission or some comment on the owner of the offending platform, but either way I’m all about it
Cloud to Clown substitution plugin?
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#7So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too. Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
It's not hard to find out which one it is, though. I don't want to name names but the post gives a clear hint.
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#8Can’t tell if “clown” is an incredible typo in the submission or some comment on the owner of the offending platform, but either way I’m all about it
I don't have some exquisite etymology to link to, and I can't speak to Rachel's personal context, but I'm quite confident that anti-corporate Americans of a certain age will read "the clown" as a reference to Ronald McDonald, in much the same way that "the mouse" means Mickey Mouse, i.e. Disney.
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#9So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too. Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
Searching for "all articles are available offline and without an internet connection" (with the quotes) in your favorite search engine might help.
Re: Leaking URLs to the Clown
#10> read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too
Everyone needs to accept the fact there's no such thing as a private URL. There are URLs that can be originally communicated to you privately—through a private channel, that is—but insisting on holding onto some (wrong) belief that we can or should be able to mint URLs that themselves possess some "private" quality goes against the fundamental design of the Web and what a URL even is.
(Yes, this does mean that every podcaster that implements subscriptions by giving one feed URL to free listeners and having listeners who pay for premium content use a different URL is fundamentally broken. Yes, this does mean that that big engineering organization that implemented file uploads and read/write access through slugs consisting of unguessable 128+ bit tokens is also wrong.)