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Basically the XKCD license plate comic: https://xkcd.com/1105/
Has anyone wrote software that automatically surfaces the relevant XKCD comic for every article this happens under? I’d like a feature in my HN reader that sticks a red button at the bottom anytime XKCD has already made the points I’m reading.
Some time ago I noticed that in Chrome, every time you click "Never translate $language", $language quietly gets added to the Accept-Language header that Chrome sends to every website! My header ended up looking like a permuted version of this: en-US,en;q=0.9,zh-CN;q=0.8,de;q=0.7,ja;q=0.6 I never manually configured any of those extra languages in the browser settings. All I had done was tell Chrome not to translate…
Hmmm...YouTube has been getting confused about the language and displaying random languages for the closed captions on videos. This was happening to me across smart TVs but I access YouTube randomly from various devices and browsers...but mostly Chrome when using a browser.
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I had forgotten I was running Ublock origin / Privacy Badger / Ghostry so I was a bit confused with the results from that site. I think it is Ghostry that is faking the responses but I still have a pretty unique fingerprint according to https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/kcarter?aat=1
Isn't ghostry compromised? Having been bought out by an ad company?
I have had it installed so long I don't even remember when I did it.
Ill look more into it and perhaps re-evaluate
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What language do you put that list in? Would you still want to show it to every visitor when you know most of them speak a particular language? I use to do some work in this area. The first question is difficult and the second is no. We had the best results when we used various methods to detect the preferred language and then put up a language selector with a welcome message in that language. After they made a selec…
> What language do you put that list in? Would you still want to show it to every visitor when you know most of them speak a particular language? Judging by... a large number of websites, you make the list available in a topbar, and each language is named in itself. You don't apply one language to the entire list. Here's the first page that popped into my head as one that would probably offer multiple languages (and…
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Is this before or after ICE became a $150B secret paramilitary beholden to a corrupt authoritarian with a large cohort of sycophantic tech billionaires?
I’m not an illegal immigrant so I’m not worried about it
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Do you think the fact that NO major content websites (NYT, substack, WSJ, ...) have settled on a PPV model is simply because they haven't thought of it? Or is it more likely that the numbers absolutely do not work?
That's a false dichotomy. I can't speak for all web sites, but I reckon a combination of factors could explain why such a solution hasn't been deployed: 1. Advertising is ubiquitous, easy to integrate, and provides a safe revenue stream. 2. There is little to no infrastructure for the PPV model. Whoever builds it would need to maintain their own version of it. 3. People expect the web to be "free". This is even true…
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Basically the XKCD license plate comic: https://xkcd.com/1105/
Has anyone wrote software that automatically surfaces the relevant XKCD comic for every article this happens under? I’d like a feature in my HN reader that sticks a red button at the bottom anytime XKCD has already made the points I’m reading.
I’m not kidding at all, that my guess is he was doing drugs and stopped.
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Definitely a good STEP1, but it’s not like Firefox and Safari are finger printing secure.
Modern Safari is pretty damned good at randomizing fingerprints with Intelligent Tracking Prevention. With IOS 26 and MacOS 26, it's enabled in both private and non private browser windows (used to be only in private mode). All "fingerprint" tests I've run have returned good results.