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Wikipedia relies on donations. With 0-click the visitor never lands on the page and I'm sure that also impacts the results of their campaign.

Need to watch that again. Thanks for reminding me. His role was awesome.

Depending on what you're building, I don't find 100k to be that much .

All the translate addons take you to the Google translate variant. It does not help at all especially when buying stuff from websites for example. I prefer the on-spot translation of chrome. The user experience is very bad with these translate addons.

There are 2 things I miss from switching to FF:

Right click on a picture -> search google for image Right click -> Translate page

Everything else seems smooth enough.

That's one of the reasons why I created dnsadblock.com (besides the fact that I couldn't use it while traveling). It shows a page with a message if the request was blocked (ex: http://tracking.blocked.dnsadblock.com/#/) but only for regular http traffic because I don't want to go down the route of playing with certificates to make it work on https.

I think I managed to have the blacklist/whitelist easier though by creating an activity log page that shows exactly what was blocked and allowed and on what device - in near real-time. Fun project at first but I didn't know what I was going into at first.

It is a bit frustrating when starting but, once you start whitelisting what was blocked by mistake, you will see that it gets easier, almost unnoticeable by a week or so.

I always had uBlock and disconnect.me and it still blocks, somewhat consistent, about 16% of the traffic which is a big number considering.

Interesting twist for Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & all that SSE part of europe

A scroll trap

I have this feeling that hasura is still "onboarding". I had this experience with Netlify that offered some amazing deals and waited for everyone to onboard then started hammering them hard. I got up to $150/mo really fast for a static site that receives only about 900req/day. Every single month they were limiting more features and shifting them on to some "premium" offering that was used to lock you in. I'm still waiting on Hasura to do the same. Forest admin is no different. I'm always tempted to try them out for new projects but I always find myself back to Django, it will be here 10 years down the road.

Spent a good amount of time figuring out how to download this thing and test it out. I give up. What takes? Or is it just a browser based IDE?

Did you live in Romania before '89 to experience dictatorship? Since when dictatorship implies good leadership anyway?

Very misleading yes: https://luminati.io/static/patent/2019-12-31_NordVPN_Complai...

Even that setup fails: https://blog.dnsadblock.com/you-are-still-being-tracked-even...

Most of them are using your connection to sell access to residential proxies: oxylabs (NordVPN), luminati (Holla) etc.

Great advice on going for the lowest (cents) so you can work with integers. I do something similar with dates on all my apps where I go for ints in the database and always save unix timestamps. I can't stand dates unless I'm working with timestamps.

Courier 10 Pitch - that's the best font for me. I activated this one and it seems like letters are not "aligned" correctly. I'm sure it's just a feeling but I can;t move away from Courier it seems

It is wrong but this is big pharma we're talking about. I find it very hard to trust their "suggestions" and subtleties. That's how you go into these drugs, with someone telling you it is ok to take a pill when the day does not go according to plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZeZsZEEpno These two actually made me hate the language/framework which is why I never gave it a shot.

Or you can use a DNS server that handles that for you, like dnsadblock.com

I know there are certain countries/religions (Turkey comes to mind) where fasting is practiced...sometimes to the extreme. Did anyone thought of doing a research for cancer numbers in those countries vs others?

You forgot about fluoride in toothpaste (sarcasm)

What about that lady that received a chair in her head from an "influencer" throwing stuff down from a hotel room. Did she get a chance to "unfollow"? I see this whole "influencer" thing as the modern prostitution. Couple that with the "it's a prank bro" guys and you have a great recipe.

Have a look at dnsadblock.com. The mobile app is not so great but I'm getting there.

Just one word comes to mind: "convenient"

Gotta appreciate the hijack of the back button on techcrunch. Bounce rate too big?

One of my side projects is battling on a difficult keyword. It's going up and made it to top 5 after 3 years. I'm monitoring SEO using ahrefs. 1 year ago I saw a new website going to top position (grammarchecker.net) out of nowhere so I got interested in finding out their "story".

Domain was new, never saw that website when I researched my competition and it was on top positions on multiple keywords. The tool itself is nothing but a wrapper to `languagetool`, stuff that you can see on hundreds of other websites starting from page 2 in search results.

Digging through the data I was amazed to discover that he's basically running xrummer to comment on all the possible blogs and forums out there, on discussions and topics completely unrelated to the target website so yeah 2000's hacks are still valid. 1 year passed and he's still above me.

How are they unable to detect a comment spam towards a new domain? Blog posts spammed to death with thousands of unrelated comments that even my 8 year old could spot.

Cool game but I can't play it any more. So much wasted time doing nothing. It's worse than a second job.

Planning the future

I'm with ING here in Romania and one day I went to a "human" there and took out some cash that I wanted to deposit. They got scared that I took out money in front of them. Banks are not the same.

It may be part of the decision that let do Bitnami being acquired.