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The top submission says it has 14 comments, but then you click on it and it only has three.

I also find it hard to believe that submissions on this site are already accumulating >700 points, surpassing most HN submissions.

On top of that, there are few, if any, comments for every upvote. One submission has 728 points but no comments?

> Not true, FireFox and Safari have had them off by default for over a year now.

Not quite. They will block some 3rd party tracking cookies that fall on their tracking blacklist. If you want to block all 3rd party cookies you have to explicitly disable them.

> I'd really rather this be either something that's totally not understandable by the user (e.g. ?saf=1), or something that is clearly understandable (e.g. ?appshareafact=1).

I guess they decided to go with "totally not understandable."

Also - is this mailing list something that anyone can participate in, or only wikimedia office staff?

Changes like this are normally discussed and voted on by the community, right? Could someone link to the discussion where this decision was made, so we can better understand it?

Firefox already the same thing for html5 canvas [1], enabled I think via privacy.resistFingerprinting (in about:config). A similar feature would make sense for webGL. In the meantime, power users can disable webGL entirely via webgl.disabled (but without a user-friendly prompt to warn you when it's being blocked).

[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/28/firefox-58-warns-you-if-si...

She might have been experiencing the effects of placebo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26324219

Don't sweat it. All you really need is Firefox + uBlock Origin. And even without uBo, Firefox blocks some trackers by default.

Privacy badger is largely useless ever since they got rid of heuristics. ClearURLs is useful, but you'd probably be fine without it. And pi-hole doesn't block anything that uBo doesn't in Firefox (but is still useful for applications outside of the browser).

On the other hand, maybe you're like me and want to squeeze as much privacy out of your browser as you can, even if it means breaking some websites. If that's the case, check this website out. Just remember that the tweaks listed here are nice, but not entirely necessary.

https://privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config

Brave is Chromium-based and suffers from all of the limitations stated in the parent article.

(Except for CNAME cloaking. However, their CNAME uncloaking only applies to their built-in tracking protection. AFAIK, if you use uBo on Brave it will be still unable to uncloak CNAMES.)

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745227

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745227

If we thought of cameras as human eyes and microphones as human ears then maybe we wouldn't be as comfortable with internet-enabled doorbell cams, or internet-enabled smart speakers in our homes, always watching, always listening.

What of this version, which sends 99 random numbers along with your real number?

https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...

Despite it's infamy, Yahoo Answers was the largest Q&A website for a long time and is a huge part of our digital heritage. Soon, it will be gone forever. The ArchiveTeam will be doing all they can back up as much as possible before it's too late, but IP address rate-limiting is a huge roadblock. If you want to help, download the ArchiveTeam Warrior and run it in the background. It doesn't use a ton of resources - they just need more IP addresses.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

I have. It was very interesting, but I don't think it mentioned that McDonald's doesn't make most of its money from food.

> McDonald's doesn't really make its money selling food either

I would like to learn more about McDonald's business model. How is this possible?

> First, your SoC (System on a Chip) manufacturer (usually Qualcomm) has to get hold of it and customize Android for a particular SoC, adding drivers and other hardware support. Then, that build goes to your phone manufacturer (Fairphone, in this case) which adds support for the rest of the hardware—things like cameras, the display, and any other accessories.

Why is it so easy to boot any linux distro on almost any desktop computer? What makes it more difficult for phones?

The article requires you to enter an email address to continue reading. Submitting a fake address works just fine.

"The violence Calvin inflicts on snowmen could alone earn it an R rating" sounds toungue-in-cheek to me. Regardless, the author immediately it was a "classic parenting mistake" in the next sentence, and lets their kid read the books.

No, ketchup is shear-thinning, meaning it’s less solid when under stress.

So the decryption key contained in the url after the “#”? Is it never sent to the server, and instead only used to decrypt the message in-browser?

An NFT is like a piece of paper titled with the name of the artwork and signed by the artist. Meanwhile, the artwork hangs in a museum and you have no control over it.

Imagine going to the museum and showing people this paper. “Look, I bought this piece of art!” But even though you bought it, you don’t own it, so you aren’t able to take it home or anything like that.

Wait, what? They have always been sharing data with advertisers. What, exactly, is the change?

> we stumbled across Notify: a simple Shopify plugin that would pop up at the bottom of a website, displaying a purchase another customer had recently made.

Not only are these kind of pop ups incredibly annoying and an invasion of the purchaser’s privacy, they are also considered to be dark pattern.

https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ (See: Social Proof)

Let’s say there’s a Facebook group of moms that enjoy using essential oils. Imagine that a study gets posted to the group showing that essential oils are ineffective at treating some disease. If I made a comment in that community about how, in my anecdotal experience, essential oils cured me of this disease, it would probably be supported over the study.

Now, instead of essential oils, let’s say I did the same thing with a drug that is popular in Silicon Valley, and instead of a Facebook mom group, it’s hacker news.

The low-end 2019 Nissan Versa has hand crank windows, manual locks, manual transmission... yet still has a touch screen, because state law requires a back-up camera.

A rouge employee could steal a physical key left lying out, much like they can steal keys from computers.

So if I make a modification to add “competing app stores, free and open source apps/games, cool hardware features,” how does this violate DMCA?

I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention that today is the same day, 24 years ago, that the existence of Dolly the sheep was revealed, the first adult mammal clone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

Why was the VideoLan Movie Creator (VLMC) abandoned? Will it ever be revived? It would be nice to have an open source video editor.

See also

https://diep.io - original, abandoned

https://arras.io - fan made sequel

http://woomy-arras.io - sequel of sequel

(None of these load as fast)