Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security
by heavyset_go on Sunday January 23, 2022 @08:51PM
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Interesting how the brand of security companies like Google keep telling us is in our best interests always seems to secure their corporate revenue streams first, while the security and freedom of users are an afterthought.
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years ago I interviewed with a startup that was aiming to put their routers in various locations like airports and coffee shops. They would offer free or cheap internet at those locations. The catch: they were going to swap out ads with their own ads on the fly.
Shortly after that, Google started pushing HTTPS. I never believed that was a coincidence.
Re:Ask HN: Gmail account security
by TedDoesntTalk on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:42AM
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The great migration to https, even for read-only self-hosted blogs, has been an amazing disservice to the world. Maybe if we had non-expiring ssl certificates with working OCSP or CRL, I’d have a different opinion.
Yeah, they make almost tens of dollars forcing users to use Safari or Edge instead of lynx.
Well, if they could make tens of dollars per user, that would be pretty good.