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Re:Yahoo is making a return to search on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:22AM (#34592289)
when was the last time you or your team contacted a user for a follow up from the feedback?

sorry but that response sounds a lot like a "Your feedback is valuable to us" marketing copypasta response.

Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:06AM (#33774506)
Plausible deniability. People will use any excuse to free themselves from accountability.

Privacy, adverts, morality, monopoly and all the hand waving is just for show. They are valid concerns but you'll hear a lot of it as a veil for "me want free stuff".

Re:EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @06:48PM (#33268820)
Browser developers can choose to fake user-agents. Brave uses a generic chrome user agent so it cannot be differentiated from regular Chrome.
Re:Use NextDNS everywhere you use Tailscale on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:01PM (#33186647)
Are they hinting at a pihole with their "It’s a bit more robust and lower latency than that Pi of yours dangling off the shelf by your cable modem."

How could it possibly have lower latency than something that's literally on your local network? Once it caches a request it's nearly instantaneous.

At that point there will be very little content for the browser to scrape, because most content will be behind a paywall or a subscription.
Re:iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:25PM (#32796322)
I don't know which rock you're living under but Apple users do this way way more often to validate their purchase.
For Hindus, claiming everything in the subcontinent as their own seems like a favorite passtime. Jainism, Buddhism are not part of Hinduism and never were.
Re:Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:13AM (#30356878)
Wouldn't radomized pixelation without using the actual textual data in the background be enough?

A tool where you can choose the background color and the text color. The pixalation tool then overlays the blur effect with random characters.

>I learned my lesson to not talk about such things

And yet here we are, talking about it.

Phone numbers and emails are worth more
You can also use a privacy redirect extension to do it automatically.
Re:Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:22PM (#30003018)
Are you really going with "I've never really heard of it, so it isn't real."?

It's not how it works.

Re:Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable on Monday January 17, 2022 @11:10AM (#29968007)
Eh, our family freaking loves Netflix originals. And there are many from different countries. But I guess it's probably because we generally like to explore more than just look for something artificially hyped up through marketing.