Tagged “privacy”

Linked from the email in Lea Verou’s footer. Is this still worth doing?

Also more sad linkrot that the page she links is stored in the internet archive only as error pages.

cool concept, worried about yet-another-custom-client, pricing (not listed??), privacy policy, over-emphasis on spelling out TLS and AES

but cool concept

this was super useful - already seeing a lot more 403s from linksync script which is maybe related :(

this seems like a good change privacy-wise but also an second step if you actually wanted to grant access to contacts.

they recommend changing your password if you are worried about your data that they exposed

More America-centric, but amazing project

comprehensive list of his income and assets. Great thing to be public

this is not about keeping people safe from fentanyl

learn to deal with normal-sized data first

real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual cameras injection. The future is terrifying

In her own entry from 1965, Wolf wondered whether the diary would become “the only art form in which a person can still remain honest, in which one can avoid the compromises that are otherwise necessary or becoming unavoidable everywhere.” Reimann never put such trust in the form. “In essence, everything that’s written in a diary is a lie—or it’s all just a half-truth,” she wrote in 1956. “And half-truths are lies too.”

The story of trying to track down your instagram double.

via HN

Interesting take on the differences in impact between large scale vs inidividual differences.

Reading this made me feel a little more justified in my general distrust of browser extensions. They have so much potential power!

Maybe unsurprising, still disappointing

Is there any requirement for them to be sticky?

Also see web.dev

The stats I’ve seen on this tracking toggle are pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how the next period unfolds for advertisers. If history is any guide they’ll get even shadier and look for terrible workarounds, but we can dream.

Don’t agree with all the points, but would enjoy less third-party tracking. Especially if it means fewer fucking cookie notifications.

Auto-delete as a default is good - the permenance of random new services is always worrying.