cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
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cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
I don't think the law specifies to use cookies to disable cookies and it's a good thing - lawmakers shouldn't care about technological solutions.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
Or how about Google making a form of Adsense that doesn't track users?
I somehow have a feeling that large corporations intentionally are trying to make this law ridiculous. E.g. why blogspot pages would need such warnings? Please Google just stop tracking.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
I think law is fine and there should be only a handful of sites in the Internet that would need such warnings.
Problem is the abuse of technology to track users.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story
As a Northern European I'm often amused by all the studies of allergenic properties of milk coming in from different parts of world.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Cancer patient gets a 3D-printed titanium rib cage
You could make the titanium parts hollow. That would solve the density problem.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough
Just to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Surely you're joking, Skype
There is no "delete" on Internet
cornewut | 10 years ago | on: Japanese Change Trays
Actually I can't even imagine handing cash directly to someone - this kind of seems rude to me. It would be even worse if the note was folded. Doing this also might involve hand contact (which again might make someone uncomfortable). (I'm from Northern Europe).
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler
I'm sorry, I misread it as "New NSA backdoor".
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: Hackers Cut in Line at the Burning Man Ticket Sale–And Get Caught
I wonder if any of the "hackers" will get sued.
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: Most people probably shouldn't go to school
Non vitae, sed scholae discimus[1]
[1] Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Seneca
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: Google Analytics, Casualty of Spam
Adding to this - most privacy/adblock plugins also block analytics.
So I really have to doubt that Google Analytics is of much value.
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: GoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube
The problem is not that they are doing this, but that they can.
This is a technology problem and it will not be fixed by shaming offenders (GoGo probably didn't have any evil intentions at all).
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: World War II Battle When Americans and Germans Fought Together (2013)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups
This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: Misfortune Cookie
Some might actually think that the vulnerability affects only Checkpoint devices.
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem
You can disable third-party cookies in most browsers.
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases
I'm using disconnect.me
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases
Amazon product pages already have Facebook tracker embedded, so Facebook knows what you are looking at. No need to provide your phone number.
cornewut | 11 years ago | on: 23andMe UK
Entering a fake name doesn't really help. If one of your relatives also orders the kit, your name can easily be found out.
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And there are a lot of ways to track users even without cookies.