democra's comments

democra | 3 years ago | on: FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client

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".

democra | 3 years ago | on: EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

Browser developers can choose to fake user-agents. Brave uses a generic chrome user agent so it cannot be differentiated from regular Chrome.

democra | 3 years ago | on: Use NextDNS everywhere you use Tailscale

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.

democra | 3 years ago | on: Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners

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.

democra | 3 years ago | on: iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS

I don't know which rock you're living under but Apple users do this way way more often to validate their purchase.

democra | 3 years ago | on: Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: the corporation

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.

democra | 4 years ago | on: Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information

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.

democra | 4 years ago | on: I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

>I learned my lesson to not talk about such things

And yet here we are, talking about it.

democra | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

Phone numbers and emails are worth more

democra | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

You can also use a privacy redirect extension to do it automatically.

democra | 4 years ago | on: Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure

Are you really going with "I've never really heard of it, so it isn't real."?

It's not how it works.

democra | 4 years ago | on: Netflix’s Prices Are Rising Faster Than Cable

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.