Air ticket booking site uses Math.random for "38 people are looking at this right now" UX dark pattern
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Yahoo Groups will prevent new content from being uploaded on October 28, and all previous content will be deleted on December 14
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Your options for saving Yahoo Groups content
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The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
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South Korean national and 337 others arrested and charged worldwide in the takedown of Welcome To Video, the largest darknet child pornography website
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The US court allowed the Federal Communications Commission to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Centralised DNS-over-HTTPS is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
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Popular podcasts app Pocket Casts goes free, web and desktop app now subscription-based
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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New Wi-Fi 6 certification is officially released, up to 3x faster than 802.11ac
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Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
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Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts?
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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Tildenet (Not related to tildes.net)
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Our past on the internet is disappearing before we can make it history
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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Urgent statement of Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association on selective blocking of internet services
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Standard for light-based wireless internet connectivity (LiFi) provides emerging alternative to cramped radio bands employed by WiFi and cellular
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I'm not a robot
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How to find old instruction manuals for free online | No Sweat Tech
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Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
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The world's oldest webcam is shutting down after a quarter of a century
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Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
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When limiting online speech to curb violence, we should be careful
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The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed
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What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
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'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
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The creator of the "Upcoming Reactionary Movement Venn Diagram" explains what led to its creation on Tumblr in 2014
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Cloudflare is terminating service for 8Chan
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A framework for moderation - Bright lines for internet moderation don't exist, but we can get closer by defining boundaries for the gray areas
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8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
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8chan is a megaphone for shooters. ‘Shut the site down,’ says its creator.
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Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships.
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The endless, invisible persuasion tactics of the internet
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The life and death of an Instagram fish - What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create
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Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions? I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better....
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
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How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
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When having friends is more alluring than being right
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There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
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What’s your favorite status-checking website to check for “Is Site down?”
Any particular reason for the preference?
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The internet's old guard
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
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As authoritarian governments surveil the internet, open source projects decide how to respond
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Nine easy ways to create an avatar | No Sweat Tech
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Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
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The dirty business of hosting hate online
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My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories of 4M users
15 votes