Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it
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Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite
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Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
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WeChat is watching
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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
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Telegram founder points to China hacking attack during Hong Kong protest
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Branding the Decentralized Web
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Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat
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The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
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You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA
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Jordan Peterson announces free speech platform Thinkspot
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Who has your back? Censorship edition 2019 - Report by the EFF that assesses major tech companies' content moderation policies
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Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) - Taking back control using open software
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The experience of working on a thirty-year-old Macintosh SE
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San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes
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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
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Fan fiction writers are better than tech at organizing information online
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DJI’s newest drone is a $499 tank meant to teach kids how to code
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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Dropbox's desktop app is becoming a "workspace" with organization and collaboration tools, including integrations with Slack, Zoom, and Atlassian
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Introducing Study from Facebook
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'RAMBleed' Rowhammer attack can now steal data, not just alter it
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YouTube without all the crap?
I'm a pretty regular YouTube watcher but if I accidentally glance down at the comments section, I know my night is going to be ruined. I wondered if there is any kind of YouTube app or service...
I'm a pretty regular YouTube watcher but if I accidentally glance down at the comments section, I know my night is going to be ruined.
I wondered if there is any kind of YouTube app or service that lets you watch and search for videos (even access my subscribed channels) but with less of the crap, ie. the comments and related videos, which just take you down a YouTube rabbit hole that you won't get out of for hours.
Cheers!
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Tech and antitrust
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Firefox: The evolution of a brand
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Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
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Adopting Kubernetes? These guidelines make the transition easier
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France bans judge analytics, five years in prison for rule breakers
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The mysterious and potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft may fly soon
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Diminishing differentiation: Are all our gadgets making each other redundant?
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Huawei is sending developers requests to publish on its app store
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Huawei’s export ban is wider in scope than most people imagine
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InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement
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Big mood machine - Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
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Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall
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Salesforce Acquires Tableau Software in $15.7 Billion Deal
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Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
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Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
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Google argues the Huawei ban would hurt its Android monopoly
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Inside a PCB soldering factory in China
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Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
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Apple plans to force app developers using OAuth to include their sign in and encourages them to put it above rivals.
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A state-of-the-art defense against neural fake news
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iOS 13 now shows you a map of where apps have been tracking you
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GitHub shocks top developer: Access to five years' work inexplicably blocked
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Walmart wants employees to deliver products to your fridge - Available in three cities this fall
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The tricky ethics of using YouTube videos for academic research
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Ars Technica reporter Peter Bright charged with soliciting child sex online
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
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