SimonBrazell  

@oliver I'll look into it, have been on a bit of a hiatus from the extension world, I'll add your request to repo issues.

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Neil Brown  

TinyCheck: an RPi-based MitM / interception device, designed to help abuse victims determine if someone has installed spyware on their device:

github.com/KasperskyLab/tinych

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kravietz 🦇  

An interesting decentralized, open-source and based application for trading goods and services in local areas. Developed in Italy and currently being deployed in Italy with support of local government as response to the pandemics, but easily ported to any location.

nile.shopping/

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NGI Zero open source funding  

Want to know who visits your website without handing their data over to #GoogleAnalytics? LWN.net takes a look at #opensource lightweight alternatives, like the analysis platform GoatCounter that does not track users with unique identifiers, adds just ~2.5 KB of extra data to your site and is easy & accessible in use -> lwn.net/SubscriberLink/822568/ @NGIZero is proud to fund development of ethical & open source analytics like GoatCounter (nlnet.nl/project/GoatCounter) & Offen (nlnet.nl/project/Offen).

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Daniel Cid  

We live in a town with just 2 builders.

You can only buy a house from one of them (Builder G and Builder A).

If you buy a house from Builder A, you won't be able to install any appliances or make any changes unless approved by A.

To get into A's approved list of products/applianced, you need to pay them a 30% commission...

This would never be accepted in the real world, but we go for it on the App stores.

Not the perfect analogy, but explains what happens with Apple and Google.

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basic tech support required 

@freddyym also do you know if there is any way to do code blocks in Mastodon?

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basic tech support required 

@freddyym note the removal of `text-decoration` and the insertion of `content: "°"` after the anchor.

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basic tech support required 

@freddyym sorry about the delay, here is the CSS pulled directly from that site:
```
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
transition-property: background;
transition-duration: 0.2s;
}

a::after {
position: relative;
content: "°";
margin-left: 0.1em;
font-size: 90%;
top: -0.1em;
color: rgb(153, 51, 51);
font-feature-settings: "caps";
font-variant-numeric: normal;
}
```

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SimonBrazell  

@atticus just made these, they are really good 👌thanks for posting!

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SimonBrazell  

@techygrue that or you could request the removal and deletion of all your data from the services you used to use, most services should have such a facility.

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@techygrue I think its best to just leave the past behind you and to take steps to avoid making the same mistakes again (same applies to life 🙂).

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@freddyym do you have an example of what you're after?

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@strypey yes I disagree with censorship in general. I really question the motives of the film though, in a lot of ways I feel it does more harm than good for the cause, basically giving people more justification to continue burning fossil fuels and ignoring greener alternatives.

Do yourself a favour, watch some of the videos debunking it if you haven't already, you'll see that a lot of the information in the film, is so out of date that it can largely be ignored.

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Phoenix  
The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes | Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-web-browser-is-hijacking-links-and-inserting-affiliate-codes/
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Hackernews  

eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-po

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kravietz 🦇  

After spending a few hours in sci-hub archives, I'm once again extremely grateful to Alexandra Elbakyan sci-hub.tw/alexandra who helps millions of people globally get free access to scientific publications that were paid for from public money and then privatised & paywalled

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@kravietz 😂

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@strypey I thought a lot of what was in it was either debunked or really out of date?

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TeMPOraL  

@estoricru

1) Look at this list:
darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark
and never, ever do any of that.

2) In general: users are not cattle.

3) Treat your users like you would your friends. You wouldn't waste your friend's time, or take advantage of them.

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