Yes, crypto has a bad taste. But from my pov, the research paper situation is so broken, that anything that improves upon the status quo is highly welcomed.

But I'm with you with the penalties. Maybe they can add an option to forfeit the tokens to sci-net instead.

But I think they just used title-case[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

Once, in a similar situation, I had the thought that "somebody should build that" and never imagined that somebody actually would.

With your tool, I learned that our home is better located than I thought and that there are many places more downtown that would be worse for me and my wife (bc of highways and good public transport connections).

I will show this some friends! Thanks!

This gave me a good chuckle (if you read it as next.js)

1. disable Fullscreen "XY is now Fullscreen" text. Set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 2. disable Alt key: set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false 3. don't select space after double clicking a word (together with auto highlight selection addon very nice for skimming code in browser like GH): set layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word to false 4. reduce forced wait when downloading a file (Download button in small FF-modal takes time to enable/activate, hard to explain, but annoying) : set security.dialog_enable_delay to 300ms 5. disable "This Connection is not Secure" Warning in (for pages like fritz.box together with XCkeepass very annoying) security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled

My younger self condemned my father's printer as "dumb" for printing a multi-page print job in reverse order. It took me a couple days to understand it does that so that you have them sorted once you pick them up (printed side was up). By that time I also have already publicly declared the stupidity of that printer. I think the shame after my enlightment deepened this life lesson.

Am I the only one?

Tools like these might be useful in some cases, like preventing stalking _right now_, but can't (sadly) guarantee a prevention in any way for the future.

I assume this tool will be marketed differently.

That makes 3.6667 transactions per second. BTC needs a hard fork in order to increase this dramatically.

So you were actually quite generous with 10 transactions per second...

[0] "Blockchain Charts" https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-per-block

EDIT: The official description [https://github.com/WICG/floc], does a better job in explaining the point. They try to cluster (="cohort") users interests and exchange that with the ad-service. This could maybe help to increase transparency and authority over your data as it's saved locally. But I don't see a way to limit the access to the users cohorts (they even say that themself, see link above). Everybody could access my interests - not just Google and other ad services. And of course, if you have 1000 categories and some meta information (region based on IP address etc.), you will be able to track down individual users with pretty good accuracy.