Hacker News: chrmod

New comment by chrmod in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

chrmod — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:00:42 +0000

Shouldn’t it be called Linux Subsystem for Windows 9x - LSW9x?

New comment by chrmod in "Good design needs no explanation"

chrmod — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:39:39 +0000

Yet, Liquid Glass criticism scares people from updating their devices.

Good design needs no explanation

chrmod — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:39:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ueUb6PNwbs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541631

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by chrmod in "Goodbye Brave"

chrmod — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:56:32 +0000

Disclaimer: I work for Ghostery. I respond to protect my own name, not my employer.

Ghostery is not selling user data.

Let me point out a few facts:

All browser-side code is open source https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension and https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-dnr-extension.

Yes, Ghostery has a subscription based business model and that another reason to great care in protecting users privacy. Take a look on how we use blind tokens to authenticate subscribed users while searching on glowstery.com https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-search-extension (notice that even when you are a subscribed user there is no session cookie so queries cannot be linked).

Hope this sheds some light on the accusation. If that’s not enough, I do sincerely recommend uBlock Origin or AdGuard on Apple’s platform.

New comment by chrmod in "The Cliqz Story Is Over"

chrmod — Fri, 01 May 2020 17:20:44 +0000

Hi. I'm one of the engineers that was working on Cliqz browsers. My focus was on the iOS one recently. All browser code was always open, you can find it on Github.

iOS - https://github.com/cliqz/user-agent-ios

Android - https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-android

Android (NextGen, was planned for release next month) - https://github.com/cliqz/daisy

Destkop - https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f

There is much more on our Github organizations: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/ https://github.com/cliqz/

We loved OSS at Cliqz, it was a part of the company culture and ultimate proof how private our products were.

Web on iOS can be more private. Here is what Apple has to fix

chrmod — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:55:13 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/chrmod/a5c71f9e7f86782d47eb1734df440260

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360316

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Manyverse implements a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) protocol on iOS

chrmod — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:35:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/1213814520147324938

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961662

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Blocking tracking without blocking trackers

chrmod — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 23:14:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-without-blocking-trackers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840266

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Implementing search-as-you-type in the browser using RxJS

chrmod — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-12/implementing-search-as-you-type-in-the-browser-using-rxjs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21774818

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

A New Search Engine

chrmod — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:38:41 +0000

Article URL: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-05/a-new-search-engine.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716860

Points: 173

# Comments: 102

Ask HN: Should Browsers load explicit content in Incognito mode automatically?

chrmod — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:55:24 +0000

That way explicit content urls won’t land in browsing history accidentally. Should browsers do that automatically or ask user every time domain known for explicit content gets detected?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21696609

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by chrmod in "Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects"

chrmod — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:09:08 +0000

Check the post from previous day titled “Is Data Collection Evil?” https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil...

By now it should be obvious that no privacy oriented company (or in fact any other company) should treat user data as product.

New comment by chrmod in "Human Web – Data Collection Without Privacy Side-Effects"

chrmod — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 18:52:53 +0000

Asking HN: point another company describing why and how it does data collection at this extent.

New comment by chrmod in "Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy"

chrmod — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 19:07:14 +0000

Probably lots of people remember the good old days of Google Advance Search. Or the ability to fine tune the results with special operators like +, -, site:, etc. It was probably 2010 when we started to talk about filter bubbles and how "smart" algorithms adjust the data to our liking. No one even though about disasters like Cambridge Analitica. As those days are long gone, there is perspective that is not purely negative. IMAO modern search engines are more approachable. They are easier than ever to use. Specifically for people that don't necessarily know how or have patience to learn how to use it. We are power users and often forget that most people don't have to be ones. They just want to search.

Therefore approach that Cliqz takes to its data collection makes even more sense. What Human Web does is extraction of common knowledge (or sense) on what does Web mean to people. Not to you, not to me, but to all of us.