Hacker News: jasonkostempski

New comment by jasonkostempski in "EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:37:41 +0000

Does it matter if that company is from EU? Even a new engine centralized in the US won't be able to operate in the EU without substantial cost. That's a pretty big market/data source to miss out on.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:48:21 +0000

I can't tell if you're joking. Why would you want to use a single-platfrom, closed-source browser? We've been there, done that. You say you use Chrome and FF for cross platform features so you must have cross platform concerns. Anything they do to encourage developers and users to support it would be a huge step backwards for the world.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:36:37 +0000

Just uninstall Edge.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Taking back control of my digital life"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:11:37 +0000

The last thing keeping me on Google is a sheet scripted against calendar for budgeting. I can't find a good open source calendar with an API that will let me query for all events within a date range. Seems like the type of software that should exist in spades. I don't even really need a UI.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "GSM Phone on a Conference Badge [video]"

jasonkostempski — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:45:40 +0000

EXTRA BITS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1j-VwJiFYk

GSM Phone on a Conference Badge [video]

jasonkostempski — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vkHRM4dHg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17959556

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads"

jasonkostempski — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:14:28 +0000

What's B&H?

New comment by jasonkostempski in "First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?"

jasonkostempski — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:01:43 +0000

Advertise natively, don't track. It's that simple, no need for research. Our ancestors did it for hundreds of years. There is no acceptable level of tracking.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Uber CEO: ride hailing will be eclipsed by scooters, bikes and even flying taxis"

jasonkostempski — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:01:42 +0000

Scooters an bikes are right out for those of us not living in always-sunny California and anyone with a family. And if none of it can be done anonymously, it's a nightmare for privacy advocates. I'm sure at least some of the audience fits into one or more of those categories. Personally owned cars are going to be a thing for quite a while.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"

jasonkostempski — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:43:09 +0000

Whatever lag FF has is negated 10-fold over Chrome if you install uBlock Origin since there's no more tracking or ads. I can't even imagine going back to mobile Chrome or Safari, I'd rather go back to a basic phone.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:53:13 +0000

If a law is going to require an algorithm, the algorithm should be supplied by the government, open and free for all to use and they should be responsible for the correctness of the results.

Exploiting the Tiltman Break

jasonkostempski — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 13:09:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrNWRtDr7Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17917527

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking"

jasonkostempski — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:39:59 +0000

Maybe your right. I looked quickly but didn't find anything. Is there no standard out there stating, for example, that JavaScript MUST NOT be allowed unrestricted access to local storage or that the location API MUST request permission? These are just accepted as obvious best practices?

New comment by jasonkostempski in "The GDPR Is a Cookie Monster"

jasonkostempski — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:29:28 +0000

> Personally, I absolutely want to know when sites are trying to spy on me and sell the data.

It's best to assume they're all doing that to some degree whether they tell you they are or not. For one, most of the world isn't beholden to EU law. Also, bad players don't play by the rules and by the time you know they're bad, it's too late.

> Despicable crap like that should be forced out into the public, not quietly agreed to by the browser.

But the cookie law doesn't fix that problem, or any problem for that matter. The notifications are 100% pointless and we're stuck with them because of a stupid law. If anything, having a standard way to block the notices might encourage more users towards a real fix for the tracking problems, which is using something like uBlock Origin (just don't tell that to the site owners that don't want users having tracking blockers).

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking"

jasonkostempski — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:59:33 +0000

This is the wrong angle to take. Plugins are the correct solutions to these problems. A browser should implement the standards. Period. If this breaks a site users want or need, they will go to another browser. If Mozilla wants to fix things, they should be fighting for new standards. Start with a standard that says all third-party content requires a user prompt to enable, always, no whitelist, no blacklist, no way to disable the prompt. Same with all JS hardware API calls. That's how it should have been from the start. Any browser vendor that goes against the standard would be forced to admit they're enabling gapping vulnerabilities.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling"

jasonkostempski — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:03:05 +0000

I get blocking incoming messages. Why is there a feature for blocking publicly broadcast messages available even to annonymos users?

New comment by jasonkostempski in "The GDPR Is a Cookie Monster"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:36:56 +0000

I think we should have a de facto standard element class for legal notices with no required user action, like legal-notice-no-action-required. Webistes use the css class, uBlock Origin makes it a built-in default element filter. Website owners can fulfill their legal obligations and users that proactively shape their browsing experience are all set. Neither side wants these things messing up the browsing experience so, unlike the ad wars, we can work together.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything"

jasonkostempski — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:54:15 +0000

Woah, I spent more time than I care to admit trying to find some feeds. I thought I had the secret sauce all figured out :) https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=itsokaytobesma... is much easier to use. I can think of a few channels where the play list thing will come in handy if it works. Gamers where I only want to see 1 out of 50 games they play and are who are orginized enough to keep seperate playlist is one example. You can't even do that with YouTubes own subscription method as far as I know.

New comment by jasonkostempski in "RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything"

jasonkostempski — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:41:46 +0000

YouTube channel feeds, if they have one, are at: www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id} Some channels have a custom url and the id isn't obvious but it should be in the page source somewhere.

For example, "It's Okay To Be Smart" is at "www.youtube.com/user/itsokaytobesmart". Right click, view page source, search for "/channel/". That finds """ rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH4BNI0-FOK2dMXoFtViWHw">". So the feed url is:

    https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCH4BNI0-FOK2dMXoFtViWHw

New comment by jasonkostempski in "VSCodium: Binary releases of VSCode without MS branding, telemetry and licensing"

jasonkostempski — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:26:18 +0000

To me, that's a feature.