The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting(kevinboone.me)

692 points by ingve 11 months ago | 392 comments

Kevin Boone's personal blog essay on how browser fingerprinting undermines web privacy beyond third-party cookies and de-Googling efforts.

My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage(blog.jgc.org)

46 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 91 comments

My experience being blocked by Google Safe Browsing (2022)(brennan.io)

61 points by aww_dang 3 years ago | 46 comments

GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt(simonwillison.net)

228 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 157 comments

"Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming(blog.jgc.org)

366 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 117 comments

John Graham-Cumming's blog post announcing Two Stop Bits, a Hacker News-style link site for retro computing and gaming built on modified Arc HN source code.

Stories from the Internet(dbrgn.ch)

37 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 9 comments

Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update(0x44.xyz)

941 points by deryilz 1 year ago | 816 comments

Blog post describing a Chrome bug that let extensions keep using webRequestBlocking to bypass Manifest V3's restrictions on adblockers.

Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites(nednex.com)

543 points by SweetSoftPillow 1 year ago | 516 comments

An opinion article arguing that cookie consent laws should be implemented at the browser level rather than requiring every website to show consent banners.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

System-level ad-blocking in Android(kevinboone.me)

45 points by birdculture 20 days ago | 31 comments

Kevin Boone's article explaining how to block ads system-wide on Android in 2026 using DNS-based methods rather than per-app blockers.

Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates(arstechnica.com)

325 points by my12parsecs 2 years ago | 277 comments

Ars Technica article on how Chrome's Manifest V3 extension platform slows ad blocker updates, hampering their ability to respond to YouTube and other ad changes.

Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

430 points by Curiositry 4 months ago | 124 comments

Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.