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You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?
There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in its place: nowhere!
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MangaDex infrastructure overview
Your browser lacks modern WebAssembly support, so verification is running a slower fallback. Consider updating your browser.
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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 24, 2017, at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.
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Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages
I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you want to use a
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Web hacking techniques of 2021
Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
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Self hosting in 2023
Why I've decided to host my page on my own in home server and how community is building amazing tools like Coolify.
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The Line of Death
When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything…
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Is this the end of social networking?
Scott Rosenberg , in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network” , writes at Axios:
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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
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Firefox 84.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
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Web Scraping: Bypassing “403 Forbidden,” captchas, and more
The full code for the completed scraper can be found in the companion repository on github. Introduction I wouldn’t really consider web scraping one of my hobbies or anything but I guess I sort of do a lot of it.
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The Future of JavaScript MVCs
often devs still approach performance of JS code as if they are riding a horse cart but the horse had long been replaced with fusion reactor
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Firefox 69.0 Released
As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default, strengthening the security and privacy for all of our users around the world. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
It is a regular occurrence to hear about open source developers selling their browser extensions, only for their users to be exploited later on by the new owners. Purchase offers for browser extensions usually range between $0.1 and $0.3 per user, depending on factors such as the geographical distribution of users…
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Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
If you're curious about rainbows, colorimetry, gamma encoding, and experiments run in the late 1920s, then this is the post for you!
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An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone
The last thing we want is for an advertising network to access the Camera or Microphone on our computer. But, while looking for something else, I stumbled upon messages in the Safari JavaScript console saying that an iframe loaded from safeframe.googlesyndication.com tried to do exactly that.
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HTML is the Web
In which I lament the fact that many frontend Web engineers don't understand the end product of their work, HTML.
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Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Google is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser. TL;DR: FLoC places people in groups based on their browsing habits to target advertising. Why is this bad? As the …
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The “small web” is bigger than you might think
The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.
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Some notes about HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is going to be standardized. As an old protocol guy, I thought I'd write up some comments. Google (pbuh) has both the most popular ...
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The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
A little over a year ago, we announced our intention to rebuild Microsoft Edge on the Chromium open source project with the goals of delivering better compatibility for everyone, less fragmentation for web developers, and a partnership with the Chromium community to improve the Chromium engine itself. At Ignite, we…