Readit Newshlau commented on An Honest Remembrance of My Friend & Co-Founder Mani Gandham saturation.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/hlau
manigandham was a fairly active HN user.
hlau commented on Statement from Mark Zuckerberg facebook.com/login/web/... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
Am I the only one who’s annoyed that the message is gated and that FB somehow needs to track everyone who has seen what I imagine amounts to a mea culpa for their clusterfuck of a week.
It’s so weird reading about Web3 and the focus presumably on digital sovereignty and privacy and to see a platform moving backwards and away from any semblance of an open internet.
hlau commented on Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust zyppy.com/googlespeak/... · Posted by u/cyrusshepard
I very rarely click on Google Web Search ads.
I very rarely use Google Web Search.
Poor relevance and ubiquitous tracking is a key condern. But the ad-spamming is also tremendously out of hand.
I'd switched to Google from AltaVista in 1999. I ditched GWS effectively by 2013.
Yes, I'll still occasionally run a "!g" bang search. And there are Google services I find genuinely useful --- Google Books and Ngram Viewer most especially.
But the bloom hasn't been anywhere near that rose for a long, long, long, long time.
Really surprised to hear that you’re not getting the relevance out of Google. Are most of your searches in a specific domain that’s somehow not covered properly by Google? And is there a search engine that does a better job for you? I’ve tried using services like DDG and find myself falling back to Google more often than not.
An even more impressive prediction in 2015, a time when Apple was not positioned as some type of savior of user privacy.
I actually wrote a deep dive on Apple’s pivot to privacy.
https://saturation.substack.com/p/apple-facebook-and-the-glo...
hlau commented on I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018) privacyinternational.org/... · Posted by u/weare138
This latest trend is so annoying: there is either "Accept" or: "See purpose". And the "Don't accept" stuff is hidden under "See purpose". Infuriating.
My company actually did a very extensive study on this and found that the majority of websites utilize dark patterns. Only 25% of sites are even legally compliant even after deploying consent management software. Companies are openly flouting privacy laws and we actually found some of the worst offenders in the app space where consent mechanisms don't even exist within the apps themselves.