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noja commented on Lesser known mobile adtech domains where data is sent   jamesoclaire.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/ddxv
noja · 3 days ago
Reminder that a website you are visiting may be proxying your data to the adtech company through their services a domain.

Check out the Facebook Conversions API Gateway.

noja commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?    · Posted by u/mbix77
M95D · 11 days ago
It doesn't handle it. Anyway, there's no way to know what a website does on the server site. Even a completely static website could be sending the server logs somewhere.

There are options to not load JS, images, XMLHttpRequests, frames, cookies, for each site, but it doesn't list individual files.

noja · 11 days ago
Then why use it? They're number one.
noja commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?    · Posted by u/mbix77
M95D · 11 days ago
I'm using uMatrix and it blocks by default all connections outside the requested site and parent domains. For example, if I request https://mail.yahoo.com, connections to yimg.com are blocked. I need to manually allow each CDN for each website, so this attack/profiling won't work.

Using uMatrix was very annoying at first, most websites are broken without their CDNs, but after a few months or so, the whitelist grew and it contains 90% of websites I visit.

On my system https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ tries to connect to captcha.com, google-analytics, googletagmanager, 127.0.0.1 and "burp" (a local hostname that doesn't exist in my network). Interestigly, the browser console doesn't list connection attempts to localhost or burp. If I allow 127.0.0.1 and "tcpdump -i lo", I see connections to port 8888, which isn't open.

noja · 11 days ago
How does uMatrix handle the Facebook tracking pixel, or the replacement which is the Conversions API Gateway?

This is a container that FB gives you to host that lives under your domain (it can be your main domain) that slurps up user data and sends it to Facebook from the server side. You embed some JS in your website, and they hoover up the data.

noja commented on Over 10k hotels join mass claim against Booking.com   nltimes.nl/2025/08/04/100... · Posted by u/TechTechTech
ramesh31 · a month ago
Maybe it's just me, but the OTA aggregators seem like a relic from a bygone era at this point. Its been at least a decade since I've seen a hotel that didn't have their own online booking system, and using it guarantees you will never have any issues that the hotel themselves can't (or won't) handle. It seems like these companies are existing solely on inertia and marketing at this point; there's not only zero benefit to using them, but they can and do completely screw you over and ruin vacations on a regular basis.
noja · a month ago
Booking.com is great for discovery. They tend to have better prices and better conditions than booking direct.

Also many small guesthouses and hotels do not have online booking, although often they have enquiry forms.

noja commented on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine   bbc.com/news/articles/cx2... · Posted by u/brudgers
noja · a month ago
Wasn't this the guy who entered the MRI room without authorisation?
noja commented on Voting age to be lowered to 16 by next general election   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/johneth
heeton · a month ago
I don’t quite understand why reforming the actual system, and moving away from first-past-the-post, isn’t higher on everyone’s list.

It feels like we don’t have a functioning democracy in the U.K., and that gets in the way of pretty much everything else.

noja · a month ago
I think the very idea that a single party would encompass a voter's entire set of beliefs is ridiculous and antiquated.
noja commented on Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app   offchess.com... · Posted by u/avadhesh18
noja · 2 months ago
Could the hint not show the full move?

i.e. just show the piece, not the piece and where to put it?

noja commented on Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts   theregister.com/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/rntn
tiahura · 2 months ago
Why cut off your nose to spite your face? If they’re the best bid, then use them. But, make them pay due compensation
noja · 2 months ago
Your definition of best ignores the cost of using this company.
noja commented on WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History   512pixels.net/2025/06/wwd... · Posted by u/syx
cmiller1 · 3 months ago
I'm on the Tahoe beta and holding command with an item selected in spotlight shows the path.
noja · 3 months ago
For all matches or only the first?
noja commented on WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History   512pixels.net/2025/06/wwd... · Posted by u/syx
noja · 3 months ago
I wish it would break history and let Spotlight and show me the path for the file it has found.

Is it 2023/accounts.xlsx or 2024/accounts.xlsx or 2025/accounts.xlsx? Who knows!

u/noja

KarmaCake day4985August 26, 2010View Original