duckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this

I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it’s slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.

They might be able to identify specific known large VPN providers, but as a concept, you technically can’t just blanket block all “VPNs”.

If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.

To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.

I like the attention to sandboxing/security that web apps are given, the ease of updating, and that the UI design is easier/more accessible (many more web devs than anything else) than traditional apps, but I still prefer the speed, size and light (memory) weight of native apps.

I don’t understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere… the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others… but nobody seems to care about those.

Extensions themselves are also frowned upon by privacy advocates because anything that modifies or restricts the DOM/javascript/etc. can itself be detected and used as yet another data point to identify someone.

No anti-fingerprinting method currently in use can evade creepjs to my knowledge. And that EFF site has its own issues… it only tests uniqueness across other visitors the site has seen before, and not all possible combinations of data points.

not a single mention of notcurses-demo

have you tried being non-white /s

You have even less rights at border crossings if you are not a citizen and have not technically entered the country through immigration yet… basically the Constitution does not even apply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Knauff_v._Shaughnessy

It has been ruled by SCOTUS that the Constitution specifically does not apply at border entry to non-citizens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Knauff_v._Shaughnessy

the Constitution does not grant aliens any protections when trying to enter the United States.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-3/ALDE_00001263/[‘article’, ‘14’]

an alien “on the threshold of initial entry stands on a different footing” because he or she is theoretically outside the United States and typically beyond the veil of constitutional protection.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/345/206/

Although a lawfully resident alien may not captiously be deprived of his constitutional rights [to due process], the alien in this case is an entrant alien or “assimilated to that status” for constitutional purposes.

The Attorney General therefore may exclude this alien without a hearing, as authorized by the emergency regulations promulgated pursuant to the Passport Act, and need not disclose the evidence upon which that determination rests.

How do you put someone in prison who has not entered your country yet?

And I thought it was already ruled that they can’t hold someone for that long just for not giving up a password at the border?

That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to… almost everything and everyone.

Who was denied entry for not having social media?

4chan. they call each other anon all the time

will be denied entry

Source:

I said I will take it, not that I think everyone else should, or is capable of recognizing/ignoring conspiracy theories. I struggle much harder with ignoring bad attitudes than I do obvious bullshit, but to each their own.

Banned elements @lemmy.world from the community [email protected] reason: unknown new user signal group link spam

tbf I’ll take Dale Gribble level conspiracy theories over Linus’ bad attitude any day.

They actually do. To quote a major FOSS developer, “popularity is not a project goal.”

Reminds me of early punk rockers that get upset when their tiny little nobody band that fits in their back pocket, gets too big to fit in their pocket anymore. Some might call it “selling out.”