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Similarly, Adi Shamir, bazillionaire founder of RSA (he’s the “S”), couldn’t get a visa this year to attend the RSA conference.

https://www.cnet.com/news/adi-shamir-couldnt-get-us-visa-to-...

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We don't know if it is similar. Zoom CEO was probably applying for an investor immigrant visa which are complicated and could be rejected for many reasons until the proper documents have been provided.

Shamir sent in a visa request and never heard back from USCIS.

Similarly, his US visa was delayed in 2013 also: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/17/crypto_guru_shamir_...

Visas are issued by the Department of State, not USCIS. USCIS can adjust the status of foreigners already within the US but that's not the same thing.

Good information. But be warned that CNET has popup auto playing video Ad which doesn't get caught by uBlock Origin.

Are you using chrome and also have either uBO-Extra or Nano Defender installed? If not it's most likely the ads are being served by Instart Logic. [1] [2]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...

[2] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227

Thanks, I didn't use uBO-Extra. What is the trade-off for not being included by default in the main extension, CPU?

BTW, I manually blocked the Ad column in CNET & seems to work.

> What is the trade-off for not being included by default in the main extension, CPU?

gorhill's (developer of uBO) explanation from[1] below:

> uBO-Extra is needed to deal with IL stuff because the IL inline script appears at the top of the served HTML page -- before any other secondary resource-pulling tag. uBO-Extra injects its content script declaratively, i.e. on every page, hence it will always run before IL stuff.

The root cause of why it is needed is because of a bug with web socket implementation in chrome.[2]

Additional info on why both are needed (& why for chrome but not firefox) in some reddit threads.[3][4][5]

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227#issuecomm...

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=487422

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/83quub/ublock...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/7mfkv1/ublock...

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/a9trz2/ublock_origi...

I would call it more of a missing feature than a bug in Chrome.

Surely he could have gotten an O Visa by now if he applied previously?

Yes, probably, however, an O Visa requires the recipient to be working in the USA upon receipt, it's not meant for tourism for business or pleasure (including tech conferences).

Oh, ok, I had no idea. Thanks.

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