I don't want google chrome saving my search history, or to accidentally read an article on some news website that then broadcasts that fact to all of my facebook friends.
https://github.com/benvinegar/Spectacles/blob/master/README....
edit: removed discussion of googleoff/googleon directives in the HTML source. Seemed suspicious, but apparently it's something to do with Google Search Appliance.
Apparently you (like a lot of savvy people otherwise concerned with privacy) will tolerate it from Facebook but not from Quora. So I guess what Quora should do is just get bought by Facebook; then you will not (be able to?) complain about their sketchy behavior.
(If anybody has a counterexample I'd be interested to see it, but try to make sure it's not just an old result that hasn't been re-indexed since the change.)
If you want to grow your user base, provide more value to registered users. Here are a couple of bullet points you can start with:
1. Grow the community with real content. Do that by first focusing on a specific domain/topic that has a natural draw of users. Stack Exchange draws the programmers crowd and nailed that community. Once you got to a critical mass, other communities will follow. E.g., when you have enough programmers in the same place, some of them will share some common interests like photographs, salsa dancing, etc ... Looks like Quora's base supporters are Bay Area's start up community. This is probably too small a support base for sustainable growth. Either Quora needs to expand this support base quickly or it's the END ...
2. Better relevance/recommendations. I am reasonably active on Quora. I follow 82 topics and got 8 answers. However I don't see any good question in the main page even though I scrolled at 10 page lengths.
Unique means "only one."
One in a billion.
Do you think those two are the same?
I used Panopticlick, and no one else who has used Panopticlick had the same fingerprint. The meat of the uniqueness was in Browser Plugins and System Fonts. Think about that... If you've installed a few random fonts you found online, you're probably sending a unique font signature. If you've grabbed a few plugins, messed around with extensions, then you're probably sending a unique plugin signature.
Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 1,172,808 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 20.16 bits of identifying information.Now I come to think about it, changing the GB to US in my user agent would probably make it less unique.
Running Firefox with no-script/ad-block/request policy + UA string set to IE 8. Sites I enable scripting on will surely get more info.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.16 bits of identifying information.
In short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#Supercookie
I ran across this comment of yours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4377315 - and certainly appreciate your privacy concerns. A healthy private life is undoubtedly everyone's personal choice.
At the same time, HackerNews is YCombinator's tech blog, and highly visible. Frankly, your opinion comes off as somewhat paranoid. It's not that it isn't justified, I'm not saying that one way or another, but I would strongly consider the impact statements like this have on your image in the social space.
I heard back from Kenneth. He actually said that your social strategy is a "shambles", which is excusable, and also that you "had 0 interest in improving this" -- which is not.
He said that you were more interested in getting to the moon than in building a social network around the project.
blhack, the money we entrusted you with not appropriate to spend idly dreaming up conspiracy theories.
The world is social. People chirp, tweedle, and most recently iMessage those they care about and feel a community with.
This community is now your top priority. I want to be able to show Ken that you have put together at least 10,000 likes and 30,000 followers by the end of the year. Consider this "stage one" of your rocketry design phase.
While we are not saying that failure to meet this metric means the board will necessarily replace you, consider it a part of your job description.
We are also denying your proposed budget. Please work on your social program.
Your board.
Exactly.
I have bumped into this on numerous occasions in MMO's.
Also, we are going to need a little bit more money for our new office in downtown San Francisco. See attached picture of our espresso machine.
You should know that we are disrupting the moon industry right now. Android.
You miss all the moonshots you don't take. Remember that.
-Blhack
CEO, coffeespace rocket lab
P.S. Everyone will have forgotten the lawsuit against Charbucks by now. We can sell some of the extra coffee beans from the leftovers burned on the "launchpad." Ebay?...I have 91% satisfaction account. I await your Linked-In Connection so we can start the next part to hire me. I am ready to live in a valley.
P.P.S You still on my _ ? Sir, Your photo looks different now than the one on your Instagram.
That was quick (going through the first seed), but justified. In view of your momentum and execution we are approving another seed of $2mil for the next twelve months in San Francisco as detailed under separate cover. The name is fantastic. Please run the final logo by us before putting it up, otherwise keep up the great work and we look forward to more.
Chair, Board of directors, coffeespace rocket lab