PresidentObama

Haven't noticed that in my searches yet so haven't needed to add any blocking for that persuasion message. Do you still see it with these filters?

From the last time booking.com was discussed I picked up some ublock origin filters that make the website more bearable.

You can copy and paste them directly in your ublock config (ublock options -> My filters)

  ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21860328
  booking.com##.soldout_property
  booking.com##.sr_rooms_left_wrap.only_x_left
  booking.com##.lastbooking
  booking.com##.sr--x-times-booked
  booking.com##.in-high-demand-not-scarce
  booking.com##.top_scarcity
  booking.com##.hp-rt-just-booked
  booking.com##.cheapest_banner_content > *
  booking.com##.hp-social_proof
  booking.com##.fe_banner__red.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner__scale_small.fe_banner
  booking.com##.urgency_message_x_people.urgency_message_red
  booking.com##.rackrate
  booking.com##.urgency_message_red.altHotels_most_recent_booking
  booking.com##.fe_banner__w-icon-large.fe_banner__w-icon.fe_banner
  booking.com##.smaller-low-av-msg_wrapper
  booking.com##.small_warning.wxp-sr-banner.js-wxp-sr-banner
  booking.com##.lock-price-banner--no-button.lock-price-banner.bui-u-bleed\@small.bui-alert--large.bui-alert--success.bui-alert

Apart from these, I use some additional ublock filters to block some of their tracking that I am not ok with.

  $removeparam=/^(error_url|ac_suggestion_theme_list_length|ac_suggestion_list_length|search_pageview_id|ac_click_type|ac_langcode|ac_position|ss_raw|from_sf|is_ski_area|src|sb_lp|sb|search_selected|srpvid|click_from_logo|ss|ssne|ssne_untouched|b_h4u_keep_filters|aid|label|all_sr_blocks|highlighted_blocks|ucfs|arphpl|hpos|hapos|matching_block_id|from|tpi_r|sr_order|srepoch|sr_pri_blocks|atlas_src|place_types)/,domain=booking.com
  $removeparam=/sid=.\*;BBOX/,domain=booking.com
  ||www.booking.com/c360/v1/track
  ||www.booking.com/fl/exposed
  ||booking.com/personalisationinfra/track_behaviour_property
  ||booking.com/has_seen_review_list

Note that these may result in you receiving some higher prices by removing some referrer info. If you do see that happening, feel free to remove the offending config if the price difference is significant for you. I usually don't bother for differences of < $10 (price displayed on the search page vs the property page).

Things like Victorops/Splunk On-call are also down because of this.

This means if your alerts are fired through them, you'll peacefully be sleeping through this incident unless your customers wake you up.

> a bunch of other stuff which I don’t understand that well (metric 600, scope link, proto kernel, etc). Not understanding what those things mean hasn’t hurt me yet.

This is what I like about Julia's writing - she is frank and tells you when she doesn't know.

> Ethically speaking - if you have a buddy inside the company, they'll tell you how to prep with information the company wouldn't want you to know anyways.

I feel there are two views on this: From the candidate's perspective, his/her buddy might "owe" it to them to provide additional info which will give them a leg up in the application/interviewing process.

From the buddy's perspective, if they (company/hiring manager) have already decided on one candidate, it _might_ be fruitful to help them get the job, otherwise it would amount to unethical behavior by not giving all the candidates an equal footing.

The equivalent of WeChat in HK is WhatsApp.

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