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ffpipon Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)

Even Edge has ad blockers to an extent. The only browser that doesn't natively block trackers, or does stuff to reduce the power of adblockers is Chrome. Coincidentally, they are owned by the biggest ad network on earth.

ffpipon Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

They don't operate in China but I'm pretty sure they have received funding from chinese investors.

ffpipon Firefox 125

about:config in URL bar -> Search media.av1.enabled -> toggle to false

ffpipon JPMorgan to sell customer transaction data to advertisers

> don’t allow businesses to charge different prices to different cards.

That changed a few weeks ago

"Both card networks also agreed to cap rates for five years and remove anti-steering provisions. Merchants will have more discretion to offer discounts, or impose surcharges on cards with higher interchange fees."

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/mastercard-visa-rea...

ffpipon Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu

GitLab is a US company. It's cannot choose to not "observe" DMCA. If they get a notice they have to take it down

ffpipon Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm

Certainly, here is a reply to danhamm's comment to prove that he might be wrong.

I randomly picked 10 articles and all of them had the phrase in a manner that indicated it was directly pasted from ChatGPT.

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

He is a director and a "key managerial person". I have heard in a podcast that he is the CFO or CIO (not sure what a broker has a CIO for, so might be wrong)

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

Thanks a lot! I am looking into this now. Will create a ticket on their portal. Will be the last ticket I annoy them with hopefully!

But their support article mentions that I have to transfer everything before closing. Are you sure?

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

I've noticed that every other broker stoops really low. 5Paisa, Dhan, ICICI, etc. I have opened accounts in all of them for friends and family as per their requirements. Zerodha is definitely the most trustworthy, but lacks even in basic features.

I should make a blog on them someday

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

Yes exactly!! I made so much effort in recording it, and then they gaslighted me into believing it's a browser issue. Same copy paste reply about clearing cache.

I went so far as to show them network logs from the browser dev tools to show that the delay/bug was on their end.

This is after I explicitly mentioned testing it in Chrome, Firefox, Android, and also my friend's account to rule out any browser/account bug

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

DP charges are charged by Zerodha then too. In fact, then it is not a fixed amount but a percentage of the total value transferred in that case.

I invest in smallcases so have an abnormally high number of stocks. Stuck in zerodha now

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

It has been brought up with SEBI. Just search on Twitter. Zerodha and other brokers have paid too I think.

ffpipon Zerodha Tech – Hello, World

They keep boasting about having a lean tech team, but it is one of the worst things they do.

If you just look at their forum, the average time to complete a feature release is 4.5 years (Eg: SWP, STP (still not released), XIRR in their platforms, Instant withdrawal)

I signed for their products solely after being impressed by their tech blogs and Nadh's writing. After joining, I reported 4 bugs within a week. Their customer support is terrible (replies fast, have to give them that). They keep gaslighting me into believing problems I report don't exist, and then keep closing tickets. They take a week to reply for some tickets, but then close it if you don't reply in a day. Such policies show they are interested in just the metric of tickets "resolved". So I too gave up reporting them. I guess I created too many tickets, and was really annoying them.

I really wanted to enjoy using their products, but am stuck in their sub-par "ecosystem" now due to high costs of moving out (DP charges will be huge due to such a large quantity of unique shares, them holding MFs only in demat meaning I can't switch easily).

ffpipon Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

FYI there is a typo on the pricing page under the pro plan.

"Generate up to 1'500 documents per month without watermark"

1,500 instead of 1'500

ffpipon Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

Love the demo on the homepage with the render button. Really helps explain the product!

ffpipon Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

You can report cyber crimes to cops in your country

ffpipon Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns

> Product named Worldcoin

> banned in a country

ffpipon Send short links, get an SMS once read

    if link fetched immediately:
        google_bot
    else:
       user

ffpipon Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

I meant assets like crypto, stocks, etc

ffpipon Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

It is e2ee, so using their server would be the same (unless you are hosting just cuz you want to :) )

ffpipon Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?

He hasn't spent anything. Do any countries have taxes on assets instead of income?

ffpipon Korea fines Twitch $327k for suspending service

What will they do if Twitch doesn't pay the fine?

Suspend twitch? Oh wait

ffpipon German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

Is your credit score your data? Or are they just asking the report of all your past debts be provided for me?

ffpipon Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts

> presumably many many years of code sits on top of.

Not so many, since they tried to link all 3 only few years ago

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253472/mark-zuckerberg-f...

ffpipon Flattr is closing down (2023)

Brave blocks ads on pages you browse, and then sends ad notifications to user who opt into their earning program (disabled by default). It pays them in BAT, a crypto coin they developed. If you want to, you can use these earnings to contribute to sites who have signed up to accept their crypto coin.

It does not replace ads on pages with it's own.

ffpipon Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?

The certificate is for *.ycombinator.com.

The main YCombinator site might have been using Cloudflare seen years, and now HN might have been added to the same account to protect from a DOS attack.

So might be the same cert?

ffpipon Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices

I don't. I turned off location tracking long ago.

ffpipon Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices

Yes, because they are not promising to not use it for tracking. They are just offloading the storage costs to you.

ffpipon Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people

Might be this - https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/business/personal-data-fo...

First result for "experian ups truck stolen"

ffpipon Google User Data Is Police's Top Shortcut for Solving Crimes

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...