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ffpipon Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager

Love the app, will try it for a few days. Thanks for making it. Hopefully I can contribute after trying it for a few days!

ffpipon Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP

Sites like Reddit load user uploaded content from different domains (redditmedia.com) so you should be safe in this case.

ffpipon Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic

I feel like that was just an exploit waiting to happen. Showing a different URL than the page was delivered from.

ffpipon A curated list of uBlock origin filters

Yeah, figured the file access permission was the issue. Thanks for the help!

ffpipon A curated list of uBlock origin filters

Are you using Firefox?

Those URLs do not work for me when using Firefox + Windows. But the code works perfectly fine when I upload it to github gists and use the raw url.

And yeah, like you said do not want to inject remote JS into every site I visit so won't be using a remote URL.

ffpipon A curated list of uBlock origin filters

Thanks for this!

But is a file URL working for you on Windows? http:// URLs are working but file:// urls are not being parsed for me.

ffpipon Meta developer tools: Working at scale

Archive link for people who block facebook - https://web.archive.org/web/20230628131034/https://engineeri...

ffpipon The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

https://files.catbox.moe/ue5o3c.jpg

ffpipon Google no longer automatically indexes websites?

For some reason it refuses to index my site(s) until I link the site to my Google account in search console. I had organically placed a lot of links (on my GH, Linkedin profiles, no spam anywhere). It did not index even the links for over a month, despite me searching the exact domain multiple times. I guess doing it via search console just showed it the exact domains it has to crawl, making it's job easier

ffpipon Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

The json thing is an API request, so it will come under the new API rate limits.

ffpipon A digital payments revolution in India

> that’s an odd requirement considering many wealthy countries aren’t in g20

It was during the G20 convention, so probably to promote it in some way

ffpipon Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

Meta already had access to it's content, the same way other social media platforms access Giphy's GIF library.

ffpipon A digital payments revolution in India

https://travel.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/...

(Foreign tourists & travellers in India can now make payments using UPI)

ffpipon WhatsApp on multiple phones feature added

It is specific to mostly non-Google OEMs.

On Pixel phones and other devices which don't support Dual Apps, you can create a "Work Profile". It is a completely isolated section of your phone and you can install another copy of Whatsapp by opening the playstore in your work profile.

https://support.google.com/work/android/answer/6191949?hl=en

ffpipon I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (2018)

> The main reason is that it's the only traffic that you own. It's not at the mercy of someone else's algorithm.

You are at the mercy of Gmail/Outlook's spam filtering algorithms

ffpipon ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

He might mean the site chatpdf.com does not use langchain but uses the OpenAI API.

ffpipon T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B

I get 2GB/day and unlimited calls for the INR equivalent of $4.

ffpipon New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting - https://iter.ca/post/reddit-whiteops/

ffpipon Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner

I don't think they would release the regex used to validate the API keys since it would help people automate scanning for API keys of all supported providers on public repos on any other site using the regex given by the provider itself.

ffpipon Tor Browser 12.0

It runs a TOR client locally and proxies all connections through that. It does not implement the privacy protections of the TOR browser tho.

Basically, using the TOR network as a VPN.

ffpipon Communities Now Available

It is new. Was just released in September.

https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/whatsapp-bring...

ffpipon How the clipboard works

Thank you! Did not know about Alt+select in Firefox.

ffpipon Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

> I see no change in this over time, nor do I know why companies would even care that an e-mail provider (including Google) would be able to read that information. I don't think this phenomenon exists at all.

https://thehustle.co/09032020-amazon-order-confirmations/

https://www.macobserver.com/link/amazon-no-longer-including-...

ffpipon Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)

> There's a difference between something being provent theoretically possible in a laboratory environment and actually making it out in the real world.

Fingerprinting using IP address, running scripts, canvas fingerprinting, using installed fonts, and checking what resources are cached/blocked are all things that are being widely used in many websites, and are not just "theoretically possible".

They are even being sold as a product and are used by many companies.

Look at their customers - https://fingerprint.com/ .

ffpipon Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

https://brave.com/speed-reader/

ffpipon DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open

Anonaddy gives you unlimited aliases for free.

https://anonaddy.com/#pricing

ffpipon How and why I built Japan Dev

Same issue, looks like some uBlock Origin filter list is blocking it.

ffpipon Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

> Does this break Apple's ToS? I thought Apple required Safari/Webkit for all in-app browsers?

They are still using Safari/Webkit, but just injecting a script into every page.

ffpipon I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

If you are using Nightly (which updates twice a day), you can turn on "Show fewer update notification prompts" in your settings (about:preferences#general) which removes the update nag and puts a small reminder in the top right corner like you asked.

ffpipon Element (Matrix) adds video/voice rooms

You can turn on your video in a user-to-user call too.