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Ironically Google is the world's largest advertising and tracking company and literally does everything in their power to trick users into tracking and surveillance. https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1908951546869498085 and https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1664682689591377923

The problem wasn't "Google can't remove third-party cookies", he problem is "too much power in the hands of Google" and "conflicts of interest". From the link you posted below:

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The investigation concerns Google’s proposals to remove third-party cookies (TPCs) on Chrome and replace TPCs functionality with a range of ‘Privacy Sandbox’ tools, while transferring key functionality to Chrome.

The CMA is particularly interested to hear any views on whether the proposed commitments are sufficient to address the CMA’s competition concerns regarding:

- unequal access to the functionality associated with user tracking

- self-preferencing Google’s own ad tech providers and owned and operated ad inventory

- imposition of unfair terms on Chrome’s web users

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Spin off your surveillance tech, and there will be no problem. Oh wait...


Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.


The best carbon capture technology is to plant trees. As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing. Maybe even get creative on the biology side of things to make them easier to plant in harsh environments.


Genetically engineered ultratrees in the Sahara! Of course this would have impacts on rainfall patterns in Europe and South America and might backfire (the large amounts of Saharan dust apparently helps form raindrops and new soil in both places)


> As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing.

Or if you chop the trees down and use them as building materials. Your hardwood floors and wood wall paneling are also sequestering carbon!


As other people have mentioned, landing pages + waitlists aren't the best nowadays. I do think a better way to get traction is to go and find 1-2 customers who will work closely with you to build a product. You mention this is for creators, so if possible, leverage their follower base to drive viral growth.


This sounds like something that'll work for me, thanks!


Good luck!


Far easier to develop a culture of using something physical like yubikeys - over flimsy cardboard QR codes. The key metaphor makes a lot more sense that way, too.


I think a lot of these things are less important by the day though. Are VPNs or advanced security software even necessary if everything is in Notion/Google Docs and something like Codespaces is being used?


End-device security is always important; there would be nothing to stop the compromise and lift of, for example, cookies stored in the browser, or a keylogger to grab passwords.


(Opinions are my own.)

It used to be entirely custom, but is currently being re-based on VSCode. Overall very similar feel to Codespaces, just tailed for how Google works.


Is there anything like this, but for visualising the connections between git commits, files, GitHub issues, maybe even classes etc...?


like a knowledge graph or something? if yes, im working on a similar concept (collecting facts and interedependencies among those from various sources: code elements, git, github issues, etc) lets chat if you are interested to brainstorm about it https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbit/ https://calendly.com/alex-from-intuita/15min


Real estate and job listings, for one.


Craigslist has RSS feeds.


Not anymore, unfortunately [0] :(

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840310


Craigslist has been utterly disrupted by FB Marketplace where I live, unfortunately.


> email subscriptions to RSS for example, or perhaps even the other way around

There's actually quite a few powerful services to do this. I made a service called http://feedsub.com to do this a couple years ago. I'd also recommend http://mailbrew.com which has a nice digest format.

I think there's a lot of value in RSS as an underlying data layer for the web, and I think it's criminally underused on the consumption side nowadays.

For example, I'd very much like to see blogrings make a comeback, and there's probably room for a website community driven entirely by mailing lists and one of these RSS-to-email tools.


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