Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Reject Convenience" channel.

  1. All advertising is shady.
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  2. I mean you'll see the full addresses in wherever your browser shows the sequence of network requests, though.
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  3.  @sahhull  Internet without adblock is hopeless. I've basically gone Boomer and watch everything in a browser because I can control that whereas with apps I can only block some DNS reqs.
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  4.  @ralfbaechle  I think we've fundamentally-different mental models / preferences here. I'm per-se opposed to being manipulated by advertising -- don't care whether it's 'relevant'.
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  5. Why does anyone even care about public wifi!?! Just tether through your phone!?!!!
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  6. 'How advertisers ruined a good idea' should be the name of some documentary about Western society.
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  7. TLS isn't a sealed letter; it's a cryptographically-secure letter.
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  8. It's completely possible to have session state -- e.g., multiple things that someone's trying to buy -- stored client-side via encoding it in the URL path.
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