Ahah, I just told myself: cannot wait for Adam Something to debunk this
Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc
- Redundant with Total Cookie Protection (dFPI)
Privacy Badger does more than dFPI. dFPI just isolate cookies. Privacy Badger blocks cookies. And completely block connection to some hosts that are dedicated to tracking, which prevent other forms of tracking that aren't cookie-based.
In that blog post, google does not commit to open sourcing these play services features, to integrate in future system upgrade.
I would love to be proven wrong.
Many of these are Google Play Services features, so it won't be available to users open-source Android flavors that are google-free.
There are 42 RIPE Atlas probes online in Hong Kong.
Someone part of the Atlas network could check this against various probes.
They had a choice between complying to censorship, or refusing to play along and if necessary stop doing business in Hong Kong.
In the past, Google Search got out of China for the same reason.
I wonder if that'd work, or if the Great Firewall of China already blocks it in Hong Kong
It's better to make it locally, than to have it shipped by plane across the world.
The french flag is a bit surprising given it's not made in France, but it's flattering since that means Japanese like french stuff.
Le coût de la transition est très inférieur aux futurs coût des dégâts causés par la dégradation de l'environnement.
En réduisant les moyens de la transition, on augmente la future dette.
.. hackers are invited to find new ways to break into widely used software, like Safari, Adobe Flash
Flash? What year is this !?
That's consistent with past reports of secret unauthorized PRC police stations in the USA/UK/Netherlands/Germany/Canada/....
Their ostensible purpose is to help Chinese citizens overseas with administrative issues [..]
However, there are also reports of the stations being involved in “persuade to return” operations.
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