Before a couple of years ago, masks were often banned at the local level in the US. There's no good reason for bans or mandates in normal circumstances, and that includes being a democracy.
Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).
> Consider that the information you get could be one-sided because the major platforms ban dissenting views (in cooperation with partisan NGOs identifying it).
Could you please explain how exactly the recent coup attempt intended to overthrow a democratically elected representative to install an authoritarian despot is not profoundly anti-democratic and thus anti-american, or how the coup was just a reflection of a "one-sided" coverage by the media? Regardless of how dissenting your view is, a coup to overthrow a democratically elected representative is still a coup.
If the engineer responds by harboring a grudge against all encryption, and silently failing to employ secure industry standards, then neither he nor his other customers win. Medical professionals treat individuals, not political groups.
What if an engineer responded by harboring a grudge against all blockchain?
I mean, it would be unfortunate if that engineer decided not to donate to Scihub. But that exhausts my list of bad things that could happen due to such a grudge.
Do you mean passive third-party requests I could block on my end, or something built into their backend that exposes their entire registration list? I thought it was only the former.
Both. Facebook scans form fields for content that can be uploaded [0], and a developer can upload hashed data (I believe potentially from their backends[1][2]).
> Automatic advanced matching will tell your pixel to look for recognisable form fields and other sources on your website that contain information such as first name, last name and email address. The Facebook pixel receives that information along with the event, or action, that took place. This information gets hashed in the visitor's browser. We can then use the hashed information to more accurately determine which people took action in response to your ad. After matching, we promptly discard the hashed information.
> The manual method feature enables advertisers to leverage their own customer data, such as email address, phone number and so on. This method allows advertisers to report on more conversions, optimise their ads against more conversion data and reach more people on Facebook with their website Custom Audiences or dynamic ads.
You're right. I noticed this on Bing Maps before, but hadn't noticed Google following suit.
It makes these sites so much less useful. Their unique location catalog is the reason I usually prefer Google, then Bing, over Here Maps or whatever OSM thing. But it's harder and harder to query it to receive anything useful.
Not all, not even most from the listings I looked at a few years ago. Only one of the three old Android phones I have supports it, and it's one without a recognizable brand (the other two are Samsung and LG).
The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.
