>> if it isn’t there, it’s probably for a good reason.
> which isn’t really true anymore. For most websites, the majority — not just the plurality, but the majority — of visitors arrive by following a link inside an email or an app
I don't think the statement is factually backed up. At least I hate native apps.
> Even so, my custom query string is, in my calculation, an expression of digital etiquette: rather than dump a load of anonymous traffic on your doorstep, I reveal who’s linking, so a website or online shop operator can trace it back and get in touch, if wanted or needed
Anonymity considered harmful these days?
> a wave of new subscriptions and weren’t sure if they were legitimate; a brief email correspondence assured them that yes,
It's not legitimate unless it's signed (and if anybody gives a shit to verify it).
> Note that a handful of sites do choke on unexpected query strings, including YouTube (!),
This is a good habit IMHO.
Anyway, I'm thankful to the original post because it was a good reminder to re-review my browser settings.
Honestly I don't understand why the EU focused on the stupid cookie law instead of referers which are clearly privacy-violating.
If you use Firefox I recommend you make sure `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` set to 1.
> This is, to be clear, a bad solution. MaxMind’s free database is not particularly precise, and in general IP lookup tables are chasing a moving target. I know for a fact that there are people in non-UK countries (like Ireland!) who have been inadvertently blocked by these lookup tables. Making those people use Tor or a VPN sucks, but I don’t know what else to do in the current regulatory environment.
> The fact that the people running r/progamming don't know not to wait until April 2 to publish this tells me that they don't have real-world experience in shipping software in a business environment.
I can't tell this is a joke or not. Do people really care? Or maybe the U.S. thing? At least in my country nobody cares....
This is why we shouldn't use passkey. The authorities (not only the US) are clearly aiming to lock down the hardware we can use. Remember, passkey has a function to restrict the freedom to choose the authenticator we want to use.
When our team decides to hire a new programmer, each team member always writes a short letter, which tells the applicant why we want to hire them. How well they did in the interview, why they'd be a good fit for our team, etc, etc. I'm not naive enough to believe this is a genuine attempt but a some human engineering of persuasion, but I liked this tradition. At least it has some heart warming vibe.
Until I noticed that my coworkers were using LLMs to write these letters.
> America can never win a war with Venezuela, seeing their humiliating defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam against much smaller and less developed nations.
I don't disagree, but it cost at least 400,000 civilian lives in Vietnam war. It's hard for me to say "good move."
No, I don't do SNS. I created it to show it to the police. Looks like "I don't have any social media" is considered to be suspicious and you are "hiding" something. At least that's true in the US. I don't know about Iran though.