Chrome considered harmful

Google Chrome should now be considered malicious software. It’s no longer a “user agent”, as it actually works for Google, and functions as adware and spyware:

“Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as “a step in the direction of […]

December 13th, 2021 | Category: Internet

Web programming is easy

Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to urllib3.

In the last year, I’ve written three Python programs that scrape data […]

April 6th, 2019 | Category: Internet, Python

Do you trust Facebook?

Here is the link to the Zero Hedge article explaining how Facebook has censored them:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge

March 11th, 2019 | Category: Internet

This is your future

Here is a more realistic view of the inside of a data center:

February 19th, 2019 | Category: Internet

Reclaiming the Internet from the Big Five

When asked about this, Berners-Lee says flatly: “We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.”

https://solid.mit.edu/

September 29th, 2018 | Category: Internet