Hacker News with Generative AI: Web

On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting (lukaszolejnik.com)
While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s Office post, which criticized Google’s decision to introduce device fingerprinting for advertising purposes from February 2025. According to ICO, this change risks undermining user control and transparency in how personal data is collected and used.

Privacy, Google, Web, Advertising, Regulations

48 points by MasterPI 18 days ago | 60 comments

Dilberito (archive.org)
Help Dilbert increase his life expectancy by eating good food, exercising, and avoiding fatty food. Move Dilbert and help him do jumping jacks and pushups., Every food has a point value. Dilberitos have 100% of your required food. Collect all the food to get a Dilberito.Game was created by Scott Adams to promote the ill-fated and failed Dilberito:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilberito

Games, Health, Humor, Artificial Intelligence, Web

12 points by Bluestein 24 days ago | 0 comments

State of Mozilla 2024 (mozilla.org)
Mozilla stands for putting people and communities in control of how technology shows up in their lives. In 1998, that meant taking the web in a better direction. In 2024, it means doing the same for AI, and making sure that open source wins again in the AI era.

Mozilla, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Web

8 points by walterbell 38 days ago | 2 comments

Bluesky Starter Pack Directory (blueskystarterpack.com)
Over 42,063 Bluesky starter packs to help you get started on Bluesky. Find and follow amazing accounts based on your interests!

Social Media, Bluesky, Community, Startups, Web

6 points by mooreds 54 days ago | 0 comments

Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)
Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.

Europe, Privacy, Cookies, Web, User Experience

79 points by rholmes84 71 days ago | 101 comments

Wiby – Search Engine for the Classic Web (wiby.me)
Submit a page here!

Search Engines, Web, Internet, Nostalgia

81 points by OuterVale 72 days ago | 20 comments

What RSS reader do you use? (lobste.rs)
I figured Lobsters has a lot of people that still use RSS still.

RSS, News Readers, Technology, Web

8 points by speckx 78 days ago | 1 comments

Nobody Here (nobodyhere.com)
Mijn naam is Jogchem Niemandsverdriet en het spijt me van alles wat gaat komen.

Personal, Apology, Web

7 points by wkjagt 82 days ago | 0 comments

WordPress, Drama, Leadership, and the Web (anderegg.ca)
The WordPress saga continues.

WordPress, Leadership, Web

8 points by GavinAnderegg 102 days ago | 0 comments

The Age of PageRank Is Over (2022) (kagi.com)
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly changed the way we utilize the web.

Search Engines, History, Google, Algorithms, Web

76 points by dotcoma 107 days ago | 66 comments

Europeans Spend 575M Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year (legiscope.com)
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year

Privacy, User Experience, Europe, Technology, Web

25 points by Thiebaut 108 days ago | 28 comments

Gopher and the Lynx Web (2019) (carcosa.net)
As part of the ongoing revitalization of gopher, there has been quite a bit of discussion about what, exactly, is good about gopher, and whether you can separate that from what’s bad about the world wide web.

Internet, Web, Gopher, Technology

11 points by pabs3 119 days ago | 2 comments

The Social Web Did Not Begin in 2008 (bix.blog)
Some folks have gotten themselves together as something they’re calling the Social Web Foundation, and I’ll cut to the chase: this is an attempt by ActivityPub partisans to rebrand the confusing “fediverse” terminology, and in the process, regardless of intent, shit on everything else that’s been the social web going back twenty-five years.

Social Media, History, Technology, Web

54 points by erlend_sh 126 days ago | 62 comments

A new path for Kyber on the web for Chrome (googleblog.com)
Chrome will switch from supporting Kyber to ML-KEM

Chrome, Security, Encryption, Web

10 points by throw0101c 133 days ago | 1 comments

EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications (github.com/w3c)

EPUB, Validation, Standards, Web

146 points by auraham 159 days ago | 25 comments

Apple Maps launches on the web in new public beta (9to5mac.com)

Apple, Maps, Web, Beta

7 points by cpeterso 188 days ago | 5 comments

WebCrawler – search engine operating for 30 years (wikipedia.org)