At Baitblock (https://baitblock.app), we're working on something similar. It's called the Intelligent Blocker, and has the same intended goal as your user agent 'AI' (not yet open to general public, under development right now). With it you will be able to block all Facebook posts that are for example say not from your family, or not of a specific type or from specific person.
Or comments on different Internet forums that are blatantly spammy/SEO gaming etc.
Or block authors in search results or Twitter feed or any comment that you don't like. Basically the Zapier of content filtering.
This will be available to the user as a subscription service.
Some of these thigs are not possible on mobile platforms (Android, iOS) unfortunately because the OS do not allow such access, but we hope that Android and iOS in the future open up to allow external curation systems, apart from the app platform it's self as it's in the interest of the user.
The chrome and firefox extension I made: https://baitblock.app has a feature called tracking resistance. It deletes cookies on websites that you are not logged into automatically
Logins are a common enough use case that browsers should simply support it directly, and drop support for cookies entirely.
There's no reason we can't have sites set an auth token, and send that in under the Authorization header. And then when you want to sign out of a website, you can have a button for that in the browser. The tooling already exists in the HTTP standard, it's just that it's only widely used for server-server communication.
Bingo. "Auth Token" simply becomes "Session ID", and the backend then tracks anything it wants as part of the session.
I don't see much of a solution other than making it a matter of policy, eg. Microsoft's "P3P" header. Otherwise authentication credentials need to be supplied with every request. Not a session id or token as a cookie, but the actual username and password being supplied with every request. Basically the old http basic auth, but with a more modern system to replace it.
I understand the core idea behind the EU's desire, but the fact is that cookies are absolutely required for login sessions, and it's impossible to allow users to opt out. The EU doesn't understand the tech behind the laws they are trying to enforce, and this is where it leads to. Absurdity.
Yes. However, there are some upsides: having an auth token which from the perspective of the browser is limited to auth, makes it more explicit when the browser is passing an auth token to the site: if the browser shows a "Log out" button, then you're providing that auth token--if you didn't log in to a website and suddenly you have the option to log out, that's very obviously weird. Of the perhaps 10 sites I visit on a regular basis, I only even have logins for 3 (email, Reddit, HN) so other sites would be slightly hampered in tracking me.
That requires separate opt-in consent according to GDPR.
GDPR is absolutely not about cookies, it's not about having private information but about uses of it. You may have a legitimate need to collect some data - that auth token for login purposes, the customer's address for delivery, etc. That's fine, it allows you to collect and use that data for that purpose. But it does not mean that you're automatically allowed to use that login token or delivery address you have on your servers for other purposes such as selling or giving it to third party advertisers.
Maybe your posts would be more appreciated if you posted them with your personal account and didn't write totally write them like ads. Oh, and if they were more relevant to what's being posted. I don't procrastinate because of clickbait.
I'm afraid that you'll get this account restricted if you continue like this. You're also tarnishing your brand.
Edit: Another notorious project-poster is burtonator, which I also find mildly annoying, but whenever he posts about his project at least it's actually tangentially related to what is being discussed. He's a good bit less over the line than you are, in my opinion.
Try out my chrome and firefox extension Baitblock (https://baitblock.app). It adds to TL;DR for links on the internet where available. You can also submit them for others so they can save time.
This is an ad. Don't do that. Submit a "Show HN" instead.
(But I'm still taking a look. The premise is wonderful, including that there is a Firefox version, which should be obvious but apparently isn't to many. )
Try Baitblock https://baitblock.app
Baitblock has tracking resistance that also deletes first party cookies/other tracking mechanisms when it detects that you're not logged into a website.
Baitblock has tracking resistance that also deletes first party cookies/other tracking mechanisms when it detects that you're not logged into a website.
