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This article covers previous work and introduces a warning

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Today on my Mastodon feed, several folks were discussing a new tool by TheMarkup called Blacklight. This tool is billed as a “real-time website privacy inspector” that showcases the ad and tracking tech deployed by a website. I shared this tool with several colleagues and it engendered a stimulating conversation surrounding company commitment to privacy. I argued during this conversation that it would be worse for a company to claim to value customer privacy and then have Blacklight reveal otherwise, than to have made no such claim in the first place. ...

The fresh new look of this site is provided by the Academic Hugo Theme. Because I value your privacy just as I value my own, I needed to modify this theme to not make use of Google Web Fonts because use of this service enables Google to further track users. In this guide, I’ll add the Montserrat font by Julieta Ulanovsky as the heading font for this blog: TL;DR - Recap Step 1 - Select font character set and weights using Google web fonts helper Search for Montserrat using the Google Web Fonts Helper app and select the weights desired: ...

When my Dad turned 70, I couldn’t decide what to get him. He claimed to not want anything leaving me in a bind. I thought for days about what to get him and the idea I finally settled on seemed inadequate to me, but it wound up being a hit: I presented him with a hand-written book containing 70 memories of him throughout my life. He got emotional over this gift, and for a man as stoic as he is, this was a surprise. It let me know I did well :smile: ...

I’ve updated this site’s appearance with a new hugo blog theme

Brave and Firefox bill themselves as privacy champions. How do they fare at fingerprinting protection?

Use AWS Config to locate AWS resources

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