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Web Servers and Chromium/Chrome Issues
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Google killed the 25-year-old Sega Dreamcast PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser this week — big G's services no longer respond to this quarter-century-old software
The Sega Dreamcast’s ancient pack-in internet browser was killed by Surveillance Giant Google earlier this week.
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James G ☛ Designing for inactive users
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, is relatively computationally intensive in that every hour, Artemis checks web feeds to which users are subscribed to see if there are new posts to save and show in a user’s feed.
I have made several optimisations to make this process as efficient as possible, following best practices for retrieving feeds (i.e. using If-Modified-Since and Etag). Also, because Artemis only updates users’ feeds once per day, a feed only needs to be retrieved in a given hour if there is a user for whom it is midnight in that hour. This, too, reduces the amount of work that Artemis needs to do to keep users’ feeds up to date.
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University of Toronto ☛ It's now a bad idea to look like a browser in your HTTP User-Agent
You don't start with a superstitious invocation of 'Mozilla/5.0', you don't claim to be be like any version of any browser, and you put in the basics of identifying your software and yourself so no one can accuse you of hiding. No one is going to match your User-Agent against detectors for old versions of browsers, or things claiming to be browser but lacking their headers, and so on, because you haven't put in the names of any browsers.
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Chromium
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Don Marti ☛ NAI Global Privacy Control Signal for Google Chrome
This is about how to get the NAI Global Privacy Control Signal extension for Google Chrome working. I ran into something that got me a little confused while testing this extension, and will put my notes and screenshots here in case it helps others.
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