ono

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ono, (edited )

It’s not just Protonmail.

Blacklists like these aggressively and unapologetically collect all privacy-focused email domains they find, including simple forwarding and tagging services. With more and more sites using these lists to reject or black-hole email addresses, it has become difficult to protect one’s self from spam and cross-site account tracking.

Dear web developers, please don’t use these lists. Well-intended or not, they are privacy and user-hostile.

ono,

Ironically, when I tried setting a ProtonMail account recovery email address, they rejected it because it was on a list like this one. I hope Proton gets off this blacklist, but I also think they should practice what they preach.

ono,

Devs can use them to block DISPOSABLE mails, not PRIVACY legitimate emails.

That’s what they claim, but in practice, they seldom distinguish between the two.

ono,

They rejects them because it is an abuse prevention mechanism.

An “abuse prevention mechanism” that punishes legitimate users is a badly designed mechanism. It’s a lot like police racial profiling.

You can solve captcha and register without any additional information

Nobody said anything about registering.

ono,

That’s not what this specific list is for.

Yet it has a lot of legitimate domains, and has had them for years.

Regardless of whether the maintainer is malicious or just irresponsible, his list is doing harm.

ono, (edited )

You’re getting into very sketchy territory by saying a dev who is using a public GitHub repo to solve their problems needs to take it down

No, I don’t believe I said any such thing. Since you mention it, though, I think taking this list down and removing the false positives before bringing it back up would be the responsible thing to do.

In the interest of specifics, can you point to where this specific list has done harm?

I know from personal experience and investigation (both as a user and on the admin side) that there are now many cases of privacy-focused email addresses being rejected, or even worse, accepted and then silently black-holed, due to the domains being inappropriately added to lists like this one. I don’t know of a place where people report such cases so they can be documented in aggregate, but if I find one, I’ll be sure to bookmark it in case your question comes up again in the future.

ono, (edited )

but you have no direct connection from this resource to harm you claim it causes?

The connection is very clear, because you can see what domains are on the list.

So you’re lumping this resource into a bucket with other resources that were malicious

You’re saying a dev using this list […] needs to convert their FOSS use-case to yours?

[…] the argument I feel you’re making.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. As you seem to be arguing in bad faith, I’m done with this conversation.

ono, (edited )

please let the kids all of us be free of corporate abuse and greed.

ono,

If you mean the vkCreateGraphicsPipelines assertion, then yes, that’s still causing crashes at startup, and can still be worked around by deleting Data/PsoCache.pak .

The vulkan build is also crashing (in a different way) for some people after playing for a short time. The only workaround I know for that is switching to bg3_dx11.exe + DXVK.

ono, (edited )

The contents of the chat messages are e2e encrypted, so meta can’t see what you are sending.

Even if we assume correct e2ee is used (which we have no way of knowing), Meta can still see what you are sending and receiving, because they control the endpoints. It’s their app, after all.

ono, (edited )

Americans tend to be pushy and, well, stupid in foreign lands.

Unpleasant people stand out, so they’re the ones we notice. They make an impression, so they’re the ones we remember. This is true of tourists from all over the world, from America to China.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that most are respectful, but end up either unnoticed or forgotten.

ono,

I’m glad there are two useful server implementations already. I hope to see more in the future.

ono,

Yes, that’s pretty common. Reddit URLs contain post titles as well, but they can be deleted without breaking navigation. I expect they’re added just for the convenience of human readers.

kurgal, to RedditMigration

Can anyone explain to me what a Microblog is and how is it different from a thread? Are they similar to what a Toot is on Mastodon?

ono,

Microblogging is tweeting, or tooting, or similar. Very short messages, usually from one person and directed to whomever happens to notice them.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

A thread is a collection of comments from people replying to one another, usually organized in a tree structure. It’s more like a conversation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

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