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Comment Re:Reject all proprietary software and "choice" to (Score 1) 436

Did you know that you can buy high end phones with Cyanogen as the default OS?

I didn't. Which phones? I've never been able to get a decent experience from cyanogen on a phone (My Nook color and tablet are a different matter) because the lack of the little "optimizations" individual to the phone models usually ends up breaking something like voicemail, battery life, or actually detecting a cell signal.

If someone's putting out an actual CM out of the box, I might want to have a look at it.

Comment Re:None of them. (Score 1) 436

The downside to it, though, is that it doesn't extend to guests access your network.

It's a pretty simple perl script to translate the MVP list into a bind zone file, though. I do it once per week in a cron job on the local DNS. At least then, my sister-in-law whipping out her iPad after dinner doesn't give these scumbags a foothold in.

Comment Re:Misfeatures (Score 1) 172

From the release notes: "audio/video .ogg and .pdf files handled by Firefox *if no application specified*" (emphasis added).

Does the bloat in the browser go away the moment I install Sumatra?

Comment Re:Privacy Badger (Score 1) 194

I am an online advertising / tracking company. How do I stop Privacy Badger from blocking me? ...
If copies of Privacy Badger have already blocked your domain, you can unblock yourself by promising to respect the Do Not Track header in a way that conforms with the user's privacy policy.

Riiight, because the kind of scumbags who actively develop techniques to get around user preferences are the kind who would never "promise to behave this time, honest!".

If the EFF is that naive, I don't have much faith that I can count on their tool.

Comment Re:I have a solution for the free apps. (Score 1) 139

I used several of those options: my local DNS periodically imports the MVPS list as a local blacklist, and adblockplus wasn't too bad. If it wasn't for many other issues I had that made KitKat a non-starter, I probably would have kept the Nexus instead of replacing my dead Evo 4G with a refurbished Evo 4G. :)

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