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I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying

https://www.toolbox-kit.com/blog/i-audited-popular-dev-tools-privacy-results-are-scary
52•WaitWaitWha•2h ago

Comments

iberator•2h ago
That's why real programmers are those who can work offline without the Internet. (just the repositories)

:)

local first.

bmenrigh•1h ago
Can we stop it with "and the results are terrifying", "and you won't believe what I found", "the <x> situation is insane", etc.? The over-hyping of low quality, low effort content is making it hard to find actually interesting or informative things.
cheschire•1h ago
Find a better and more accessible solution than clickbait.

Please, do it.

arcfour•1h ago
"Privacy concerns found in audit of popular dev tools" (or something along those lines) would work without feeling sensationalized.
cheschire•7m ago
Yes this one time. I’m speaking generally in response to the general plea.
bmenrigh•1h ago
"better", "more accessible"? What the hell are you talking about? Clickbait doesn't make anything better or more accessible.

Instead, it makes it impossible to pre-select for interesting information. Instead of telling you what something is about, it tells you how you should feel about it. That's not improving accessibility.

cheschire•8m ago
I meant from the author’s perspective. Clickbait is too easy, which is probably why it’s so popular.
SunshineTheCat•1h ago
Yea I was thinking the same thing.

When you reach for the most exaggerated, over-the-top word possible when describing something relatively mundane, what will you use when you talk about something that actually is "terrifying?"

thfuran•1h ago
“The most terrifying thing you’ve ever heard”. You can even stick with that one as long as your subjects are monotonically scary.
gmuslera•1h ago
Using canary URLs in these and other sites may be interesting too.
OsrsNeedsf2P•1h ago
Decent article. Painful to read the LLM output.
speedyapoc•1h ago
Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.

Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.

beart•1h ago
I love regex101.com, so really happy to see it breaks the mold here.
dbacar•1h ago
Glad that I am using Firefox with:

- uBlock Origin

- cookieAutodelete

- privacy badger

Any additions to my arsenal welcome!

ozlikethewizard•37m ago
Ironfox/Librewolf with just uBlock. The more extensions you have the way easier you are to fingerprint.
hohithere•1h ago
> Free Dev Tools

And test only online websites (」°ロ°)」

deafpolygon•58m ago
what dev uses public websites to do any kind of work?

Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot

https://raymyers.org/post/dont-make-me-talk-to-your-chatbot/
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