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Great marketing stunt, nice work by XTX HR!


There is no such thing as bad marketing, I think this HN mention will get them some as well:)


BeeKeeper is good light alternative.


Try visiting this from incognito and clearing cache/cookies: https://fingerprint.com. This can't be legal, right?


Sounds like it should be illegal. That said, changing my User Agent to IE+Win7 changed the identifier for me. Looks like Firefox's "resist fingerprinting" setting also works. I wish there was a separare setting for private browsing.

That said, that was enlightening, thank you for pointing this out. It's disgusting that there are companies selling this.


This is the "workaround" now that websites aren't given free range access to your cookie jar. They make a unique identifier out of a range of info like OS, browser, screen size, whatever seemingly harmless info they can get.


Fonts you have installed, what certs or APIs you have enabled in your browser, someone else can continue with their favorites..


https://amiunique.org/fingerprint gives some insight into what is used for fingerprinting, if you want to randomize your profile.

This one overestimates uniqueness because it doesn't consider stability (e.g. it uses your current battery charge level as a uniqueness measure, which is obviously not stable minute-to-minute let alone day-to-day).


> Permanent identifier

Consistent visitor ID over months or years, even as browsers are upgraded.

This advertisement implies some things that could potentially be illegal, but I don't think that practice is by itself. Stalking as a service really gives Saas a new meaning .


Oh, wait. That's why I hate Java? We used Netbeans in university...


I am using MJML but custom components aren't great, happy to see this one. Also would be great if you take a look into adding email action buttons, calendar integration and other modern features.


Ohhh I love this suggestion. Great idea!


+1 to use what you know comments, also check out https://github.com/calcom/cal.com tech stack(next+prisma/trpc). If you have literally zero frontend experience though, vue 3 was very beginner friendly for me


>> Devs, while you are waiting for access right now, over 70 YC companies from the latest W23 batch are ‘AI companies.’

Disagree, got API access relatively early after announcement, have nothing to do with YC. But my suspicion is that some of YC batch got OpenAI API credits to use those, otherwise e.g. phind.com would go out of funding while ago.


Sam Altman just wants to stop new competitors...


I was surprised that when you share a TikTok video on whatsapp/anywhere, it generates unique URL link that can be traces back to your account. This company definitely has "we need more data" culture.


Two things:

  1. you can get around that by using the actual TikTok link on the 
     website, not the app
  2. It's by design. People who know each other probably like similar 
     things, so it facilitates in the surprisingly effective, accurate
     and narrow niches that people can find themselves in.


Instagram, Twitter and probably a lot of other companies do the same. They need to be able to track links on dark socials


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