Copyright
How I dealt with web content scrapers
The tale of how I fought back against website content scrapers to protect my copyright. I returned auto-generated garbage content, and they gobbled it up.
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Android
Proxy Troubleshooter app for Android
I’ve developed an Android app to detect and troubleshoot HTTP proxy configuration issues. Android has no tools to detect or help fix such issues.
Privacy
Privacy Badger improves privacy but breaks the web
The EFF’s Privacy Badger extension auto-detects and blocks websites that track you across websites. It also breaks more websites the more you use it.
HTTP Caching
Use a caching proxy with the Debian mirror redirector service
Debian will try to redirect you to the nearest mirror service. However, this can be detrimental to cache-hit ratios when running a local HTTP caching service.
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How to handle relative URLs with multiple forward slashes
Set up redirects from URLs with too many forward-slashes in the path to a normalized address with one slash. Helps fix problems with relative URL resolution.
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The many URI schemas used by the browsers’ “Reader Views”
The reading mode in your web browser is an alternate rendering mode not based on any standards. Web browser vendors can’t even agree on what URI schema to use.
Web Analytics
IE11 Preloading-feature sends browsing history to Microsoft
The new Preloading feature in Internet Explorer 11 is designed to speed up your web browsing. It also transmits a lot of information to Microsoft.