Update (): Coil has discontinued its automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription service. I have no doubt its poor transparency regarding where your money went contributed to the service’s demise.
Update (): Both Coil and Flattr has discontinued their automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription services.
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Update (): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that OpenZFS and ZFS supported reflink internally, but didn’t expose any syscalls for it. These file systems do not support reflinks. Thanks to Richard Yao of the OpenZFS project for the correction.
Update (): Added the new XDG_STATE_HOME directory as introduced in the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.8.
Update (): Updated with a statement from TeamViewer. The company has decided to remove the font in a future release.
Update (): The Font Enumeration API, newly added to Chromium browsers (like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) has reintroduced font fingerprinting. However, the new API requires a per-domain permission prompt, so it’s not as leaky as the old Flash Player based method.
Update (): Added details for detecting the new Firefox Translations (Bergamot) extension.
Update (): I just learned that WebPositive, the web browser in Haiku OS, stopped announcing support for Deflate in August 2014. It’ll still attempt to decode Deflate responses, however. It’s the first (and only) web browser to drop Deflate.
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Update (): Bing today published a blog post announcing the deprecation of the bing.com/ping API. The announcement says it’s deprecated “starting today”. However, readers of my blog will know it stopped working five months ago.
preconnectUpdate (): If you’re using the newer Google AdSense script where the script element include an crossorigin="anonymous" attribute, then you need to duplicate all the link elements above with a matching attribute. (The current version of Google’s script relies on both anonymous and regular connections.) Check y…