996 just sounds like mismanagement to me. Yes it's hard work but Ali Baba is not a seed startup that they can't afford to hire more people and distribute the workload.
That's just a diplomatic way of saying "so what if we logged you in". Well you don't understand how distrustful people are of Google these days, especially power users. I wouldn't give a byte of information about me to Google if I don't have to.
Your claim is blatantly false. Exhibit A: The United States of America.
Exhibit B: United Kingdom
And so on.
Please do not get confused with social security numbers (or equivalents) as universal or national identifiers. They are not, although their use in such a manner has caused issues (as pointed out in my comments here).
To me it is interesting that proving you identity in the UK could for many years be done with an electricity bill with your name on it and an address, or you driving license, which was a piece of paper which wasn’t hard to forge (no photograph). Cheques where stolen by the postman and used to claim cash at the bank. Nobody could tell me against what identity, as the signature on the cheques wasn’t even close to mine. It was essentially a mess. It is improved now.
Coming from a country, Sweden, with no mandatory ID card and a national identity number, it was both quaint and a real hassle to deal with the odd notion that a national ID number in the UK was a threat to me, but in Sweden it wasn’t. I had more trouble because of it in the UK than I ever had in Sweden. And in the UK you often had to use a passport to identify yourself, which in practice is a national ID.
No ID cards are to be issued by the Secretary of State at any time on or after the day on which this Act is passed.
The UK equivalent of a SSN is a National Insurance number, but it’s totally possible to be a citizen without one (e.g. naturalised non-working spouse). NI numbers also aren‘t guaranteed to be unique (if a person is assigned a temporary NI number it’ll be non-unique with other people with the same birth date).
That applies to absolutely anything a government could decide to want to do though. If you want to be picky then yes, the UK government currently isn’t allowed to issue ID cards.
> That applies to absolutely anything a government could decide to want to do though
Mmm, that’s not true. Courts recognise EU supremacy over the British parliament, although it would be possible to ant-fuck this point if you were feeling truly pedantic.
SSN is a superkey. Just because the USG doesn't permit one to use SSN as a key in your system (see HIPAA) doesn't mean it doesn't act like one for the purposes of exploitation or data aggregation.
To add, the "no sugar added" thing is wholly misleading because there are fruit concentrates that companies can add that are basically sugar substitutes. It's technically not "sugar added" but it's basically filled with healthy dollop of fructose (which is worse than sucrose but I'm too lazy to cite a reference).
Grape juice is the notorious one here. It doesn't have a very strong taste on its own, so when blended basically serves as a not-technically-added-sugar source of added sugar.
I recently saw a ginger-flavored carbonated that boasted of the percent juice. I was surprised by the number (30%?), and when I looked at the ingredients I saw that the juice was not mostly ginger. It was grape juice.
I understand that when I see “cranberry cocktail”, there’s a bunch of sweet juice mixed in. I didn’t realize that drinks of other flavors have so much clandestine grape juice — which is basically sugar.
Yep, buy something like "kiwi-strawberry-guava" juice, apple or pear juice is usually the first ingredient. I wouldn't be surprised if most juices are flavored versions of the same base.
In France the wording 100% juice mans that that the liquid is directly from pressed fruit. No concentrates, nothing added. The only operation can be filtration and pasteurization.
This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
Highly recommend Quad9. Their privacy policy is absolutely no identifying data logging, period. They're also the few providers offering DNS over TLS. Google, on the other hand, keeps identifying logs for 24-48 hours.
Just watch out for them if you're not in the US - any DNS-based CDNs will send you to an American node rather than your closest, it could slow things down a little
dig @9.9.9.9 icnerd-1e5f.kxcdn.com
icnerd-1e5f.kxcdn.com. 3600 IN CNAME s-us-ca00.kvcdn.com.
s-us-ca00.kvcdn.com. 55 IN CNAME p-ussj00.kxcdn.com.
p-ussj00.kxcdn.com. 55 IN A 209.58.129.70
dig @8.8.8.8 icnerd-1e5f.kxcdn.com
icnerd-1e5f.kxcdn.com. 21599 IN CNAME p-uklo00.kxcdn.com.
p-uklo00.kxcdn.com. 59 IN A 217.146.91.55
I feel like I'm missing something but wouldn't this whole brouhaha be avoided by making the website 100% HTTPS and redirecting any HTTP requests to HTTPS through the server itself? This is common practice with Nginx, for example.
