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Why is WhatsApp not taking affiliate money?

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2022-01-212022-01-22

First and foremost: This post is not about WhatsApp vs anything else, yes it is Facebook/Meta/EvilCorp, yes Signal is better 😉 This is just a short thought I have: Why is WhatsApp not doing affiliate…

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Posted in Fun Tagged Facebook, Privacy, WhatsApp

zk-SNARKs

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-10-232022-06-29

Dear awesome person, the very first newsletter I ever send to Weekly CS Paper is about the topic zk-SNARK a Non-interactive zero-knowledge proof underlying the Zcash cryptocurrency. The paper is quite long as I wanted…

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Posted in Weekly CS Paper Tagged Anonymity, Crypto, Crypto Currency, Privacy

Privacy friendly website analytics also will be blocked by default

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-07-132021-02-03

First things first: I love the movement to use more privacy-friendly website analytics tools. More and more small startups are popping up and help you to move away from Google Analytics. And each and every…

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Posted in Webdev Tagged matomo, Privacy, website, wordpress

Borg+Vorta is finally a usable backup solution for Linux desktop

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-06-082022-06-29

TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…

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Posted in Linux Tagged backup, borg, cheating, go, linux, parents, Privacy, security, source code, time

k-anonymity

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2020-03-122022-10-10

As you might already have recognized I am in favor of strong privacy technology to counter the surveillance in our current age. One pillar to archive this is to get developers thinking about this and…

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Posted in Privacy Tagged Anonymity, GDPR, Privacy, time

tor.js – Minimal JavaScript library to check if your visitors are TOR users

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-11-142021-01-06

Show custom content to visitors of your page using TOR

Posted in Project Tagged go, Privacy, website

How switching my parents over to Linux saved me a lot of headache and support calls

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-02-202022-06-29

My approach for switching my parents to Linux

Posted in Linux Tagged backup, borg, go, linux, parents, Privacy, security

Schrödingers website: How to close your blog the right way!

By Simon Frey Last updated: 2019-01-142022-06-29

Archive your website into the wayback machine before closing it

Posted in Webdev Tagged GDPR, go, http, Privacy, website

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