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I’m not bothered about cookies and privacy intrusion, Firefox privacy feature deletes all cookies on close

You know those cookie opt-in/opt-out information bars that you regularly spot when you surf around (mostly big) websites? Here’s one from thesun.co.uk. The fuzz is that cookies can be used to identify users on subsequent visits, therefore a possible privacy … Read more

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My site now respects the Do Not Track (DNT) header [UPDATED]

Update: The tracking is no longer completely removed when DNT is enabled but all IP addresses are anonymized. I remind you about the Google Analytics Opt-Out plugin if you want to avoid tracking all together. Google Analytics will from now … Read more

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Do Not Track (DNT) scares the advertisement industry, and with good reason ..

They think they can’t live without it. Here’s my proposal on how to deal with it. Qualitative data > quantitative data Quantitative data, tracking statistics, is error prone. It can be misleading and it’s almost impossible to interpret the data. … Read more

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Some of my custom RSS feeds (scraped)

I realize this is not the most clever thing to do, but here I’m posting some of the RSS feeds I’ve created using various scraping/fetching techniques. Sometimes it’s annoying when interesting news sources does not have a RSS feed, especially … Read more

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Virtual hosts on XAMPP

If you ever wanted to develop websites with a root path, such as http://mywebsite, contrary to subdirectory websites like http://localhost/mywebsite, virtual hosts is the way to go. Figure out how to do it on ailoo.net. Another possitive side effect is … Read more

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WordPress blog

So my wordpress blog is finally up after 30 long minutes. Hm. Guess I shouldn’t complain as creating my original site took probably XXX (replace X with big numbers) times longer than doing this. This is more like equivalent to … Read more

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