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Jason Murray
Personal blog · jasonmurray.org/posts · on HN as jemurrayprogrammingsystems
Jason Murray's personal blog at jasonmurray.org covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link his posts on dealing with cookie consent popups, including a guide to blocking them with browser settings and extensions like uBlock Origin.
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Personal website of Jason Murray, Internet Architect, Consultant, and Entrepreneur
What Hacker News says?
But nothing prevents browsers from doing so ! In fact you can even configure your browser to never show those popups, and everything is fine. Everytime I switch people over to Firefox I install ublock origin and the list that blocks cookie popups: https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2020/cookies/ (there are even more settings to block even more popups today) Actually Google is seeing the wind turn and is slowly moving awa…
Comment linking /posts/2020/cookies/
on “Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts”Submitted macOS coreaudiod high CPU utilization with Firefox or Chrome as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI use my humans.txt to give credit to the people who influenced me over the years. https://jasonmurray.org/humans.txt - not everyone needs their ego stroked, even if they do who cares.
Comment linking /humans.txt
on “Humans.txt”To trust a personally-created self-signed certificate in Chrome one has to type a shibboleth. There is no visible feedback from typing this string so it resembles a keylogger built into the browser.^1 Suing a website operator over logging keystrokes is a step forward, but we also need to sue to stop a browser vendor from doing the same. Whether Google violates any laws or agreements is for the reader and the courts…
Comment linking /posts/2021/thisisunsafe/
on “Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes”