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Yuhong Bao
Personal blog · yuhongbao.blogspot.com · on HN as yuhongsecurityeconomicsweb
Yuhong Bao's personal blog at yuhongbao.blogspot.com covers security, economics and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “The history of Google and its advertising”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- The history of Google and its advertising2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2018-04-07
What Hacker News says?
As it happens, I posted http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-deb... around the same time.
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on “Firefox is on a slippery slope”Submitted The history of the MS C runtime DLL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI am more interested in the Google specific problems and tracing it back to Larry and Sergey. I have written an essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking”Submitted The history of Google and its advertising as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote an essay with more detailed history for a reason. It is probably worth linking it here: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Product Updates Based on Your Feedback”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy essay talks about ad tracking and Google: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Facebook announces Clear History feature”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYea, that was what my essay/overview was about, including tracing these problems back to Larry/Sergey. It is probably worth posting a link here: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLink to the essay for those who are unfamiliar: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Hallmark of an Economic Ponzi Scheme”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy favorite is all the financial complexity in order to take advantage of the debt-based economy. I even did a blog post on Google and Mozilla that shows some of the other problems: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-deb...
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on “The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010)”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay (final) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just posted the final version of the Google/DoubleClick essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz...
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on “Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay (final) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote an essay about Google: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/04/google-doubleclick-moz... I wonder if there are any other notable Google privacy problems not covered in the essay.
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on “Box CEO says mistrust of Google and Facebook could spread”Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay (final) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am thinking the "HTML5" buzzword is misleading: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-html5-buzzword-is-... IMO "modern browser" isn't too bad if used properly and definitely better than "HTML5".
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on “The myth of the “modern browser””Submitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay third draft (mentions Facebook) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The MS OS/2 2.0 Fiasco: PX00307 and DR-DOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 2000 SP servicing history as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (second draft) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla overview (first draft) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google DoubleClick Mozilla essay (final) as a story · 1 points
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