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Posts by Ben Kelly

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Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is officially over. "the Privacy Sandbox APIs may have a different role to play in supporting the ecosystem". That's pretty disappointing and bad sign for privacy improvement on the web.

11 months ago 9 2 0 0
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Next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome In this April 2025 announcement, the Privacy Sandbox team shares next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome.

Disappointing. privacysandbox.com/news/privacy...

11 months ago 1 0 0 0
The classic last day "laptop and badge" photo.

The classic last day "laptop and badge" photo.

Today's my last day at Google. I'll be starting at Meta soon to work on browser related things.

1 year ago 4 1 0 0

Trump shames America.

1 year ago 978 183 77 12
Andor | Season 2 Trailer | Streaming April 22 on Disney+
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Yes, please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4w...

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Me whenever I have to decide what to do with an old cable or power adapter.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

I feel like I've seen very little reporting on protests. Seems like a disconnect between what I see on social media and traditional news.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

"It's complicated"... But I think there is an active effort to integrate cookies into fetch spec.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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Both Firefox and Chromium consider the server's `Date` response header when evaluating a `Set-Cookie` header's `Expires` value but this doesn't seem to be discussed in any standard, or in MDN?

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

1 year ago 4 1 1 0

Seems like it might be a good idea to file a fetch spec issue for this.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0
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Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting While I once hoped 2017 would be the year of privacy, 2024 closes on a troubling note, a likely decrease in privacy standards across the web. I was surprised by the recent Information Commissioner’s O...

My strategic privacy analysis. Is Google undoing a decade of progress on privacy? Their new policy allows invasive device fingerprinting for tracking user activity. Here’s my deep dive into what this means for privacy—and the future of AI. blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-priv...

1 year ago 193 106 6 11

"giving time back" is one of those recurring corporate phrases it will be nice to get away from over the holiday break.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Sorry, missed you were talking about the native app.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

Probably because google docs is canvas rendered instead of using the DOM?

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

There is probably a ceiling on efficiency without restricting types of patterns (like excluding arbitrary regexes, etc), but a number of optimizations should be possible. For example, patterns with fixed prefixes, etc. Also using a single pass match like RE2::Set uses. cc @domenic.me

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

I don't think anyone has completed work on optimizing matching a string against a list of URLPattern. I suspect we need to add a URLPatternList API as discussed here:

github.com/whatwg/urlpa...

1 year ago 4 0 1 0

We're two build systems passed goma now!

1 year ago 2 0 0 0

If you are using ServiceWorker Static routing API then we've an origin trial from Chrome 131 adding Navigation and Resource Timing to that to allow you to measure the impact of using this API.

More info in this explainer:
github.com/WICG/service...

Would love to hear feedback to help us ship this!

1 year ago 9 5 1 0
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After working on URLs for well over a decade, we finally hit a point where real browser convergence on core aspects is happening. Experimental browser builds are at ~96% (Chromium), ~99% (Gecko), and ~100% (WebKit) in Interop 2024’s URL category. Very exciting to see! Kudos!

1 year ago 47 7 4 0

I'm now tempted to edit all my posts to say "404".

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Not sure why #ATproto uses /.well-known/atproto-did to discover handles rather than using #WebFinger like #Mastodon and having a rel-self to a did:plc URI

Feels needless to have two discovery layers? And would have enabled the same handle resolution for both Mastodon and Bluesky?

1 year ago 5 2 2 6

And its a more open system in that I could use any number of companies to achieve the same result (or do it myself). (I guess we can't edit posts here yet.)

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

I pay $5/mo for mastohost to do it for me. Yes, its more work, but it also has a clear funding model that I can understand.

I agree its not a solution for non-technical people, but generally those folks don't have custom domains either.

1 year ago 0 0 2 0

I tried to set a handle here using my custom domain, but I'm unsure it worked correctly. I kind of prefer mastodon's approach so far which functions more like email. (I have ben@wanderview.com as my handle there.)

1 year ago 0 0 2 0

Helpful post from the MakeMyTrip team on tackling their third-party cookies issues:
1⃣ Fix your own code, e.g. `Partitioned` cookies
2⃣ Upgrade dependencies, e.g Use the latest Google Sign-in
3⃣ Check third-parties, e.g. New Relic had already updated

medium.com/@suraj0533/h...

2 years ago 1 1 0 0
UR Medicine Orthopaedics and Physical Performance Center - University of Rochester Medical Center

We were lucky a local university turned our dying mall into this amazing medical center: www.urmc.rochester.edu/orthopaedics...

I never would have predicted that, but seems like a great outcome.

2 years ago 0 0 0 0

So far it seems that this place is primarily the @scalzi.com social media app. Not complaining...

2 years ago 5 0 2 0
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