FYI for anyone who hasn't read the time tested definition of what is a security look it up in the letter of the US law and you will see a ‘security’ is something traded in a federally controlled exchange. Methinks this is why the oligarchs are attaching DEXes now. That poor EtherDelta guy...
Under securities law, ALMOST ANY kind of deal to trade money for an intangible where the buyer expects to profit from others’ work is a security. Exchange listings having nothing to do with it.
Nothing is new under the sun and since the Securities Act of 1933 innumerable schemes to sell paper to rubes have been tried using different names, labels, or tweaks to avoid the regs. Universally the shenanigans get slapped.
Pretty much, the thing that ICO promoters want to do (get money or pseudo-money from people looking to profit) is tautologically securities sales under our current US regulatory regime.
Source: business partner and I burned a lot of lawyers’ time in late 2012 seeing what was going to come of the equity crowdfunding/JOBS Act stuff for a startup, and ultimately decided to wave off (you’ll note that essentially nothing new has come from that; most all the issuers in that space still rely upon traditional SEC exemptions etc.)
I was going to say something to that effect, but who are we kidding - I'm sure Google tracks visitors to that site whether they go there via the AMP link or not.
With dark sites coming back en vogue with and even entire blogging platforms like After Dark[0] now available is the 90's all over again. Hopefully these new sites eschew the mistakes we've made harvesting data in the past.
That's a valid concern. Certainly an easy way to Target an audience to get at a rich set of data. But who's to say Chromium isn't doing this already anyway?
> From July to October 2018, we’ve seen 126 paid trial signups from “podcast.”
We all know surveys lie (even if they're required) so the conversion numbers aren't telling the whole story. If my company were burning tall coin like this and not somehow tracking micro-conversions I'd probably have to tell the marketing lead sorry no holiday bonus for the next 38 years.
Honestly they could've probably hired a temp-worker with a good voice and a lot of Podcasting buddies and gained more traction for the cost of feeding a homeless man. What a colossal waste of resources.
IRC, like social networks, is slways tough to rank due to lack of structured data. I don't believe Usenet suffered this proform.
Re: Facebook I agree it has hurt, nay scourged, the Web—that's undeniable—but that has also created room to innovate how we share content on the surface web.
I enjoyed YouTube until I tested the effectiveness of ContentID and was banned under their ToS. May they burn in hell under the new EU regs.
Depends on the length of your password, really, and how and where you enter it. All it takes is a keystroke logger to get your master password, and this can be done even with copy/paste.
If you're on Android it's possible to completely block the GPS daemon from phoning home, usually to 1e100.net based on my observation. To do this you can install an app called NetGuard from F-Droid and enable service blocking. This app is non-root, and it uses a local VPN to provide an almost impenetrable firewall. Google's GPS daemon hides itself under a process called "1021" block that and enable notifications and see the connection attempts every few minutes to 1e100.net getting blocked—you don't even need to have any Google services enabled to see the connection attempts occurring.
