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Please rebuild Chrome


Chrome is optimized right up to its eyebrows. If you are using Google distributions of Chrome binaries, I wouldn't expect improvements from build tweaks.


OpenSay - Responsible anonymity in Slack, moderated by AI and team effort.

https://OpenSay.co


One bit of small feedback - I would say your landing page is very busy, it could use some more space separating content once you start scrolling down past the top part.


Thanks! Will look into it.


Neat. What lib implemented that radar graph on the landing page?


Thanks! Heavily edited ChartJS Radar Chart


Very cool, I don't think most folks realize how much this would help reduce favoritism and nepotism in the workplace.


Thank you! Precisely. Anonymity levels the playing field. We aim to capture the upside of anonymity by moderating with AI and team effort.


How do you market this


Mainly Google and Slack app store


I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a new feature we shipped for OpenSay:

OpenSay has launched a new feature,

Weekly Triggers, for Slack teams to use,

With responsible anonymity, thought diversity will increase,

And honest thoughts and concerns will have a place to release.


Excuse my ignorance, what CLI tool did you use to execute this query? Thanks!


clickhouse-client

Download it as:

  curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh
Connect to the demo service:

  clickhouse-client --host play.clickhouse.com --user play --secure


Google Keep. I use it as a personal Twitter feed for ideas. I garden those ideas by adding related ideas over time.


Couldn't phrase it better.

I know for a fact that anonymity can be used to encourage diversity of thought and honesty on public channels - this is the feedback I get from customers of a service I run (https://AnonymityBot.com).


It's smart.

It allows Telegram users to hide in plain-sight, within the noise of other Google Translate web users.

I'm pretty sure that using the official pre-built java SDK, as suggested by the author, would allow Google to cluster the content of Telegram users (since app-specific id/token should be sent).

Other than that, a great read and kudos to the author for shedding light on it.

Edit: typo.


I think Google can still cluster Telegram users pretty easily, especially now that that the method is in the open.

Yes, Telegram fakes the user-agent, but the rest of the request still looks very different from a request an actual browser would do. (No referrer, missing headers, different connection pooling behaviour, possibly different TLS and HTTP2 behaviour, etc).

So if Google is doing any detection for browser vs non-browser requests, those requests should show up as suspicious.


If they used cronet, they could get past these checks.


> It's smart.

On the contrary - it's the most stupid thing to do. The only result will be their users wondering soon why this function is broken.


If Telegram or Google users would pay for services, they wouldn’t treat them like the product being sold.


It doesn't look very well hidden if there are blog posts about it...


The users are hiding among all the web traffic to translate.google.tld; not that that Telegram's doing this is top secret undiscoverable magic sauce. It's open source (GPL2): https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/9e740dfd4d2b1ab6b8ed2...


A rotated user agent does not hide anything from Google.


Shell game street fraud (with cups and balls) is also "smart" in some way, but it's not really the right thing to do.


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