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I never knew you could style custom elements like <awesome> with CSS.

I wonder however about the compatibility with different browsers. Could potentially break some sites on older browsers / those on legacy machines / those still surfing the web on dusty old Windows 2000 machines.


Yeah, this is mainly just to help developers not have to use a lot of css on their site, basically making it easier for them.


I doubt it affects them that much, as there's always going to be powerusers. They get a lot of their telemetry from unsuspecting users / laymen buying those cheap Windows10 tablets you see everywhere now.


No that's the only caveat. I much prefer to use scripts, as these programs are a bit of a black box. But at least they're digitally signed and recommended by the wider Windows 'powertoy' community so you're allowed to trust them.


If isn't opensource You can't trust it.


In that case you wouldn't be using Windows at all then, issue resolved.


So clever... but how you know that this software is not some kind of adware... (Super Ugly things, on this kind of tools... )


I can look at my network traffic though. It also tells you exactly what registry keys or HOSTS entries are being added, which you can verify.


Nonsense.

If it is open source, that doesn't make it automatically trustworthy. If it isn't open source, you can trust it as much as you trust the author(s). Open source and trust are separate things.


Windows 10 is not open source.


If you prefer a Batch script there's also Make Windows 10 Great Again: https://gist.github.com/IntergalacticApps/675339c2b805b4c9c6...


Has a nice list of IP addrs and hostnames... thanks!


Nice haven't tried that. I use Shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10


I also use Shutup10, which is essentially the same as the script only with a friendly GUI that lets you choose exactly what you want to do.


It's editable. There's a lot of stuff in there I had to remove. I still want Store functionality because I like the look and feel of the apps on there, especially the Twitter client.


I recall about a week after the Snowden disclosures some people saying the Snowden leaks were deliberate and that NSA has kept up this tradition of false flag disclosures. If anything, the whole web is certainly more secure now, and Snowden is even quoted as saying: "I still work for the NSA" after the leaks. I don't buy the rhetoric that NSA is simply all about slurping up plaintext. They have a duty to secure the web too. It's a weird paradox that they both want more security and want all the plaintext they can salvage.


Most of their servers are encrypted I imagine, so a seizure just means a TLA gets a bunch of encrypted disks to have fun with. My only worry is that a TLA can just ask for the keys to these disks and get Riseup rubberhosed¹.

¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

Worth reading up about Key Disclosure Law too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law


Expensive mass doxing if you follow the proper procedures for doxing, like feeding names into Axciom[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom


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