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there is an asymmetry between knowing the past and the future - due to thermodynamics

Would you please elaborate on this?

I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused

I do the same and it's immensely useful!

I find it's also a great indicator of how well that vendor protects my info... if there's a sudden surge of spam to an address only that vendor knows, there's a chance they leaked/sold my info and I know it's time to change passwords and/or reassess my relationship with the vendor.

For those who are required (or prefer) to use a Chromium-based browser, you might want to give ungoogled-chromium [0] a shot.

I switched recently based on a recommendation from a HN reader, and so far it has been a surprisingly seamless transition. I have yet to encounter any issues aside from being unable to install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store, which was easily remedied by first installing the chromium-web-store extension [1].

My biggest gripe is that there are no 'official' binaries, so you'd either have to build your own or trust the user-submitted builds, though apparently the project owner is currently working on setting up an official build server [2].

[0] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

[1] https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

[2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1198

A: "I don't know, and I don't know why I don't know why I don't know."

B: "I don't know what you're talking about."

A: "Well I don't know what you're talking about either, so now we're two."