Recovering From Bad Flashes

Whether you’re working with free or closed equipment, the underlying firmware can be a fragile beast. And neither are immune to the damages of human error.
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The Normalization of Spyware

We shouldn’t refrain from admitting where we’ve lost ground or find ourselves on the losing side. It is something that may be obvious but is seldom formally voiced: spyware has been normalized.
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Hardened Web Blocker

Many web blocker addons take the approach of selectively blocking resources based on finite blacklists. Some have limited methods to allow manually selecting items to block, but generally they allow everything by default and only block elements which match some known bad origin.
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