Personally, I gave up on Google Chrome long back and moved to Firefox.

What's your opinion on this new tracking mechanism that Google rolled out?

Whoa, thanks for posting such a detailed comment. Loved to hear your experiences.

> It is so much harder to separate work and personal life when you have mixed devices.

Yup, exactly. The lines get blurry and you end up overworking.

> The company has some variety of admin access to the device for forensics, remote wipe.

Yup, I missed this point. Totally valid.

If you have tried out any of the new language-learning browser extensions, what are your thoughts?

In this post, I talk about how the current newsletter frenzy has plagued our email inboxes, and how I deal with the situation.

WDYT? Are you tired of receiving too many newsletters?

I unplugged my Google Home Mini long back because of this unethical spying.

I've unplugged mine too but saying it's spying is mincing words a bit.

I highly doubt they care what individuals say in their home but probably care a lot more about what your demographic talks about, watches on TV, listens to on the radio and any other data they can glean from sound.

Think about it, distinct actions make certain sounds, (i.e. from washing dishes to sleeping)

They probably have a lot more of a complete picture of your home than you realise.

I am with you on this. Google sent me a free Google Home Mini a few months ago and I have an Amazon echo device. I sometimes like to experiment with both devices. I plug them in, use them, then unplug them.

Interesting technology, but I would rather have everything on hardware and software that I control.

I have a big cognitive dissonance here of what led you to buy it in the first place? The gulf of knowledge or personal risk tolerance between those 2 stances is so vast that I can scarcely comprehend them being in 1 person.

But, clearly they are so I'm obviously wrong.

because sometimes you might literally get the product for free when you buy a tv, same with amazon echos

By sensitive stuff, what sort of files are you talking about?

Sensitive stuff comes in all kinds: Political, financial, social, work-related, etc.

If you wouldn't want the people living two doors away from you knowing that information, it's "sensitive".

It supports Hindi words as well. Great stuff.

Does it? I tried “goo” meaning shit and it didn’t return anything.

i tried bhosad and it approved

Hi guys,

I have been working on a side-project for a few months to solve the "ever growing reading list" problem in current read-it-later apps like Pocket or Instapaper.

Dayreads allows you to save articles to your inbox, like a to-do list app, and then create smaller and manageable reading lists for each day of the week.

I have been using this app for quite some time, and it has been helpful in maintaining a reading habit.

Here's a getting started guide: https://dayreads.help/getting-started

Currently, there are no mobile apps, but there are browser extensions for Chrome/Edge and Firefox.

Hoping to get some feedback from the HN community before I go deeper into this project.

Just to clear the air here. The posts that you are talking about were either for company blogs, or casual "I don't care if they live or die" kind of posts.

At around the same time, I started working on a small blogging platform of my own but gave up and started using SSGs like Gatsby, Jekyll, etc.

More on the move here: https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/

Hope this clears things up. :)

Hey, thanks for the reply, and I should apologise to you: While it still seems to me that the cause, effect & justification for leaving medium seems strange, I didn't mean to accuse you of intentionally lying or deceiving people in your article, sorry for the terrible wording.