"Healthline.com provided an opt-out mechanism, but it was misconfigured and Healthline failed to test it, resulting in data being shared with third parties even after consumers elected to opt out.”
"The company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it was accused of failing to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents.”
"According to the [California Privacy Protection] agency, Todd Snyder told website visitors they could opt out of data sharing, but didn't actually allow them to do so for 40 days in late 2023 because its opt-out mechanism was improperly configured."
Sad to not see a mention of tracking, i.e. the ability to disable open-tracking or click-tracking. Some services even have it disabled by default to respect subscribers’ privacy but sadly they weren’t included in the article. Some examples: Buttondown, Mailcoach, SendStack. No affiliation, I just researched them in the past (https://blog.daniemon.com/2022/11/15/privacy-first-newslette...)
Nice – I like this a lot. I feel like I'd use this for slow-lane reading and the original HN site when I'm in a rush.
Regarding HTML to GPT-4, I seem to remember commenters here saying they got better results by converting the HTML to Markdown first, then sending to an LLM. Might save a bit of money too.
