urls

Clearly, Chrome phones home and Google feels entitled to check new URLs that it can't spider.

Run the various apps e.g XBox, monitor your firewall and simply block the requisite URLs.

This is how I'd do it: - you already track a set of URLs that have discussions (I assume).

I actually have seen urls that ended with a long row of commas, now that I think of it.

The closest thing they do is suggest autocompletions for searches/URLs you type in the URL, which is a straightforwardly-explained checkbox in Chrome's privacy settings.

How do you guarantee that you've blocked all the URLs accessed by the application, and that they're not going to change with the next update?

I disabled it when I started seeing a lot of private URLs (like Google Docs links with share access) in server logs.

There should be a way to block domains that you don't want searched, otherwise secret URLs such as youtube private links, google docs, etc are exposed.

> Run the various apps e.g XBox, monitor your firewall and simply block the requisite URLs.

Youtube is terrible at unique URLs, and I don't blame it.

Even with different URLs, there's really no need for 10 different stories about the MacBook Air to be posted here -- it would be much better to have one Hacker News item and have URLs to other articles posted in comments.

Stories without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this as a link to your project, then adding the text as a first comment in the thread.

You can set the Research mode to "Off" by default and check URLs on a case-by-case basis and still do custom searches.

I considered (and was planning on) adding a "block URL" feature - but the issue of how to store those sensitive URLs (to block) came up.

The spec talks about the server being "willing" to respond to requests from different origins, and explicitly mentions that it may support multiple origins ( "This is why the server has to send these strings: to confirm which origins and URLs the server is willing to service" ).