Lockdown Browser VS Hello

Websites that only works on the signed browser binary for your "security"? FU Google, just let me own my computer Yes. This exact thing already exists. It's commonplace for a lot of school testing software. You have to use their specific closed source browser on Windows. It's called LockDown browser , though there are others too like CAASPP. Source: over 1 year ago

I won't say the university, because I would like to keep my personal life off reddit. But I will say the program that was used is called "Lockdown browser". Source: about 2 years ago

My name is Aharon Weinstein, and I am in my undergrad at Georgia State University. Before getting into any information or research, I want to start by disclaiming that I was a news writer for The Signal during my first semester, which is where I started this research. To my knowledge, after my leaving due to complicated issues in my personal life, someone else took over this piece, but I am unsure if they ever... Source: about 3 years ago

Where did you graduate? I believe most Universities and Colleges (at least in the US) require some kind of proprietary browser like this for online tests and quizzes. I know all my local schools use Respondus, which sucks, but I guess it's not the worst one. Recording audio/video for this is next level surveillance type shit and clearly a breach of privacy. Source: about 3 years ago

Relevant link: the application’s website and what shady shit they can do. Source: about 3 years ago

Me too, the problem might be that the costs to run queries might be really high? I made some back-of-the-envelope calculations as https://beta.sayhello.so (based on ChatGPT) results are often better than Google, and the energy alone will be really high for the amount of queries I do in Google. No idea how to make this sustainable. Hopefully I'm wrong, or more efficient... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

This is great! I've been using https://beta.sayhello.so/ for this so far. Might give you some inspiration/ideas. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

The majority of his limited comments are about the site, and he referenced another very similar site https://beta.sayhello.so, which uses the same Made with [Heart Emoji], slightly different layout, same domain registrar and registered 2 months between. Plus someone (guess who, wasnt me or you!) gave him reddit silver for this downvoted post with no comments. Source: over 1 year ago

Off-topic: I saw this thing a few days ago, launched in YC, https://beta.sayhello.so/ maybe it will take off, you might appreciate it. Source: over 1 year ago

Hello and you.com are alternatives. Source: over 1 year ago