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- Signal sees its downloads double after scandal
- How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack
- How to Distribute Radical Shit: Don't Trust Your Printer
- FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
- WHEN GOOGLE FOLLOWS YOU TO THE DMV: Where Consent Gets Lost in the Traffic
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
- Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck
- Firefox-maker Mozilla’s boosted revenue significantly in 2023, but the financial report may also raise concern
- Ad Aged: Leave Me Alone.
- How to block Chrome from signing you into a Google account automatically
- Namma Yatri
- OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
- mice would like the VR goggles thing better
- Securing your static website with HTTP response headers
- Search Engines as Leeches on the Web
- No More “Made in China”: Ukraine Inches Closer to Self-Sufficient FPV Drone Manufacturing
- Russia ‘Infected’ Chatbots with Propaganda – AI Repeats Russian Fake Narratives in 33% of Cases
- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/
- How Invasive Ad Targeting is Bad for Journalism and Other High-Quality Publishers
- Terms & Conditions Update: Forced Assistance For Obstinance
- The Mediocrity of Modern Google
- Ian Jackson: Rust is indeed woke
- The U.S. Has Changed Its Mind About Europe
- With Support of Check My Ads Institute’s Advocacy, Senator Warner Urges FTC and DOJ to Investigate Ad Fraud Affecting U.S. Government Agencies
- More money and better stuff for people in the UK
- Day-to-day experiences with bug futures
- onion
- Meta opt-out
- Advertisers are starting to walk away from platforms’ AI solutions that once promised them everything
- California lawmakers take on ‘surveillance pricing’ as FTC retreats
- Adalytics: The Ad Industry’s Bot Problem Is Worse Than We Thought
- Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou
- What Is It, Exactly, That Being An American Means to You?
- A Clarifying Moment
- So You Want to Flee to Canada: Revisiting a Classic Guide to Leaving America
- Fighting for our Future: How—and Why—We Brought Wargames to an ROTC Program
- https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
- How is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI?
- an ad campaign that delivers malware targeting a specific company
- other ways
- More about me, with disclaimers
- Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap
- Ukraine prepares to showcase game-changing defense tech innovations at February forum in Kyiv
- In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
- Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter
- Protecting Privacy, Empowering Small Business: A Path Forward with S.71
- a bad idea
- the 30-40-30 rule
- Links for 14 March 2025: autonomous drones in the news
- Building Drones for Developers
- privacy laws for slacker states
- Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three
- Tesla Cybertruck vs Ford Pinto: Which is the Bigger Fire-Trap?
- Big Tech’s support department
- old PDF
- some obvious differences between GDPR compliance and CCPA compliance that I pointed out back in 2020
- Honda just got around to dealing with
- stuff to deal with
- 15 or so states in the USA without privacy laws
- power moves, signaling, and a helpful book for understanding Big Tech
- (discuss)
- trying to think about European tech policy in context
- The Godfather Part II
- partnership with a friendly government
- still legit
- create more value than you capture
- weekly book recommendation
- https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152479/codes-of-the-underworld
- placing ads on Child Sexual Abuse Material
- delivering ads for obvious malware, with a landing page featuring an unauthorized copy of one of Google’s own logos
- doesn’t apply to the publisher
- Streisand Effect
- Careless People
- THE WHITE COAT DIDN’T BETRAY YOU—THE PIXEL DID: Judge Keeps Florida Wiretap Case Against Hospital Alive
- The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
- Don’t Get Scammed! Tips For Spotting AI-Generated Fake Products Online
- Applying the Fundamental Axioms to Reduce Uncertainty
- Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages
- https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-we-need-shortwave-2-0
- Careless people
- Opinion: To close Europe’s defence tech gap, governments must support startups
- Tow Center Study Again Shows “AI” Sucks At Conveying Accurate News
- It's a Fine Line Between Stupid and Uh...
- Antoine Beaupré: Losing the war for the free internet
- https://www.reuters.com/technology/ukraine-collects-vast-war-data-trove-train-ai-models-2024-12-20/
- Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff
- https://labusinessjournal.com/featured/silvus-grows-its-revenue-physical-footprint/
- Google and Its Confederate AI Platforms Want Retroactive Absolution For AI Training Wrapped in the American Flag
- Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
- There Are Two Kinds of Credit Cards
- Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives
- Is constantly insulting your core customer base a good marketing strategy?
- EU Big Tech crackdown: Commission calls out Google and Apple for antitrust violations
- Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse
- ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations
- Trump tariffs spark "Boycott USA" backlash against U.S. goods
- Why Red Hat Thinks AI’s Future Is Small Language Models
- Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
- EV maker BYD launches new, ultrafast charging system
- Refresh.
- But how to get to that European cloud?
- This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production
- Could &udm=14 Break?
- Frontline Innovation and Domestic Production: The Keys to Ukraine’s Journey Toward Defense Self-Reliance
- Don’t Be Evil: A Campaign to Stop Google’s Interference with Agencies
- European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
- Culture Got Us Into This Mess
- https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/
- https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help_with
- Meta, Apparently, Really Wants Everyone To Read This Book (By Trying To Ban It)
- Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
- http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2014/04/04/the-most-eye-opening-things-ive-ever-read/
- https://micahflee.com/not-only-is-substack-right-wing-broligarchy-garbage-its-way-more-expensive-than-ghost/
- script for rebuilding when a file changes
- enabling the existing problems of adtech, just in a harder-to-observe way
- B L O C K in the U S A
- https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-america-fell-behind-in-drones
- Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act
- Apple Intelligence: Fud, Dud or Both
- https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/meta_dmca_copyright_removal_case/
- ★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
- Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter
- Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France
- Columbia Journalism Review
- https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/californias-delete-act-gains-steam-in-more-states/
- https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18
- https://www.politico.eu/article/push-for-eurostack-as-eu-us-tech-tensions-grow/
- https://newsletter.counteroffensive.pro/p/how-ukraine-integrates-machine-vision-in-battlefield-drones
- Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
- https://goblin.band/notes/a55nxem9jukg6cw8
- “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”
- Kagi is Bringing the Orion Web Browser to Linux
- Ad-Funded Piracy’s ‘Biggest Open Secret’ Revealed By Researcher
- Pro tips: links for 9 March 2025
- password database leaks
- awesöme™
- Does YouTube have a future if its creators have to make money elsewhere?
- Australia fires publisher damages claim at Google
- Disabling Firefox’s “privacy-preserving ad measurement” by default or before upgrading to Firefox 128
- Block AI training on a web site
- AI legal links
- As Australia bans social media for kids under 16, age-assurance tech is in the spotlight
- Preparing for the next European war
- advertising personalization: good for you?
- bet
- less personalized ads
- difficult to spot on large platforms
- The antitrust orthodoxy is blind to real data harms
- most people in the USA got smartphones
- Kerrigan and Keating paper
- Senators Decry Adtech Failures as Ads Appear On CSAM Site
- Hiding in Plain Sight: The Ad-Supported Piracy Ring Driving Over a Billion Monthly Visits - deepsee.io
- The surveillance economy is more like the commodification economy
- about double
- Targeted advertising, platform competition and privacy
- Sturgeon’s Law
- The Kircher and Foerderer paper
- if choosing the privacy option made you buy worse stuff, the surveillance companies would have said so by now.
- Who’s In the Know: The Privacy Pulse Report
- Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities That Enable It
- Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare
- Tailored Cheap Talk: The Effects of Privacy Policy On Ad Content and Market Outcomes
- some ways that Facebook ads are optimized for deceptive advertising
- gives a bunch of hard-to-overcome advantages to deceptive sellers
- The high-profile national security threats
- The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation for Consumer Marketing by Jean-Pierre Dubé, John G. Lynch, Dirk Bergemann, Mert Demirer, Avi Goldfarb, Garrett Johnson, Anja Lambrecht, Tesary Lin, Anna Tuchman, Catherine E. Tucker
- In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
- https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/03/make-typing-special-characters-drop-dead-easy-with-the-compose-key/
- Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
- Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
- U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps, for Texting and Calls, in Wake of Chinese Infiltration of Our Unencryped Telecom Network
- Defining AI
- Deepfake YouTube Ads of Celebrities Promise to Get You ‘Rock Hard’
- Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid
- “Modern Work Fucking Sucks.”
- One Tiny Mod Makes A Cheap Mic Sound A Lot Like A Neumann - Aftermath
- Developing a public-interest training commons of books
- effective privacy tips
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1853219790350950852.html
- #92: I Wrote A Song Called ‘Take the Skinheads Bowling’
- It is time to make the Online Safety Act 2023 fit for purpose
- AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
- https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13320824
- CAUGHT WITH THEIR HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR?: CNN’s Privacy Lawsuit is Served Fresh and the Court is Taking a Bite
- two open source stories
- Three years on, Europe looks to Ukraine for the future of defense tech
- system requirements
- intransigent minority
- a bug
- browser compatibility issue
- opt out of Google Page Annotations
- I was invited to Google HQ to talk about my failing website. Here’s how that went.
- MFA is Programmatic’s Dark Mirror
- Why the DOJ’s Google Ad Tech Case Matters to You
- Google Search Console
- Google app for iOS now injects links back to Search on websites
- Talking shit
- The App Always Wins
- How DraftKings, FanDuel, Legal Sports Betting Changed the U.S.
- What To Use Instead of PGP
- Kill Oracle’s ‘JavaScript’ trademark, Deno asks USPTO
- this RFD
- Whither CockroachDB?
- Australia approves law banning social media for under 16s
- Google Chrome ad features checklist
- Enrico Zini: New laptop setup
- Polymarket Explained: How Blockchain Prediction Markets Are Shaping the Future of Forecasting
- From prediction markets to info finance
- And Bruce Perens, original author of what became the Open Source Definition, wants to move on entirely.
- some time in the spotlight this year
- scam culture
- Yes, your phone is tracking you via advertising ID, and companies are using it to sell your location and identity to anyone. Protect yourself by disabling this feature on your device.
- An ad giant wants to run your next TV’s operating system
- Why Big Business May Wind Up Missing Lina Khan
- personalization risks
- a copy
- FBI alert that got taken down last year
- requires ‘unsafe-eval’
- SingleFile
- the #Eurostack, so hot right now
- PostgreSQL Europe
- RISC-V Summit Europe
- European Union Seeks Chip Sovereignty Using RISC-V - EE Times
- Jean Zay supercomputer
- can’t open their old files, while LibreOffice can
- pull a rabbit out of my hat
- Sovereign Tech Agency
- presentation at FOSDEM 2025
- meissa GmbH
- Codeberg
- Kraftwerk
- Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
- Pakistan's solar boom
- Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
- AI and Esoteric Fascism
- https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
- a methodically structured poisoning mechanism designed to feed nonsensical data to persistent bots and aggressive “AI” scrapers that circumvent robots.txt directives
- Stick with the Weirdos: Marie Davidson’s Favourite Books
- Poll: Small business owners feel more uncertain about the future
- “Emergent Misalignment” in LLMs
- https://v.st/daft
- https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value
- A US federal judge dismisses a lawsuit against TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos, saying the case failed on its merits and citing Section 230
- The Real Goal of the Trump Economy
- Making any integer with four 2s
- Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)
- 1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI
- Why Data Minimization Is A Very Big Deal For Ad Tech
- https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307965/consumer-confidence-sentiment-inflation-trump-tariffs
- https://switching.software/
- DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release
- Profiles In Cowardice: The Nobody Saw This Coming Brigade
- Tesla sales are tanking in Europe. Is Musk to blame?
- It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
- Shadow IT, shadow research, and democratizing research
- Goodbye Surveillance Capitalism, Hello Surveillance Fascism
- Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative
- Time for a Reset
- https://wallethub.com/blog/google-quality-issues-report/147091
- https://www.bbh-labs.com/puncturing-the-paradox-group-cohesion-and-the-generational-myth
- You Don't Have to Monetize the Things You Love
- No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset
- Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap
- The EU AI Act is Coming to America
- What the US’ first major AI copyright ruling might mean for IP law
- This Is the Age of the Coward
- Meta in Myanmar (full series)
- Tech continues to be political
- Wallfacing
- Baking Soda Is the Key to Perfectly Browned Ground Beef
- Ukraine Drives Next Gen Robotic Warfare
- The prophet of parking
- Google faked a Gemini AI answer in its Super Bowl commercial
- ‘I am overwhelmed’: Luigi Mangione sends Valentine's Day message as he launches fan site
- If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
- Advertisers Are Losing Trust In TAG and MRC After Damning CSAM Report
- The Worst Place To Show An Ad
- the decline of kids’ creativity
- Meta Sued Over Discriminatory College Ads
- https://newsletter.counteroffensive.pro/p/deep-dive-taiwan-miltech-aims-to-undermine-chinese-components
- https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/
- ‘The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan’
- Privacy Loves Company
- Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep
- Apple’s app tracking privacy framework could fall foul of German antitrust rules
- A win at last: Big-time blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap
- Ad Buyers Blast Google, Amazon, and Others After Ads Appear on Site Hosting Child Abuse Content
- Jason Snell Went There, Calls for iOS to Follow the Mac Model for Software Distribution
- Why you need a radio (yes, you!)
- Antoine Beaupré: Qalculate hacks
- Pop-up Ads in Your Jeep, the Latest Stellantis Innovation
- How WikiTok Was Created
- Metal Panels Fall Off of Cybertrucks, Revealing the Limits of a Glued-Together Truck
- Cities Can Cost Effectively Start Their Own Utilities Now
- It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto
- Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025)
- ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’
- With the Support of Check My Ads Institute’s Advocacy, Congress Launches Bipartisan Inquiry into Adtech Firms’ Monetization of Child Abuse
- https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-chooses-forgejo/
- The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
- some time in the mid-2000s
- The Kids Aren’t Playing In The Privacy Sandbox | AdExchanger
- Luis Villa points out
- “How do we fund open source? | InfoWorld”
- came up for AADC
- Molly White recommended in November
- Sweet Dreams and Sour Deals: How White-Noise Apps Are Playing Advertisers
- Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything
- 5 Rideshare Strategies That Are Complete BS
- Boeing strike ends after workers vote to accept “life-changing” wage increase
- Behavioral advertising and consumer welfare: An empirical investigation
- fine the surveillance business about $50/month
- Brands could be spending three times too much on social. You read that right
- dial down
- ICE gaming GOOGLE to create mirage of mass deportations...
- Arun Raghavan: PipeWire ♥ Sovereign Tech Agency
- Lessons of Trump’s First Trade War
- https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
- Examples of Group Madness in Technology
- The New DVD Bargain Bin
- Scrum Doesn't Say…
- Why it makes perfect sense for this bike to have two gears and two chains
- Mob Rule
- LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2025
- Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
- What Happened Here
- Todo notes as a storm approaches
- https://www.crummy.com/2025/02/02/0
- Elon Musk's X is suing more advertisers over ad 'boycott'
- Quoted in Ars Technica’s article on tarpits for AI crawlers
- Innovation is a distraction
- ‘We have to get to work and put Europe first. But we are late. Terribly late’
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-s-sacking-of-pclob-members-threatens-data-privacy
- https://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/
- https://huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais/common-models
- Reading newsletters via an RSS reader is still great ↦
- Apple Has To Pull Its “AI” News Synopses Because They Were Routinely Full Of Shit
- Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost?
- Advertisers Aren’t Thrilled With Zuckerberg’s Embrace Of Hate Speech
- US Blocks Open Source ‘Help’ From These Countries
- A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more
- "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase
- The Concrete Club.
- Ars Technica – Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
- Take Control of Your Data: Practical Tips for Data Privacy Week 2025
- Ukraine prepares to showcase game-changing defense tech innovations at February forum in Kyiv
- The questions the Chinese government doesn’t want DeepSeek AI to answer
- People’s Privacy Act Introduced in Washington State
- time to sharpen your pencils, people
- Sunday Internet optimism
- the surrogate scripts uBlock Origin uses
- O, the Tables tell!
- The Hidden Dangers Of Privacy-Preserving Attribution – And A Smarter Solution
- dial down
- unrealistic and unsustainable
- cutting way back on the actual money without dropping X entirely or saying much one way or the other
- lawsuit
- Henry Ford’s old newspaper
- 'Insulted and Confused': Inside Agencies, Federal Employees React to Mass Resignation Offer
- stochastic terrorism
- boycotted last time
- According to the Fraternal Order of Police
- BI's Lara O'Reilly talked to industry insiders about the decision
- Ukrainian Drones Flew 500 Miles And, In A Single Strike, Damaged 5% Of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity
- Coalition of Jewish groups say they're leaving X over Musk's behavior
- Democrats Flip Trump +21 District in Iowa
- Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
- more
- explained it best
- https://www.techpolicy.press/how-meta-turned-its-back-on-human-rights/
- Can we get the benefits of transitive dependencies without undermining security?
- https://medium.com/%40colin.fraser/generative-ai-is-a-hammer-and-no-one-knows-what-is-and-isnt-a-nail-4c7f3f0911aa
- Did you know its only $55 to get a lifetime license to Microsoft Office (that comes with Windows 11 Pro)
- https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/people-managing-google-ad-campaigns-are-getting-their-accounts-seized-by-scammers/
- notoriously vague term
- security headers for a static site
- both
- Direct Mail and the Rise of the New Right
- Rules & Community Guidelines
- Is a Big Mac in Denmark Pricier Than in US?
- EuroStack
- breaking compatibility while independent alternatives keep on going
- EU alternatives to American SaaS offerings
- Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software
- Security Headers by Snyk
- clean bill of health
- blogroll
- OPML
- How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
- The case against self-closing tags in HTML
- A magical land where rounding equals truncation
- generative ai antimoats
- PAAPI Could Be As Effective For Retargeting As Third-Parties Cookies, Study Finds
- Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content
- reducing the incentives to invest in surveillance
- prediction markets need “dumb money”
- Missouri AG claims Google censors Trump, demands info on search algorithm
- NFL Player Uses Pirate Streaming Site to Watch His Own Team
- Why Your Brand Feels Like a Cheap Date: All Flash, No Substance in the World of Performance Marketing
- personal AI in the rugpull economy
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/3808579/chinese-ai-startup-deepseek-unveils-open-source-model-to-rival-openai-o1.html
- https://blog.logrocket.com/getting-started-pico-css/
- bargaining
- Dave's linkblog feed
- Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?
- https://therecord.media/texas-probes-four-more-car-companies-data-collection-sharing
- "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.
- Authors Seek Meta’s Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe
- California vs Texas Minimum Wage, 2013-2024
- https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2020/11/9/the-short-sad-strange-life-of-mr-delicious
- How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship
- Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban.
- What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there
- Facebook acknowledges it's in a global fight to stop scams, and might not be winning
- Meta AI case lawyer quits after Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Neo-Nazi madness’; Llama depositions unsealed
- In TikTok v. Garland, Supreme Court Sends Good Vibes for Privacy Laws, But Congress’s Targeting of TikTok Alone Won’t Do Much to Protect Privacy
- Profiting from addiction
- China tech shrugged off Trump’s ‘trade war’ − there’s no reason it won’t do the same with new tariffs
- Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK
- Malicious extensions circumvent Google’s remote code ban
- Bot-ily Harm.
- Apple’s AI helpfully rewords scam messages to make them look legitimate
- https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-intelligence-rewords-scam-messages-look-legitimate/
- After Big Social
- Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
- Supreme Court files confusing bug report
- Big Tech platforms: mall, newspaper, or something else?
- GitHub in China
- The Supreme Court ruled on Friday
- https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/virtual-power-plants/sonnen-solrite-to-offer-free-batteries-and-solar-to-texas-homeowners
- 2025-01-17
- Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, and Domestic and Foreign Censors Rejoice–TikTok v. Garland
- Want a Web Framework for Rust, Not JavaScript? Try Leptos
- https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-europeans-data-authoritarian-china
- Total information collapse
- ‘TikTok Is Just the Beginning’
- How this site uses AI
- boring bots ftw
- use a Large Language Model, or eat Tide Pods?
- LLMs and the web advertising business
- Celebrated Lawyer ‘Fires’ Meta As A Client Over Zuck’s ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’
- Economist ‘future-proofing’ bid brings back brand advertising and targets students
- Comments on TSA proposal for decentralized nonstandard ID requirements
- TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban
- A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe
- DNA Lounge: Wherein I want to know how you advertise your events.
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/01/the-great-google-ads-heist-criminals-ransack-advertiser-accounts-via-fake-google-ads
- Interim note 5: web media and web dev employment
- Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior
- Platform Fee Vouchers: How We're Self-Funding Subvert
- Interactive Computing: A Counterculture
- Hotel chain ditches Google search for DuckDuckGo — ‘subjected to fraud attempts daily’
- Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
- https://desfontain.es/blog/privacy-in-ai.html
- We are all discovering that influencers exist!
- Chrome Web Store is a mess
- Ukraine’s rapidly expanding defense tech sector is poised for further growth in 2025
- https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/
- The FTC was investigating
- No Cookies For You!: Evaluating The Promises Of Big Tech’s ‘Privacy-Enhancing’ Techniques
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/01/13/online-shopping-product-roundups/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzM2NzQ0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzM4MTI2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzY3NDQ0MDAsImp0aSI6IjA0M2ZlMjY0LTBjYzItNDgyMC04MTlmLTY1Njc5YjNkNTY2YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9ob21lLzIwMjUvMDEvMTMvb25saW5lLXNob3BwaW5nLXByb2R1Y3Qtcm91bmR1cHMvIn0.vR-rq38Ql_H984trq0Ja79Ft4CqcqERIqCw7IzoN9E4
- The Americanisation of Media
- Influencers are suing Capital One, alleging its Shopping browser extension 'stole' credit for sales from them
- Click this to buy better stuff and be happier
- MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets: An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets.
- Balancing User Privacy and Personalization by Malika Korganbekova and Cole Zuber
- turn off tracking
- advice from Internet Thought Leaders
- documents from one of Google’s Federal cases
- 52% papers
- Jessica Fierro and Corrine Reichert bought a selection of products from those Temu ads that seem to be everywhere
- fake ads targeted to users of a software product
- Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud
- My Ad Center
- Congestion Tolls versus Congestion Pricing
- Roblox stock falls after Hindenburg blasts the social gaming platform over bots and pedophiles
- Scripting News
- write to your state legislators to support anti-surveillance laws
- Google Search user interface: A/B testing shows security concerns remain
- https://myadcenter.google.com/home
- turn off advertising features in Firefox
- fix Google Search
- Steam adds the harsh truth that you’re buying “a license,” not the game itself
- Ex-coiner Y Combinator startup bro: ‘dawg i chatgpt’d the license, can’t be bothered with legal’
- turn off advertising measurement in Apple Safari
- McDonald’s invests in Ukraine’s future with restaurant openings and people development
- Battlefield Drones and the Accelerating Autonomous Arms Race in Ukraine
- John Goerzen: Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
- The bounty hunter tendency, the future of privacy, and ad tech's new profit frontier.
- Why I’m disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
- Not In My Name - Heritage Foundation's plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
- X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture.
- Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
- https://www.techpolicy.press/baltic-leadership-in-brussels-what-the-new-high-representative-kaja-kallas-means-for-tech-policy/
- #2: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/
- Facebook Fact Checks Were Never Going to Save Us. They Just Made Liberals Feel Better.
- Chrome Sync privacy is still very bad
- How extensions trick CWS search
- The Ministry of Empowerment
- Step Sequencer Tech Demo
- Links for 4 Jan 2025: news from the low-trust society
- See What WebAssembly Can Do in 2025
- Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
- The $16 hack to blocking ads on your devices for life
- On Truth
- ads.txt for a site with no ads
- In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 3047) | United States District Court, Northern District of California
- granted in part and denied in part
- saga with the Chaos Monkeys guy
- sketchy infringing site
- /slashes
- Feb. 2024 Executive Order
- a specification from the IAB Tech Lab
- ads.txt
- https://www.benjirolsky.com/ruminations/2019/12/12/7ukdpo0erbmz6tb442el2ykr6uf9yb
- A.A. Milne on First-Rate, Second-Rate, and Third-Rate Minds
- Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files
- It Was Ten Years Ago Today
- FBI raids apartment of election betting site Polymarket’s CEO and seizes cellphone, source says
- Chromium - Policy List
- going in to the settings and changing things
- targets
- The long goodbye for Tim Cook
- Social Media Addiction Multidistrict Litigation–the return of Joe Camel in the sleeper case that could break Silicon Valley
- Slash Pages?
- Patrick O'Brian is a Great Conservative Writer
- Texas Plows Ahead
- Links for 4 Jan 2024: news from the low-trust society
- list of known good companies
- Search engines think I plagiarized my own content! My Hacker News Case Study
- Conditional market
- paper checks are still the only way
- I still don't think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone
- Never Forgive Them
- A Conventional Boy
- https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/10/02/opinion-we-need-more-consequences-for-reckless-driving-but-that-doesnt-mean-more-punishment