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- Could Carbon Fiber be the New Asbestos?
- California Forges Ahead With Social Media Rules Despite Legal Barriers
- End Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid V Ambler
- Matt Levine Explains Cryptocurrency Markets
- The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
- Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
- The FTC Orders Companies To Disclose Info On “Surveillance Pricing”
- Google’s privacy shift on third-party cookies sparks concerns of Apple-like control
- https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/07/no-hashing-still-doesnt-make-your-data-anonymous
- https://www.cio.com/article/3476784/oracles-115-million-privacy-settlement-could-change-industry-data-collection-methods.html
- Touring the Posey Tube, a 100-year-old engineering feat connecting Oakland and Alameda
- Oops. Apple relied on bad code while flaming Google Chrome's Topics ad tech
- WTF Google: The Cookie Clusterf**k Continues
- Senate to take up legislation hiking online privacy for minors, Schumer says
- https://www.businessinsider.com/google-admits-defeat-cookie-plan-relief-could-be-short-lived-2024-7
- Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles
- How Can ID Bridging – The Foundation Of Our Space – Suddenly Be a Bad Thing?
- Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
- Ad world is relieved but skeptical about Google’s decision to keep cookies in Chrome
- Meta given weeks to tell EU consumer protection authorities how it’ll fix ‘pay or consent’
- surveillance licensing in practice
- The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
- Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps
- After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome
- Why Privacy Badger Opts You Out of Google’s “Privacy Sandbox”
- Prediction markets notch win with Biden's drop out
- Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan’s Industrial Revoluton
- Reacquired.
- Firefox's New 'Privacy' Feature Actually Gives Your Data to Advertisers
- Every Stock is a Vaccine Stock, Revisited
- I Bought Tech Dupes on Temu. The Shoddy Gear Wasn't Worth the $1,260 in Savings
- Sunday Internet optimism
- USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
- the EDPB decision on Facebook ad tracking
- (Mustri et al.)
- The Urban Farmer Store
- Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made.
- We need to rewild the internet
- Thom Holwerda
- suing over privacy
- Taboola targeting
- Google Is Mind-Bogglingly Bad
- Renewables, batteries help California grid breeze through heatwave
- After a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now?
- The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that's dangerous
- Disable this Firefox preference to save privacy
- Academic Publishing is a Lucrative Scam
- USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
- New Zealand Joins Australia In Denying Geographical Indicator Trademark For ‘Basmati Rice’
- Dr. Ruth, Richard Simmons, and the Joys of Eccentricity
- Some ad tech vendors are pulling back from Google’s Privacy Sandbox amid uncertainty
- The Real Money In Modern ‘Journalism’ Now Involves Filling The Internet With ‘AI’-Generated Garbage
- Ad execs sound the alarm over Google’s risky Privacy Sandbox terms
- Publishers’ Privacy Sandbox pauses settle into a deep freeze following reports of poor performance
- https://adactio.com/journal/21285
- Data Broker Files: How data brokers sell our location data and jeopardise national security
- Congress Accidentally Legalized Weed Six Years Ago
- Under Surveillance: Location Data Jeopardizes German Security...
- A layered approach to content blocking
- Nearly half of Amazon warehouse workers get injured in the Prime Day rush
- ‘It’s in Google’s best interest’: Sources urge more formal Privacy Sandbox legal terms
- Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we're determined to change that
- The sentiment disconnect on 'AI' between tech and the public
- Private Browsing 2.0
- Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract
- When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering 'sneaked references'
- California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave due to Renewables, Batteries
- Follow the Crypto
- turn off advertising measurement in Apple Safari
- How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
- PET projects or real privacy?
- does what users would do for themselves if they had time
- Lindy Effect
- Google report (PDF)
- FAQ
- review of a Privacy Sandbox” sub-project
- Reporters were later able to track the company’s progress
- Facebook agreed to stop using age, gender and ZIP code for housing, employment and credit ads
- Google’s ongoing effort to make their PETs acceptable to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK
- browser topics tracking and the prejudiced landlord problem
- at FTC PrivacyCon (PDF)
- Here are 13 other explanations for the adolescent mental health crisis. None of them work.
- Bug 2297635 - Firefox silently enables advertiser tracking and breaks privacy without user permission
- instructions from Michael Kjörling
- New Senate bill seeks to protect artists’ and journalists’ content from AI use
- nmbl: we don’t need a bootloader
- Europe confirms first clutch of DSA grievances on Elon Musk’s X
- My Twin
- Used.
- https://www.academia.edu/49313911/Bitcoin_Currencies_and_Bubbles
- https://www.marketingweek.com/cookies-dying-marketers/
- Fee-Only Bitcoin
- Revenue-Share Orgy: Why Ad Agencies Are in Bed with Everyone
- turn off advertising features in Firefox
- Mr Robot TV show plugin
- under about:config
- cooperatively developed with Meta
- Privacy-preserving attribution feature shipped on Firefox 128
- Adtech’s 3 Main Gripes With Google’s Privacy Sandbox
- Google search ads
- The Golden Calf Of Addressability: Reevaluating The Foundations Of Digital Advertising
- Using GitHub Pages to host a locally built site
- Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
- Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute
- Using different static site generators · community · Discussion #21563
- a Makefile for a very basic .org site
- Rust has a HUGE supply chain security problem
- In NetChoice Cases, Supreme Court Labels a Surprisingly Narrow Class of Online Platform Company Activities as Protected Expression
- With a Little Help, Western Bluebirds Are Nesting in Alameda
- https://cepa.org/article/putins-peace-wont-work-for-ukraine/
- hangout_services/thunk.js
- Even Amtrak was surprised by the instant popularity of its new Chicago-Twin Cities route
- https://www.techpolicy.press/from-recommendation-engines-to-rewilding-reclaiming-our-agency-online/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/instagram-child-safety.html
- The DOJ’s Witness List For The Google Antitrust Trial Is A Who’s Who Of Advertising
- Microsoft-owned adtech Xandr accused of EU privacy breaches
- NetChoice v. Paxton
- Supreme Court protects the future of content moderation
- This tiny autonomous sailboat is charting a new course for marine science
- autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
- Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons
- Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved?
- A high-level view of all of this feed reader stuff
- https://rachelbythebay.com/fs/help.html
- context
- The Great MEV Heist
- Pinball is cool again—and these stunning machines are why
- Big Tech platforms: mall, newspaper, or something else?
- BRIEF OF LAW AND HISTORY SCHOLARS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS IN NO. 22-555
- requiring adequate staffing for security support
- More about those, from Consumer Reports
- the Fair Credit Reporting Act has held up in court
- extensively regulated
- slot machine companies pioneered the development of addiction design
- all the rest
- Tim Wu Is Out Of Control
- Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins
- according to the US Supreme Court
- Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
- xz, Tidelift, and paying the maintainers
- Google’s Protected Audience Protects Advertisers (and Google) More Than It Protects You
- “Pink slime” local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears
- My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
- X Window System At 40
- The Sun announces it is switching its support to Labour on eve of election
- Glyph Lefkowitz: Against Innovation Tokens
- The NetChoice Decision Shows the First Amendment Is Out of Control
- Container Image Fault Lines Are Being Exposed
- User Styles
- Mastodon is actively courting journalists
- BusyBeaver(5) is now known to be 47,176,870
- The Roberts Supreme Court’s Decision on Netchoice Was Righteous
- With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits
- New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
- Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface
- https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/06/27/5-things-we-learned-from-sponsoring-a-sampling-of-our-open-source-dependencies/
- https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/
- Supreme Court sends Texas and Florida social media regulation laws back to lower courts
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/21/1092625/five-ways-criminals-are-using-ai/
- Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- Scientists Implant Radioactive Material Into Horn of Living Rhinoceros to Poison Anyone Who Consumes It
- https://lpeproject.org/blog/a-netchoice-win-would-be-a-loss-for-democracy/
- Return of the power user
- Best printer 2023
- OFGB
- Disable Ads in Windows 11 Tutorial | Windows 11 Forum
- Check My Ads is the shape and silhouette for the UN’s new Global Principles for Information Integrity
- compliance risks
- create more value than you capture
- Taking the deepest possible breath
- The Itanic Saga
- https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/06/06/costco-is-building-out-an-ad-business-using-shopper-data
- Facebook Is Running Ads for an Addictive Drug That’s Banned in Numerous Countries
- Is Everything BS?
- Platforms Are Autogenerating Creative – And It’s Going To Be Terrible
- Perplexity AI, Robots.txt, and Other Questions
- The Center for Investigative Reporting is suing OpenAI and Microsoft
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12027
- DuckDB as the New jq
- Incentivizing production of information goods
- Pinfactory connects to a GitHub project pretty easily
- open ecosystem for AI
- How I Made $10k Predicting Which Studies Will Replicate
- https://www.thetimes.com/article/02dbb068-6bf5-4984-9943-d66d55aa80ec?shareToken=16d406bf0bb1b8027ce129709f82c164
- Money bots talk and bullshit bots walk?
- low standards of certain web ad companies
- incentivization markets
- corporate prediction markets
- _ChatGPT is bullshit_ Ethics and Information Technology vol. 26
- Google’s Privacy Sandbox: More Like Privacy Litter Box
- [$] Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git
- Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox
- Why I went back to buying CDs (and you should too)
- Sweetwater
- Opt-Out Preference Signal
- Perplexity’s grand theft AI
- https://www.techpolicy.press/the-goal-of-a-national-privacy-law-in-the-united-states/
- Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World
- Criteo: The Privacy Sandbox Is NOT Ready Yet, But Could Be If Google Makes Certain Changes Soon
- Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well
- Automatically replacing polyfill.io links with Cloudflare’s mirror for a safer Internet
- L AI ZY.
- Mozilla is an advertising company now
- Prediction Market Trading as an LLM Benchmark
- There's Something Deeply Wrong With Perplexity
- The public web and consent
- How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
- How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
- My spiciest take on tech hiring
- I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI
- California Apple Manufacturing Facility Has 19 ‘Potential Violations’ of EPA Regulations
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-stop-deepfake-porn-using-ai
- European Commission Preliminarily Finds That Apple Has Violated the Digital Markets Act
- Record labels sue AI music generators for ‘massive infringement of recorded music’
- What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal
- This site is opted out of AI. Perplexity.ai crawled it three times
- Has Facebook Stopped Trying?
- The mainstreaming of ‘AI’ scepticism – Baldur Bjarnason
- Nubai Ventures Sues Outbrain, Claiming Its Traffic Is Riddled With Bots
- https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas-customer-service-hotline-160224479.html
- https://kansasreflector.com/2024/06/22/artificial-intelligence-has-spread-lies-about-my-good-name-and-im-here-to-settle-the-score/
- AT&T can't hang up on landline phone customers, California agency rules
- Mozilla's Original Sin
- Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
- How We’re Trying to Protect MacStories from AI Bots and Web Crawlers – And How You Can, Too
- Occasional paper: Fungal banking
- ⌥ On Robots and Text
- OpenAI, Anthropic ignoring rule that prevents bots scraping online content
- https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/andrew_forrest_meta_scam_ads_case/
- Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
- Fast Crimes at Lambda School
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
- Wired: ‘Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine’
- There is no EU cookie banner law
- AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content Mill
- They Praised AI at SXSW—and the Audience Started Booing
- EU signals doubts over legality of Meta’s privacy fee
- Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
- Mozilla Buys Ad Firm Anonym
- Big batteries are solving a longstanding problem with solar power in California. Can they do the same for Australia?
- Privacy app maker Proton transitions to non-profit foundation structure
- Elder fraud has reached epidemic proportions – a geriatrician explains what older Americans need to know
- Applying The ‘Would Your Mother Approve?’ Rule To Online Ad Tracking
- Mozilla Acquires Anonym, A Privacy Tech Startup Founded By Two Top Former Meta Execs
- Paying a living wage won’t fuck the world.
- AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
- Don Marti: happy Father’s Day, here’s a Dad joke
- drop-shippers/social media advertisers
- https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/
- Don Marti: links for 15 June 2024
- Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot
- hard part
- My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complex
- fep-5e53
- Pass
- API
- https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-big-ai-question-are-you-ready-to-pay-for-it-534d95e9
- The Eclipse of the Russian Arms Market
- ‘Devastating’ potential impact of Google AI Overviews on publisher visibility revealed
- Which top sites block AI crawlers?
- Why First Party Data May Not Save Digital Advertising
- AI won't kill ad agencies. Here's why.
- SPC: an X-Robots-Tag for privacy control
- Web Site User Agreement
- tested
- blurry compressed version of it that AI spews out
- The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
- just not a thing
- actual four factors of fair use
- https://therecord.media/junk-inferences-data-brokers
- Logitech’s Casa Pop-Up Desk Elevates Your MacBook for More Comfortable Computing
- Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media
- more of a part of the problem
- The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent
- The FTC’s PrivacyCon Was Chock-Full Of Warning Signs For Online Advertising
- some good recent links
- from O’Reilly
- The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens
- Champlifier
- Nica Sidewall Shingling
- Planchon Roofing & Siding Co
- Gladiator Plumber
- Annie’s Annuals and Perennials
- Versailles Pharmacy
- monkeybrains.net
- Paganos Hardware
- Encinal True Value Hardware
- JVC Gumy HAFX7
- Zingerman’s Deli
- Fred’s Wrenchouse
- Island Taqueria
- Books Inc
- Modern Mouse
- Google still recommends glue for your pizza
- United Airlines wants to show you personalized seatback ads: Here’s how to opt out
- Google’s breaking down, but we need to keep our eye on the ball
- Block AI training on a web site
- business recommendations
- https://justpublishingadvice.com/fake-pirated-and-counterfeit-books-a-big-problem-on-amazon/
- Raptive Support covers the noai meta tag
- other uses to help control how search engines crawl your site
- DeviantArt
- robots.txt
- "Your personal information is very important to us."
- AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans
- Economic Termites Are Everywhere
- https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/
- The Internet is a Series of Webs
- A look at Eric Schmidt's White Stork, which sources say has poached employees from Apple, SpaceX, Google, and others to build AI-enabled military drones
- Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems
- Tesla may be in trouble, but other EVs are selling just fine
- New York to ban ‘addictive’ suggested posts on social media feeds for kids
- We’re unprepared for the threat GenAI on Instagram, Facebook, and Whatsapp poses to kids
- Surveillance Capitalism 2.0: The New Era of Digital Ad Tracking and Privacy
- Meta uses “dark patterns” to thwart AI opt-outs in EU, complaint says
- The Parental Control Protocol
- https://popula.com/2022/12/12/mastodon-is-fun/
- Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams
- LLMs and reputation management
- Death of a Chatbot, body blow to an industry
- KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago
- use a Large Language Model, or eat Tide Pods?
- LLMs and the web advertising business
- thread
- wehraboos
- High Command Trial
- clean Wehrmacht
- Meta’s pay-or-consent model hides ‘massive illegal data processing ops’: lawsuit
- Google hit with €2.1B lawsuit from more than 30 European media companies
- Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be tracked’ consent model
- For the first time ever, Ukraine has passed the winter heating season relying exclusively on domestic gas
- Some questions on a screenshot
- Opting out of doing 2024 predictions
- reward sexual harassment with big checks
- Al Capone effect
- post-surveillance economic boom
- the US Republican party and direct mail
- Meta’s bogus pay or consent policy
- opened up a bunch of competition cases on platform companies
- hire factcheckers to fight election fake news
- the Putin regime’s ability to work the political system
- GPC all the things!
- figuring out the CCPA escalation path
- effective privacy tips
- have a unique ID
- Special Interest License Plates at the DMV
- California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
- The standard behind tap-to-pay
- standard would need to be extended to let user opt outs and/or preferences travel with their content
- DKIM
- RFC 5233
- do-not-sell-or-share preference
- deceptive practices
- Global Privacy Control
- Reminder – Google is enforcing stricter rules for consumer finance ad targeting
- Privacy Sandbox’s Latency Issues Will Cost Publishers
- Tracking ads industry faces another body blow in the EU
- How Google Blew Up Its Open Culture and Compromised Its Product
- A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris
- Am I metal yet?
- HouseFresh has virtually disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?
- For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the point
- https://www.techpolicy.press/the-one-simple-trick-to-measuring-abuse-in-techs-440-billion-ads-business/
- What is the Cara app, and why are artists deleting Instagram for it?
- Online Privacy and Overfishing
- We always thought The Epoch Times was sketchy, but this is really something
- One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See?
- A modern approach to browser support
- The Moral Economy of the Shire
- I turned in my manuscript!
- New zine: How Git Works!
- Amazon Sold Fake Copies of Hotly Anticipated UFO Book
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-colorado-law-algorithms-bias-antidiscrimination/
- One Heck Of A Halvening
- Video Shows China's Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets
- Origins of the Lab Mouse
- WTf Quora: how a platform eats itself
- Lord Kelvin and His Analog Computer
- Parable of the Sofa
- cheese or woodstain?
- you’re on a customer journey, they’re on a marketer journey
- Andrew Chen says that AI will reinvent marketing
- woodstain
- cheese
- Advertising as Information
- Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin
- Solar Passes 100% of Power Demand in California! [UPDATED]
- https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-prediction-markets-arent-popular/
- https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/01/boeing-safety-crisis-response-union-busting
- Behind the Blog: Google's Excuses and Facing Reality
- The feed reader score service is now online
- The Tigers at the Gate: Moving Privacy Forward Through Proactive Transparency
- The Elephants in the Room: On Advertising Privacy and Competition
- Leaked Documents Reveal How Google Search Gatekeeps the Internet
- ‘Know Your Customer’ Law Comes For Ad Data Licensors
- The Deskilling of Web Development
- https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2021/02/15/eroding-america-from-within-marketing-data-threatens-military-cohesion/
- Tedeschi Trucks
- improving web advertising
- Washington State’s My Health My Data Act
- breaking up Big Tech firms
- a Pigovian tax on databases containing PII
- Tressie McMillan Cottom writes
- the biggest boycott in world history
- possibly the one thing that a bitterly divided nation can agree on
- Privacy settings are hard for users to figure out
- one business unit can achieve its goals by licensing e-books, while another business unit can achieve its goals by running ads on infringing copies of the same titles
- short-term goals
- bogus when it comes to actual traditional practices for managing common resources
- who knows if they are or not?
- (full report PDF)
- a your call is important to us approach to advertiser support
- reports
- bogus
- placements
- sketchy
- how experienced email users were early adopters of spam filters
- larger program to squeeze out legit publishers and other smaller companies
- union busting
- places where a locksmith isn’t
- How Americans’ confidence in technology firms has dropped: evidence from the second wave of the American Institutional Confidence poll
- personalization risks
- Jerath et al.
- US State Privacy Legislation
- IAB Europe study
- Turow et al.
- Facebook has responded to Apple ATT and to blockage of their tracking pixels by rolling out server-to-server tracking
- a tool from the EFF
- Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter to the FTC asking them to investigate the ad-blocking industry
- Ad Blockers and the Four Currencies
- the FBI says you should be running an ad blocker to deal with fake search ads
- Popular git config options
- A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP
- An HTML Switch Control
- Am I metal yet?
- “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors - ACL Anthology
- RSS feed
- a little bit of Lua
- tools for working offline
- Using git and make for tasks beyond coding
- privacy tools
- Southern California Linux Expo
- realistically get rid of third-party cookies
- Catching up to Safari?
- User tracking as Chesterton’s Fence
- Can database marketing sell itself to the people in the database?
- blog fix: remove stray files
- responsive ascii art
- Hey kids, favicon!
- Automatically run make when a file changes
- CommonMark
- an easy experiment to support behavioral advertising
- When can deceptive sellers outbid honest sellers for ad impressions?
- privacy economics sources
- banning surveillance advertising
- Reputation, signaling, and targeted ads
- free riding on future web ads?
- Behavioral advertising and consumer welfare: An empirical investigation
- just get more scam ads by default if you feed in too little info to be targeted for the good ads
- uBlock Origin
- The Welfare Effects of Ad Blocking
- Balancing User Privacy and Personalization by Malika Korganbekova and Cole Zuber
- the 30-40-30 rule
- match buyers and sellers in a market
- Microtargeting as Information Warfare
- Bob Hoffman’s books
- B L O C K in the U S A
- How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
- cool beverage without HFCS
- udm14
- boring bots ftw
- Policy Analysis Market
- So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
- California State Assembly passes bill on universal opt-out for web browsers
- Google Researchers Say AI Now Leading Disinformation Vector (and Are Severely Undercounting the Problem)
- Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
- hey kids, site search
- planning for SCALE 2025
- Pagefind
- Surviving the SEO Shake-Up: Publishers vs. Google’s New Game
- Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
- https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/eu-election-russian-propaganda/
- Google AI said to put glue in pizza — so I made a pizza with glue and ate it
- Full story
- We’re Ending Our Samsung Collaboration
- Behind the Blog: Puzzle Pieces and Paying for Labor
- Why is Sam Altman so obsessed with 'Her'? An investigation
- ‘&udm=14’: The Disenshittification Konami Code
- You searched Google. The AI hallucinated an answer. Who’s legally responsible?
- Marines Fought Each Other in Ancient Mycenaean Armor to See How Well It Worked
- Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
- Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
- Google is helping to fund one of India’s worst disinformation outlets — during elections
- Making steel with electricity
- Uber and Lyft might stay in Minnesota thanks to this last-minute measure
- Fears Google could down-rank publishers who decline to use Privacy Sandbox
- Uber and Lyft will stay in Minnesota in an ‘amazing victory for drivers’
- Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
- https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/a-judge-ruled-that-tacos-are-sandwiches-heres-why-thats-important-for-food-entrepreneurs.html
- An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen
- Does One Line Fix Google?
- 2/19/24
- remove AI from Google Search on Firefox
- EU investigates Facebook owner Meta over child safety and mental health concerns
- trying to think about European tech policy in context
- preferences that affect ad targeting
- underground
- Dark Visitors - A List of Known AI Agents on the Internet
- How to Make Google’s ‘Web’ View Your Search Default
- Bye Bye, AI: How to block Google's AI overviews and just get search results
- Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links to Web Pages
- ClearURLs
- Personal Blocklist (not by Google)
- https://www.brunnerworks.com/blog/combatting-programmatic-ad-fraud-a-success-story-using-fouanalytics
- https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/vermont-data-privacy-law-tech-lobbyists-00158711
- https://unredacted.com/feed/
- https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0516/1449404-majority-want-end-to-behavioural-profiling-on-social-media-poll/
- Shadier Than Forbes? Premium Publishers Are Partnering With Content Farms To Make A Quick Programmatic Buck
- Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)
- AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation
- The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology
- Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists
- Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook
- https://12challenges.substack.com/feed
- How Google harms search advertisers in 20 slides
- https://cdt.org/insights/the-european-data-protection-boards-opinion-on-pay-or-okay-models-surveillance-based-advertising-is-on-borrowed-time/
- https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/2023/08/10/smart-phones-playing-prominent-role-in-russia-ukraine-war/
- OPINION: California can save local journalism through a tax on tech giants
- The Who.
- Issue 57 - I take deep breath and I get real high
- Rabbit Holed
- What Elon Musk's favorite game tells us about him
- Zuckerman vs. Meta Platforms
- React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity
- Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
- Matthew Palmer: The Mediocre Programmer's Guide to Rust
- We can have a different web
- A lawsuit argues Meta is required by law to let you control your own feed
- Precaratize Bosses
- Effects of Banning Targeted Advertising
- Managing Up
- A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.
- Monopoly Round-Up: Did Texas Join OPEC?
- Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash