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• https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/google-search-user-interface-a-b-testing-shows-security-concerns-remain
• Using GitHub Pages to host a locally built site
• https://www.techpolicy.press/in-the-trenches-with-state-policymakers-working-to-pass-data-privacy-laws/
• Hey Google, What’s The Chrome User Choice Mechanism Going To Look Like?
• Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes
• there ought to be a law
• some ways that Facebook ads are optimized for deceptive advertising
• taxing surveillance marketing
• State privacy law features from the power user point of view
• OTHER ATTRIBUTES
• notes on a California advertiser protection bill
• GPC all the things!
• do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• Anti-Fragility.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
• Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now
• Meta faces data retention limits on its EU ad business after top court ruling
• links for 6 October 2024
• simplified to the point where it’s practical
• the Open Innovation Network’s Linux System definition
• Ukraine’s new F-16 simulator spotlights a ‘paradigm shift’ led from Europe
• The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
• The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie
• Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
• dmarti on GitHub
• My keybase page
• LinkedIn
• federate.social
• Inconsolata
• Bitstream Charter
• regulate Big Tech in a way that avoids free speech issues
• why I’m turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox
• claiming credit for selling a thing that customers were going to buy anyway
• Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
• have been for quite a while
• smart TV mics
• effective
• Intent IQ Has Patents For Ad Tech’s Most Basic Functions – And It’s Not Afraid To Use Them
• New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S.
• https://www.thecurrent.com/google-privacy-adam-heimlich-ceo-chalice-custom-algorithms
• Taylor Swift: Singer, Songwriter, Copyright Innovator
• Reflecting on AI accountability for misinformation - and solar powering the revolution
• Writing Projects
• So It Goes
• fair use alignment chart
• took it apart to find out
• non-human entities with non-human goals
• object to processing
• useful enough that it’s a good idea to have a redundant array of them
• Grok is fair use
• Orange Prince is fair use
• New Portraits
• four factors
• Cloudflare’s one-click AI scraper blocker
• Creative Commons Position Paper on Preference Signals
• at work
• https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/2024-ai-training-survey-results/
• The Other Bubble
• Tantek Çelik proposes
• Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite
• No-training Creative Commons
• Scam culture is everywhere
• Return of the power user
• Trump’s $100,000 Watch Likely Made in China, Vastly Overpriced
• Move at the speed of trust
• Encrypted Apps Can Protect Your Privacy — Unless You Use Them Like Eric Adams
• Knowledge workers
• Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
• Oskar Wickström: How I Built "The Monospace Web"
• Posse: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
• How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill | Ars Technica
• weird, clunky in-browser ad features
• funding illegal sites
• How I Made $10k Predicting Which Studies Will Replicate
• Edit distance
• Brand safety a ‘con’ costing news industry billions, new research says
• DoNotPay Has To Pay, After FTC Dings It For Lying About Its Non-Existent AI Lawyer
• Gates Foundation Shows That ‘Gold Open Access’ Was A Mistake, And ‘Diamond Open Access’ Is The Future
• Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
• Best practices in practice: Black, the Python code formatter
• CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them
• EPIC Publishes Model Privacy Bill as Practical Solution for States
• Trump’s Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal
• Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK
• Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech
• NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
• Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data
• As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the ‘fediverse’
• How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill
• https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hydrogen-drone-long-range-korea
• What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam
• The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake
• Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
• Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
• NHTSA Starts To Take The Safety Threat Of Comically Large Trucks More Seriously
• stop putting privacy-enhancing technologies in web browsers
• About 30% of people really want cross-context personalized advertising, 30% really don’t want it, and for 40% it depends how you ask.
• The Secret to Getting Men to Wear Hearing Aids
• Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/grid-scale-batteries-theyre-not-just-lithium/
• Arrogant programmers and Enshittification - A New Understanding
• Link
• Ars is seeking a seasoned senior reporter for all things Google
• high-skill human side
• Arielle Garcia, director of intelligence for Check My Ads, said
• Pass
• Google pulls AI Gemini demo video after National Advertising Division complaint | Ad Age
• The Case for Vigilance in AI Markets - ProMarket
• Hausfeld files globally significant antitrust class action against Google for abusive use of digital media content
• DNA Lounge: Wherein the techbros are here to "disrupt" ordering drinks at a bar
• UK’s privacy watchdog takes credit for rise of ‘consent or pay’
• The Subprime AI Crisis
• Pluralistic: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster (16 Sep 2024)
• Google’s Monopoly Game: All the Pieces, All the Power
• Zen and the art of Writer Decks (using the Pomera DM250)
• Apple must pay €13 billion in back taxes after losing final appeal
• Ceph: 20 Years of Cutting-Edge Storage at the Edge
• Valve Steam Deck as a stepping stone to the Linux desktop
• How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose: a songwriter’s practical lesson in written advocacy
• Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats
• Reconsidering my car
• Google’s GenAI facing privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe
• https://www.marketingweek.com/performance-branding-no-such-thing/
• Apple will have to pay Ireland €13 billion in back taxes ↦
• The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end
• Word.(s).
• The Department of Transportation’s Underused Privacy Authority
• A Bicycle for the Mind – Prologue
• Want Access To Every NFL Game? It’ll Cost You, Thanks To Fractured Streaming Deals
• Paul Ford's WWIC (Why Wasn't I Consulted)
• Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
• How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2012/06/24/social-distance-and-the-patent-system/
• Firefox Help
• Owen Nelson points out
• Block AI training on a web site
• https://ricmac.org/2024/01/26/why-i-migrated-my-newsletter-from-substack-to-eleventy-and-buttondown/
• AI legal links
• OpenAI, ChatGPT facing defamation case in Gwinnett County Georgia | 11alive.com
• SWR
• Copyright lawsuits pose a serious threat to generative AI
• Gannett’s ‘AI’ Scandals Result In Closure Of Wirecutter-esque Review Website, Layoffs
• Useful Idiots and Good Authoritarians
• Second Byju’s auditor exits in a year amid bankruptcy proceedings
• https://lutrasecurity.com/en/articles/kobold-letters/
• Gamergate at 10
• Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange
• globalprivacycontrol.org
• The One Simple Trick to Measuring Abuse in Tech’s $440 Billion Ads Business
• What is Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement? - Apple Community
• Parental Control Protocol
• Break up the Browsers. A Proposal to Save the Open Web. - Movement For An Open Web
• Ari Paparo’s simplified chart
• Links for 31 August 2024
• Rolling Coal
• Case Tracker: Artificial Intelligence, Copyrights and Class Actions | BakerHostetler
• ISIS recruiting on Twitter
• The DMA Version of iOS Is More Fun Than Vanilla iOS
• effective privacy tips
• The return of Jacob Wohl! Yeah, he’s into AI now
• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/19/ai-models-being-blocked-from-fresh-data-except-the-trash/
• My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
• NaNoWriMo Shits The Bed On Artificial Intelligence
• https://workshop.vennfactory.com/p/from-chance-to-control
• Newsonomics: California’s local news agreement with Google is a win
• Is AI a Silver Bullet?
• Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
• Newsonomics: California’s local news agreement with Google is a win
• 404 Media Shows Online Journalism Can Be Profitable When You Remove Overpaid, Fail-Upward Brunchlords From The Equation
• TikTok Inspired Child Suicide Prompts a Sound Reading of Section 230
• The hate speech landscape on Facebook is worse than you thought. Here’s why
• Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?
• The Monospace Web
• Slop is Good
• 404 Media Shows Online Journalism Can Be Profitable When You Remove Overpaid, Fail-Upward Brunchlords From The Equation
• Sweden’s been stealthily using hydrogen to forge green steel. Now it’s ready to industrialise
• A Rose Diary
• AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling
• Advertising: Who Cares? Who Wouldn’t?
• held:
• The Limits of the CDA Section 230: Accountability for Algorithmic Decisions
• https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4912029/v1
• Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse
• journalist-owned news sites (Sunday Internet optimism, part 2)
• California Senate Approves Bill Requiring Browser Developers To Offer Opt-Out Tool
• illegal stuff
• on the high end as far as adtech companies go
• Purple box claims another victim
• FBI and FTC say they’re crooked
• AI content
• We Need Your Email Address
• Subscriptions, Journalism, and You
• Opinion: AI complacency is compromising Western defense
• The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
• Short-Sighted AI Deals Aren’t The Future Of Journalism
• Aftermath
• Old News from the Latest Disasters
• nice page including advertiser logos and testimonials
• Remap
• What It’s Like to Eat Your Own 90-lb. Butter Head
• Racket - Your writer-owned, reader-funded source for news, arts, and culture in the Twin Cities
• An ugly case of ‘false balance’ in the New York Times
• Hell Gate
• Whatever AI Looks Like, It’s Not
• Arts And Culture
• not sticking to sports
• Defector.com
• ads.txt file
• ads.txt
• Link
• Realistic Facebook Privacy Simulator
• boring bots ftw
• national security threats
• Cover Your Tracks
• privacy is now the number one reason why people install ad blockers
• get rid of third-party cookies
• personalization risks
• scam culture
• not how sustainable markets work
• surveillance advertising ban
• the Linux device driver hacker’s guide to giant Internet monopoly dominance
• someone in the surveillance business would have published research saying so
• Southern California Linux Expo
• planning for SCALE 2025
• blog fix: remove stray files
• Automatically run make when a file changes
• Universal Feed Parser
• favicon image
• RealFaviconGenerator
• CommonMark
• A Brief List of Business Units Google Could Be Separated Into
• Pagefind
• serving fraudulent search ads
• Modern Font Stacks
• The Science Prediction Market Project
• Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
• https://therecord.media/california-landmark-opt-out-bill-passes
• Scoop: The Trade Desk is building its own smart TV OS
• Satori Threat Intelligence Alert: Camu cashes out ads on piracy content
• U.S. State Privacy Laws – A Lack of Imagination
• Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law – FINAL VERSION
• The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
• A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse
• https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/the-doj-alleged-google-destroyed-relevant-evidence-ahead-of-its-antitrust-adtech-trial/
• Don’t Sleep On Maryland’s Strict New Data Privacy Law
• CA News Funding Agreement Falls Short
• Caltrans shouldn't wait until 2037 to fix Otis Drive for kids walking to school and the park
• Copilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibility
• Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in
• Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
• Will Google’s $250 million deal with California really help journalism?
• California tried to make Google pay news outlets. The company cut a deal that includes funding AI
• My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
• Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't
• Preliminary thoughts on the Durov arrest
• Thinking About an Old Copyright Case and Generative AI
• pile of money fail
• Check My Ads
• The case for cutting off Google supply
• Some ways that bug futures markets differ from open source bounties
• Daniel J. Bernstein
• ansuz / ऐरन: “there’s a wee story brewing in…”
• Scott Alexander also suggests
• think about European tech policy in context
• remove AI from Google Search on Firefox
• Google Chrome ad features checklist
• git
• Dark Visitors - A List of Known AI Agents on the Internet
• What Should We Do About Google?
• Integration and Android
• JavaScript Source Maps
• technological protection measure
• limiting the ability of their client to protect users
• Wait, there's no way 31% of second graders are actually using X. Right?
• The sad compromise of “sponsored results”
• Wifi 6E Mesh
• The AI Arms Race Isn’t Inevitable
• Replace Twitter Embeds with Semantic HTML
• Top Five Alameda Burgers
• Opt Out of Clearview AI Giveaway
• What the fuck is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
• https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-killed-crowdtangle-an-invaluable-research-tool-because-what-it-showed-was-inconvenient-121700584.html
• https://uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-ai-bullshit-ucph/
• This isn’t the 1968 convention. Could it be 1860?
• Google’s New Playbook: Ads Next to Nazis and Naughty Bits
• “YOLO” is not a valid hash construction
• https://docpop.org/2024/07/sticker-mules-trump-2024-endorsement-drives-business-to-their-biggest-competitors/
• https://research.swtch.com/qart
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/article-underconsumption-core-young-people-flaunt-their-used-stuff-in-new/
• Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
• What? PowerPoint 95 no longer supported?
• $115 Million Dollar Settlement in Katz-Lacabe v. Oracle Privacy Lawsuit
• Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape
• Scharon Harding
• Liberty
• Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy-roundup/why-are-so-many-us-companies-using-cookie-banners-on-their-websites/
• Google is killing uBlock Origin in Chrome, but this trick lets you keep it for another year
• MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
• https://blog.privacyguides.org/2024/07/14/mozilla-disappoints-us-yet-again-2/
• Playing Russian Roulette with Ad Placements
• An update on another feed reader from its author
• What’s Blocking Google Analytics Now?
• https://theconversation.com/the-gambling-industry-is-pulling-out-all-the-stops-to-prevent-an-ad-ban-but-the-evidence-is-against-it-236679
• https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-billionaire-suing-facebook-to-remove-his-face-from-ai-scams-50aa222e
• Stuff I wanted to say to the historic district people but didn't
• Ukraine Was Biding Its Time
• Google’s Real Googly. No Not The Anti-Trust!
• The Hotdish Ticket
• Is Your Rent an Antitrust Violation?
• https://www.status.news/p/lou-paskalis-wfas-capitulation
• how to break up Google
• Pluralistic: The paradox of choice screens (12 Aug 2024)
• “Google is a Monopolist” – Wrong and Right Ways to Think About Remedies
• adversarial interoperability
• The End Of GARM Is A Reset, Not A Setback
• mental health harms
• 512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”
• This one important fact about current AI explains almost everything
• Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans
• Former geography teacher Tim Walz is really into maps
• Brand Safety is a Dumpster Fire: How Major Brands are Getting Punked Online
• X Sends a Cease and Desist Letter to a Former User
• Press release: The First Amendment protects advertisers, too.
• Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)
• Malware scam on GitHub impersonates Google Authenticator ad
• Does everyone hate Google now?
• The DOJ Wins Its Search Antitrust Case Against Google. Next Up Is Ad Tech
• Breaking up Google would offer a chance to remodel the web
• NewsPassID Is Building PMPs That Bypass Brand Safety Blockers
• privacy: I’d buy that for 20 dollars!
• What Drives Crypto Asset Prices?
• https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/content/files/2024/06/RemedyFest-Final-Report.pdf
• Google loses its massive antitrust case against the DOJ
• Link
• questions about the "black box" nature
• Here are 13 other explanations for the adolescent mental health crisis. None of them work.
• An open letter to the advertising punditry
• DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course
• Here’s an Awesome Album to Help You Power Through to the Weekend
• How I Use "AI"
• New Research: So Far, AI Is Not Disrupting Search or Making a Dent in Google
• https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content
• A breathtaking scam: Inside Georgia's newest voter suppression tactic
• National public data breach exposes sensitive information of 2.9 billion U.S. citizens
• Show HN: Plain Vanilla – a tutorial website for vanilla web development
• NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
• How About Privacy and Hackability?
• Here is another reason why you should never click on ads to download software
• Notice
• Google AI fails the taste test
• Pascal's Other Wager
• A Google Ads Glitch Likely Triggered A Data Breach Within Google Merchant Center
• The Generative-AI Revolution May Be a Bubble
• plundered
• China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia
• DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”
• Why putting AI in your product description is actually hurting sales
• a new browser feature?
• Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
• TPAC
• Git
• ‘Parable of the Sower’ was written in 1993, but the Octavia Butler classic predicted our climate reality with eerie prescience
• Steve Ballmer’s got a plan to cut through the partisan divide with cold, hard facts
• San Francisco to ban software that “enables price collusion” by landlords
• The Kremlin Gets What It Wants
• Invisible Attackers
• News/Media Alliance Statement: Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich is Freed
• Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
• American Versus European Out-of-Office Replies
• Using the term 'AI' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions
• 'Solano Gap': California Forever scrambles to create a need
• With J.D. Vance on Trump ticket, the Nerd Reich goes national
• Adrianna Pińska on systemic problems
• Ethics and Rule Breaking Among Life Hackers
• https://reagle.org/joseph/2020/rules/ethic.html
• A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code)
• To Fix Economics, Try Teaching Economics
• Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement after Texas facial recognition complaint
• Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people
• Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over privacy violations
• Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software
• Apple Finalizes First Retail Union Contract With Maryland Store
• Inside the Swedish factory that could be the future of green steel
• colophon
• Vim
• rsync
• Pandoc
• Makefile
• Make
• GNU Image Manipulation Program
• devd
• cowsay
• https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/medical-science-shouldnt-platform-automating-end/
• What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street
• Michael Catanzaro: How to Get Hacked by North Korea
• Should web browsers be regulated?
• The other shoe dropping on 'AI' and office work
• Google says “informed choice” is the future. We’re holding them to it.
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-questions-vendors-dont-want-you-ask-augustine-fou/
• https://www.platformer.news/shitpost-election-harris-deepfake-vance-couch-memes/
• https://www.campaignasia.com/article/google-says-informed-choice-is-the-future-and-we-are-holding-them-to-it/497421
• The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
• Navy Ad: Gig Work Is a Dystopian, Unregulated Hellscape, Build Submarines Instead
• The Antitrust and Privacy Interface: Lessons for Regulators from the Data by Brijesh Pinto, D. Daniel Sokol, Feng Zhu
• Table Options for Your Dinner Reservation
• Apple Store Workers in Maryland reach ‘historic’ union contract with Apple
• full article
• 'Fortnite' players vow to destroy all Cybertrucks they see in the game
• Corporate Blogging is Hard; Open a GitHub Issue Instead
• Condé Nast reportedly accuses AI startup Perplexity of plagiarism
• links for 28 Jul 2024
• "You Don't Own Web3": A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail
• Does AI increase productivity at work? New study suggests otherwise
• Zoom is the new political rally
• hello page for Don Marti
• enshittified
• dmarti on Facebook
• seeing how bad the bot problems is over there now
• dmarti on Codeberg.org
• dmarti on SocialHub
• https://blog.zgp.org/feed/
• Feedrabbit
• Hello page
• The JD Vance rumor shows how easily misinformation spreads, with or without AI
• Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
• You Can Still Die From World War I Dangers in France’s Red Zones
• Pluralistic: FTC vs surveillance pricing (24 Jul 2024)
• FTC is investigating how companies are using AI to base pricing on consumer behavior
• Kamala Harris' $7M support from LinkedIn founder comes with a request: Fire Lina Khan
• Zuckerberg: ‘Open Source AI Is the Path Forward’
• Costco in Cancún
• 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.