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• What Do Clients Want?
• https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/youtube-comments-hate-speech-racist-white-nationalists-super?bftwnews=
• Cops Can Find the Location of Any Phone in the Country in Seconds, and a Senator Wants to Know Why
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/16/facebook-lets-advertisers-target-users-based-on-sensitive-interests?CMP=share_btn_tw
• You Can’t Handle the Truth About Facebook Ads, New Harvard Study Shows
• Koch Brothers and Dark Money Gang Up on Nashville Transit Referendum
• 12 Awards I Deserve as Your Office Millennial
• https://www.gq.com/story/bomani-jones-new-espn-show-profile/amp
• The headers we don't want
• Facebook’s big threat isn’t Cambridge Analytica, it’s advertisers questioning ROI
• Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60
• Firefox 60: sponsored content for US users
• Netflix FlameScope
• There’s a New Bill to Regulate Facebook and Google’s Data Collection
• The unintended consequences of a too-nice work culture
• Taking Open Source for Granted
• Out of Klout: The social media scoring service is shutting down
• I’m building a robot boyfriend—and you can, too
• Nobody Planned This, Nobody Expected It
• 4 Permanent Impacts of Temporary Tactical Urbanism Projects
• Would you live in a 400 square foot apartment?
• DHS Seizes Aftermarket iPhone Screens From Prominent Right-to-Repair Advocate
• Going Offline with ServiceWorker
• We’re Running Web 2018 With Web 2008 Dashboards. And That’s a Problem.
• Who can afford to invest in a poor neighborhood? (Part 3)
• No Exit from Housing Hell
• Fast food is on the verge of a crisis — and not every chain will survive
• https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/04/03/alternate-digital-realities.html
• This
• Facebook and the perils of a personalized choice architecture
• The Indieweb privacy challenge (Webmentions, silo backfeeds, and the GDPR)
• https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/are-facebook-youtube-okay-being-used-both-support-racism-undermine-ncna873336
• https://feeds2.feedburner.com/ad-exchange-news
• https://adexchanger.com/analytics/did-google-just-kill-independent-attribution/
• A New Facebook Feature Shows Which Pro-Trump Facebook Pages Are Run From Overseas
• Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?
• Facebook Doesn't Need To Listen Through Your Microphone To Serve You Creepy Ads
• The MPEG machine is ready to start (again)
• Foot-candles: the different paths to tech
• https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/washington-post-koch-brothers-scoop-falls-apart/
• Google and Facebook won't rule the world – if we don't buy their fantasies about big data
• 'They're racing to forgive and jump back in': Advertisers are falling back in love with YouTube
• Ending DoubleClick's ID Export
• https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/05/disinformation/
• https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/09/fuck-off-google-the-berlin-neighbourhood-fighting-off-a-tech-giant-kreuzberg
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/apple-reportedly-removing-apps-that-share-location-data-with-third-parties/
• Scientists reanimate disembodied pigs' brains – but for a human mind, it could be a living hell
• Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
• Introducing zchunk
• http://denvernewspaperguild.org/denver-post-newsroom-statement-on-resignation-of-editorial-page-editor-chuck-plunkett/
• A Phishing Scammer Is Buying Ads on Twitter That Look Like They’re From Twitter
• I went to a sex club for the first time – did I find my ‘kink’? | Rhik Samadder
• Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K
• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/05/08/more-institutions-consider-ending-their-big-deals-publishers
• Google Successfully Amends Adwords Contract to Add Arbitration–AdTrader v. Google
• The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success
• The Big Lie ISPs Are Spreading in State Legislatures is That They Don’t Make Enough Money
• Personal privacy vs. public security: fight!
• Donald Glover Takes a Shot at American Violence in the Breathtaking, Horrifying Video for “This Is America”
• Apple's influential, iconic iMac turns 20
• Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business
• Study: People Who Bike to Work Live Longer Than People Who Drive
• Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter.
• endowment manager beat Harvard with index funds
• Google’s got our kids
• Targeting Roe
• Unroll.me to close to EU users saying it can’t comply with GDPR
• Trip Data Deflates the Dockless Bike-Share Hype
• Lie of the Day: ‘Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down’ Notifications
• A Lot Of Apps Sell Your Data. Here's What You Can Do About It.
• Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias
• Koch agreements with George Mason gave foundation role in faculty hiring and oversight
• Student Loan Lenders Created A Fake Person Whose Points Were Uncritically Repeated By Numerous News Outlets
• Is Facebook’s Anti-Abuse System Broken?
• Facebook hit with defamation lawsuit over fake ads
• ‘We want publishers to think the unthinkable’: How Axel Springer is reducing its reliance on Google ad tech
• Northwestern will help local newsrooms study and design a sustainable approach — as local TV news’ potential grows
• the excellent Patrick Wolff
• Ignore Mark Zuckerberg
• Canada Is Going To Be The Next, Great, Entrepreneurial Tech Country
• Here’s why thousands of AI researchers will boycott a science journal
• My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed.
• A Forbidden Remedy for Veterans’ Nightmares
• Your Library Organization Is Watching You
• The $200 Uno synth crams a ton of features into a small package
• Thousands Of Academics Pledge To Boycott Springer's New Machine Learning Title In Support Of Long-Established Open Access Journal
• AI Researchers Are Boycotting Nature’s New Machine Intelligence Journal
• An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons
• https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/318741/california-privacy-proposal-poised-to-advance.html
• Why I Love the GDPR: 10 Reasons
• Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby
• Facebook Does Not Understand the Conservative Grift
• Google’s GDPR Consent Tool Will Limit Publishers To 12 Ad Tech Vendors
• Post-GDPR: Expect to be overwhelmed by data privacy requests
• Ads and Ad blockers
• Review of Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education
• Publishers say they’ll use GDPR to shed ad tech vendors
• C Is Not a Low-level Language - ACM Queue
• The Washington Post wants to create ads that emphasize utility for users
• A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal
• It’s Time to Retire “RTFM”
• Three kinds of memory leaks
• Facebook’s dark ads problem is systemic
• Publisher Associations Call on Google to Clarify Plans for GDPR Compliance
• Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
• OLC Innovate Privacy Concerns
• This Former Tea Party Activist Is Teaching People To Spot Fake News
• https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407
• How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity
• Does Facebook Actually Work for Promoting a Small Business or Non-Profit?
• Marketers still shy away from venturing too deeply into ad tech
• The CIA Made A Card Game... And We're Releasing It
• Emissary wants to make sales networking obsolete
• Patent Review System Upheld by U.S. Supreme Court
• The GDPR is spooking location-targeting companies
• Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant
• China’s terrifying “social credit” surveillance system is expanding
• Let This Former Googler Help You Tap The Science Of Persuasion
• https://www.chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Professor-Who-s/243179
• Penn State's 98-Year-Old Outing Club Is No Longer Allowed to Go Outside
• Bluedot Innovation gets $5.5 million in funding to track smartphone users more precisely
• The Reinvention of America
• Martin Lewis sues Facebook over fake ads with his name
• Spoofing Cell Networks with a USB to VGA Adapter
• Rationalizations for Unethical Behavior in Tech
• Christoph Kerschbaumer: Supporting Same-Site Cookies in Firefox 60
• YouTube ran ads from hundreds of brands on extremist channels.
• Use the GDPR to find who has advertised to you on Facebook, and get them to delete your details
• A more privacy-friendly blog
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europes-new-privacy-rules-favor-google-and-facebook-1524536324 …
• YouTube Hosted Graphic Images Of Bestiality For Months
• ‘We’ve Lost 10 Years of Innovation. This Decade Has Been Boring for the Web.’
• Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?
• Announcing Ursa Labs: an innovation lab for open source data science
• Bats, Balls, And Bozos
• No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-germany/facebooks-hidden-data-haul-troubles-german-cartel-regulator-idUSKBN1HU108
• Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
• How to save your privacy from the Internet’s clutches
• Facebook Called This Cambridge Analytica Researcher A Liar. Now He Wants To Clear His Name
• https://www.poynter.org/news/its-paper-closed-one-community-bounced-back-librarian-charge
• https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2018/04/20/martin-lewis-to-sue-facebook/
• ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
• Happiness & the Gorilla
• How to Easily Generate Hundreds of Phishing Domains
• Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally
• Over 20,000,000 of Chrome Users are Victims of Fake Ad Blockers
• Keep Pixelated Images Pixelated as They Scale
• “If the Financial Times were a person, it would be a man.” Here’s how the paper is trying to change that.
• Instead of stealing instruments, musicians turn to Splice
• Meeting our match: Buying 100 percent renewable energy
• Rethinking the creative web: Our journey to reimagine ‘web publishing’ for the social web
• Thousands of Android apps potentially violate child protection law
• Tracking beyond the web browser: Unique identifiers being embedded into software downloads
• What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it
• Why do people dislike online ads?
• Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them
• https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/science-behind-cambridge-analytica-does-psychological-profiling-work
• Taking back control: What’s in it for publishers
• https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/rss/
• Taking the Pulse of Security Research
• http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2018/04/16/no-advertising-spend-not-moving-online-heres-why
• The Disturbing High Modernism of Silicon Valley
• The Stack Overflow Age
• https://www.wired.co.uk/article/open-letter-mark-zuckerberg-congress
• Facebook’s Targeting System Can Divide Us on More Than Just Advertising
• Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
• Hacking Hedonic Adaptation to Get Way More For Your Money
• Why are more people doing gig work? They like it
• Once Again, Algorithms Can't Tell The Difference Between 'Bad Stuff' And 'Reporting About Bad Stuff'
• Encoding data in dubstep drops
• Former ProPublica journalists are launching a newsroom to cover the impact of technology on society
• Here's How Facebook Tracks You When You're Not On Facebook
• Ban Targeted Advertising
• Stock investors on higher floors take more risks – here's why
• Broadband Industry Aims To Use Facebook Fracas To Saddle Silicon Valley With Crappy New Laws
• GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain
• Facebook-backed lawmakers are pushing to gut privacy law
• Attack Of The Micro Brands
• Publishers Haven't Realized Just How Big a Deal GDPR is
• Mythology about security…
• The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
• Touring a Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust
• Data Lords: The Real Story of Big Data, Facebook and the Future of News – Talking Points Memo
• This is Why Social Media is Making You Scared to Talk to Your Customers
• ‘They need to put things into a spreadsheet’: Confessions of a media exec on ad buyers
• https://www.independent.ie/business/media/john-mcgee-ad-contrarian-sets-sights-on-the-badmen-of-adtech-36784550.html
• Why Facebook thinks you know these random people
• On Tuesday, March 20, a user on Reddit posted to the subforum of a popular video game: "My wife is a therapist. After I kept complaining about Overwatch losses, she made me fill out this worksheet."
• The Dark Matter of Trade
• What Mozilla has planned for Firefox in 2018 (ad-filtering and more)
• HEY, TWITTER!
• The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned
• Brand Safety Is Not Driving Media Allocation Decisions in 2018/19
• Here comes feedBase!
• VB2016 paper: Wild Android collusions
• Mark Ritson: This is a critical point in marketers’ relationship with data privacy
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Fourteen-Year Apology Tour
• What GDPR really means
• Risks in IAB Europe’s proposed consent mechanism
• My new course, “Understanding and Mastering Git,” is now available
• What a Difference a Decade Makes
• ‘It’s dangerous to chase the shiny thing’: Q&A with Neil Vogel, CEO of Dotdash, the Digiday Publisher of the Year
• Facebook Is Being Sued for Housing Discrimination, Too
• What Took Facebook So Long?
• https://www.economist.com/news/business/21739758-advertising-agencies-are-under-pressure-change-archaic-and-inefficient-elements-their
• Grand challenges for open scholarship
• Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
• My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data
• Mozilla’s Facebook Container Extension
• The Irresponsibilty Of The Ad Industry
• It’s All My Fault
• Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
• When Bots Attack
• https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpx3w/what-are-data-brokers-and-how-to-stop-my-private-data-collection
• Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg
• UN Says Facebook Is Complicit In The Spread Of Anti-Muslim Hate In Myanmar
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-and-google-face-emboldened-antagonists-big-advertisers-1521998394
• The GDPR Represents A Gold Ticket For Brands
• YouTube is reportedly introducing your kids to conspiracy theories, too
• The Nakamoto Variations
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170926005177/en/Juniper-Research-Ad-Fraud-Cost-Advertisers-19
• The Financial Whisperer to Trump’s America
• Hackers Are So Fed Up With Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
• The Unlearned Lesson of My Lai
• Holding Our Applause for the Google News Initiative
• A New Preferences Parser for Firefox
• https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/facebook-google-twitter-trump-244191
• Mark Zuckerberg Promises That Misuse Of Facebook User Data Will Happen Again And Again
• https://www.benpurdy.com/laser-cat
• ‘No silver bullet’: Publishers shifting to consumer revenue mull new vendor problem
• http://fortune.com/2018/03/21/europe-tech-firms-tax-bombshell/
• The case against Facebook
• https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/datadriven_advertisings_alignment_problem/2652
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/i-worked-at-facebook-i-know-how-cambridge-analytica-could-have-happened/2018/03/20/edc7ef8a-2bc4-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html
• Steve Ballmer was right about open source
• ‘Google and Facebook Can’t Help Publishers Because They’re Built to Defeat Publishers’
• YouTube Is Realizing It May Be Bad for All of Us
• Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week
• https://hbr.org/2018/03/how-to-prepare-for-a-crisis-you-couldnt-possibly-predict
• Joey Hess: prove you are not an Evil corporate person
• https://www.ft.com/content/7ed1572c-2aa4-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4
• Three Heroes at My Lai
• The CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA Files:
• The YouTube Kids app has been suggesting a load of conspiracy videos to children (GOOG)
• Protecting Against HSTS Abuse
• To help women and minorities get ahead at work, examine how you’re assigning your ‘office housework’
• The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR
• Digital First Equals Me First
• Mark Ritson: Marketers are clueless about media effectiveness – here’s the proof
• Ad Tech And Social Pathology
• 'They'll Squash You Like A Bug': How Silicon Valley Keeps A Lid On Leakers, by Olivia Solon, The Guardian
• http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-posting-amazon-scam-ads/ …
• https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17092684/great-slate-fundraising-congressional-campaign …
• The Mozilla Blog: Mozilla experiment aims to reduce bias in code reviews
• http://mygho.st/OpenSource
• http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2018/03/08/bloomberg-chief-says-pendulum-media-dominance-swinging-away-facebook-and-google …
• http://www.newswhip.com/2018/03/top-reporters-on-facebook/ …
• YouTube, the Great Radicalizer - The New York Times
• A Mozilla experiment for blocking in-page pop-ups
• The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like
• Newsweek Media Group Websites Ran Malicious Code That Experts Say Is Used To Commit Ad Fraud
• Higher ed has 99 problems — and the New York Times is one
• Bloomberg chief says pendulum of media dominance is swinging away from Facebook and Google
• Want To Make Millions? Copy Someone’s Cryptocurrency Project.
• Half a million people have seen me naked.
• Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a New Business Model
• Could Europe's New Data Protection Regulation Curb Online Disinformation?
• Mark Mayo: Diversity helps build better products faster
• A classic example of a financial bubble is the Dutch tulip craze of the 1630s, but the story's always told wrong.
• Is Blind Hiring the Best Hiring? - The New York Times
• What are Novichok nerve agents and did Russia do it?
• Uber Raising Rates for Riders but Not Drivers
• Intelligent Tracking Prevention 1.1
• An overview of online ad fraud
• The fight against ad fraud in 4 charts
• Untitled (https://gizmodo.com/how-conservative-activists-catfished-twitter-1823533394)
• Could Europe’s New Data Protection Regulation Curb Online Disinformation?
• Bitcoin Is Falling Out of Favor on the Dark Web
• Eve Online Chat is Moving to ejabberd
• Twitter Demetricator
• Honda shifts its media buying to pay only for in-store visits
• SERIOUS FUN
• http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/these-national-journalists-are-building-a-local-site-to-bring-a-different-kind-of-news-to-east-texas/
• https://www.wired.com/story/bad-actors-are-using-social-media-exactly-as-designed/
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 1
• https://digiday.com/media/iab-europes-gdpr-transparency-and-consent-framework-explained/
• Icelandic language battles threat of 'digital extinction'
• Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question)
• Maurice Levy warns brands the Internet of Things could make them ‘irrelevant’
• It’s Time to Hire a Chief Brand Safety Officer
• A history of Fingerprinting protection in Firefox
• Trump ignored 'bright line' on discussing Russia with Hicks
• Facebook appears Russia’s biggest useful idiot in Vladimir Putin’s bold war
• Read the rest at The Drum!
• ‘Twitter is having a comeback’: What’s on the minds of European publishers
• Facebook's Political Nightmare Is About To Get Worse
• How Hearst Newspapers changes its paywall to drive reader loyalty
• https://qz.com/1217146/child-development-kids-that-play-more-often-are-better-prepared-for-employment/
• 2018 Uber and Lyft Driver Survey Results – The Rideshare Guy
• We Write CSS Like We Did in the 90s, and Yes, It’s Silly
• You Gotta Read This
• Marketing’s looming crisis: Why the industry must work harder to attract the next generation
• https://arstechnica.com/staff/2018/03/ars-pro-now-free-of-trackers-for-subscribers/
• Do Uber and Lyft Drivers Really Only Make $3.37 per hour?
• Daniel Pocock: SwissPost putting another nail in the coffin of Swiss sovereignty
• What Happens when you Contribute, revisited
• Finding the Exhaust Ports
• https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/
• Some Feed Suggestions
• Updates to Add-on Review Policies
• Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley
• Zirconium was one step ahead of Chrome’s redirect blocker with 0-day
• Eight Years Later, Google Fiber Is A Faint Echo Of The Disruption We Were Promised
• http://createsend.com/t/d-5B89D030D98280F82540EF23F30FEDED
• AdBlock extension introduces local content caching solution
• ‘He’s JFK With Tattoos and a Bench Press’
• When selling ads, Facebook avoids the topic of Russia’s interference campaign
• ElevationLab: ‘Amazon Is Complicit With Counterfeiting’
• The TLS apocalypse reaches Power Macs and TenFourFox FPR6b1 available (plus: let's block nuisance JavaScript)
• News in a disintegrating reality: Tow’s Jonathan Albright on what to do as things crash around us
• ‘No silver bullet’: Publishing’s ‘incremental’ revenue often doesn’t replace lost ad dollars
• How to set European English locale on Android
• How Brands Become Famous
• https://github.com/ishitatsuyuki
• Janitor
• “No Boundaries” series
• highlighted these risks before
• What I don't get about Marketing
• https://hubs.ly/H0b8tVl0
• An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector
• The more they pay, the more they value it
• Facebook Woes
• How Newsweek Collapsed
• Exclusive: Public wants Big Tech regulated
• ‘It’s going to end in tears’: Reality check is coming for subscription-thirsty publishers
• The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger
• Nick Fitzgerald: Speed Without Wizardry
• a zinger of a signal
• Philosophical Expertise, Deference, and Intransigence
• Investigating Ad Transparency Mechanisms in Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook's Explanations
• https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-is-seeking-a-partner-manager-for-electionland …
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180226005361/en/ZEDEDA-Emerges-Stealth-Power-Real-Time-Apps-Edge …
• https://gist.github.com/jdorfman/099954cffd018d0ca2037a1a0f86026f …
• Breaking up with Facebook: users confess they're spending less time
• Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
• Survey: Facebook is the big tech company that people trust least
• The Case for the “Self-Driven Child”
• Social Distance and the Patent System
• The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory
• AMP: the missing controversy – Ferdy Christant
• Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude
• Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be
• Here’s why the epidemic of malicious ads grew so much worse last year
• FCC Boss Ajit Pai’s Own Agency Is Investigating Him For Potential Corruption
• New college endowment tax won’t help low-income students, here’s how it could
• Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Web Users, Court Rules
• Media Whitewash
• How Advertising’s Killing Itself
• Ad tech company Criteo's business was supposed to get destroyed by Apple and European regulators – yet it just had a killer quarter
• Russian meddling is only one challenge facing the social-media giant
• Science doesn’t explain tech’s diversity problem — history does
• Google's New Ad Blocker Changed the Web Before It Even Switched On
• Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon?
• Blogging the Nebulas: Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous Brings Cyberpunk into the 21st Century
• Trump campaign gamed Facebook ads even better than we thought
• Can we keep media literacy from becoming a partisan concept like fact checking?
• https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/extending_Scuttlebutt_with_Annah/
• Ends and means
• Joey Hess: futures of distributions
• HTTP still under attack
• Why Google and Facebook should heed Unilever’s warnings
• The Secret Conspiracy to Kill Bitcoin
• Untrue-Tube: Monetizing Misery and Disinformation
• http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2018/02/19/facebook-appears-russia-s-biggest-useful-idiot-vladimir-putin-s-bold-war …
• This is why we can't have nice brands.
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610152/social-networks-are-broken-this-man-wants-to-fix-them/
• Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But The Tech Companies?
• The Pro-Trump Media Has Met Its Match In The Parkland Students
• After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader
• Tanya Joseph: Brands need an ASA-style watchdog for harmful online content
• http://robertreich.org/post/168931874425
• http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/04/blame-scotus-for-allowing-the-feds-to-ta
• http://prospect.org/article/big-tech-new-predatory-capitalism
• http://ow.ly/CpXX30ijRk2
• http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/delete-the-facebook-app/
• http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/examining-trolls-polarization.pdf
• http://createsend.com/t/d-981E5E090FF64A7F2540EF23F30FEDED
• http://businessinsider.com/tech-addiction-product-of-an-addiction-economy-2017-12
• http://battellemedia.com/archives/2018/01/my-predictions-for-2018.php
• http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2018/01/facebooks-dangerous-ad-model.html
• http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2018/01/everybody-wants-my-feedback.html
• http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2017/12/best-of-2017-6-ad-industry-lost-at-sea.html
• https://opensource.com/article/18/2/career-changing-magic-writing
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/how-silicon-valleys-dirty-tricks-helped-stall-broadband-privacy-california
• https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down
• https://bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down
• https://www.buzzfeed.com/meghara/facebook-cambodia-democracy
• http://blog.aloodo.org/posts/tv-shopping-with-rory-sutherland/
• https://adactio.com/journal/13325
• https://gizmodo.com/half-the-dna-on-the-nyc-subway-matches-no-known-organis-1684045880
• https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/greater-control-new-features-your-ads-settings/
• https://justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jun/21/neo-nazis-money-youtube-advertising
• https://gitmask.com/
• https://blog.zgp.org/code/check-forbidden.sh
• https://www.recode.net/2017/10/27/16556302/buzzfeed-invention-gadget-sales-launch-ben-kaufman
• http://www.businessinsider.com/gdpr-europe-privacy-law-advantage-to-us-tech-companies-2018-2
• GDPR will hand a huge advantage to big American tech companies by making the web unsurfable in Europe
• https://pagefair.com/blog/2018/granular-gdpr-consent/
• http://mailchi.mp/pagefair/granular-consent
• https://blog.zgp.org/fun-with-dlvr-it/
• https://www.slideshare.net/augustinefou/marketers-take-control-run-experiments
• https://sagesharp.github.io/foss-heartbeat/
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