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• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Unomi™ as a Top-Level Project
• Look over here! Results from a Firefox user research study about interruptions.
• Google Mulls Third-Party Ad-Targeting Restrictions
• Indoor farms full of dandelions could be our future source of rubber
• Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android
• Seattle City Council Overcomes NIMBY Opposition To Pass Big Upzoning Bill
• Instagram Is the Internet’s New Home for Hate
• Programmer migration patterns
• I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me
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• https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/itp-2-1-and-web-analytics/
• Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money
• British Uber drivers are demanding the company disclose their data
• Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps?
• Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
• The cost of knowledge: researchers taking a stand against Elsevier.
• #348 Decoding metrics means embracing journalism that matters
• Digiday Research: 52 percent of publishers haven’t started preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act
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• The Supreme Court Resuscitates the Eighth Amendment
• Trillions of Dollars Down the Drain: 5 Wars America Never Should Have Fought
• Facebook agrees to limit ad targeting after discrimination lawsuits
• Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online
• Oracle Data Cloud Kills Off Its AddThis Audience Business In Europe
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• How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
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• Facebook Faces an Ad Boycott After Livestream of the New Zealand Mosque Shooting
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• 7 Secondary Diseases that Kill Innovation: The Departments of No
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• Eric Rahm: Doubling the Number of Content Processes in Firefox
• Understanding LF's New “Community Bridge”
• A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
• Spirited Media is selling off its local sites and pivoting to consulting
• Apply for a Mozilla Fellowship
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• A JavaScript-Free Frontend
• Michael Stapelberg: Winding down my Debian involvement
• KaiOS Technologies Expands Integration with Popular Services from Google
• IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
• https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/07/how-google-analytics-ruined-marketing/
• https://adexchanger.com/the-sell-sider/third-party-data-is-a-bad-habit-we-need-to-kick/
• Revealed: Facebook’s global lobbying against data privacy laws
• The Federation Fallacy
• https://elifesciences.org/labs/4a6e1842/open-source-technology-in-publishing-explore-the-latest-community-updates
• Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal
• https://blog.mozilla.org/inclusion/2019/03/04/mozilla-introduces-gender-transitioning-guidelines-and-policy/
• https://www.quora.com/Which-innovative-products-and-services-are-available-to-citizens-of-the-USA-but-not-available-to-citizens-of-European-countries-because-of-the-GDPR?ch=2
• Spotify and Amazon ‘sue songwriters’ with appeal against 44% royalty rise in the United States
• The Geography of Partisan Prejudice
• Seeking more control over brands, Amazon pulls the plug on thousands of vendors
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• https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/data-release/
• Journalists are rightly suspicious of ad tech. They also depend on it.
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• New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust
• https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-elsevier-20181207-story.html …
• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/github-free-users-now-get-unlimited-private-repositories/
• Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
• https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-guide-to-advertising-technology.php/
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/21/18235205/google-forced-arbitration-employee-disputes
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• Google Facing Complaints of GDPR Violations From Consumer Groups in 7 Countries
• https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/google-ends-forced-arbitration-for-employees/
• https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bnyv/google-demanded-tmobile-sprint-to-not-sell-google-fi-customers-location-data
• https://digiday.com/media/google-publishers-gdpr-standards/
• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/27/google-and-iab-ad-category-lists-show-massive-leakage-of-highly-intimate-data-gdpr-complaint-claims/
• https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/funding-filth/
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• https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/12/glitch-and-mozilla-launch-webvr-starter-kit-for-building-vr-websites/
• https://digiday.com/media/ghost-sites-domain-spoofing-fake-apps-guide-knowing-ad-fraud/
• http://fortune.com/2019/02/15/general-electric-boston-tax-incentives/
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• https://irjci.blogspot.com/2019/02/gatehouse-lays-off-at-least-60.html
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• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/french-data-protection-watchdog-fines-google-57-million-under-the-gdpr/
• Fantasy’s widow: The fight over the legacy of Dungeons & Dragons
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• https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
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• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/30/fake-porn-videos-are-being-weaponized-harass-humiliate-women-everybody-is-potential-target/
• Facial recognition: It’s time for action
• https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html
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• https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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• https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215143/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-third-party-user-data-combined-banned-germany-fco-competition
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• https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/even-the-iab-warned-adtech-risks-eu-privacy-rules/
• https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/19/europe-issues-a-deadline-for-us-privacy-shield-compliance/
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233132/fortnite-ads-youtube-child-exploitive-predators-google
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/uspto-director-iancu-patent-trolls-arent-just-monster-stories
• https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/20/enhanced-tracking-protection-testing-update/
• https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/02/20/enhanced-tracking-protection-testing-protecting-users-privacy-by-default/
• Hell.%5D%28https%3A//newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell
• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/14/elsevier-journal-editors-resign-start-rival-open-access-journal
• https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/12/11/editorial-vote-on-temescal-street-improvements-will-test-core-values/
• https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/01/31/does-company-have-worklife-balance/
• http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/dont-get-clever-with-login-forms/
• http://locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-matter-where-you-go-college/577816/
• Mozilla's CSS Remedy
• https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233726/disney-ads-youtube-child-exploitation-scandal-adpocalypse
• https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/fake-news-report-published-17-19/
• https://m.signalvnoise.com/designing-for-the-web-ought-to-mean-making-html-and-css/
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• https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/02/04/putting-users-and-publishers-at-the-center-of-the-online-value-exchange/
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• https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/01/28/defining-the-tracking-practices-that-will-be-blocked-in-firefox/
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/04/facebook-15-anniversary-mark-zuckerberg
• Survey: 51% Of Tech Industry Workers Believe President Trump Has A Point About The Media Creating Fake News
• https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/02/13/culture-secretary-commissions-study-opaque-world-online-advertising
• https://journal.burningman.org/2019/02/philosophical-center/tenprinciples/cultural-course-correcting/
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• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/countries-zero-rating-have-more-expensive-wireless-broadband-countries-without-it
• Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA
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• https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/control-trackers-with-firefox/
• https://digiday.com/marketing/advertisers-dsp-demands/
• Content moderation has no easy answers
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• https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/12/27/companies-should-get-meaningful-consent-for-user-data-privacy-watchdog.html
• https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/free-software-activities-in-november-2018
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• http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/11/brexit-means-brexit.html
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• https://www.businessinsider.com/how-vc-billions-fueled-the-rise-of-digital-media-2018-12
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