Pluralistic: To save the news, ban surveillance ads (31 May 2023)

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To save the news, ban surveillance ads: No publisher will ever beat ad-tech at spying, but no tech company will ever understand a publisher's content better than they do.
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Pluralistic: To save the news, shatter ad-tech (25 May 2023)

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To save the news, shatter ad-tech: Structural separation will help the news claim their fair share.
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Pluralistic: How to save the news from Big Tech (18 May 2023)

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How to save the news from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF.
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Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023)

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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk: Ad targeting isn't "efficient."
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Pluralistic: This is your brain on fraud apologetics (24 Feb 2023)

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This is your brain on fraud apologetics: The curious comfort of victim-blaming.
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Pluralistic: 21 Mar 2022

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Podcasting "What Is Peak Indifference?": A theory of change.
To make Big Tech better, make it smaller: Decreasing the salience of tech's errors is as important as reducing their prevalence.
Brazil's "Remuneration Right" will strengthen Big Tech and Big Media: Fix ads, not snippets.
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Pluralistic: 27 Feb 2022

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Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't: They getcha coming and going.
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Pluralistic: 26 Nov 2021

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UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead: A true consent framework would do the trick.
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Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2021

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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product.
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Pluralistic: 06 Aug 2021

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Scammers sell griefers social media banning services: And charge their victims 100x more to get un-banned.
Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke: Especially compared with the independent Ad Obervatory, which the company wants to destroy.
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