Today's links
- Amazon's $31b "ad business" isn't: They getcha coming and going.
- This day in history: 2002, 2012, 2017, 2021.
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: ad-tech
Pluralistic: 26 Nov 2021
Today's links
- UK ICO: surveillance advertising is dead: A true consent framework would do the trick.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2021
Today's links
- 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.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Aug 2021
Today's links
- 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.
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 16 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Suing all of ad-tech: Will an EU country finally enforce the GDPR?
- Interop Sci-Fi: Inside the Clock Tower, my interoperability sf for Consumer Reports.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 01 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Canadian telco monopolists run the show: The CRTC just put Teksavvy out of business.
- Google cheats on location privacy: Part of the attribution con.
- The antitrust case against Prime: The dotted line to higher prices.
- This day in history: 2006, 2010, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Google's short-lived data-advantage: Don't believe the criti-hype.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 10 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Youtube blocks advertisers from targeting "Black Lives Matter": On the impossibility of "brand safety."
- This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 06 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part one of five(ish).
- The real cancel culture: Multiple-choice union-busting.
- Ad-tech's algorithmic cruelty: What technology does isn't as important as who it does it TO.
- Folio Society publishes Philip K Dick's short fiction: Books as artifacts.
- This day in history: 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Help news, not news-barons: EFF on the proposed antitrust exemption for news.
- Impunity for NYPD cops who brutalized BLM protesters: Only two officers face serious discipline.
- Aviation bailout cost $666k/job: Socialism for capitalists.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading