Tag: platform economics

Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)


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  • Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
  • This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Pluralistic: Venture predation (19 May 2023)


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Pluralistic: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it (25 Apr 2023)


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Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023)


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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" (27 Feb 2023)


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Twiddler

Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee.

A mandala made from a knob and button-covered control panel.
Stephen Drake/CC BY 2.0 (modified)

Tracking Exposed is a scrappy European nonprofit that attempts to understand how online recommendation algorithms work. They comine data from volunteers who install a plugin with data acquired through “headless browsers,” to attempt to reverse-engineer the principles that determine what you see when you visit or search Tiktok, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook or Pornhub.

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