#Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking - ProPublica
"The practical result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads that follow people around on the web may now be customized to them based on your name and other information Google knows about you. It also means that Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website they visit and the searches they conduct."
#FuckGoogle #DropGoogle #infosec #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
Due to lots of questions recently, I'd like to clarify some of our philosophies regarding instance blocking:
In our CoC/ToS, we state that we may block instances that don't abide by a CoC/ToS similar to our own (and we have always been clear about what is acceptable behaviour for •ART).
This includes instances that don't moderate their users for harmful ideologies under the banner of "free speech".
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It's fun and exciting that Facebook told everybody that videos got a huge amount of engagement and everybody switched to video to communicate on the web so they'd get more engagement, and then when it came out that Facebook had straight-up lied about that to get people to use their new video-embedding feature, everybody just kept using video even though it has a *lower* engagement rate, because That's How The Web Is Now.
As a programmer it's been really hard to wean myself off of thinking in terms of global solutions. This, in comparison to building local or community technology.
Thinking this way can make things harder (now your tech needs need to scale to the world) and not useful (different people in different places have different needs).
This kind of blew my mind: like, you can just go and build a piece of tech and only give it to your friends & the immediate people it's helpful for. You don't *need* to design for The World. I think this kind of thinking is really important for breaking away from capitalistic modes of thinking.
Hi! I'm Mottie! I guess it's time to get serious! I'm a comic illustrator,witch, and pretty fox trans lady! Don't be afraid to say hi!
[Mostly SFW, but I won't follow users who are <18 here]