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16 October 2020 15:43 UTC
IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard
It’s not that I told you so but… no actually I told you so.
Now of course I see the typo in the slides transcript/screenshot. 😞
If you want to read or watch the whole talk, it’s up at Defying the mainstream: building technology that respects our rights.
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16 October 2020 13:23 UTC
Managed to have a stretched-out birthday week thanks to Aral spoiling me rotten, making up for being separated from my family by covid restrictions, 500km and the Irish sea. Topped the week off with a stinking cold. Just got to get through today to make it to new Discovery!
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09 October 2020 16:14 UTC
I read this article yesterday. Coincidentally, this morning an Acast podcast played me an ad which listed three other Acast podcasts I listen to in order to promote its platform. Big old no thanks to that creepy nonsense.
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08 October 2020 07:40 UTC
Incredibly clever, enlightening, fun and totally privacy-respecting.
Learn about facial recognition while this website analyses your face.
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02 October 2020 09:53 UTC
As a tracking nerd (as in I hate it, but know a fair bit about it), the subtitle on this article made me chuckle. This is a really great explainer about first party vs third-party tracking, focusing on Facebook:
I Scanned My Favorite Social Media Site on Blacklight and It Came Up Pretty Clean. What’s Going On?
I think any person building stuff for the web should be subscribed to The Markup. They’re publishing really useful explainers, and giving us a lot of insight into the impact of “our” common practices.
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28 September 2020 16:55 UTC
Tech boys… egos as fragile as their javascript-riddled websites.
This post brought to you by my work this afternoon:
Q: “Why does the content not load on this site?” A: Third-party JS! Q: “Why are all the links on this site broken?” A: Third-party JS!
Text and links should not require another person’s JavaScript to work.
Or should that be…
Tech boys… websites as fragile as their javascript-riddled egos.
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22 September 2020 14:22 UTC
This is really useful if you want to check your own site or even point out privacy issues with your organisation’s site to your boss.
(Devs:) it’s worth reading the writeup on what’s being checked: How we built a real-time privacy inspector.
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18 September 2020 10:10 IST
Does selecting “Whatever” constitute consent? 🤔
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15 September 2020 08:41 IST
Pretty immense lineup for @id24conf, and it’s free with no registration required! Know what I’ll be doing this Thursday…
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09 September 2020 13:49 IST
My slides from yesterday’s talk at SmashingConf are now up on Notist, if you wanted to read any of the reference material or catch something you missed!
Slides for ‘This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You’ on Notist.