Category: Terms & Conditions
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Why the EU’s Digital Omnibus needs section 88b put back and improved
To Google, Meta, the IAB, and the whole “interactive” advertising business, your privacy is a bug, not a feature. The less privacy you have, the more money they make. That’s why they lobbied section 88b out of the EU Digital Omnibus bill, and why they want to preserve the broken, hated ‘consent’ system behind every cookie…
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Beyond E-commerce
Phil Windley explains e-commerce 1.0 in a single slide that says this: One reason this happened is that client-server, aka calf-cow (illustrated in Thinking outside the browser) has been the default format for all relationships on the Web, and cookies were required to maintain those relationships. Which really aren’t. Here’s why: The calves in these…
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Thinking Outside the Browser
Even if you’re on a phone, chances are you’re reading this in a browser. Chances are also that most of what you do online is through a browser. Hell, many—maybe even most—of the apps you use on your phone use the Webkit browser engine. Meaning they’re browsers too. And, of course, I’m writing this in…
