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Now even YouTube serves ads with CPU-draining cryptocurrency miners

Yet another reason to make sure you’re running an ad blocker.
Linked on the 27th of January, 2018 Details

Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention

Cory Doctorow on our never ending cycle of adaptation to new methods of persuasion.
Linked on the 11th of January, 2018 Details

You need an ad blocker

Ad networks, marketing services and the websites using their products regularly complain about the prevalence of ad-blocker use among their visitors. Comparing it to theft of services.

Published on the 31st of December, 2017 Read full post

Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore

Great article on the race to the bottom most news sites are engaged in.
Linked on the 31st of December, 2017 Details

We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

This has been on my mind a lot recently. Zeynep Tufekci explains the problem in a much clearer way than I ever could.

Published on the 21st of November, 2017 Read full post

“What happens next will amaze you”

Ad blockers have been in headlines a lot recently due to Apple's introduction of that functionality to their latest mobile operating system. Advertisers and publishers are not happy with this loss of revenue; users are not happy being tracked across the web.

Published on the 6th of October, 2015 Read full post