Why yes, streaming app, I agree that putting the show I've been watching every night this week six fucking clicks away so you can prioritise your recommendation drivel instead makes total fucking sense!
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June 2023
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Replying to @null and @benharnett
And they were starting from a particularly low point. What bugs me is that it's consistent across apps, which means it's a retention factor. Probably getting people to watch things in parallel is better because ending a show is a churn event. So it won't change.
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Replying to @null and @benharnett
We need ways to decouple front and back ends. These should just not be made by the same people. The client side should always be for the user.
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Replying to @matt_clawson and @benharnett
Hopefully it can be disabled?
Putain, la FNAC, je ne sais pas s'il fallait la faire celle-ci…
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Je me moque, mais la @Fnac fait au moins un effort. Pendant ce temps, Amazon vient de se faire taper pour sa gestion complètement YOLO des données de mineurs.
Woohoo! It's still a long road from proof-of-concept to universal, but this is a great step forward.
Slowly, the web is healing.
Quoting a tweet by @dietrich ↗
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Maybe it's mostly in my circles, but I get a sense that it's wider. I'm glad that the reaction seems to mostly be "well there go tech companies bullshitting us again."
Tech corporations are just plain old corporations. Same playbook, same fake novelty.
Quoting a tweet by @matteo_wong ↗
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The end of Mrs. Davis (without spoilers) is excellent, but I particularly loved Simone's reaction when she finally understood how the world-dominating algorithm came to be. One of the most plausible AIs in fiction!
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Replying to @MarietjeSchaake
My favourite is outside privacy counsel firms that unilaterally sign you up for their marketing emails 😂
Privacy regulators could score some popularity here. Require machine-readable sub/unsub and use automated checking to catch violators. Cheap, effective, popular.
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Ah, I see that we're in the "Google panders to violent crypto-fascists" part of the American election cycle.
axios.com/2023/06/02/us-…
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Replying to @PolskySays and @montezumachavez, @MarietjeSchaake
Probably? I've had to deal with a u number of outside privacy counsel and let's just say that I've hardly ever been overwhelmed by their abilities.
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Have people forgotten how Chrome was pushed?
"Microsoft just gave itself a full-screen ad in search results by faking an AI interaction. This “search result” is juicing Microsoft’s own product instead of respecting its users’ intent."
theverge.com/2023/6/6/23736…
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Block artists & infosec educators, reinstate misinformation. It looks like Google isn't betting on democracy.
Quoting a tweet by @wheresaddie ↗
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Replying to @v0max
Yup! And the magic of targeting is that Chrome users never saw just how brutal the incessant barrage of Chrome ads if you ever dared touch a Google property with another browser.
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We need land orcas.
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Replying to @StefanoGogioso
So they can do on land what they've been doing in the sea: sinking yatchs!
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Lots of good things in this thread. We are only ever as intelligent as our epistemic network, but almost all cognitive tools built for the digital space assume epistemic individualism (personalisation being key).
Quoting a tweet by @add_hawk ↗
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There is no such thing as safe data brokerage. It's always worse than you think, even if you already know it's bad.
Quoting a tweet by @WolfieChristl ↗
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Are there any good papers on the "ethics" justification for colonialism? All the discourse about how it was bringing salvation, civilisation, reason to people who sorely needed it, etc.
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Replying to @philfeld
Anything specifically on the reasoning I'd love to hear about!
Replying to @philfeld
Thank you so much!
Replying to @mattecapu and @sfiscience
There are delightful stories from researchers there about interacting with him or just how much noise it made when he was typing out his novels on a typewriter.
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Replying to @RDBinns and @guardian, @jjn1, @WolfieChristl
Ads for some regulated areas often have to self-declare on the buy platform, and publishers can filter on that. I have no idea how reliable this is.
We need much stronger metadata on ads so that pubs and browsers can nuke them. They should be much more machine readable.
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But as you know if you want to find where power sits and where it doesn't, follow the legibility!
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Replying to @RDBinns and @guardian, @jjn1, @WolfieChristl
Off the top of my head I'm not entirely certain, but I think so. In some geos gambling ads shouldn't run at all, in others they can't be shown to minors, etc. Compliance could easily require it. Gambling charities probably know how effective this is.
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Replying to @MissIG_Geek and @RDBinns, @guardian, @jjn1, @WolfieChristl
Absolutely! That's the one and only benchmark. Getting rid of porn but not Nazis or antivaxx is a deliberate policy.
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Replying to @lilianedwards and @RDBinns
It can tell you're trying to trick it and concludes you must be a QA engineer.
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Replying to @RDBinns and @sethlazar
I would definitely argue that DP laws apply to Topics. The fact that Google is doing profiling on your hardware changes nothing to the fact that it's profiling!
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Replying to @lilianedwards and @RDBinns, @guardian, @jjn1, @WolfieChristl
IIRC you have to affirmatively opt into ads for kids, there are all kinds of different constraints.
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Replying to @MarielzaTalks
Yup! Exploiting epistemic networks and extracting value from them until they collapse is more generally the business model of dominant digital companies. The oil metaphor may turn out to be more accurate than we thought!
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It's hard to capture just how much of a catastrophically broken crock of shit @MicrosoftTeams is.
If your organisation depends on interacting with people who aren't locked into a Microsoft-managed intranet, I strongly encourage you to migrate away.
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It's not the first time I've been locked out of a meeting because of Teams, and I know it's a common experience for many of you, but banging on it to make it work shows just how baroque and brittle the implementation is.
The app? Endless login dance, then stuck on this:
It doesn't matter that I've used the app before, logged in with that account before, it wants to know if this is for personal use — which is the only option in the drop down anyway.
Sometimes you get this full screen, sometimes in a popup that pops under on submit, does nothing.
Replying to @mikaelf
Yeah, the browser version seems to simply not work if you also expect some privacy, but there aren't many browsers left that don't do privacy these days. Chrome on a profile without extensions seemed to do the trick.
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Quoting a tweet by @FundingCommons ↗
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