Take a look at your smartphone and delete all the apps you don’t really need. For many tasks, you can use a browser on your phone instead of an app.
Privacy-wise, browsers are preferable, because they can’t access as much of your information as an app can.
Targeted advertising based on online behavior doesn’t just hurt privacy. It also contributes to a range of other harms.
I very much agree with this call to action from the EFF.
Maybe we can finally get away from the ludicrious idea that behavioural advertising is the only possible form of effective advertising. It’s simply not true.
I really hope that Betteridge’s Law doesn’t apply to this headline.
Prompted by my article on third-party code, here’s a recommendation to ditch any embeds on your website.
A new search engine (and browser!) that will have a paid business model.
Between this and Duck Duck Go, there’s evidence of an increasing appetite for alternatives to Google’s increasingly-more-rubbish search engine.
Laura and I are on the same page here.
A new free course on responsive web design.
Responding to a very bad take on surveillance capitalism.
What I’m hoping for in 2021.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that behavioural advertising is more effective than contextual advertising.
You can kiss URLs goodbye after all.