Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Barbara Allen / Poynter:
A 148-year-old Georgia weekly was about to close so its publisher could retire, but UGA’s journalism school is taking it over and making it a capstone class — The publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo planned to shut the paper down so he could retire. A phone call to the college saved it.
A 148-year-old newspaper is the latest recruit to UGA’s journalism school
https://www.poynter.org/educators-students/2021/a-148-year-old-newspaper-is-the-latest-recruit-to-the-university-of-georgias-journalism-school/
The publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo planned to shut the paper down so he could retire. A phone call to the college saved it.
Ralph Maxwell had a mind to stop the presses.
His friend Dink NeSmith had other ideas.
For 40 years, Maxwell had been the editor and publisher of The Oglethorpe Echo, a 2,200-circulation weekly newspaper just east of Athens, not too far from the University of Georgia. In September, Maxwell planned to shut down the paper so he could retire.
NeSmith, a resident of Oglethorpe County who had just stepped down from his role as CEO of Community Newspapers Inc., couldn’t stand the thought of living in a place without a paper — or retiring.
“It’s a lightbulb that just came on one morning when Ralph said he was going to shut the paper down,” NeSmith said. “I just thought, ‘We can’t let this happen.’”
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New York Times:
Meta aims to remove ad targeting options based on user interactions with content about health, race, political affiliation, religion, and more, by January 19 — Meta, the social media company formerly known as Facebook, said on Tuesday that it planned to eliminate advertisers’ ability …
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/technology/meta-facebook-ad-targeting.html
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Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
Meta says it can’t keep up with its Oversight Board, which has issued 78 recommendations since January, and that the 30-day response deadline is too tight — Depending on who you ask, Facebook’s Oversight Board is either a massive PR stunt to deflect blame away from the company or an ambitious …
Facebook says it can’t keep pace with its own Oversight Board
“We believe the current design of the recommendation process may not be the best way to bring about the long-term, structural changes the board is pushing us to undertake.”
https://www.protocol.com/facebook-oversight-board-pace
Depending on who you ask, Facebook’s Oversight Board is either a massive PR stunt to deflect blame away from the company or an ambitious and thoughtful experiment in social media governance. Whatever it is, it’s apparently becoming untenable for Facebook.
In a report published Tuesday, Facebook said it’s struggling to keep up with the pace of recommendations being dished out by the board and that it needs to come up with a better way to communicate with the board that doesn’t entail writing dueling, multi-page missives.
“We believe the current design of the recommendation process may not be the best way to bring about the long-term, structural changes the board is pushing us to undertake,” the report reads.
The board has issued 78 recommendations since January. Under its agreement with the board, Facebook is supposed to respond to each of those recommendations, which are non-binding, within 30 days. But Facebook hasn’t made substantive progress on lots of those recommendations, in part because, the company said, that 30-day deadline is too tight.
https://transparency.fb.com/oversight/meta-quarterly-updates-on-the-oversight-board/
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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn’t require user data to generate recommendations — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would let people use algorithm-free versions …
Exclusive: New bipartisan bill takes aim at algorithms
https://www.axios.com/algorithm-bill-house-bipartisan-5293581e-430f-4ea1-8477-bd9adb63519c.html
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a bill that would require online platforms to let users opt out of having personal data-driven algorithms select the content they see, according to a copy of the text shared exclusively with Axios.
Driving the news: Recent revelations about Facebook’s internal research findings have renewed lawmaker interest in bills that seek to give people more of a say in how algorithms shape their online experiences.
Why it matters: The bill shows that anger over how platforms use their algorithms to target users with specialized content is a bipartisan issue with momentum on Capitol Hill.
The algorithms that personalize content on social networks and other apps can make services addictive, violate users’ privacy and promote extremism, critics and many lawmakers argue. Conservatives have also claimed that services deliberately censor their speech.
What’s happening: The Filter Bubble Transparency Act would require internet platforms to let people use a version of their services where content is not selected by “opaque algorithms” driven by personal data. It’s sponsored by Reps. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Burgess Owens (R-Utah).
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Meta shares bullying and harassment numbers for the first time, claims the category represents ~0.14% of Facebook content and ~0.05% of Instagram content
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/09/facebook-community-standards-report-oversight/
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Wall Street Journal:
An internal September 2018 Facebook memo found ~40% of traffic to Pages went to those with plagiarized or recycled content
Facebook Allows Stolen Content to Flourish, Its Researchers Warned
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-stolen-content-copyright-infringement-facebook-files-11636493887?mod=djemalertNEWS
About 40% of traffic to pages in 2018 went to those with content that was plagiarized or recycled, and Facebook has been slow to crack down on copyright infringement
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Facebook has allowed plagiarized and recycled content to flourish on its platform despite having policies against it, the tech giant’s researchers warned in internal memos.
About 40% of the traffic to Facebook pages at one point in 2018 went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content, according to a research report that year by Facebook senior data scientist Jeff Allen, one of a dozen internal communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Pages are used by businesses and organizations to disseminate content on Facebook, while individual users put content on what Facebook calls “profiles.”
The researchers also wrote Facebook has been slow to crack down on copyright infringement for fear of opening itself to legal liability.
“What’s the easiest (lowest effort) way to make a big Facebook Page?” Mr. Allen wrote in an internal slide presentation the following year. “Step 1: Find an existing, engaged community on [Facebook]. Step 2: Scrape/Aggregate content popular in that community. Step 3: Repost most popular content on your Page.”
Mr. Allen, who left Facebook in late 2019, wrote that Facebook pages seeking big followings simply had to ask one question of the content they were considering recirculating: “Has it gone viral in the past?”
Posting unoriginal content continues to be a formula for success on Facebook, according to data the company has released this year on the platform’s most popular posts.
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Kun evästeet kuolevat, markkinoinnin automaatio on tärkeämpää kuin koskaan
https://www.hopkins.fi/artikkelit/kun-evasteet-kuolevat-markkinoinnin-automaatio-on-tarkeampaa-kuin-koskaan/
Huomioi nämä verkkokaupan markkinoinnin automaatiossa
https://www.hopkins.fi/artikkelit/verkkokauppa-markkinoinnin-automaatio/
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Everything You Need to Know About Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
https://wpmudev.com/blog/web-application-firewall-waf-guide/
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Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March — Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos — YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today.
YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773299/youtube-dislike-button-hide-public-count-numbers-small-creator-protection?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos
YouTube has announced that it’ll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today. The company says the change is to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks or harassment, and to promote “respectful interactions between viewers and creators.” The dislike button will still be there, but it’ll be for private feedback, rather than public shaming.
This move isn’t out of the blue. In March, YouTube announced that it was experimenting with hiding the public dislike numbers, and individual creators have long had the ability to hide ratings on their videos. But the fact that the dislike counts will be disappearing for everyone (gradually, according to YouTube) is a big deal — viewers are used to being able to see the like-to-dislike ratio as soon as they click on a video and may use that number to decide whether to continue watching. Now, that will no longer be an option, but it could close off a vector for harassment.
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
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eevBLAB 89 – Youtube is DEAD – Dislike Count REMOVED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvOnvDJbKsc
Youtube just announced they are removing the public Thumbs Down count site wide, and only allowing Thumbs Up counts, to “protect” the creators of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOuG8jMIgI&t=0s
They then proceeded to get OWNED in the comments! LOL
It’s now a free rein for scams, dodgy videos, corporate shill accounts, and the woke elite.
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https://www.facebook.com/214555211908958/posts/4870979782933121/
“Web3 refers to a potential new iteration of the internet that runs on public blockchains, the record-keeping technology best known for facilitating cryptocurrency transactions. The appeal of Web3 is that it is decentralized, so that instead of users accessing the internet through services mediated by the likes of Google, Apple, or Facebook, it’s the individuals themselves who own and control pieces of the internet. Web3 does not require “permission,” meaning that central authorities don’t dictate who uses what services, nor is there a need for “trust,” referring to the idea that an intermediary does not need to facilitate virtual transactions between two or more parties. Web3 theoretically protects user privacy better as well, because it’s these authorities and intermediaries that are doing most of the data collection.”
What Is Web3 and Why Are All the Crypto People Suddenly Talking About It?
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Web3 refers to a potential new iteration of the internet that runs on public blockchains, the record-keeping technology best known for facilitating cryptocurrency transactions. The appeal of Web3 is that it is decentralized, so that instead of users accessing the internet through services mediated by the likes of Google, Apple, or Facebook, it’s the individuals themselves who own and control pieces of the internet. Web3 does not require “permission,” meaning that central authorities don’t dictate who uses what services, nor is there a need for “trust,” referring to the idea that an intermediary does not need to facilitate virtual transactions between two or more parties. Web3 theoretically protects user privacy better as well, because it’s these authorities and intermediaries that are doing most of the data collection.
Of course, this is all an idealized vision of Web3 sketched out by blockchain developers and boosters for the future, so it might not be so egalitarian in practice. One element of Web3 that’s gaining a lot of traction is decentralized finance, also known as DeFi, which involves conducting IRL financial transactions on the blockchain without assistance from banks or the government.
Meanwhile, a number of large companies and venture capital firms are already investing huge sums to build Web3, and it’s hard to imagine that their involvement wouldn’t amount to some kind of centralized power.
Web1 and Web2 (more commonly known as Web 2.0) refer to older internet eras. Web1 covers the 1990s and early 2000s, which was more decentralized and had an emphasis on open-source protocols. It was more common during this time to see static pages, essentially sites that you can’t really interact with and aren’t regularly updated. Web2 covers the period from the early 2000s to today, in which Big Tech companies run the most popular hubs of internet activity. Another marker of this era is the rise of user-generated content on galaxy-sized platforms, like YouTube videos or Facebook posts, the stuff that fuels social media. The internet became a place of active participation rather than passive consumption.
OK, but Web3 is a crypto thing, right?
NFTs, digital currencies, and other blockchain entities are going to be crucial to Web3. For instance, Reddit is currently making Web3 inroads by trying to devise a way to use cryptocurrency tokens to allow users to essentially own portions of the communities they participate in on the site. The idea would be that users would use tokens known as “community points,” which they earn by posting on a certain subreddit. The user then accrues points based on how many upvotes or downvotes that post gets from other users. (It’s basically Reddit Karma on the blockchain.) Those points can essentially function as voting shares, allowing users who have made valued contributions to have more of a say when it comes to making decisions that will affect the community. Because those points exist on the blockchain, their owners have more control over them; they can’t easily be taken away and they follow you around. To be sure, this is only one use case, a kind of corporate version of a Web3 concept known as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, which use tokens to make ownership and decision-making powers more equitable. One example of a DAO is Augur, a decentralized betting platform.
NFTs are also another cornerstone of Web3. They’re essentially one-of-a-kind cryptocurrency tokens; because each of them is unique, they’re typically used as certificates of ownership for virtual objects like artwork or basketball clips. (This is as opposed to a Bitcoin, one of which is interchangeable with any other Bitcoin.) If Web3 boosters are to be believed, the digital scarcity represented by NFTs will allow users of this new internet to exchange everything from video-game skins to medical records.
Why is there all this Web3 hype all of sudden?
Much of the excitement seems to be coming from the cryptocurrency community, which would obviously benefit from an internet that’s more reliant on their technology. Some of the buzz also has to do with a few notable companies, including Reddit, making moves to get a head start on developing Web3 services and platforms. In late October, CoinDesk reported that GameStop is trying to hire a “Head of Web3 Gaming” and software engineers for an unannounced NFT platform. There been a lot of discussion about Web3 could augment video games by, for example, allowing players to more easily buy and sell in-game items or earn tokens that will give them more power to determine how the game is run. However, the Verge also posited that GameStop might just be throwing around terms like “Web3” and “blockchain” in its job descriptions to inspire the same kind of viral support it enjoyed from alternative investors in January. A perhaps more consequential recent development was the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s Web3 lobbying push in Washington, D.C., in early October. The firm, which has invested heavily in cryptocurrency and other blockchain technologies, said it sent executives to Capitol Hill and the White House to promote Web3 as a solution to Silicon Valley consolidation and to propose regulations for the burgeoning virtual ecosystem.
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Twitter will no longer automatically crop image previews on the web after rolling out full-size image previews on mobile earlier this year. On Twitter for the web, images will now display in full without any cropping. Instead of gambling on how an image will show up in the timeline, images will look just like they did when you shot them.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/11/twitter-no-longer-crops-image-previews-on-the-web/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
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How do you put only a certain section of a website into an iframe?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3272071/iframe-to-only-show-a-certain-part-of-the-page
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14117763/how-do-you-put-only-a-certain-section-of-a-website-into-an-iframe/14117980
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Rotate an image in image source in html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20061774/rotate-an-image-in-image-source-in-html
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Interview with Jay Rosen on how US political coverage is now a choice between pro- and anti-democratic forces, what a pro-democracy media might look like, more — I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — Hey, it’s Ezra. While I’m on paternity leave, we have got an All-Star team sitting in for me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-show-jay-rosen.html
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Survey of 132 senior news industry leaders from 42 countries found 89% are committed to hybrid work and 9% plan a return to the pre-pandemic working model — Pandemic-led changes to the nature of the newsroom look to be permanent and global, according to a new Changing Newsrooms report …
Pandemic-led changes to newsrooms look to be permanent, and global – report
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/changing-newsrooms-remote-working-reuters-hybrid/
Pandemic-led changes to the nature of the newsroom look to be permanent and global, according to a new Changing Newsrooms report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Researchers spoke to 132 senior news industry leaders from 42 countries and found that 89% are now committed to a mixture of remote and office-based working. Just 9% plan to return to the same working model as before the pandemic.
The Changing Newsrooms 2021 report found that efficiency and employee wellbeing both improve as a result of remote or hybrid working. But collaboration, creativity and communication appear to suffer.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0g7mEpkhu40t4sXam_BEbcwQKO8SpCc/view
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New York Times:
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face — False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/business/media/coronavirus-misinformation-radio-podcasts.html
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic ranking because its data suggests that its algorithm knows what users want better than they do themselves — In at least two experiments over the years, Facebook has explored what happens when it turns off its controversial news feed ranking system …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/13/facebook-news-feed-algorithm-how-to-turn-it-off/
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Packy McCormick / Not Boring:
A look at ConstitutionDAO, which has taken $4M+ in crypto donations to bid at an auction on one of the original copies of the US Constitution, printed in 1787 — ConstitutionDAO, web3, and America … Today’s Not Boring is brought to you by… Secureframe … Schedule a Secureframe Demo
Let’s Buy the US Constitution
https://www.notboring.co/p/lets-buy-the-us-constitution
Happy Monday! Last week was a big week around here.
On Monday, Mario and I published a piece on Discord. That afternoon, Discord CEO Jason Citron replied to my tweet with a preview of Discord’s first web3 integration. The replies were fierce — I was getting 15 new notifications per second — and Citron pulled back.
That night, The Economist published a piece that Chris Dixon and I wrote on web3, and on Wednesday, I announced that I’m joining Chris and team as an advisor to a16z Crytpo. Nothing changes here at Not Boring
And one more thing…
Let’s buy the US Constitution together.
Yesterday morning, I was in the middle of writing a typical Not Boring Monday essay. This one, which I may still write, was about the idea that while people are waiting for “real use cases” for web3, a set of new web3-native use cases is emerging that might be more important than the “real” ones.
I planned to write about the Olympus DAO forks, the ENS airdrop, NFT fractionalization, appraisal, and lending, and this wild adventure that began on Thursday: ConstitutionDAO.
ConstitutionDAO is what it sounds like: a DAO organized to purchase a copy of the United States Constitution when it goes up for auction at Sotheby’s this Thursday at 6:30pm ET.
https://twitter.com/ConstitutionDAO
The World Ahead 2022
Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto
There’s more to crypto than currency and financial applications
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/chris-dixon-and-packy-mccormick-on-the-future-of-crypto
The year ahead will show that blockchains can support a lot more applications beyond money and finance. In 2022 decentralised services will chip away at big tech companies’ stranglehold on the internet. A cluster of new “web3”
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Rob Pegoraro / PCMag:
Pew: 42% of US users read Twitter primarily for entertainment, 20% for news; one-third of users visit Twitter less than once a week, 66% visit at least weekly
We Read Twitter for Entertainment, Trust It for News (Unless We Vote Republican)
https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/136956/we-read-twitter-for-entertainment-trust-it-for-news-unless-we-vote-republican
More tweeps read Twitter primarily for entertainment, but among the 69% who report getting news on Twitter, two-thirds have ‘at least some trust’ in the accuracy of that news, the Pew Research Center finds.
Two new studies from the Pew Research Center on American use of Twitter find both a surprising level of trust in that social platform and a partisan divide in views about it. They also suggest Twitter’s privacy interfaces need serious work.
These studies released Monday—The Behaviors and Attitudes of US Adults on Twitter and News on Twitter: Consumed by Most Users and Trusted by Many—shed new light on the social platform that continues to draw far more debate than you might expect for a service only used by 23% of Americans, per a Pew study released in May.
To begin, Pew’s researchers find that Twitter remains lurker-dominated; the top 25% of users by tweet volume post 97% of all tweets (including replies, retweets, and quote tweets). One-third of users report visiting Twitter less than once a week, versus 66% visiting at least weekly. Meanwhile, 10% say they couldn’t count how often they hit the site daily. (It me.)
A Partisan Divide
Digging into political attitudes unearthed a partisan gap, though. Twitter users identifying as Democrats or leaning toward that party—42% of news readers on Twitter, per the study—are more confident about news there, with 74% reporting at least some trust in it. For Republicans and those leaning towards the GOP, the figure was just 52%.
Dems also have more faith in Twitter’s overall effect on US politics, with 47% of them saying Twitter has been mostly good for American democracy and 28% rating it mostly bad. Among Republicans, the figures flip, with 60% calling Twitter mostly bad for democracy and only 17% judging it mostly good.
A similar gap emerges when respondents are asked to judge which actions by Twitter are major problems: 59% of Republicans point to Twitter limiting the visibility of certain posts and 61% say the same about Twitter banning users. Among Democrats, only 17% and 6%, respectively, share those views.
A frequent cause of Twitter bans—harassing other people on the service—has not hit most respondents to Pew’s survey, with only 17% reporting personal experience.
Your Account Is Private: Are You Sure?
The part of the survey that Twitter’s designers should consider first: its findings about people’s privacy choices.
Among respondents who gave Pew their Twitter handles, researchers found 89% of these accounts are public—which is bad, considering that only 65% of this subset think their accounts are public. And among respondents who said either their accounts are private or that they aren’t sure of their privacy settings, 83% are public.
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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Doctors and researchers say social media is contributing to the rise of negative body image issues and eating disorder cases among boys — Griffin Henry, a promising young baseball player from Missouri, had his dreams derailed by anorexia — Eating disorders are on the rise among boys …
Boys Have Eating Disorders, Too. Doctors Think Social Media Is Making It Worse.
Griffin Henry, a promising young baseball player from Missouri, had his dreams derailed by anorexia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boys-have-eating-disorders-too-doctors-think-social-media-is-making-it-worse-11636812000?mod=djemalertNEWS
Eating disorders are on the rise among boys, say doctors, who think images and videos on social media are a factor.
Pediatric wards are seeing more eating-disorder cases overall, with boys making up an increasing share of patients. Cases with boys are often more severe than with girls, the doctors say, because boys’ disorders often go unnoticed until they are far along, and because eating disorders are largely believed to mostly affect young women.
In some cases, slimmer boys are bulking up to gain muscle mass. In others, bigger boys are slimming down to look more toned or to improve athletic performance. Boys who work out often receive praise in person and on their social-media posts for seemingly healthy habits and appearance.
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:NEW
While Twitter users mock NFTs and Web3 believers retaliate, a16z, Meta, and others are investing in the crypto industry to remake the internet in their image — Read to the end for a really good supercut — Who Will Win The Web3 Culture War? — On Friday, I wrote about how furries …
Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners
https://www.garbageday.email/p/right-clickers-vs-the-monkey-jpg
“People coming from crypto land severely underestimate how deep the distrust and disgust coming from traditional game developers can be,” @larsiusprime wrote. “Like friends and colleagues will block you for openly working on these projects. Hiring [traditional] game devs is going to require hazard pay.”
But a Web3 culture war isn’t just happening on Discord or in the gaming industry. It’s happening everywhere. Last week, a Twitter user named @nicodotgay downloaded all 10,000 of the Lazy Lion NFTs and turned them into a mosaic of a right-click. And then, also last week, @CryptoCobain, one of the most popular users in the pocket of the internet largely known as “crypto Twitter,” threatened to start minting NFTs of the avatars of anti-crypto furries that right-click and save people’s NFTs.
I need to pause here and just acknowledge that I am very aware of how wildly stupid all of this is. But, like all things that have ever happened on the internet, just because it’s stupid right now, that doesn’t mean that it also couldn’t snowball into a genuine sociopolitical movement.
Getting to the heart of what is driving this Web3 culture war is tricky and changes depending on what groups are involved. As I wrote on Friday, everyone who isn’t Mark Zuckerberg seems to agree that his version of a metaverse is bad, but the crypto guys who hate Zuckerberg are also feuding with the furries and fandoms that hate NFTs. I’ve found it’s easiest to think of this in Game Of Thrones terms. Meta is the White Walkers — Zuckerberg appears to be just as capable of human emotion as the Night King, at least — and I suppose the crypto guys would be the Lannisters and the non-crypto users would be the loose alliance of House Stark, the Nights Watch, and the Freefolk? I mean, furries are definitely the Freefolk in this analogy.
The best overall articulation I’ve seen so far of why Web3 is so hated by many online subcultures right now was from @nicodotgay, the Twitter user behind the right-click mosaic. They explained in a follow-up tweet that they weren’t anti-NFT for ecological reasons. “The real issue is that they represent an attempt to re-impose artificial scarcity on culture,” @nicodotgay tweeted. “‘Digital scarcity’ is an anti human evolution ideology that imposes board game-like rules which serve no purpose than to preserve the game itself – to hide the internal contradictions of capitalism that become painfully obvious in an area of culture that has overcome scarcity.”
This, to me, feels like the main battleground for the next five years of online development. On one side are people who want to make a lot of money on the internet, like Meta or Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested in over 50 crypto startups and launched a $2.2 billion crypto fund last summer. And on the other side, as always, are the various online subcultures and communities and creators and users who really just want to be left alone, allowed to safely and freely make and share whatever they want.
Could crypto projects help people make a living on the internet? Probably, but as I’ve written before, and as someone who has experimented with them myself, blockchain projects I’ve used for content creation are very user-unfriendly and not really sophisticated enough yet to compete with web 2.0 platforms like Twitter or YouTube. Worse, the creators and developers who could actually help make them better hate the technology.
This conflict about how to make money and maintain a sense of ownership in an infinitely-expanding internet without something like blockchain is why I’ve been so interested in “the furries and porn” anti-crypto argument. I’ve seen several variations of it. “Furries, a community of people who are all about commissioning unique pieces off artists. Porn, forever looking for ways to bypass payment blocks from payment companies, famously willing to champion new technologies,” Twitter user freyjaerlings wrote recently. “Neither adopted crypto. Make your own conclusions.”
There seems to be a growing consensus right now that if blockchain technology was truly useful, the communities and industries that have led the development of the social web for the last 20 years would already be using it. If NFTs were a good way to manage digital assets, this line of thinking goes, gamers, furries, sex workers, and fandoms would have launched crypto projects years ago.
But there are some problems with this. It’s true that Furries are now the most anti-NFT group on social media, but that doesn’t mean that that community — and adjacent ones — haven’t had their own problems with digital scarcity. In 2020, I wrote about the “adoptables” industry, which is a speculative DeviantArt marketplace for original furry art that, while not being built on the blockchain, was actually suffering from all the same problems as NFTs. In fact, the entire adoptables market crashed after a single user was prescribed the wrong SSRIs and went on a manic spending spree, causing furry art inflation (not that kind of inflation lol).
Also, the idea of the online porn industry innovating ahead of the rest of the internet isn’t as true as it used to be.
What I’m saying here is that this looming culture war — between the right-clickers and monkey JPG owners — is actually a waste of time. Crypto evangelists think the entire internet should run on their protocol, which makes no sense. But, also, there probably are ways for the blockchain to help with some quality-of-life improvements for various online communities. At the very least, it could help make online communities more self-sustainable.
But while these groups fight for Twitter dunks, big companies like Meta or Andreessen Horowitz will be spending more and more money on the crypto industry and will almost assuredly use it to remake the internet in their image. And my fear is that, like how Web 2.0 went from a million different brightly colored social apps to essentially three companies and nowhere else to go, Web3 could end up even more suffocating. But this time around, it’s not an internet of free garbage, but an online theme park where everything costs a ticket.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Axios:
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.
How to hit the top on each social media platform
https://www.axios.com/most-followers-social-media-tik-tok-cf5f46c9-d26e-468e-b81e-cbc8fea2a763.html
The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies. Often, they operate in parallel universes, with little overlap between platforms.
Why it matters: What differentiates social platforms is no longer their features, but their values and communities. What makes one person popular on one platform may not make them remotely interesting or influential on another.
For example: Mr. Bean, a fictional British sitcom character, is the 4th most popular page on Facebook, with 129 million followers. He has just 215,000 followers on Twitter.
TikTok star Bella Poarch has 85 million followers on TikTok, and less than 1 million on Twitter.
Kim Kardashian West has 263 million followers on Instagram, but only 1.88 million subscribers to her YouTube channel.
Driving the news: According to an Axios analysis of the top 50 most-followed accounts on each platform, TikTok is especially unique in minting its own stars who don’t blow up on other platforms.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter stops automatically refreshing timelines on the web with new tweets, after users complained about disappearing tweets
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/say-goodbye-to-disappearing-tweets-twitter-no-longer-auto-loads-new-tweets-on-the-web/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA-HY2zkacdZpou-xuqqT66xHFHGddsW7f_jAtFGtYlZo1r4DERRM_iIVprDaL8qaIkiAcwtKM9sgRSb15YVt9OELsQcKrqa7N0eus8BDFQSA5Y2Dcijz2DS-1g6N9I8ycxpXLV9brc4rc84GDFUHENE7SpX4PJT7tXeGmSOupPP
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 69% of US Twitter users get news on the site, of which 70% follow live news events, up from 59% in 2015; 67% have at least some trust in news on Twitter
News on Twitter: Consumed by Most Users and Trusted by Many
Seven-in-ten U.S. adult Twitter news consumers have followed breaking news there
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/11/15/news-on-twitter-consumed-by-most-users-and-trusted-by-many/
News plays a prominent role on Twitter. Overall, 23% of Americans use Twitter, and roughly seven-in-ten U.S. Twitter users (69%) say they get news on the site, according to a new Pew Research Center study that surveyed 2,548 Twitter users from May 17 to 31, 2021.
For most of these Twitter news consumers, the site is an important way they keep up with the news – but not the most important way. Just 8% of Twitter users who get news on the site say it is the most important way they get news, while an additional 59% say it is important but not paramount.
One key area of news people rely on Twitter for is breaking news. Fully 70% of Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Google partners with PBS Student Report Labs and other journalism organizations to create programs that promote media literacy
Google and PBS launch a media literacy program to combat misinformation
It aims to education students, educators and the public on news literacy.
https://www.engadget.com/google-launches-a-media-literacy-program-with-pbs-student-labs-to-combat-misinformation-160024870.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYWdhemVyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAvEAbWCRC9JNzjsVYrV76zbdtg54Pe5iZmKS7essCUWDXE7uz6_Cg5-Z626BbyFA8LmQmRDhsPXk07F4wvDJBfbDmQKe4Pjj-TDScMRcJbOwbnxx09viOc7qfCDjrLOWU-L26hGckzDxqC8gmlgBYYFDHH96qxrVUShfVVQOK_f
Megan Chan / The Keyword:
Google’s GNI and Northwestern’s Medill School announce The Data-Driven Reporting Project, to award $2M to journalists working on document-based investigations — Investigative journalism has changed drastically over the past decade. Technology is playing a growing and evolving role …
Google News Initiative
A new fund to support investigative reporting
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/journalism-fund-data-northwestern-medill/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Alex Heath / The Verge:
A look at Meta’s attempts to decrease info sharing internally, especially for its research and Integrity divisions, some worry at the expense of product safety
Meta goes into lockdown
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/16/22785397/meta-facebook-leak-lockdown?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
After a flood of leaks, the company formerly known as Facebook is getting more secretive
LastLast month, a researcher for Meta prepared a talk for colleagues that they knew would hit close to home. The subject: how to cope as a researcher when the company you work for is constantly receiving negative press.
The talk had been approved to show at the company’s annual research summit for employees in early November. But shortly before the event, Meta’s legal and communications department determined that the risk of the contents leaking were too great. So it disappeared from the research summit’s agenda days before, along with another pre-taped talk describing efforts to combat hate speech and bullying. Both talks never saw the light of day.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google alkaa maksaa uutistoimisto AFP:n sisällöistä Euroopassa
Sopimukseen kuuluu myös AFP:n Googlelle tuottama faktantarkastusohjelma.
https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000008413364.html
DIGIJÄTTI Google alkaa maksaa ranskalaisen uutistoimisto Agence France-Pressen (AFP) verkkosisällöistä Euroopassa.
Sopimus liittyy vuonna 2019 säädettyyn EU:n tekijänoikeusdirektiiviin, jonka tavoitteena on ollut päivittää tekijänoikeuslainsäädäntöä internetaikaan. Ranska pani direktiivin toimeen samana vuonna ensimmäisten maiden joukossa.
AFP:n ja Googlen sopimus on ensimmäinen EU:n direktiivin johdosta tehty sopimus uutistoimiston kanssa.
Lokakuussa myös sosiaalisen median yhtiö Facebook ilmoitti alkavansa maksaa tekijänoikeuskorvauksia joukolle ranskalaislehtiä. Facebook aikoo avata oman uutispalvelunsa Facebook Newsin Ranskassa vuoden 2022 alussa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
How do I crop the contents of an Iframe to show a part of a page?
https://newbedev.com/how-do-i-crop-the-contents-of-an-iframe-to-show-a-part-of-a-page
Is there any way that I can crop the contents of the downloaded page to only show a section of that page on my website?
No. The Same Origin Policy prevents you from manipulating the iframe in any way, including the scroll position.
There would be a workaround by putting the iframe into an a div container that has a defined height and width, and overflow: hidden to clip the view port:
and giving the iframe a relative position:
this way, you can adjust the portion of the iframe that is visible on the page. However, the whole page still gets rendered, and this approach is not immune to influences like scrolling inside the iframe.
iFrame: How to show specific part of a webpage using iframe
https://www.dimpost.com/2012/12/iframe-how-to-display-specific-part-of.html
Follow the instruction below to display a specific area of a webpage using iFrame & CSS
To do that just copy the code below and paste it wherever you want display.
Note: Replace the URL with yours. And to achieve your deserving result change the value of max-width, margin-left, height, margin-top, width.
Tomi Engdahl says:
iframe to Only Show a Certain Part of the Page
https://www.py4u.net/discuss/973727
Tomi Engdahl says:
American Journalism Project:
The American Journalism Project partners with the Google News Initiative to accelerate the launch of nonprofit newsrooms across the US
American Journalism Project and Google News Initiative announce partnership to develop incubation program to support news startups
Announcements
November 17, 2021
by American Journalism Project
https://www.theajp.org/news-insights/announcements/american-journalism-project-and-google-news-initiative-announce-partnership-to-develop-an-incubation-program-to-support-news-startups/#
NEW YORK — The American Journalism Project and the Google News Initiative (GNI) are partnering to develop an ambitious program that will accelerate the launch of new nonprofit local newsrooms at scale across the country. As part of the partnership, GNI will support the American Journalism Project’s design and growth of a comprehensive local news startup program that begins with intensive market research and information needs assessments and culminates with the incubation and launch of ambitious nonprofit startup efforts.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Agence France-Presse:
Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for content in Europe as part of a five-year partnership, the first with a news agency under a 2019 EU directive
Google agrees 5-year deal to pay AFP for online content: executives
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/google-agrees-5-deal-pay-212928160.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYWdhemVyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB7xf3rZOz0k8D9GbdmAQ-d0yb427B7NE8NS2AkRBPOHkAOervjHfXwbv0IUzDuRefePWVR-CplK0VGjtSJ9pUPfD–xCo_eicbeLVzFTsAiTUbbJrdMkB_0Dc-X30h4UrRDQ0TDiZkEuOEx_IY0-q6n9bSORNxJXTrdhuL_1aMl
Google and Agence France-Presse on Wednesday said they had signed a “pioneering” five-year deal under which the world’s biggest internet search company will pay an undisclosed sum for content in Europe.
The agreement, following 18 months of negotiations, is the first by a news agency under the 2019 European directive on so-called neighbouring rights, at the heart of multiple disputes between web giants and the media over payment for use of online news and other content.
“This is an agreement that covers the whole of the EU, in all of AFP’s languages, including in countries that have not enacted the directive,” said AFP CEO Fabrice Fries, describing the deal as “pioneering” and the “culmination of a long struggle”.
AFP produces and distributes multimedia content to its clients in six languages around the world.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Reuters:
Rupert Murdoch accuses Google and Facebook of trying to silence conservative voices and cites a lawsuit claiming they colluded on digital ad market manipulation
News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch takes swings at Google, Facebook
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/news-corp-chairman-rupert-murdoch-takes-swings-google-facebook-2021-11-17/
Nov 17 (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch renewed his attacks on Google and Facebook during News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, accusing the tech giants of trying to silence conservative voices and calling for “significant reform.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Judge orders NYT not to publish any Project Veritas “privileged materials”, despite precedent against prior restraint; NYT seeks immediate review of the ruling — WASHINGTON — A judge in New York on Thursday took the rare step of temporarily blocking the New York Times …
A Judge Temporarily Blocked The New York Times From Publishing Project Veritas Documents
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/project-veritas-new-york-times-blocked?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
The Times said it would immediately challenge the “unconstitutional” order.
WASHINGTON — A judge in New York on Thursday took the rare step of temporarily blocking the New York Times from publishing certain documents about the right-wing activist group Project Veritas.
The Times planned to immediately challenge the order from Westchester Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood, arguing that it was “prior restraint” that violated decades of First Amendment protections for the press, according to a statement from executive editor Dean Baquet.
“This ruling is unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent. When a court silences journalism, it fails its citizens and undermines their right to know. The Supreme Court made that clear in the Pentagon Papers case, a landmark ruling against prior restraint blocking the publication of newsworthy journalism. That principle clearly applies here. We are seeking an immediate review of this decision,” Baquet said.
Thursday’s order was styled as a temporary prohibition in advance of a potentially even more explosive First Amendment showdown: Wood halted the Times from publishing the documents at issue while he considers not only a longer-term prohibition, but also whether to order the Times to take down information from a Nov. 11 article.
In a brief initial response to Project Veritas’s request, lawyers for the Times wrote that the group hadn’t presented any evidence that the reporters involved in the story “improperly” obtained the memos, and asked the judge to give the outlet a chance to fully respond before imposing “such a draconian and disfavored restriction.”
“Here, The Times already published Veritas’ attorney-client privileged communications, and the interim order and more permanent relief sought are narrowly tailored to that misconduct,” Locke wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News.
Bruce Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said in a statement that this was the first prior restraint order entered against the Times since the Pentagon Papers case, and called it “an outrageous affront to the First Amendment.”
“Prior restraints — which are orders not to publish — are among the most serious threats to press freedom. The trial court should have never entered this order. If it doesn’t immediately vacate the prior restraint, an appellate court must step in and do so,” Brown said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Shannon Bond / NPR:
Meta says it’s looking at how users from marginalized communities experience its products and releases a paper on changes to how it uses US demographic data — The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is looking into whether its platforms treat users differently based on race …
Facebook will examine whether it treats Black users differently
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/18/1056916140/facebook-to-study-black-users-experience?t=1637310005127
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kim Lyons / The Verge:
Facebook says it is testing a feature that lets users adjust the level of News Feed content they see from specific friends, family, Groups, and Pages — It’s been tweaking that News Feed algorithm for years — Facebook parent company Meta said it is testing new ways for users to customize the content they see in their News Feeds.
Facebook tests giving more control of News Feed content to users again
It’s been tweaking that News Feed algorithm for years
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/18/22789969/facebook-tests-control-news-feed-algorithm-preferences?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook expands tools to help advertisers avoid placement near sensitive News Feed topics, across news, politics, tragedy, conflict, and debated social issues
Facebook makes it easier for advertisers to avoid sensitive topics
https://www.axios.com/facebook-advertisers-avoid-sensitive-topics-50d780c0-48bd-4f7a-861a-14d8115fbf17.html
Facebook on Thursday said it is expanding the controls it gives advertisers to make it easier for them to limit the types of News Feed content their ads show up next to. Excludable categories include news and politics, tragedy and conflict and debated social issues.
Why it matters: The move is part of a wider effort by Facebook to help advertisers avoid misinformation, hate speech or other content that may not be deemed “brand safe.”
How it works: Facebook is testing a function that allows advertisers to select topics that may not be suitable for their brand.
Once selected, Facebook says those advertisers’ messages will not be delivered to people “recently engaging with those topics in their News Feed.”
Early testing found that this feature helps advertisers avoid aligning their messages in the News Feed against sensitive topics like news and politics, tragedy and conflict and debated social issues with high probability.
Facebook says this solution brings advertisers a step closer to having content-based controls for where their ads end up. “We see this product as a bridge between what we can offer today and where we hope to go — content-based controls,” the company said in a statement.
In addition, the company says it’s also making it easier for users to control what they see in their News Feeds, in part by making existing controls — like Favorites, Snooze, Unfollow and Reconnect — easier to access.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Henry Powderly / Search Engine Land:
Twitter quietly updates its developer guidelines to say AMP support will be phased out by Q4; some publishers have reported months of lower Twitter referrals — With social media referrals to AMP pages cut down by the change, the reasons for supporting AMP are getting fewer.
Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
With social media referrals to AMP pages cut down by the change, the reasons for supporting AMP are getting fewer.
https://searchengineland.com/twitter-rolls-back-amp-support-no-longer-sends-users-to-amp-pages-376168
If you are noticing less traffic to your website’s AMP pages coming from Twitter, turns out there is a reason for that: Twitter has subtly updated its AMP guidelines page on its Developer site to say support for AMP will be phased out by the fourth quarter.
How that might affect you. Previously, if a mobile user clicked on a link to your site, Twitter would redirect them to the AMP version of that page if an AMP version was available. Now, that won’t happen and users will just load the native mobile/responsive version of your content.
Thanks for telling us. We’ve heard anecdotally that publishers have been seeing AMP traffic fall, especially since Google started putting non-AMP pages in its Top Stories section. But it was David Esteve, audience development specialist and product manager at Marfeel, and technical SEO consultant Christian Oliveira who spotted the update in Twitter’s documentation.
Looking at our own data, we’ve seen sharp Twitter referral declines since August. But, traffic completely bottomed out in November suggesting the rollout is complete.
Why we care. Since Google announced AMP will no longer be required for Top Stories, many publishers have been asking themselves if continuing to support AMP is still worth it. The main worry has been the risk of traffic loss if publishers rely fully on their native mobile experiences for ranking. But, if social media traffic to AMP pages is going to drop as support is lifted, the need for AMP seems to get smaller.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.sitefix.fi/tietoturva/miksi-wordpress-sivustoja-hakkeroidaan/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Politician Tweets Fake News—And Actually Has To Pay Up And Apologize. (No, It’s Not In The U.S.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/11/23/politician-tweets-fake-news-and-actually-has-to-pay-up-and-apologize-no-its-not-in-the-us/?sh=17cea4d37422&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainFB&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook
A local British politician who posted a doctored photo of former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn at the scene of Sunday’s Liverpool terrorist attack has agreed to pay “substantial damages” and Corbyn’s legal costs, he said Tuesday, a move difficult to imagine in U.S. politics, where politicians regularly share misinformation.
Paul Nickerson, a conservative member of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council tweeted he “accepts full responsibility” of the fake image he had posted to Twitter on November 15 of the former Labour Party leader laying a poppy wreath near a burning taxi at the site of the terrorist incident that killed one and injured another.
The photoshopped tweet portrayed Corbyn as supporting terrorist violence, setting off calls for Nickerson to step down, while his council’s Conservative group has suspended him, according to the BBC.
Nickerson deleted the fake photo and apologized independently of the latest apology, but told the BBC that the problematic tweet was a prank by his friends, who had “compromised” his account.
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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
EU proposes stricter rules for political ads, including sharing info on ads and banning targeting based on race, or face fines up to 5% global revenue
EU Pushes to Limit How Tech Companies Target Political Ads
https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-pushes-to-limit-how-tech-companies-target-political-ads-11637839613?mod=djemalertNEWS
Proposed measure would ban targeting political ads based on categories such as religious views, sexual orientation
An EU bill proposes preventing tech titans from directing ads to users based on categories such as race, religion or sexual orientation, without consent.
The European Union is proposing a ban on media companies targeting political ads at people based on their religious views or sexual orientation, a new volley in the continent’s expansion of global tech regulation.
A bill proposed Thursday by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, would restrict online tech platforms from targeting political ads at individual users based on a list of categories that regulators deem sensitive, including their race, political beliefs and health status, without users’ explicit consent. But it stops short of a broader ban on so-called microtargeting based on personal information that some activists had demanded.
The bill would also impose broad new requirements on social-media companies to disclose more information about every political ad they run, including how widely viewed an ad is and what criteria are used to determine who sees it, including targeting via the use of third-party data.
Companies that fail to comply could face fines of as much as 5% of their annual global revenue—higher than EU fines for privacy violations.
The goal of the new rules, EU policy makers say, is to counteract what they describe as the negative effect on free elections and political debate that stem from highly targeted ads. Such ads can polarize political debates, they say. Researchers say they have been used to target specific groups of voters to discourage them from turning out to cast their ballot.
“The sensitive data that people decide to share with friends on social media cannot be used to target them for political purposes,” said Vera Jourova, a vice president of the European Commission. “Our aim is to put order in the world of political advertising, especially online.”
The EU’s proposal will now begin what could be months or years of haggling over its content. To become law, it must be approved by both the European Council, representing the bloc’s 27 national governments, and the directly elected European Parliament.
The announcement comes amid the biggest new wave of tech regulation in a generation.
EU member states and Parliament members are currently advancing separate bills that would impose strict new content-moderation and pre-emptive competition rules on big tech companies, with the aim to complete and pass them as soon as early next year. Similar rules are under consideration in the U.K., and other proposals aimed at reining in big technology companies are under consideration in the U.S., Australia, Canada and elsewhere.
Online political advertising has itself been the subject of debate. It has become a potent tool for political campaigns in the U.S., EU and elsewhere to reach hard-to-find voters. But it has also come in for criticism since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, when foreign groups including some backed by the Russian government used social media ads to attempt to sway voters and fracture the political debate.
In the run up to the 2020 election, tech companies took widely varying approaches to the question. Alphabet Inc.’s Google barred advertisers from targeting political messages based on users’ interests inferred from their browsing or search histories. Twitter Inc. stopped accepting most political ads altogether.
At least some lobbyists for the tech industry said they back the general idea behind the EU’s proposed political-ad rules, given the risk of multiple European countries passing conflicting national rules. “Having more guidance at the EU level and a consistent policy for political ads would be better, particularly for smaller companies, than dealing with a patchwork of different state rules for political ads,” said Christian Borggreen, vice president and head of the Brussels office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which represents companies including Meta’s Facebook and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
A spokeswoman for Meta said the company welcomed the proposal and has long called for EU-wide regulation on political ads. Google didn’t immediately have any comment.
Tomi Engdahl says:
France asks search engines and app stores to remove e-Commerce platform Wish
https://tcrn.ch/3cJ5dIv
France asks search engines and app stores to remove Wish
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/24/france-asks-search-engines-and-app-stores-to-remove-wish/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Several French ministers have issued a common statement announcing that they have asked the main search engines and mobile app stores operating in France to hide Wish’s website and mobile app altogether. Wish is a popular e-commerce platform that mostly references products from China-based merchants. It doesn’t hold inventory, as products are shipped directly from merchants to customers.
Last year, the French administration in charge of consumer rights and fraud started investigating Wish. At the time, the direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF) suspected that it was a bit too easy to mislead consumers and sell counterfeit goods on Wish
The French administration then ordered 140 different goods on Wish — most of them were imported products. This time, they wanted to find out whether those products were safe or not.
Ninety-five percent of toys that they acquired on the platform didn’t comply with European regulation — 45% of them were deemed dangerous. When it comes to electronics goods, 95% of them also shouldn’t be available in Europe, and 90% of them were dangerous in one way or another.
And even cheap costume jewelry sold on the platform presented a risk — 62% of the items they ordered are considered dangerous. Again, these metrics are based on a very small sample of 140 products.
When Wish is notified that it is selling a dangerous good, those products are removed from the marketplace within 24 hours as expected. And yet, “in most cases, those products remain available under a different name, and sometimes even from the same seller.
In July 2021, the French administration in charge of consumer rights and fraud notified Wish and asked them to comply with European regulation on e-commerce and product safety. The administration gave them a two-month notice before further action.
Four months later, the French government is taking advantage of recent changes in European regulation to dereference or block problematic websites and apps.
Ministry of the Economy asked the French administration in charge to ask search engines and app stores to dereference Wish. It’s going to take a bit of time
After that, Wish will be shadowbanned in France. The website will still be available and the app will still work if you already have it on your phone. But you won’t see it in search results in the App Store, the Play Store or Google.
If the French administration thinks Wish has implemented proper changes to comply with French regulation, it could lift the shadowban.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/tunteiden-hyodyntaminen-markkinoinnissa
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Lumo Energian markkinointi skaalautuu vauhdilla – 7907 % enemmän sopimuksia hakusanamainonnalla
https://www.hopkins.fi/kokemuksia/lumo-energia/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/12/its-ok-to-borrow-ideas-when-building-your-startups-website/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/meta-kuvaus
Tomi Engdahl says:
Vaikuttavuusraportti
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Tomi Engdahl says:
The Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls
The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/facebooks-dangerous-experiment-teen-girls/620767/