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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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/31/this-week-in-security-the-log4j-that-wont-go-away-webos-and-more/
Chrome’s Aging Pains
It’s said that we didn’t get a Windows 9, because too many old apps were written with regex that would prevent execution, complaining that the application wouldn’t run on Windows 95 or 98. Chrome is trying to prevent a similar problem, as Google’s developers see version 100 on the horizon. This sort of thing has bitten web browser before, notably when Opera released version 10, further breaking the user-agent string in the process. Firefox is getting in on the fun as well, and both browsers’ developers have a request of you: Browse the web with a spoofed user-agent string, and let them know what breaks as a result of version 100. This would be a good opportunity to test your own sites, too. Let us know if you see any particularly odd results.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
An overview of efforts by Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Twitter to improve the accessibility of their products and services in 2021
The tech industry’s accessibility report card for 2021
How the industry fared this year.
https://www.engadget.com/accessibility-in-tech-2021-report-card-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-facebook-meta-twitter-210034415.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGVjaG1lbWUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABDaXZVJIhBqmwVQT38K2nTkL3PM89vnijBhYg6quctqCqPQLUnQBPrbcT_uDbtTt-m0hvg_LDQe0pfhm7TGzotHQ_d2MiitiAjkUYYCvcwfHbKsxwUbCfh8ldEk5Vv4lncJdLfuf_omPsmM0kpy0bGr5CN2KYMW29DrW7Q0RQaY
Tomi Engdahl says:
Heidi Chung / Variety:
2022 media trend predictions: subscription video streaming and global digital ad revenue will likely remain growth stories, and the M&A fever will rage on
https://variety.com/vip/key-themes-for-media-business-in-2022-1235144080/
Tomi Engdahl says:
New York Times:
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/business/china-internet-police-twitter.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Starting YouTube? Here Are the 9 Important DON’TS
https://edifid.com/blog/9-youtube-donts/
1. Don’t Worry About YouTube NUMBERS
2. Don’t Get DISCOURAGED
3. Don’t Concentrate on VIRAL Videos
4. Don’t Worry about Costly EQUIPMENT
5. Don’t COPY Big YouTubers
6. Don’t Post Content RANDOMLY
7. Don’t DISRESPECT your Audience
8. Don’t SPAM (Very Serious)
9. DON’T forget to Folow Us
Tomi Engdahl says:
HTML= Hamburger with Tomato Mayonnaise and Lettuce!!!
Tomi Engdahl says:
Heidi Chung / Variety:
2022 media trend predictions: subscription video streaming and global digital ad revenue will likely remain growth stories, and the M&A fever will rage on — Though the economy wasn’t completely shut down in 2021, life and business were hardly normal. Despite those less-than-normal conditions …
Key Themes for Media Business in 2022
https://variety.com/vip/key-themes-for-media-business-in-2022-1235144080/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gideon Lichfield / Wired:
Wired merges its US and UK websites, but will still publish two separate print editions, as it vows to reject “the optimist and pessimist views of tech” — The future begins here—again. — In the next few decades, virtually every financial, social, and governmental institution …
https://www.wired.com/story/welcome-to-the-new-wired/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Bypass Cookie Settings
(https://12ft.io/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/)
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Great Blog thanks for sharing!
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/where-will-our-data-go-when-cookies-disappear/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/04/4-trends-that-will-define-e-commerce-in-2022/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tuhoaako tuplasisältö tai hakusanojen kannibalisaatio sivustosi hakukonenäkyvyyden?
Vältä tuplasisältöä sivustollasi, jos haluat varmistaa näkyvyytesi hakutuloksissa
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/tuhoaako-tuplasisalto-nakyvyytesi-hakutuloksissa
Tomi Engdahl says:
2022 Digital Marketing Trends That Should Be On Your Radar
https://blogs.constantcontact.com/digital-marketing-trends/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/03/your-mom-owns-web-2-0/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kolme tärkeintä asiaa Facebook-mainonnassa
https://www.samisuhonen.com//post/kolme-t%C3%A4rkeint%C3%A4-asiaa-facebook-mainonnassa
Tänään avaan sinulle kolme tärkeintä asiaa, jotka muistaa Facebook-mainonnassa vuonna 2021.
1. Facebookin algoritmi tietää kaiken
2. Itse mainokset ovat ylivoimaisesti tärkein asia
3. Mainostekstisi on myyntihenkilösi
Tomi Engdahl says:
Caitlin Petre / Nieman Lab:
Research finds journalists consider some uses of metrics “clean”, like those used for a story’s promotion, while using metrics to determine content is “dirty” — In late January 2012, A. J. Daulerio, then the editor in chief of Gawker.com, published a post on the site announcing an experiment.
“Traffic whoring” or simply optimizing? Finding the boundaries between clean and dirty metrics
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/traffic-whoring-or-simply-optimizing-finding-the-boundaries-between-clean-and-dirty-metrics/
“Journalists go to some lengths to construct symbolic boundaries that allow them to incorporate metrics into their work while preserving their professional self-conception.”
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Kim Bellware / Washington Post:25 minutes ago
Republican leaders say journalists will no longer be allowed to work on the Iowa Senate floor, breaking a more than 140-year tradition, worrying press advocates — When Iowa’s 2022 legislative session commences Monday, there will be a notable absence on the floor of the state Senate: reporters.
Republican leadership bars journalists from Iowa Senate floor, worrying press advocates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/01/08/iowa-senate-journalists/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Innojournalismi/permalink/5114776858555995/
RISJ: ”Publishers say they’ll be paying less attention to Facebook (-8 net score) and Twitter (-5) this year and will instead put more effort into Instagram (+54), TikTok (+44), and YouTube (+43), all networks that are popular with younger people.”
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2022
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nic Newman / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Survey of 246 media leaders in 52 countries: 59% say revenue grew in 2021 and 47% worry subscription models may be excluding less affluent audiences
Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-and-technology-trends-and-predictions-2022
2022 will be a year of careful consolidation for a news industry that has been both disrupted and galvanised by the drawn-out COVID-19 crisis. Both journalists and audiences have, to some degree, been ‘burnt out’ by the relentless intensity of the news agenda, alongside increasingly polarised debates about politics, identity, and culture. This could be the year when journalism takes a breath, focuses on the basics, and comes back stronger.
In many parts of the world, audiences for news media have been falling throughout 2021 – not an ideal situation at a time when accurate and reliable information has been so critical to people’s health and security. A key challenge for the news media this year is to re-engage those who have turned away from news – as well as to build deeper relationships with more regular news consumers.
Generational change will also continue to be a key theme, leading to more internal soul-searching in newsrooms over diversity and inclusion, about emerging agendas such as climate change and mental health, and about how journalists should behave in social media.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Web 3 is hotter than bitcoin and harder to understand than AI.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-11/signal-founder-marlinspike-gives-web3-nfts-an-emperor-s-new-clothes-moment?utm_source=facebook&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-view&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=view&utm_medium=social
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Nyt Itävallan tietosuojaviranomainen on päättänyt tämän pohjalta, että Google Analytics on laiton Itävallassa – ja todennäköisesti koko Euroopassa.”
Lähes kaikilta maailman nettisivuilta löytyvä Googlen palikka todettiin laittomaksi
https://dawn.fi/artikkeli.cfm/2022/01/14/google-analytics-laiton
Lähes kaikki maailman suuret verkkosivustot käyttävät Google Analytics -seutantaa sivuillaan. Nyt kyseinen seuranta on todettu laittomaksi Euroopan Unionin maassa.
Google Analytics on työkalu, joka tarjoaa verkkosivujen omistajille näkymän siihen, miten sivustoa käytetään ja mistä käyttäjät tulevat sivustolle. Käytännössä Google Analyticsin kautta sivusto saa käsityksen omasta suosiostaan ja mm. siitä, mitkä sivuston osa-alueet ovat suosituimpia. Mediasivustoille, kuten vaikkapa AfterDawnille Analyticsin kautta selviää myös vaikkapa se, moniko ihminen on lukenut tietyn uutisen.
Ilman näkyvyyttä tällaisiin tietoihin, sivuston ylläpito olisi luonnollisesti hieman hukassa siitä, mitkä aihealueet kiinnostavat lukijoita ja mitkä eivät.
Mutta ongelmalliseksi Google Analyticsin tekee se, että Googlen tapa käsitellä henkilötietoja on ristiriidassa Euroopan Unionin yleisen tietosuoja-asetuksen eli GDPR:n kanssa.
Isoin ongelma Google Analyticsissa on se, että se siirtää keräämänsä tiedot Yhdysvaltoihin, jossa Google pitää kotipaikkaansa. Aiemmin amerikkalaiset yhtiöt pystyivät siirtämään tietoja vapaasti Euroopan ja Yhdysvaltain välillä, mutta kesällä 2020 pamahti uutispommi, kun EU:n oikeus tuomitsi käytännön laittomaksi.
Syynä päätökseen on se, että Yhdysvaltain omien lakien mukaan amerikkalaisilla tiedusteluorganisaatioilla on laillinen pääsy kaikkeen dataan, jota säilytetään Yhdysvalloissa.
Tämän johdosta GDPR:n idea yksityisyydestä ei siis voi toimia, jos tiedot siirtyvät maahan, jossa GDPR:ää ei kunnioiteta.
Nyt Itävallan tietosuojaviranomainen on päättänyt tämän pohjalta, että Google Analytics on laiton Itävallassa – ja todennäköisesti koko Euroopassa.
Itävallan tietosuojaviranomainen katsoo, että myös sinänsä anonyymit IP-osoitteet, joita Google Analytics käyttäjistä kerää, ovat nekin henkilötietoja – ja näin ollen GDPR:n suojausten alaisia. Myös tilanne, jossa Google anonymisoi IP-osoitteet ja luo kullekin käyttäjälle oman ID-tunnisteen ja käyttää sitä tunnistamaan yksittäisen käyttävän, on Itävallan viranomaisen mukaan sekin laitonta.
In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/12/austrian-dpa-schrems-ii/
A decision by Austria’s data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does not bode well for use of US cloud services in Europe.
The decision raises a big red flag over routine use of tools that require transferring Europeans’ personal data to the US for processing — with the watchdog finding that IP address and identifiers in cookie data are the personal data of site visitors, meaning these transfers fall under the purview of EU data protection law.
In this specific case, an IP address “anonymization” function had not been properly implemented on the website. But, regardless of that technical wrinkle, the regulator found IP address data to be personal data given the potential for it to be combined — like a “puzzle piece” — with other digital data to identify a visitor.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://johtajaonmedia.fi/miksi-liukastumme-samaan-viestinnan-ansaan-yha-uudelleen-ja-uudelleen/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.ukko.fi/yrittajyyskoulu/tekisinko-tana-vuonna-sosiaalisen-median-vuosikellon-kerromme-vinkit-yrittajalle/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Paras verkkokauppa-alusta? Katso opas valintaan
https://www.kuasi.fi/artikkelit/paras-verkkokauppa-alusta?fbclid=IwAR3ZmlZ4Z14LvbaSRc0h2WE_YrnO6Gdy1fMK7gD4FLi7G3OcqHwJFcLoS3A
Verkkokauppa-alustan valinta on verkkokaupan perustamisen yksi tärkeimpiä päätöksiä, johon vaikuttaa moni tekijä, kuten verkkokauppa-alustalta vaadittavat ominaisuudet, budjettisi sekä teknisen osaamisen tasosi mikäli suunnittelet hoitavasi verkkokaupan perustamisen itse.
Tomi Engdahl says:
2022 Digital Marketing Trends That Should Be On Your Radar
https://blogs.constantcontact.com/digital-marketing-trends/
Technology moves forward fast. Every year, there are new, hot social media apps, better smartphones, and other tech advances that promise to revolutionize your digital marketing.
To help you wade through the hype, I’ve compiled a list of which digital marketing trends should be on your radar in the next year.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Verkkopalveluiden trendit vuonna 2022 – muista nämä, niin sivustosi säilyy edelläkävijänä
https://into-digital.fi/verkkopalveluiden-trendit-vuonna-2022-muista-nama-niin-sivustosi-sailyy-edellakavijana/
Verkkopalveluiden ulkoasussa ja toiminnallisuuksissa on nähtävissä tällä hetkellä useita suuntauksia, joiden suosio suurella todennäköisyydellä jatkuu vielä ensi vuoteen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/17/hack-the-web-without-a-browser/
It is a classic problem. You want data for use in your program but it is on a webpage. Some websites have an API, of course, but usually, you are on your own. You can load the whole page via HTTP and parse it. Or you can use some tools to “scrape” the site. One interesting way to do this is woob — web outside of browsers.
https://woob.tech/
woob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Puolustusvvoimissa on kahdenlaisia salaisuuksia. Journalistien on syytä panna merkille, että yhdenlaisten paljastaminen voi tuoda mainetta ja kunniaa. Toisenlaisten paljastaminen tai edes sen yrittäminen voi johtaa telkien taa.”
Iltalehti paljasti salaista tietoa, mutta Puolustusvoimat pysyi rauhallisena – Ministeriö: Ei yhtymäkohtia HS:n tapaukseen
https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/jutut/kotimaa/iltalehti-paljasti-salaista-tietoa-mutta-puolustusvoimat-pysyi-rauhallisena-ministerio-ei-yhtymakohtia-hsn-tapaukseen/?shared=1207072-fe1f9931-500&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1642494746
Vuodosta aiheutui korkeintaan “lievää mainehaittaa”, kommentoi puolustusministeriön viestintäjohtaja Niina Hyrsky.
ILTALEHTI julkisti joulukuun 5. päivänä kovan uutisen. Sen mukaan Puolustusvoimat oli esittämässä puolustusministeriölle, että Suomen seuraavaksi monitoimihävittäjäksi valittaisiin yhdysvaltalainen Lockheed Martin F-35A.
Kaikille prosessia seuranneille oli selvää, että tämä merkitsisi F-35:n voittoa myös lopullisessa valinnassa valtioneuvostossa.
Niin myös kävi. Valtioneuvosto julkisti valinnan tuloksen joulukuun 10. päivänä, viisi päivää Iltalehden uutisen jälkeen.
Lehti kertoi uutisensa perustuneen useisiin ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikan lähteisiin. Niitä ei luonnollisestikaan yksilöity. Toimittajan lähdesuojahan on hyvin vahva, myöskin tapauksissa, joissa lähde kertoo maanpuolustukseen liittyvistä, salassa pidettävistä asioista.
SALASSAPITO oli yksi kantavista periaatteista koko hävittäjävalinnassa eli HX-prosessissa. Puolustusministeriön eläkkeelle jäänyt kansliapäällikkö Jukka Juusti kertoi Helsingin Sanomien haastattelussa projektin kestäneen seitsemän vuotta, kaksi kuukautta ja kaksi päivää.
Salassapidon vuoksi muun muassa kaikki hankintaan liittyvät neuvottelut pyrittiin järjestämään erityisissä turvatiloissa. Sellaisissa olosuhteissa lopputuloskin esiteltiin pääministeri Sanna Marinille (sd), Juusti kertoo.
Salassapidolle oli useita perusteita.
ILTALEHDEN juttu oli journalistien kielellä skuuppi. Se perustui omaan uutishankintaan merkittävässä asiassa ja piti paikkansa. Tekijät ansaitsisivat vähintään palkankorotuksen.
Jutun tekeminen ja julkaiseminen vaati myös jonkinlaista siviilirohkeutta. Maanpuolustukseen liittyvien salaisten tietojen sorkkiminen saattaa nimittäin Suomessa johtaa myös vankeustuomioon.
Sellaista apulaisvaltakunnansyyttäjä hakee nyt kolmelle Helsingin Sanomien toimittajalle. Heitä syytetään turvallisuussalaisuuden paljastamisesta ja paljastamisen yrityksestä ns. Viestikoekeskus-jutussa joulukuussa 2017.
Iltalehden F-35-jutussa tilanne oli toinen. Puolustusministeriön viestintäjohtaja Niina Hyrsky kertoo sähköpostitse, että lehden raportoima puolustusvoimien esitys ministeriölle ei ollut asian keskeneräisyyden vuoksi julkinen tieto.
Toisaalta sitä ei tiettyjä liitteitä lukuun ottamatta ollut merkitty salassa pidettäväksi. Paperista ilmeisesti puuttui punainen, suorakaiteen muotoinen leima, jonka keskellä lukee SALAINEN.
PUOLUSTUSVOIMISSA on siis kahdenlaisia salaisuuksia. Journalistien on syytä panna merkille, että yhdenlaisten paljastaminen voi tuoda mainetta ja kunniaa. Toisenlaisten paljastaminen tai edes sen yrittäminen voi johtaa telkien taa.
Iltalehden HX-skuuppi kuului ensin mainittuun kategoriaan. Niinpä asiasta ei Hyrskyn mukaan ole vireillä minkäänlaista selvitystä tai tutkintaa.
”Vuoto ei aiheuttanut hävittäjähankkeen valmistelulle tai päätöksenteolle mitään suurempaa haittaa – ehkä lievää mainehaittaa lukuun ottamatta”, Hyrsky kirjoittaa.
MUUTAMAT ulkomaiset esimerkit osoittavat, että salaisiksikin leimattujen papereiden julkistaminen voi todellakin olla Pulitzer-palkinnon eikä vankilatuomion arvoinen teko.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
The Royal Society finds social media sites banning misleading content is ineffective and can drive misinformation to “harder-to-address corners of the internet”
https://www.ft.com/content/9cf1ee59-985c-4a71-ac96-895cd6413703
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2600net/permalink/3218684028354700/
Axel Springer has lost its copyright infringement lawsuit against Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus. The German publishing house, which owns the Bild and Die Welt brands, among others, claimed that adblockers interfere with the presentation of websites in browsers, thus breaching copyright. In a victory for Eyeo, the Hamburg District Court has dismissed the case.
In order to finance their operations, millions of websites rely on advertising to generate revenue. For some readers, however, excessive or obtrusive advertising is something to be combatted, often through the use of adblocking tools.
Developed by German company Eyeo GmbH and available on Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Android and iOS, one of the most popular tools is AdBlock Plus. It’s able to drastically reduce the volume of advertising seen by its users but that didn’t sit well with publishing giant Axel Springer.
The publisher, which owns Bild and Die Welt, among others, claimed that AdBlock Plus and its users interfere with its business model so in response took legal action to bring that to an end. However, after trips through regional courts and eventually Germany’s Supreme Court, in April 2018 Adblock Plus and Eyeo came out on top having been found not in breach of competition law.
Adblocking Does Not Constitute Copyright Infringement, Court Rules
https://torrentfreak.com/adblocking-does-not-constitute-copyright-infringement-court-rules-220118/
Axel Springer has lost its copyright infringement lawsuit against Eyeo GmbH, the company behind Adblock Plus.
In order to finance their operations, millions of websites rely on advertising to generate revenue. For some readers, however, excessive or obtrusive advertising is something to be combatted, often through the use of adblocking tools.
The publisher, which owns Bild and Die Welt, among others, claimed that AdBlock Plus and its users interfere with its business model so in response took legal action to bring that to an end. However, after trips through regional courts and eventually Germany’s Supreme Court, in April 2018 Adblock Plus and Eyeo came out on top having been found not in breach of competition law.
Axel Springer Claims Adblocking is Copyright Infringement
After its defeat in the earlier action, in 2019 Axel Springer filed a new lawsuit on new grounds. This time around the publisher claimed that AdBlock Plus “changed the programming code of websites thus directly accessing the legally protected offer of publishers.” In other words, AdBlock Plus breaches copyright law.
Eyeo immediately dismissed the allegations as “almost absurd”, noting that its browser-side tool does not attempt to modify anything on Springer’s servers. Nevertheless, Springer pressed ahead with its legal action, claiming that by interfering with website delivery to viewers, that constituted copyright infringement and was worthy of an injunction.
Springer Likens Adblocking to Videogame Cheating
Court Dismisses Lawsuit
In a decision handed down Friday, the Court finds that Axel Springer is not entitled to injunctive relief pursuant to Section 91 (1) UrhG since there was no unauthorized duplication and/or reworking of copyrighted computer programs as defined in copyright law.
“[T]he defendants have not infringed the plaintiff’s rights to the programs for creating the web pages. The defendants are not – together with the respective user – accessories to a copyright infringement,” the decision reads.
According to the Court, the HTML files and other elements are loaded into the user’s main memory when Axel Springer-controlled web pages are accessed, but that takes place with the publisher’s consent. Users who access those pages and also use AdBlock Plus are also entitled to store those files since when the files are transferred, there is an implied agreement for the user to do so.
Furthermore, while AdBlock Plus changes the structure of how websites are presented in a browser, the tool does not change any code, only how that code flows.
Ultimately, the Court found that the processes carried out by AdBlock Plus following the local saving of the website do not constitute a “reworking” under copyright law. Only a change in the program substance can be considered as infringing.
The Court notes that ruling otherwise would represent a “disproportionate encroachment” on users’ freedoms to make various choices, including not to load images to save bandwidth, to deactivate Javascript, or block pop-ups or tracking elements. It would also render translation tools and aids for visually impaired people as copyright infringing.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2600net/permalink/3218858661670570/
Just the idea that this would make it into a internet security article is disturbing. Google statistics, it just shows that they keep stats on chrome users. How wonderful of them
“The shift toward HTTPs is still great for the internet! According to Google’s statistics, 80% of web pages loaded in Chrome on Windows are loaded over HTTPS. And Chrome users on Windows spend 88% of their browsing time on HTTPS sites.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/
When the Privacy Shield legislation was invalidated in 2020, this had far-reaching consequences for US online services operating in Europe:
They were no longer allowed to transfer data of European citizens to the US as this would make data of European citizens vulnerable to American mass surveillance – a clear violation of the European GDPR.
However, the Silicon Valley tech industry largely ignored the ruling.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Unpicking The Hype Around Web 3, What’s The Tech?
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/20/unpicking-the-hype-around-web-3-whats-the-tech/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://oddydigital.fi/blogi/miksi-retargetointi-mainonta-on-aarimmaisen-tarkeaa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.jimixmedia.com/www.jimixmedia.com
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.karhuhelsinki.fi/blogi/millainen-hyva-domain-verkkosivuille-11-valintakriteeria
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/25/google-kills-off-floc-replaces-it-with-topics/
FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google’s controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is dead. In its place, Google today announced a new proposal: Topics.
The idea here is that your browser will learn about your interests as you move around the web. It’ll keep data for the last three weeks of your browsing history and as of now, Google is restricting the number of topics to 300, with plans to extend this over time. Google notes that these topics will not include any sensitive categories like gender or race.
To figure out your interests, Google categorizes the sites you visit based on one of these 300 topics. For sites that it hasn’t categorized before, a lightweight machine learning algorithm in the browser will take over and provide an estimated topic based on the name of the domain.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, craft web design, and more?
Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/22/eu_dsa_provisional_draft/
The European Parliament has adopted a set of amendments to the Digital Services Act (DSA) that makes the pending legislation even more protective of personal privacy and requires businesses to give greater consideration to advertising technology, respecting user choice, and web design.
Tomi Engdahl says:
European Parliament uses Google Analytics, which is illegal in the EU
(Handelsblatt)
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/33/03/#subj5
Data of European citizens may not be stored in the USA without further considerations. This is stated in a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from the summer of 2020. However, many companies violate this requirement on a daily basis, as does the European Parliament.
Parliament had installed cookies from Google Analytics and the payment service provider Stripe on its website. Alkuperäinen (saksaksi):
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/dsgvo-europaparlament-missachtet-datenschutz-warnung-an-unternehmen/27964838.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Me hakeudumme kuohuttaviin keskusteluihin, koska ne sähköistävät meidät. Kuohahtaminen on koukuttavaa, koska se pumppaa meihin energiaa. Adrenaliinihumauksessa on extremeurheilun kiihottavuutta. Tunnemme olevamme elossa.”
Ärsyttävät nettikeskustelut aiheuttavat kehossa hälytystilan – näin purat elimistösi adrenaliinipommin
https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10001840
Kun ahdistus tai raivo nousee, alkeelliset aivoalueet kaappavat vallan harkitsevammilta alueilta. Liskoaivojen ei pitäisi päästä mellastamaan kommenttikentillä. Onneksi reaktion voi sammuttaa.
Kuvitellaan, että luet parhaillaan keskustelua, jossa väitellään sinua kiinnostavasta aiheesta. Osa keskustelijoista on kanssasi samoilla linjoilla, osa ei.
Yksi kommenteista saa näkemään punaista. Kommentti voi olla mielestäsi tyhmä, loukkaava tai ahdistava. Se menee kunnolla tunteisiin.
Mitä kehossa tapahtuu, kun pillastut?
Kehossa soi hälytys. Sympaattinen hermosto aktivoi lisämunuaisen erittämään adrenaliinia.
Kehosi puolustusreaktio ei erota ärsyttävää kommenttia hyökkäävästä leijonasta, se tunnistaa kiihtymyksen ja alkaa valmistaa sinua pakoon tai taisteluun.
Saatat tuntea kehossa kuohahduksen, terästäytymisen, kuin kasvaisit pituutta muutaman sentin. Adrenaliini se siellä kuohuilee, puskee veren lihaksiin ja tuo hetkeksi voimakkaan olon.
Pupillit laajenevat, kädet hikoilevat ja pulssi kiihtyy.
Miten kiihtyminen vaikuttaa aivoihin?
Kun kärkäs keskustelu menee tunteisiin, järkiaivoilta “sammuvat valot”.
Ihmisen aivoissa on tavallaan kolme tasoa. Niitä kutsutaan liskoaivoiksi, tunneaivoiksi ja järkiaivoiksi.
Yksi provosoi, toinen vastaa – ja pian kaikki paikalle sattuneet liskoaivot riehuvat adrenaliinipäissään. Aggressiivisuus on tarttuvaa.
Alkeelliselle tasolle jumiutunut keskustelu lakkaa olemasta sitä uteliasta ajatustenvaihtoa, jota se ehkä aluksi oli. Siitä on tullut taistelua täysiä idiootteja vastaan. Sekä-että -ajattelulla ei ole sijaa. Mielipiteet jyrkkenevät, kunnes jäljellä on enää kaksi vastakkaista kantaa. Jokaisen keskustelijan on valittava puolensa.
Mikä saa meidät koukuttumaan liskoiluun?
Me hakeudumme kuohuttaviin keskusteluihin, koska ne sähköistävät meidät. Kuohahtaminen on koukuttavaa, koska se pumppaa meihin energiaa. Adrenaliinihumauksessa on extremeurheilun kiihottavuutta. Tunnemme olevamme elossa.
Aivomme ovat plastiset eli muovautuvat. Jos juoksemme jatkuvasti raivopallojen perässä, vahvistamme niitä neurologisia yhteyksiä ja polkuja, jotka saavat meidät pillastumaan. Kiivastumme yhä herkemmin ja herkemmin.
Kun ihmisen alttius kiihottua, jopa ääliömäiseen jääräpäisyyteen saakka, yhdistetään verkkoalustojen algoritmeihin, syntyy niin vaarallinen yhdistelmä, että se uhkaa jo demokratiaa ja maailmanrauhaa.
Algoritmit nimittäin ruokkivat meidän taipumustamme pillastua ja puolustautua kohtuuttomalla vimmalla. Algoritmien tehtävä on pitää meidät alustoilla, koska näin mainostajat tahkoavat rahaa. Sisältö, joka herättää meissä voimakkaita tunteita, saa meidät koukuttumaan.
Ärhäkän verkkokeskustelun jäljiltä olemme kuin ravisteltuja limsapulloja – täynnä painetta ja räjähdysaltista kuohuntaa.
Onneksi adrenaliinin aiheuttama raivonsokeus kestää vain noin 20 minuuttia, jos sitä ei kiihdytä lisää.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2600net/permalink/3228238670732569/
Verified facts can be used to support erroneous conclusions. Here is how we can put an end to that.
Fact-checking has become popularized as the definitive process for certifying truth in the media. This has occurred in response to the proliferation of a wide variety of internet subcultures, often based largely upon misinformation. Propaganda and bad faith communication are all too common, making the checking of facts an important part of sensemaking.
While fact-checking is necessary, it is often not enough to provide the whole picture. Under current conditions of escalating culture and information war, facts themselves have become weapons. Neither propaganda nor bad faith communication require the speaking of falsehoods. It is often more effective to mislead and misinform through a strategic use of verified facts. The ability to critique and correct for the misuse of facts in public culture is an essential component of the democratic way of life.
Unfortunately, today it is standard practice for both institutions and individuals from all sectors of society to offer strategically cherry-picked and decontextualized facts, set within a predetermined emotional or ethical frame. This way of using facts is an effective tool to bring some people towards previously unappealing conclusions. It also provides rhetorical ammunition to those already predisposed to drawing these conclusions. While honestly passing the scrutiny of the fact-checkers, such an approach is nevertheless far from entirely truthful.
Verified facts are collected as ammunition for culture war, rather than for the sake of gaining a comprehensive understanding.
How to Mislead with Facts
https://consilienceproject.org/how-to-mislead-with-facts/#fn-4
Verified facts can be used to support erroneous conclusions. Here is how we can put an end to that.
Fact-checking has become popularized as the definitive process for certifying truth in the media. This has occurred in response to the proliferation of a wide variety of internet subcultures, often based largely upon misinformation. Propaganda and bad faith communication are all too common, making the checking of facts an important part of sensemaking.
While fact-checking is necessary, it is often not enough to provide the whole picture. Under current conditions of escalating culture and information war, facts themselves have become weapons.[1] Neither propaganda nor bad faith communication require the speaking of falsehoods.[2] It is often more effective to mislead and misinform through a strategic use of verified facts. The ability to critique and correct for the misuse of facts in public culture is an essential component of the democratic way of life.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures”
Wordle, Josh Wardle’s stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times’s portfolio of original, engaging puzzle games that delight and challenge solvers every day.
https://www.nytco.com/press/wordle-new-york-times-games/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Antirasismi on nykyajan rasismia
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/7e8ec812-fff4-46a2-b7f9-bb26f3cd82af
Antirasismi ei ole rasismin vastaisuutta. Todellisuudessa se on pehmeää rotuerottelua, joka jakaa ihmiset eri lokeroihin ja polarisoi kansaa, kirjoittaa Sanna Ukkola.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever last quarter
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914970/facebook-app-loses-daily-users-first-time-earnings
A metaverse pivot isn’t going to fix the social network’s main problems: slowing user and ad growth
Since its inception, Facebook’s user growth has essentially been up and to the right. But on Wednesday, it reported its first-ever quarterly decline of daily users globally, along with lower-than-expected ad growth that sent its stock plunging roughly 20 percent.
The massive stock drop, which instantly wiped out roughly $200 billion in market value, shows that Facebook’s corporate rebrand to Meta isn’t enough to distract investors from the problems in its core business of social media. Not only was user growth across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp essentially flat last quarter, but the main Facebook app lost 1 million daily users in North America, where it makes the most money through advertising. That drop led to an overall decrease in daily users of Facebook globally, which a company spokesperson confirmed is the first sequential decline in the company’s history.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Words You Should Never Google, According To People Who Have
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-words-you-should-never-google-according-to-people-who-have/
Ah, Google, the world’s number two website. An incredibly useful tool that can become an absolute horror show if you use it incorrectly.
Some people have learned this the hard way so that you don’t have to.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/31/spotify-joe-rogan-address-covid-19-content-backlash/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/verkkokaupan-mittarit?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-paid&utm_campaign=SDM+%7C+Automated+ads+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Blogi+UUSI+-+Blogibuustaus+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Sivuk%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t+180d&utm_content=SDM+%7C+Automated+ads+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Blogi+2021+-+Blogibuustaus+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Sivuk%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t+180d+-+Post+-+Blogi+rema&fbclid=IwAR1DYRVJyhfJE-IcJYgVYOs9LOmLEelq8dPDiEG2Tmm350EIKrE361J_feo
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/iab-tcf-gdpr-breaches/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/verkkokaupan-mittarit?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-paid&utm_campaign=SDM+%7C+Automated+ads+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Blogi+UUSI+-+Blogibuustaus+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Sivuk%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t+180d&utm_content=SDM+%7C+Automated+ads+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Blogi+2021+-+Blogibuustaus+%7C+Remarketing+%7C+Sivuk%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t+180d+-+Post+-+Blogi+rema&fbclid=IwAR2b05MZQXk_sOEHESFAN6Yd_687pH9IhnqHmo6ZBD4ufuKRC0vcw00I4vU