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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https://rogerwessman.com/2014/04/01/mita-kysymysmerkki-otsikossa-tarkoittaa/amp/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.columbiaroad.com/blog/using-web-extensions-to-optimise-web-workflows-part-2/2
Tomi Engdahl says:
This Stunning Image Made With Pure Code Is Like a Mood Ring For Your Browser
Diana Smith’s work is digital art on ultra-hard mode.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/9kgx7p/painting-made-with-code-html-pure-css-browser-art-diana-smith
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Common Gateway Interface (CGI) – How it Works, Features & Applications
https://electricalfundablog.com/common-gateway-interface-cgi/
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BuzzFeed News:
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist shows how large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries’ leaders and FB is slow to act — Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent by a recently fired Facebook employee and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
“I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions. I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count.” “I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using their site to manipulate voters — and failed to act.
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook; company says it has increased monitoring of content — Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg897a/hate-speech-on-facebook-is-pushing-ethiopia-dangerously-close-to-a-genocide
Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.taiste.fi/en/making-digital-products-accessible-why-and-how?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=promotedpost&utm_campaign=website&utm_content=accessibility
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At the very last Moment.js: Time-and-date JavaScript library fetched 12 million times a week ends development
Programmers put decade-old package out to pasture, advise devs to find alternatives
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/moment_js_javascript_library_future/
The maintainers of Moment.js, a JavaScript time-and-date handling library downloaded 12 million times a week, put the project into maintenance mode on Tuesday, and advised developers to consider alternatives.
“We recognize that many existing projects may continue to use Moment, but we would like to discourage Moment from being used in new projects going forward,” a project status update read this week. “We now generally consider Moment to be a legacy project in maintenance mode. It is not dead, but it is indeed done.”
That means there will be no new features, API changes, performance improvements, or major changes. There will be security fixes and data updates related to IANA time zone database changes, though the idea is to wean apps from Moment.js if possible.
https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
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Self-censorship in the US
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16337/self-censorship-in-the-us
The US nominally enshrines the most far-reaching freedom of speech, thanks to the First Amendment of the Constitution. Yet the average number of Americans who self-censor is slowly beginning to approximate that of Germany, where… “Nearly two-thirds of citizens are convinced that ‘today one has to be very careful on which topics one expresses oneself’, because there are many unwritten laws about what opinions are acceptable and admissible”.
It is, however, not surprising. American campuses have steered a “leftist” course for decades. The tilt has had familiar consequences: the proliferation on campus of “safe spaces”, trigger warnings, de-platforming of conservative voices and a “cancel culture” aimed at professors and students who do not conform to an on-campus political orthodoxy that has become increasingly totalitarian.
Leslie Neal-Boylan, was fired by the school after writing “Black lives matter, but also everyone’s life matters” in an email to students and faculty.
When citizens stop voicing their concerns in public about current events, policies and ideas out of fear that they will lose their livelihoods and social standing, it is — or should be — a huge problem in a democracy.
A democratic society of fearful citizens who dare not speak about what is on their minds — often important issues of their time — is doomed to succumb to the will of those who bully the hardest and shout the loudest.
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Publishers Are Taking the Internet to Court
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/publishers-are-taking-the-internet-to-court/
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book.
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Cloudflare now populating and using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in its content distribution network application.
Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
http://blog.archive.org/2020/09/17/internet-archive-partners-with-cloudflare-to-help-make-the-web-more-useful-and-reliable/
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Puhutaan hetki rahasta – mitä verkkopalvelun uudistus maksaa?
https://into-digital.fi/puhutaan-hetki-rahasta-mita-verkkopalvelun-uudistus-maksaa/?utm_source=fbmainos&utm_medium=kuva&utm_campaign=Mit%C3%A4+verkkopalvelun+uudistus+maksaa%3F
Kokeneimmat verkkopalveluiden ostajat tietävät suurin piirtein realistisen hintakokoluokan verkkosivu-uudistukselleen. Monet eivät sitäkään. Vielä harvemmat tietävät, mitkä tekijät siihen hintaan vaikuttavat. Seuraavassa helpotusta jokaiselle verkkopalveluhankkeen suunnittelun ja budjetoinnin kanssa kamppailevalle.
Olen hävinnyt lukuisia tarjouksia siitä syystä, että hintamme on esimerkiksi kolmin-, viisin- tai jopa kymmenkertainen verrattuna kilpailijaan. Olemmekohan tarjonneet samaa asiaa? Emme varmasti. Tietääkö asiakas tarkasti, mitä on ostanut? Ei varmasti.
kaikissa hankkeissa on selvästi tunnistettavissa tekijät, joiden perusteella hinnoittelu pääpiirteittäin rakentuu:
Palvelumuotoilu, käyttäjäpolut ja sisältörakenne
Sisällön määrä, sisältötyypit ja sisällön esitystavat eri puolella sivustoa
Toiminnallisuudet
Integraatiot
Tekniset reunaehdot esim. julkaisujärjestelmän ja palvelimen suhteen
Ylläpito ja jatkokehitys
Meillä verkkopalvelun hinta koostuu aina asiantuntijoidemme työmäärästä. Hinnoittelu perustuu henkilötyöpäiviin (htp), joka sisältää 7,5 tuntia asiantuntijoidemme työtä. Henkilötyöpäivän hinta kaikille asiakkaillemme on 800 €, jonka päälle lisätään 24 %:n arvonlisävero. Asiantuntijoitamme ovat projektipäälliköt, suunnittelijat ja kehittäjät eli koodarit.
Lisenssikuluja ja muita juoksevia kuluja ovat ainoastaan mahdolliset maksulliset lisäosat ja palvelinkulut. Nämä kulut asettuvat useimmiten enintään kymmenien eurojen kuukausitasolle.
Tomi Engdahl says:
5 syytä, miksi WordPress on maailman suosituin julkaisujärjestelmä
https://into-digital.fi/5-syyta-miksi-wordpress-on-maailman-suosituin-julkaisujarjestelma/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Building sustainable news media requires balance between tradition and innovation
https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/missions-mistakes-and-pushback-how-to-build-sustainable-news-media-in-the-digital-age/s2/a761129/
South China Morning Post and Vox compare notes on how legacy and digital-first news organisations can stay relevant in a digital future
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Mikä on mikrokonversio ja onko siitä hyötyä digimarkkinoinnissa?
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/mikrokonversio-digimarkkinoinnissa
Mikrokonversiot mittaavat verkkosivuilla kävijöiden tekemiä pienempiä toimenpiteitä, ja ne saattavat jäädä aivan liian vähälle huomiolle.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Googlen Web Vitalsin vaikutukset verkkosivustoosi
https://blogi.meom.fi/mita-googlen-web-vitals-tarkoittaa-verkkosivustosi-kannalta
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ohjelmallinen ostaminen selkokielellä: mitä, miten ja miksi?
https://www.markkinointirouta.fi/ajassa/artikkelit/ohjelmallinen-ostaminen-selkokielella-mita-miten-ja-miksi?
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blogi.meom.fi/mita-googlen-web-vitals-tarkoittaa-verkkosivustosi-kannalta
Tomi Engdahl says:
Does PHP Have A Future, Or Are Twenty Five Years Enough?
https://hackaday.com/2020/06/29/does-php-have-a-future-or-are-twenty-five-years-enough/
In June, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf made an announcement on a Usenet group. You can still read it.
Today, twenty five years on, PHP is about as ubiquitous as it could possibly have become. I’d be willing to bet that for the majority of readers of this article, their first forays into web programming involved PHP.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi/PyJ25gZ6z7A/M9FkTUVDfcwJ
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Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889pk3/facebook-threatens-to-pull-out-of-europe-if-it-doesnt-get-its-way?utm_source=vicenewsfacebook
European regulators are cracking down on Facebook’s ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.
Facebook has threatened to pack up its toys and go home if European regulators don’t back down and let the social network get its own way.
In a court filing in Dublin, Facebook said that a decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) would force the company to pull up stakes and leave the 410 million people who use Facebook and photo-sharing service Instagram in the lurch.
If the decision is upheld, “it is not clear to [Facebook] how, in those circumstances, it could continue to provide the Facebook and Instagram services in the EU,” Yvonne Cunnane, who is Facebook Ireland’s head of data protection and associate general counsel, wrote in a sworn affidavit.
“The fact one person is responsible for the entire process is relevant to [Facebook’s] concerns, in respect of the inadequacy of the investigative process engaged in and independence of the ultimate decision-making process,” Cunnane wrote.
Cunnane also complains that Facebook is being singled out, noting no other big tech company using similar methods to transfer data to the U.S. from the EU is under the same scrutiny.
“Facebook is not threatening to withdraw from Europe,” a Facebook spokesperson said, adding that the court filing simply lays out how “Facebook, and many other businesses, organisations and services, rely on data transfers between the EU and the US in order to operate their services.”
A judge last week allowed Facebook’s challenge to go ahead and put a stay on the DPC’s ban on data transfers — though the DPC can challenge that decision.
Cunnane also points out that Facebook is an important tool for the freedom of expression of its 410 million EU users — it also reportedly generated €208 billion in sales for companies who use the platforms.
What she failed to mention, though, is that the service has also been weaponized to sow disinformation and conspiracy theories, as well as being used to influence the results of votes across the region, including the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU.
Tomi Engdahl says:
After being fired by Facebook this month, a data scientist published a 6,600-word memo to the company’s internal communication systems breaking down 2.5 years of her experiences on the “fake engagement team.”
Sweeping internal Facebook memo: “I have blood on my hands”
BuzzFeed News: “The memo is a damning account of Facebook’s failures.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/sweeping-internal-facebook-memo-i-have-blood-on-my-hands/?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=ars&utm_source=facebook
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Los Angeles Times:
More than 50 current and former staffers of LA Times describe how managerial missteps and ethical lapses contributed to anxiety and distrust in its newsroom
L.A. Times shaken by a summer of turmoil and scandals
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-09-21/la-times-shaken-by-a-summer-of-turmoil-and-scandals
On a Friday night last month, Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine sent a short email to the newsroom, announcing sports columnist Arash Markazi had resigned.
The columnist had copied information contained in seven stories from other sources, an internal investigation found. Pearlstine said “for the record” clarifications were added to each of the articles.
“Although the world has changed in the last six months, my values remain the same,” Pearlstine said. “I still believe that I’m a principled editor, always trying to do what’s best. That’s why I’m here.”
“The pain of the past has never really healed,” Image Editor Marques Harper said. “After the sale, we were expecting that a reimagination and rejuvenation would unfold. Instead, we’ve had controversies and scandals.”
The Times assigned two reporters to investigate the recent controversies in an effort to be transparent with its readers. “If we’re going to want to shine a light on others, we have to be willing to shine a light on ourselves,” Pearlstine said.
“Younger journalists are demanding more of their managers than previous generations,” said Kelly McBride, chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the Poynter Institute. “Management teams across all of journalism are figuring this out. It is not unique to the L.A. Times.”
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Facebook vows to restrict users if U.S. election descends into chaos: FT
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-elections-facebook-idUSKCN26D18G
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc will take aggressive measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing a company executive.
Tomi Engdahl says:
If you can’t understand how Instagram ‘influencers’ make millions, good luck with these virtual ones doing even better
Marketing is getting weird in 2020
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/21/virtual_instagram_influencers/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Learn HTML5 and CSS3 From Scratch – Full Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU6anWqZJcc
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Websites made out of scratch? Html embeded
https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/31028/?page=1#post-268197
http://web-blox.weebly.com/index.html
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John Herrman / New York Times:
TikTok users in the US are experiencing something long familiar to much of the world: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by politics — Banned apps, nefarious theories, trade wars, voiceless users. The case of TikTok isn’t news to most of the world.
What Happens When Americans Join the Global Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/style/tiktok-ban-geopolitics.html
Banned apps, nefarious theories, trade wars, voiceless users. The case of TikTok isn’t news to most of the world.
In contrast to mounting political criticisms of, say, Facebook and Twitter, platforms where the president is extremely active and invested, the government’s public case against TikTok has been largely speculative, citing theoretical dangers and hardly trying to appeal to the app’s users directly. It’s no surprise that the vague message from Ms. Pappas gave some users comfort, given how little this process has addressed them.
TikTok’s users are experiencing for the first time something long familiar to much of the world outside the United States: a flourishing online social space existentially threatened by diplomatic and political fights between states and corporations, with little input from those affected by their decisions. Likewise for WeChat, the Chinese messaging app used by millions in the U.S. to keep in touch with friends, families and colleagues abroad, which was set to be banned on Sunday until a federal court intervened.
To the limited extent that the plights of TikTok and WeChat have familiar precedents, they’re mostly overseas: China’s broad bans on foreign platforms including Facebook and Google; Russia’s “data localization” laws, which require foreign firms to store certain types of data locally; the occasional national shutdowns of Twitter, Facebook or YouTube during periods of political unrest in many countries around the world, including Egypt, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Turkey and others; or the Indian ban on TikTok and other Chinese internet services earlier this year.
“It is not surprising that American institutions rarely thought about what might happen to popular discourse if entertainment or information emanating from other shores is supplied on platforms and servers which might be based outside the country, with potential for data harvesting and exploitation for surveillance, spying or commercial gains,” said Daya K. Thussu, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a co-author of “China’s Media Go Global.”
Worrying about a foreign government’s influence or access to data — or about whether imported competitors might hurt domestic firms — has been a burden for practically every country in the world except the United States, where many of the global internet’s most popular services were started. For a large majority of their users, Facebook, Twitter and Google are foreign firms.
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Sam Shead / CNBC:
The Facebook Oversight Board has confirmed that it expects to start before the election, in mid to late October, after criticism for a perceived lack of action — – The independent Facebook OverSight Board has confirmed to CNBC that it plans to launch ahead of U.S. election in November.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/24/facebook-oversight-board-plans-to-launch-ahead-of-us-election-.html
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Leaked audio recordings and internal posts show Mark Zuckerberg’s balancing act, as employees demand a harder line against Trump but users want the opposite — In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election …
https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hey marketer. Are you a cultural parasite? Read Roope’s blog below to find out.
“We’ve all seen it, and it hurts every time. A major brand randomly picks a phenomenon, a trend, a fad, and just mindlessly slaps it on the top of a campaign.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-cultural-parasite-roope-nevander/?trackingId=IUrANKg2TQaZa4OnK%2FGVyg%3D%3D
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://into-digital.fi/puhutaan-hetki-rahasta-mita-verkkopalvelun-uudistus-maksaa/?utm_source=fbmainos&utm_medium=kuva&utm_campaign=Mit%C3%A4+verkkopalvelun+uudistus+maksaa%3F
Tästä huolimatta kaikissa hankkeissa on selvästi tunnistettavissa tekijät, joiden perusteella hinnoittelu pääpiirteittäin rakentuu:
Palvelumuotoilu, käyttäjäpolut ja sisältörakenne
Sisällön määrä, sisältötyypit ja sisällön esitystavat eri puolella sivustoa
Toiminnallisuudet
Integraatiot
Tekniset reunaehdot esim. julkaisujärjestelmän ja palvelimen suhteen
Ylläpito ja jatkokehitys
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Will Block Election Ads After Polls Close, Following Other Social Media Companies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/09/25/google-will-block-election-ads-after-polls-close-following-other-social-media-companies/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie/#676f7264696
Google will block election ads after polls close on Election Day, the company said Friday, as tech and social media companies have been facing growing pressure to stop carrying ads that spread false information and could sway election results.
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Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls.
The stated reason for the cuts is falling income. Mozilla largely relies on “royalties” for funding. In return for payment, Mozilla allows big technology companies to choose the default search engine in Firefox – the technology companies are ultimately paying to increase the number of searches Firefox users make with them. Mozilla haven’t been particularly transparent about why these royalties are being reduced, except to blame the coronavirus.
I’m sure the coronavirus is not a great help but I suspect the bigger problem is that Firefox’s market share is now a tiny fraction of its previous size and so the royalties will be smaller too – fewer users, so fewer searches and therefore less money for Mozilla.
The real problem is not the royalty cuts, though. Mozilla has already received more than enough money to set themselves up for financial independence. Mozilla received up to half a billion dollars a year (each year!) for many years. The real problem is that Mozilla didn’t use that money to achieve financial independence and instead just spent it each year, doing the organisational equivalent of living hand-to-mouth.
Tomi Engdahl says:
12 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-alternative-search-engines-that-find-what-google-cant/
Google Search still can’t do everything. These alternative search engines can take care of a few niche queries for you.
Tomi Engdahl says:
ShadyURL
Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening
http://www.shadyurl.com/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Useful widgets for websites
https://seranking.com/blog/useful-widgets-for-websites/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Traditional to headless CMS – why and how
https://www.columbiaroad.com/blog/traditional-to-headless-cms-why-and-how
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://into-digital.fi/puhutaan-hetki-rahasta-mita-verkkopalvelun-uudistus-maksaa/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-cultural-parasite-roope-nevander/?trackingId=IUrANKg2TQaZa4OnK%2FGVyg%3D%3D
Tomi Engdahl says:
ECMAScript 2020 biggest new features
https://areknawo.com/ecmascript-2020-biggest-new-features/
It’s June and this means that the new 11th edition of ECMA-262 standard defining the ECMAScript and thus JavaScript language will be out shortly. Now, as you might know from my previous article about ECMAScript and the one about ES2019 features, JavaScript, ever since the introduction of ES6, is experiencing kind-of a rolling release cycle. This means that while new editions of the ES specification go through the whole proposal, discussion, approval and finalization process, individual features often appear much earlier in different browsers than the yearly specification release.
Tomi Engdahl says:
JavaScript typeof: Understanding type-checking in JavaScript
https://blog.logrocket.com/javascript-typeof-2511d53a1a62/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/php-wasm
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://areknawo.com/ecmascript-2020-biggest-new-features/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Many Americans Get News on YouTube, Where News Organizations and Independent Producers Thrive Side by Side
https://www.journalism.org/2020/09/28/many-americans-get-news-on-youtube-where-news-organizations-and-independent-producers-thrive-side-by-side/
Americans are as likely to often turn to independent channels as they are to established news organization channels; videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively, discuss conspiracy theories
Tomi Engdahl says:
Gallup: Americans Tend to Trust Only News That Confirms Their Beliefs; Highly Educated Americans Are by Far the Most Closed-Minded Group
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/27/gallup-americans-tend-trust-only-news-that-confirms-their-beliefs-highly-educated-americans-far-most-closed-minded-group/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Uudet evästeasetukset leikkasivat 50 % verkkosivujen kävijämäärästä – miten minimoida cookiekyselyn haittavaikutukset
https://www.karhuhelsinki.fi/blogi/uudet-evasteasetukset-leikkasivat-50-verkkosivujen-kavijamaarasta-miten-minimoida
Useilla suomalaisilla verkkosivustoilla on otettu viime aikoina käyttöön toiminto, joka pyytää kävijää hyväksymään evästeet. Toiminnon sivuvaikutuksena sivuston kävijätilastot voivat näyttää kymmenien prosenttien laskua kävijämäärissä. Esitystavalla on ratkaiseva vaikutus tiputuksen syvyyteen. Tässä kirjoituksessa käyn läpi vähenemisen syyt ja teen suosituksia vaurioiden minimointiin.Kuten kerroimme blogissamme muutamia viikkoja sitten, verkkosivujen evästekäytäntöihin on tulossa muutoksia Suomessa. Apulaistietosuojavaltuutetun toukokuussa tekemän uuden linjauksen myötä verkkosivujen kävijältä tulee pyytää lupa evästeiden asettamiselle selainohjelmaan, erityisesti jos sivustolla käytetään ns. markkinointievästeitä.
Miten uusien viranomaislinjausten mukaiset evästeasetukset toimivat?Verkkosivuilla on pitkään näkynyt ilmoituksia evästeistä. Suomalaisen viranomaislinjauksen mukaan ne ovat olleet välttämättömiä vain markkinointievästeille, mutta lukuisat sivustot ovat ilmoittaneet kävijälle myös muista evästeistä. Useimmat sivustot ovat asettaneet evästeet kävijän selaimeen riippumatta siitä, onko hän reagoinut evästeilmoitukseen.Evästeiden hyväksymistoiminto on yleistynyt suomalaisilla verkkosivuilla räjähdysmäisestiNyt monella sivustolla on käytössä uudenlainen evästeilmoitus, jossa kävijältä pyydetään lupa evästeiden asettamiselle. Jos kävijä ei anna lupaa, evästeitä ei aseteta. Lupakyselyllä varustetut evästeilmoitukset ovat yleistyneet suomalaisilla verkkosivustoilla räjähdysmäisesti apulaistietosuojavaltuutetun toukokuisen linjauksen jälkeen.
Miksi lupakyselyllä varustettu evästeilmoitus romahduttaa kävijämäärän?Lähes kaikilla suomalaisilla verkkosivustoilla mitataan kävijöiden määrää ja käyttäytymistä Google Analytics -järjestelmällä, joka on tyypillisessä yrityskäytössä maksuton. Google Analyticsin toiminta perustuu evästeiden käyttöön. Analytics kerää tietoa kävijän käyttäytymisestä evästeen perusteella. Vastaavanlaajuista tietoa ei käytännössä ole mahdollista kerätä muulla tavoin.Jos sivuston kävijä ei anna lupaa evästeiden käyttöön, Google Analytics ei aktivoidu ja kävijä jää kirjautumatta tilastoihin. Evästeilmoitukset jäävät kävijältä usein huomiotta, ja he käyttävät sivustoa reagoimatta hyväksyntäpyyntöön. Tällöin heistä ei jää jälkeä Google Analytics -kävijätilastoihin. Myös muut evästeet jäävät asettamatta ja muun muassa evästepohjainen markkinointi hankaloituu.
Evästeilmoituksen esitystavalla on ratkaiseva merkitys
Kun evästehyväksyntä näytettiin selaimen alapalkissa, 40–50 % kävijöistä jätti sen huomiotta ja tippui samalla Google Analytics -kävijätilastojen ulkopuolelle. Kävijätilastomme näyttivät siis rajua pudotusta, jolle ei ole muuta selitystä. Analysoimme nimenomaan hakukoneiden kautta tulevaa maksutonta eli orgaanista liikennettä, joka on tyypillisesti varsin tasaista sivustollamme.
Selvityksessämme 40–50 % kävijöistä ei reagoinut selaimen alareunassa näkyvään evästeilmoitukseen lainkaan. Kun evästelupaa kysytään sivun peittävällä elementillä, yli 90 % kävijöistä antaa luvan evästeiden käyttöön.
Jos evästeilmoitus estää verkkosivun käytön, lähes kaikki kävijät reagoivat siihen. Toisaalta jotkut sanovat koko sivustolle ”ei kiitos”.
Vaikutus kävijätilastoihin on tärkeää tiedostaa etukäteenVerkkosivujen omistajan ja sivustoa koskevia päätöksiä tekevien avainhenkilöiden on tärkeää tiedostaa evästeilmoituksen käyttöönoton vaikutus kävijätilastoihin. Kun vaikutus on sisäistetty etukäteen, kävijämäärän romahdus ei aiheuta samanlaista paineaaltoa yrityksen sisällä. Silloin on myös etukäteen tiedossa, että kävijätilastojen tippuminen ei tarkoita, että kävijät olisivat hylänneet yrityksen verkkosivut. Suuri osa heistä kuitenkin jää kävijätilastoissa pimentoon. Romahdus kävijätilastoissa on testauksemme perusteella kuitenkin radikaalisti pienempi, jos evästekysely peittää sivun.
Tomi Engdahl says:
David Meyer / Fortune:
Cloudflare launches a free “privacy-first” analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking — The cybersecurity and content-distribution company Cloudflare has become a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure …
Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to one of Google’s big data sources
https://fortune.com/2020/09/29/cloudflare-web-analytics-google-privacy-splinternet/
The cybersecurity and content-distribution company Cloudflare has become a major part of the Internet’s infrastructure, so here’s a move that might cause concern at Alphabet HQ: Cloudflare is launching a privacy-friendly rival to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a free toolkit that’s used by website administrators across the globe to help them track the behavior of the people visiting those sites—how they find them, what they do there, the devices they’re using, and so on.
However, the service—the most popular of its kind—also helps Google track websites’ visitors, so it can better profile them for advertising purposes. This privacy-invasive aspect makes many people squeamish.
And that’s where Cloudflare would now like to step in.
Around its birthday every year, the decade-old company—which went public last year—announces a move intended to “give back” to the wider Internet community. These moves are often related to privacy.
In 2014, Cloudflare offered free website encryption, thus quickly doubling the number of “https” sites out there. In 2017, it started offering unmetered protection for customers facing huge “denial of service” attacks that would otherwise knock them offline, so small businesses wouldn’t be left vulnerable. And in 2018 (albeit in April rather than late September) Cloudflare launched a privacy-friendly Domain Name System service that now has 100 million users.
On Tuesday, it unveiled Cloudflare Web Analytics, a free-to-use toolkit that largely replicates what Google Analytics offers—minus the invasive tracking, and thus the ability to assess the performance of targeted ads carried on websites.
Cloudflare Web Analytics is immediately available to the company’s paid customers, but any website owner will be able to use it from some point in the coming months.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden campaign calls Facebook the “nation’s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process” as Trump keeps attacking the election’s integrity
Exclusive: Biden campaign blasts Facebook for “regression”
https://www.axios.com/biden-campaign-blasts-facebook-for-regression-913875b2-fb29-48ec-8b83-ffe6bf631b51.html
On the eve of the first presidential debate, the Biden campaign is pressing Facebook to remove posts by President Trump — and slamming the social media company as “the nation’s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process.”
Why it matters: By publicly escalating the conflict, the campaign is pressing Facebook to enforce its policies against misinformation more aggressively.
Details: “Rather than seeing progress, we have seen regression,” campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a three-page letter obtained by Axios.
“Facebook’s continued promise of future action is serving as nothing more than an excuse for inaction,” the letter says.
“We will be calling out those failures as they occur over the coming 36 days.”
The other side: Andy Stone, a Facebook company spokesperson, tells Axios in a statement: “While many Republicans think we should take one course, many Democrats think we should do the exact opposite.
“We’ve faced criticism from Republicans for being biased against conservatives and Democrats for not taking more steps to restrict the exact same content,” he said.
“We have rules in place to protect the integrity of the election and free expression, and we will continue to apply them impartially.” –
The big picture: Trump has long used Facebook as well as Twitter to talk directly to supporters and encourage them to vote.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google Searches About Moving To New Zealand, Canada Spike During Presidential Debate
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/09/30/google-searches-about-moving-to-new-zealand-canada-spike-during-presidential-debate/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/#76616c657269
Unfortunately for restless Americans, U.S. residents are still banned by New Zealand and Canada from crossing their borders in most circumstances because of America’s high coronavirus infection rates.