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Kashmir Hill
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I spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. It was hell, but everyone should do it, just maybe not as extreme as I did. gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-…
If you DO want to do it as extreme as I did, @dmehro, the technologist who made my blocker, has instructions on how to do it yourself: gizmodo.com/preview/want-t…
You can check out my series about blocking the tech giants or you can listen to just about any public radio station to catch me talking about it. I've done over a dozen interviews about it this week. My NPR voice is getting hoarse.
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Facebook found that children playing games had “spent a whopping $3.6 million” during a three-month period. Why were these court records even sealed in the first place? revealnews.org/article/facebo…
These internal docs show Facebook determined that tons of 5-year-olds were playing Angry Birds on FB. Did FB ban profligate underage ‘whales’ because of COPPA or just let them keep playing? Article about users under 13 from this time period: m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_18…
... and refuse refunds to kids who run up debt paying for virtual goods in games.
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Kashmir Hill
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First-person adventure time: I’ve been cutting the tech giants out of my life one by one. gizmodo.com/life-without-t…
Because I’m a masochist, I started with the company I thought would be the most painful: Amazon. It was more than a boycott, @dmehro built me a custom VPN to block all things Amazon, including all sites hosted on AWS. gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-blo…
And if you’re not into ~words~ @myraiqbal has been capturing my struggles (and those of my poor toddler) on video.
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Kashmir Hill
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In the summer of 2017, I asked Facebook if it used signals from "third parties such as data brokers" for friend recommendations. Kicking myself for not recognizing the evasion in their answer.

1. FB's answer via email

2 What the NYT found out about PYMK in internal FB docs
Facebook's continuing purposeful evasion to explaining how People You May Know works is infuriating. Thank god for leakers and lawsuits. (And thank you for the shout-out to my reporting, NYT.)
Oh and, duh, a link to the NYT. It's a wild story that you should definitely read. nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
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