This is a very very big deal, and great news for user privacy, and the safety and reliability of the open web along with the ability of users to choose privacy and know that choice is meaningful. digiday.com/marketing/cali…
Particularly in context of CA AG statements this is a ridiculous statement by Alysa Hutnik. One of the reasons I worked on GPC was to ensure it was the simplest, most performant, & straightforward way to handle user privacy under CCPA. Nothing could be more helpful for compliance
The major CMPs already have GPC support, usually a literal single UI switch-flip away, which is how the majority of publishers handle compliance. For those that are rolling their own compliance systems, GPC's presence on-page and as a header makes technical adoption very easy...
The key benefit of GPC is that whatever your existing compliance method is... the GPC is just an easier way for users to switch that on, and usually with less delay than any other way of determining their opt-out status...
The only reason complying with CCPA using GPC signals would be expensive or difficult is if they weren't already in compliance with CCPA and were using dark patterns or tech to obscure that. If that's the case... well now they don't have any excuses. Sorry, not sorry!
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The problem is Facebook is too large to moderate. The truth of the matter is what while regulation may help, the real solution is to eliminate the conditions in which Facebook can exist at the scale it currently does. Which is a harder proposition.
Breaking Facebook into baby Facebooks, perhaps Facebook for photos, Facebook for shopping, Facebook for groups. Or Facebook by regions. This is just a temporary measure until they congeal back into something basically identical. The problem is the conditions in which FB became FB
These conversations about what to do about Facebook feel stale because Facebook has no answers, it knows it cannot operate safely at scale... And it's critics?...
Look the ad tech industry is a garbage fire of technology most of which is not fit for the purpose of marketing, but is fit for invasive tracking and data collection for eventual sale and even if it manages to increase sales that would be reason enough to fundamentally change it.
Even if the invasive data tracking is a total failure at making coherent useful data profiles because the garbage fire fractures any user's identity by accident of dumb badly designed competition in the marketplace and fraudsters unchecked at any level that would be reason enough
Even if the data tracking can't build targeting in the middle of the system but is enough that one could track data points to understand a user's physical travels and make arbitrary assumptions on that basis about what to target people with, that would be enough reason to reform
Lol not sure how or why the background music for my Spotify Only You was this, but extremely pleased with the outcome. Made the whole viewing feel rather epic. open.spotify.com/track/4UGOaZPk…
Alright, the first one I get, but I had to look up the 2nd genre and apparently "Second line" is brass-heavy upbeat parade music for dancing in the streets during New Orleans funerals. Which I didn't know was a genre, but I'm totally here for!
Wait... How is it possible no one is listening to a song named "Midnight Sky"... at night?
Capitalism-based health care is the worst. I hate that it's only gotten worse and worse as time goes on, with more and more of the work of health care being put on to the individual and systems that you literally pay for becoming less and less helpful or useful.
For a lot of reasons I hate all ways to find doctors are gradually devolving to Yelp, which not only puts the work on you to find a good doctor but also inevitably undercuts your confidence in any doc you find b/c the wisdom of the crowds is a terrible gateway into medical care.
I do not blame ProPublica for this and am glad for this reporting, but everything has been magnified since I read this - propublica.org/article/top-do… & now search certifications I see in doc offices and the minute I see a bullshit "top doc" plaque I seriously doubt my provider choice
Has any ad tech company ever had any consequences for any of their major public fkups? Even where it's a major failure of their core product? They just keep chugging along not doing anything properly, don't they?
Like, if I'm a brand, what do I even do as a reaction to stop this from happening again?