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Their content might be just this side of cringe, but these home-makers from rural Bengal score high on confidence and chutzpah

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

Sundays are for unsubscribing to the deluge of ‘Happy 4/20! Here’s 10% off’ emails. Before that, let's read this week’s best writing about games!

Browsers are hugely load-bearing in the Webs architecture, and yet they havent changed very much in quite a while. If the Web is indeed for user agency, we should take a hard look at our user agents to see if they might not need improvement.

We take the Web for granted as that thing thats there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we dont ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this question with an eye towards understanding what it is we need to do to build a Web thats actually better.

Web standards group the W3C has said Google's Topics API ad-targeting proposal "falls short" on privacy. "We do not want to see it proceed further."

How the NYT Identity team tried out the Analytic Hierarchy Process to select a user ID format.

The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 22

Some like The New York Times have taken a strict interpretation, adopting a conservative approach in complying with the law. Others like ad management firm CafeMedia have taken a looser interpretation of the CCPA’s notoriously ambiguous definition of sale and may eventually find themselves running afoul of regulators. When California residents request that website publishers stop selling their personal information in accordance with the state’s privacy law, many publishers still use that in...

No ones AMPing up the love Share Copy Googles Accelerated Mobile Pages technology, known as AMP among web publishers, took a beating this week as an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of Texas charged that the ad biz used AMP to hinder competition. And on Friday, Terence Eden, a member of the AMP Advisory Committee, which was formed two years ago in response to criticism that the AMP project ignored publisher concerns, announced his resignation, citing the projects failure ...