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Zach Edwards
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Great work on this by @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social - just further proves the original story had legs and was accurate.
This is some fun Internet history!
Keep an eye on this Google Adwords ruling in India... could have significant impacts on search targeting if Google is required to change policies outside of India too... www.reuters.com/business/med...
This would be a *gamechanger* for stopping malvertising campaigns which target major brand names.
How many of your favorite publishers have foreign data brokers listed in their ads.txt + app-ads.txt files?? Folks out here are still wondering how this data pours out of our programmatic ecosystem into these brokers hands. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been dreading this announcement for weeks. This is one of the most shocking things I've seen from any administration in any country. This whole process would make most dictators blush.
The Former Jordan Lake Air Force Space Surveillance Station (AFSSS) in Alabama is available for purchase until May 11th... a great opportunity for a 1,032 +/- ft horizontal antenna if you're in the market for that type of thing... fun hacker campground? realestatesales.gov/asset-detail... 📡🛰️🏕️🎉
Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
the calm before the storm
It's taken ~5 years but Brave browser is the first browser to come up w/ a solution to prevent device fingerprinting being done by y2u[.]be on their YouTube spam campaigns.
It's a subtle fix but the browser now takes their URls and rewrites to youtube directly.
issue @ github.com/brave/brave-...
Race, location and immigration information has been sent to TikTok, Meta and others.
An Indian court ruling that Google infringed the trademark rights of a bathroom fittings maker by allowing rivals to use its name as an advertising keyword could reshape the online ads market, India...
And there it is, folks.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
Justin Baragona
New blog post: How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/how-many-consecutive-hyphens-can-you-have-in-a-domain-name/
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in …
NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD RestrictionsAnomaliesSo What? History Let's do some history! This is 1978's "HOST NAMES…
shkspr.mobi
Scoop: Central Command is getting reports that military personnel are being targeted using commercially available location data. Few details available, but it’s a sign that the tech industry’s advertising-surveillance complex is having consequences on the battlefield.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
“Maryland is set to become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail grocery stores, after the legislature last week passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.”
www.goodnewsnetwork.org/maryland-to-...
Andrew Couts
Raphael Satter
Esther Be Good!
Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
