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What Happens When the Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising's Halo Effect?(adexchanger.com)
2 points by dmarti 5mo ago|1 comments
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by dmarti 5mo ago
A proposed standard now under discussion at W3C, dubbed simply “Attribution” aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured across the web. This proposal would centralize measurement of ad effectiveness under the control of major platfo
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Big Tech's economy-wide trust collapse(rjionline.org)
6 points by dmarti 10mo ago|3 comments
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by dmarti 10mo ago
A certain amount of hustle and overselling by inventors and new companies has always been a thing. What’s unfamiliar in recent times is the combination of large, oligopoly companies with the failure of those companies to make an effort to g
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by dmarti 1y ago
This is a great idea for getting more people blogging. Are there going to be RSS feeds?
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by dmarti 2y ago
Is each browser process dedicated to a single customer, or do you clear cookies and other state (localStorage, cache, Chrome advertising features...) between customers?
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by dmarti 2y ago
Google Chrome has another "AI training" API that has been there for a while -- document.browsingTopics() -- this is for passing information about your browsing history to ML on the Google side. Hard to be sure about what informati
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by dmarti 3y ago
You can have the most tricked-out, up-to-date protections on your client, or in a proxy between your client and a web site...and if that site is using server-to-server tracking they can get around it. https://www.facebook.com&#x2
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by dmarti 3y ago
Yes, Facebook Conversions API is server-to-server, so it circumvents the privacy settings and tools on mobile platform or browser. https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2041148702652965?id=8... Research using a b
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by dmarti 3y ago
(CR study co-author here) The tricky part, though, is that even with your client-side settings and privacy tools set up 100% right, any company that has your info can still send it to Facebook server-to-server, with "Conversions API.&q
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by dmarti 3y ago
WA MHMD is a game changer because private right of action. Doesn't rely on the attorney general or a dedicated privacy agency to take action -- private lawyers can. (Technically not the first privacy law with private right of action be
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by dmarti 3y ago
The companies it's mainly good for are those who have personal data but are not required to register as a data broker. So if you have a brand with content, forums, retail, events, or whatever and can collect info on people, then by pur
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by dmarti 3y ago
No, they're regulated under the federal FCRA, not state law.
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by dmarti 5y ago
FLoC as a source of fingerprinting bits has been an issue in W3C discussions of the project. https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/69 As a fingerprinting surface FLoC has similar properties to the Battery Statu
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Tailored Cheap Talk(gsb.stanford.edu)
2 points by dmarti 10y ago|0 comments
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by dmarti 10y ago
Advertisers don't bear the costs of fraud. Intermediaries don't bear the cost of fraud. Fraud is priced in. It drives down the value of all ad inventory in the market. The costs of fraud end up being borne by legit publishers (w
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by dmarti 10y ago
Part 2 of the article is at: http://www.scylladb.com/2016/04/29/io-scheduler-2/
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YCSB testing reveals Scylla latency and performance advantages(scylladb.com)
9 points by dmarti 10y ago|2 comments
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by dmarti 11y ago
ScyllaDB web person here. If I made it so that you could block one script and get a home page without the horizontally scrolling thingy (but have all the other JS stuff work including syntax highlighting and graphs), would you come back? (
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KVM creators open-source fast Cassandra drop-in replacement Scylla(zdnet.com)
18 points by dmarti 11y ago|4 comments
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by dmarti 11y ago
"just run an ad blocker" is the new "just run a firewall". You need to check if you got something with real tracking protection (Adblock Plus doesn't, out of the box). http://blog.aloodo.org/posts&
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by dmarti 11y ago
The "acceptable ads" criteria are here: https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria If you make a modern-looking long-scrolling article that has an ad somewhere in the middle, it's not "accep
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by dmarti 11y ago
Tor Browser Bundle is working on this: "Design Goal: All Tor Browser users MUST provide websites with an identical user agent and HTTP header set for a given request type. We omit the Firefox minor revision, and report a popular Window
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by dmarti 11y ago
(author of the original article) That creeped out feeling is your brain letting you know about an information asymmetry -- someone knows more about you than you know about them. When you feel creeped out in a market setting, it's a wa
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by dmarti 11y ago
Exactly. Ad fraud is not just a waste of energy (like TV ads playing to no viewers). It supports bad stuff on the Internet at the expense of good stuff. * Ad fraud is now the number one malware payload. * Low-quality impressions show up on
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by dmarti 11y ago
The remaining hard part is the adapter layer to enable the extra applications such as the issue tracker to use the Git repository for storage. Joey Hess has a good article about Git "databranches" here: https://joeyh.na
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Seastar: an open-source C++ framework for high performance on modern hardware(seastar-project.org)
5 points by dmarti 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmarti 12y ago
There is already a lot of fraud on ad networks. This probably won't affect the raw amount that much. The main effect will be to make it easier for existing fraud to hide. The problem is that out of these three choices: * highly interme
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Will containers kill the hypervisor?(osv.io)
2 points by dmarti 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmarti 16y ago
Relevant article: http://openp2p.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/bountyquest_10... Tim O'Reilly: "some months after we'd awarded the bounty, splitting it three ways for prior art that wasn't completely on the money, someone sent in a kille

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