OK, this is a very bleak view... maybe a bit over the top I'm unsure. There seems to be some truth to it though.

If you're still using Chrome, maybe you shouldn't... They're clearly making it easier to overcome ad blocker and the tracking won't be a third party thing anymore, this browser will directly report on your behavior.

This is based on fingerprinting and sometimes fail. If Web Environment Integrity gets through it'll be just worse.

Excellent piece against the Web Environment Integrity proposal from Google.

Good explanations, the parallel and history perspective on Palladium is right. It's the same fight than 20 years ago, it shows up its ugly head regularly. Time to collectively say no once more.

Interesting point of view. We have two worlds now coexisting on the Web and they tend to ignore each other more and more.

Welcome to the Fediverse! It's just an experiment for now, let's hope they stay longer.

This is a good point, this is a quality before quantity type of problem.

This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do...

If you didn't have an adblocker yet (who doesn't really?) it's time to really think about it. When even the FBI starts to advocate for ad blockers it's a sign of how bad the online ad market has become.

The most addictive and also tracking you everywhere it can (unsurprisingly). Toxicity at its highest.

Interesting point of view... indeed, let's see what rises from the ashes.

None of this looks like definitive research results on the topic. Still, there are quite a few weak signals pointing in the same direction.

A good illustration on why social media are toxic for our thinking. They push us to focus on anecdotes and as such miss the big picture. No wonder everything got so polarized so quickly there.

I'm on that social media for work reason, still oh boy... how much I hate it. This article pretty much summarizes why.