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links for 6 October 2024

https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2024-10-06/

Published: October 6, 2024 00:00

Intent IQ Has Patents For Ad Tech’s Most Basic Functions – And It’s Not Afraid To Use Them (Wait a minute. If Firefox is part of the Open Innovation Network’s Linux System definition, and Firefox has ads now, does that mean OIN covers this?) 🍿 New Map…

why I’m turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox

https://blog.zgp.org/why-turn-off-firefox-ad-tracking/

Published: October 3, 2024 00:00

Previously: turn off advertising features in Firefox I am turning off the controversial Privacy-preserving attribution (PPA) advertising tracking feature in Firefox, even though, according to the documentation, there are some good things about PPA compared…

fair use alignment chart

https://blog.zgp.org/fair-use-alignment-chart/

Published: September 29, 2024 00:00

Tantek Çelik suggests that Creative Commons should add a CC-NT license, like the existing Creative Commons licenses, but written to make it clear that the content is not licensed for generative AI training. Manton Reece likes the idea, and would allow…

Scam culture is everywhere

https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2024-09-28/

Published: September 28, 2024 00:00

Just looking a recent news and how much of it is about surprisingly low-reputation decisions by surprisingly high-status business decision-makers. The big-picture trend that helps explain a lot of technology trends news is the ongoing collapse of business…

stop putting “privacy-enhancing technologies” in web browsers

https://blog.zgp.org/stop-doing-privacy-enhancing-technologies/

Published: September 22, 2024 00:00

(Previously: PET projects or real privacy?) The current trend for privacy-enhancing technologies for surveillance in web browsers are going to be remembered as a technical dead end, an artifact of an unsustainable advertising oligopoly. Here’s a top ten…

AI legal links

https://blog.zgp.org/ai-legal-links/

Published: September 7, 2024 00:00

part 1: copyright Generative AI’s Illusory Case for Fair Use by Jacqueline Charlesworth :: SSRN The exploitation of copied works for their intrinsic expressive value sharply distinguishes AI copying from that at issue in the technological fair use cases…

journalist-owned news sites (Sunday Internet optimism, part 2)

https://blog.zgp.org/journalist-owned-news-sites/

Published: September 1, 2024 00:00

Congratulations to 404 Media, which celebrated its successful first year on August 22. They link to other next-generation news sites, owned by the people who write for them. I checked for ads.txt files and advertiser pages to see which are participating in…

pile of money fail

https://blog.zgp.org/pile-of-money-fail/

Published: August 24, 2024 00:00

Really good example of a market failure in software quality incentivization: ansuz / ऐरन: “there’s a wee story brewing in…” Read the whole thing. Good counterexample for money talks. With the wrong market design, money says little or nothing. To summarize…

how to break up Google

https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-break-up-google/

Published: August 11, 2024 00:00

Everybody* is on about plans for how to break up Google, so here’s my version. I’m trying to keep two awkward considerations in mind. Any Google breakup plan has to fit in a tweet. Google will have more total lawyer time over more years to find the gaps…

a new browser feature?

https://blog.zgp.org/a-new-browser-feature/

Published: August 2, 2024 00:00

The Web’s hottest new feature is Privacy-Preserving Corporate Information Sharing (PPCIS). When a corporate employee uses a PPCIS browser to log in to any of their employer’s web applications, such as shared document editor webmail bug tracker Slack …

colophon

https://blog.zgp.org/colophon/

Published: July 29, 2024 00:00

This site is built with a variety of tools. I like static site generators but the way this site works I don’t have to learn a static site generator, just incrementally add on tools I already know as I need the site to do more. Bitstream Charter is a…