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a Terminator ending for Google Privacy Sandbox?
https://blog.zgp.org/terminator-ending-for-privacy-sandbox/
Published: December 7, 2025 00:00
One minor piece of news in an eventful year was the end(ish) of Google “Privacy Sandbox”, a problematic scheme to put advertising features in web browsers. Unfortunately, in a way, it’s still going. Google is still participating in the “Attribution”…
QoTD: Paper Skies
https://blog.zgp.org/qotd-paper-skies/
Published: December 3, 2025 00:00
But the thing I believe, one of the reasons such leaders get support in modern world because we are not allowed to speak about the atrocities and devastation such politics will lead the world into. — some Ukrainian guy, on YouTube policies (video: When…
keeping up with the news
https://blog.zgp.org/keeping-up-with-the-news/
Published: December 2, 2025 00:00
The Kyiv Independent suggests Five ways to keep Ukraine in your news feed. Discoverability is an acute problem for a Ukrainian site, because of all the pro-Putin content out there that’s being actively pushed by people who are good at beating The…
opting out of Black Friday
https://blog.zgp.org/opting-out-of-black-friday/
Published: November 26, 2025 00:00
Mark Ritson writes, in Black Friday is a global price trap and marketers keep falling for it, Price discounting is the most stupid fucking thing you can ever do. In theory, Black Friday is a simple exercise in price discrimination. People who can afford…
a backwards (?) metric for a social app
https://blog.zgp.org/a-backwards-metric-for-a-social-app/
Published: November 21, 2025 00:00
MyFeed is a social app. Join with your phone number, make groups, invite people to events, a lot of the usual social stuff. The big difference is one of the success metrics they’re tracking. MyFeed has a goal of five minutes a day of user engagement.…
happy holiday shopping season in the low-trust economy
https://blog.zgp.org/happy-holiday-shopping-season/
Published: November 18, 2025 00:00
Happy holiday shopping season. In case you missed it, here’s a warning on the Chase site Scammers create ads on social media offering merchandise at great prices and set up bogus websites that all look exactly like genuine retailers. You can put the…
a thought experiment starring Sam Walton
https://blog.zgp.org/thought-experiment-starring-sam-walton/
Published: November 16, 2025 00:00
Here’s a hypothetical situation for you. Imagine that Walmart founder Sam Walton, on one of his unannounced visits to a company store, had found some executive running a criminal scheme out of the back room. Asses would have been kicked. For a conventional…
CIPA commercial
https://blog.zgp.org/cipa-commercial/
Published: November 15, 2025 00:00
INTERIOR - LOCKER ROOM - DAY Mike and Ray are getting dressed after their workout. Ray grimaces in pain. Mike What’s the matter, Ray? Did you throw your back out? Ray No, it’s worse, it’s my moral revulsion with Big Tech acting up again. Ow! Mike I know…
how to massacre a country with AI, on a budget
https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-massacre-a-country-with-ai/
Published: November 14, 2025 00:00
So let’s say you’re an evil dictator, and you want to kill a bunch of people in some more affluent country. Actually invading them is expensive, and worse, would tend to get them to pull together and be more patriotic in a time of crisis. You really need…
Links for 9 November 2025: more news from the low-trust society
https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-11-09/
Published: November 9, 2025 00:00
Ever notice how every product and service is getting a shitty regular version and a decent version for insiders? (Managers and developers for the most God-awful surveillance companies show up at tech conferences with tricked-out laptops complete with ad…
I wish I had better news on the whole quit marketing and become an electrician thing
https://blog.zgp.org/electrician-is-not-an-ai-proof-job/
Published: November 2, 2025 00:00
How are CMOs confronting a future defined by AI and reinvention? The Harris Poll surveyed attendees at the Association of National Advertisers’ Masters of Marketing conference, and found more marketers recommend that young professionals pursue an…