Activity for dmarti.eurosky.social

One surprisingly quiet project—if successful—would impact the entire ad-supported Internet. When a few large companies control the measurement of how effective advertising is, they're in a position to influence how all ad spending is allocated—which will mean more money for slop and disinformation.

Chapell@achapell.bsky.social

What is the "Attribution Cartel"? Don Marti has been active within the W3C. Per Don, the Attribution Cartel is a group of companies and browsers attempting to determine who gets access to the critical data that helps advertisers determine whether their campaigns are working tinyurl.com/3vyr4abu

A proposed standard now under discussion at W3C aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured…this proposal would centralize measurement under the control of major platform players, including Google, Apple and Meta #attributionCartel www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...

Bonjour, fellow virtual Europeans, from my new account on eurosky dot social

Because the core values of news professionals and Big Tech oligarchs are so different, you might expect news organizations to stand up against Big Tech when bills that would limit Big Tech harms are the subject of hearings at state legislatures. You’d be wrong. rjionline.org/news/big-tec...

Need a good reason to block the click-throughs to the search ads? #adBlocking #security krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dron...

One-third of all scams in the USA originate with Meta? Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm. Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help. www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...

So let's say, hypothetically, that some teenager in the USA is an AI skeptic or even "AI vegan" and working on a college short list. Any strategies to avoid getting stuck with slop for 4 years? (This research is hard enough without the whole AI fad thing)

Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust. While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.” rjionline.org/news/the-tra...

Every time I try a Google Search for [sergey brin epstein files] Google gives me a CAPTCHA...is this happening for anyone else?

This is mostly good advice, but has one problem. The biggest ad-related threat to most random users now is fake SaaS and employee portal login pages on Google Search. Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org

Millions browse the web on school, library, and workplace computers that leave them exposed to hidden trackers. Privacy Badger can be installed organization-wide to enhance privacy and security on these devices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Another web maintenance todo: if you still have #groklaw links on your blog or other site, time to make a local copy of the original pages from archive.org and fix the links fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...

Drone strikes on refineries and tanker terminals (easier to put out of action with a smaller drone because they're already flammable) could even be revenue-positive for a terrorist group that can invest in the oil futures market #energySecurity

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social

Fourteen years ago, I read an article, this 👇 article, about how the west is underestimated the potential threat from drones. Today, it seems eerily prescient. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell

The Verge@theverge.com

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search

Q: how do you get the Board of Directors to give you a 29 billion dollar pay raise? A:

Adi Robertson@thedextriarchy.bsky.social

can elon musk stop doing weird ai sex stuff for 5 minutes

Great article, but I don't believe that the fall of the "Magnificent 7" firms will crash the stock market. Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... "Those who believed the piece was AI-generated were 14% less likely to consider purchasing the product featured in the adjacent ad."

Just tested out @manusai.bsky.social to see if the agent can make it through a #CCPA #RtK process on the verizon.com site. Good news -- after a dead end first attempt, it looks like it worked! blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...

A report about how Google's AI helps catch fake ads on Google is not exactly the best #contentMarketing for Google's AI. Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com