Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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Branding the Decentralized Web
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Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US
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Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
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Chrome Incognito mode no longer detectable in Chrome 76
@paul_irish: Chrome Incognito mode has been detectable for years, due to the FileSystem API implementation. As of Chrome 76, this is fixed. Apologies to the "detect private mode" scripts out there. 💐
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InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
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'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices
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The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet
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The splinternet is growing
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EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services
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Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms
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Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes
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Grumpy Cat, dead at 7
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Group chats are making the internet fun again
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The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?
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A conspiracy to kill IE6
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Instagram is the new mall
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The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her
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Cox introduces 'Elite Gamer' internet fast lane
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Faceless together - What is 4chan
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It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
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When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible?
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Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while
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Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband
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Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties
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Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust
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Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
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An internet for kids: Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own
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A regulatory framework for the internet
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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Welcome to the prude internet: No more sex talk allowed
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Why there's so little left of the early internet
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Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix the internet. Don't take him seriously.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas
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The EU just destroyed the internet
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
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Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
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radicle - peer-to-peer source code repositories using IPFS (alpha)
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Intransigence: A social history of the internet
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Microsoft says the Federal Communications Commission 'overstates' broadband availability in the US
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Fifty years of the internet -- What we learned, and where will we go next?
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A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory and found that hundreds of Russians were working as paid trolls in rotating shifts
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The internet is not your friend: MySpace and the loss of memories
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Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
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Inside the 'shitposting' subculture the alleged Christchurch shooter belonged to
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Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls
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The lost worlds of telnet
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How Discord went mainstream
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Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent
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