HTTP is fundamental to modern development. But like any widespread mature standard, it's got some funky skeletons in the closet.
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Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
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Spoonbill—a change-tracker for Twitter bios—offers a glimpse into the unseen effort with which we express our identities online, and how the uncanny feeling of being watched informs our sense of self
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Thoughts on running online communities from the creator of Improbable Island
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Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
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Facebook is a global mafia
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Liat Kaplan - "I was 'Your Fave is Problematic'"
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Browser ‘favicons’ can be used as undeletable ‘supercookies’ to track you online
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Visiting another world
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Reddit Search.io
6 votes -
Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report
19 votes -
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield
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How a dumb hat threw me in a tailspin
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1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
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Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
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The great Wikipedia titty scandal
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US President Joe Biden's Federal Communications Commission appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return
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Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-Heads are still here
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Brave adds IPFS support
9 votes -
Zalgo Text generator
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Wikipedia turns twenty years old
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Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service
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Browservice demo - Browsing modern websites on retro computers
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What I learned in two years of moving government forms online
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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The strange world of YouTube's corporate propaganda
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Internet 2021: Here's what the new year will (and won't) bring
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EFF's 2020 in review: How we saved .org
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Conversation 863
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In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet
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Tim Cook responds to Facebook on Twitter: "[..] Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, [..] we just require that they ask for your permission first."
@Tim Cook: We believe users should have the choice over the data that is being collected about them and how it's used. Facebook can continue to track users across apps and websites as before, App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 will just require that they ask for your permission first. pic.twitter.com/UnnAONZ61I
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Social Networking 2.0 - Facebook and Twitter represent the v1 of Social Networking; it's a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital, and a lot more promising
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European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
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Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
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We need more broadband internet than ever with Covid keeping us at home
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How the Internet failed and how to recreate it
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How machine-readable content benefits everyone who publishes content online
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The impact of toxic influencers on communities
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Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
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What the web still is - A look at some of the positive characteristics of the current state of the web
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Gopher, Gemini and the smol internet
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
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Winning back the internet by building our own
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The world's first internet bench
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UK sees record bandwidth use on Xbox Series X/S launch day
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SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
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Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
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Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
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Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux: Surprisingly good
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Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes