Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This article illustrates pretty clearly why I use the strong ad-blocking technology in Ublock Origin (and why I won't buy a Chromebook). " This kind of (stuff) is why we have the EU's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and California's CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act). If publishers and the adtech industry (those third parties) hadn't turned the commercial Web into a target-rich sucking environment for data vampires, we'd never have had either law."

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