Since Brexit I have reflected almost daily on ways that the web has undermined what we assumed would support us. Daily/hourly of late.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/800193004174589952 …
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I blame myself for a lot of stuff -- trailblazed http://ES.next -> http://ES.now transpilers w/ Traceur; now bloat crisis
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But this cuts a lot deeper. It's not just slow sites, it's the inability for folks to understand what's true. My industry has done that.
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...& I uphold a lot of the values of the web that have caused it to be so. Went to work at a place that could fix but didn't.
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Case in point: why don't web browsers send headers to websites that say what ads you'll accept?
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Forget the privacy concerns for just a moment -- they aren't that large as long as most people have them set similarly in a small band.
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Wanna know why? Product & eng managers afraid of not making *quite* as much money this quarter as last + industry tendency for absolutism.
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Imagine your browser did that; what's the predictable result? A market. Markets run on information (duh).
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Paywalls and DNT are weak sauce in the face of pervasive silence and complicity of user agents.
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Nevermind that DNT was always a fantasy -- policy without enforcement is wish-thinking -- but we can do better. We have the tools.
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Techies, know this: fact that there's less reporting & knowledge of true facts is at our doorstep. Just barged in. Demanding dinner.
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The idea that you're just moving pixels around a screen for whoever pays for it was never true. We all knew there was power in our tools.
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