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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We claimed as much -- disingenuously as often as not -- when we said we'd "change the world". Change is a vector; magnitude & direction.
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And when you claim to want change, a fervor for it, a dying need to create it, you cannot walk away from the direction by citing magnitude.
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So, probably, we did. Not just us, of course. The East Coast had its part to play -- & Chicago-school macro -- but we sure put an oar in.
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To friends who work on browsers: you have power. More than you admit. *We* have to right this ship. We are the waves & the weather.
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Others just ride them as they come and go, but we create the conditions for journalism (or not). Currently: "or not".
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Notion we're going to allow pervasive theft from publishers (ad blocking) without making a better market for both content and ads is done.
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I have ideas & my co-workers won't like them, but at this point it seems beyond the pale -- and frankly too late -- to pull punches.
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