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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the problem is rooted deeper than ads. Once attended a talk by a major local media. He presented their new ad-tech system
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with inner website tracking, leading to better subscrober profiling and how it generated more revenue. When i asked...
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whether they'd share/visualize the data to their users, he was speechless; had never thought of it
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as long as this media considers ad as a more important customer than PAYING subscribers, i doubt a browser-level idea can help
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: yes, this dynamic is a problem (perhaps fatal). But it's no reason for us not to try to create a better market
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