Web

The web.

Links

• ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (HN)
  • Censorship is too powerful, too easy to abuse, yet too hard to maintain
  • Protect the victim and go after the criminals, not cut off all speech
• Internet Artifacts | neal fun
  • From the ARPANET in 1977 to the Internet communicator in 2007
• Splitting the Web | Ploum (HN)
  • Maybe a little bit extreme, the Internet is always split in some way, but it's an interesting topic to look into
• The Man Who Killed Google Search
  • When head of search is replaced by the head of Ads
  • When a product is made to extract value from the users rather than providing value to the users
  • When a software product is managed by business consultancy that eyes on short term gains rather than product designers and software engineers that built it
• Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host (HN)
  • Ever wonder why Forbes appear in any search results?
  • Abusing the host site reputation by running SEO content that has little relation with the host
  • Deep dive into who controls Forbes Marketplace and their earnings
  • Same for CNN and USA Today (HN)
• Google Chrome is switching to Manifest V3, but what does that mean for ad blockers?
  • From webRequest API to the declarativeNetRequest API, from uBlock Origin to uBlock Origin Lite

Web Environment Integrity (WEI)

• Web Environment Integrity Spec | GitHub @RupertBenWiser
• Unpacking Google’s new "dangerous" Web-Environment-Integrity specification
  • Provide websites with an API to determine whether the browser or the platform is trusted
  • The issue is there will be no guarantee a browser will be trusted which reduces the usefulness of the "web"
  • The hope is EU will block it
• Google v.s. the open web
  • It's not just targeting bots, it's also advertisement
  • Reactions to the policy and rebuttals from the author