Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it took a fair amount of technical skill to exercise that self-determination. But what if it didn’t? What if the benefits of online...| Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, “manipulating”) people to pay attention. Big Social Media sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site. The attention economy is sometimes associated with: loss of free will loss of Privacy psychological harm al...| www.complete.org
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow