Fight With Tools by AramZS
A site discussing how to imagine, build, analyze and use cool code and web tools. Better websites, better stories, better developers. Technology won't save the world, but you can.| Fight With Tools by AramZS
Summary The Global Privacy Platform is intended to absorb the functionality of TCF and expand on it, as a consent-string-based privacy solution. While GPP expands the scope that the system can cover it does not resolve any of the intrinsic problems of the TCF approach. The result is a compounding of a deeply flawed system that, while it improves on the underlying concepts, does not resolve the core issues and therefore seems likely to face significant challenge from regulators and privacy adv...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
With the Topics API now in origin tests, it has been interesting to see just how the web gets categorized. I do see a lot of potential in the technology and I can’t argue with the privacy promise being a significant improvement over third party cookies. The biggest issue with Topics is how it will exist within the larger network of advertising technology entities and the market mechanics of the ecosystem. Topics might provide useful transitional technology to move off third party cookies an...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
What follows is the written copy of my comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency. I spoke to the CPPA on behalf of The Washington Post about privacy law and rights to opt out. --- Hello, I am Aram Zucker-Scharff, the Lead Privacy Engineer for The Washington Post and Senior Solutions Engineer for our Zeus advertising technology group, which serves over 100 news sites. I also co-chair the W3C’s Community Group focused on Private Ad Technology and contribute to other groups to speak...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
Google recently announced they are delaying their plan to disable third-party cookies in Chrome, along with their Privacy Sandbox initiative. It’s tempting to look at this as a reprieve, a little extra time to relax and move post-cookie efforts into low gear, hoping the additional time will be enough to find better solutions. However, it’s important to recognize that nothing has really changed. The end of third-party cookies is still advancing, and all the reasons for that happening are s...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
A really great post by Jeremy Keith: You can choose to make it really complicated. Convince yourself that “the modern web” is inherently complex and convoluted. But then look at what makes it complex and convoluted: toolchains, build tools, pipelines, frameworks, libraries, and abstractions. Please try to remember that none of those things are required to make a website. This [the web] is for everyone. Not just for everyone to consume, but for everyone to make. Read the rest: “Foundatio...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
I listen to a lot of music and one of the things I noticed over the years is that I got stuck in a rut. Listening to the same things over and over again and not really picking up anything new. A problem with algorithmic recommendations, of music, or anything really, is that they can trap you with more and more specificity, narrowing around your interests instead of broadening horizons. This narrowing has become even more difficult to escape now that my entire music experience is filtered thro...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
A great interview in VICE today with an engineer who quit GitHub over their ICE contract. Sophie Haskins: It certainly frustrates me how apolitical tech is. It’s so individualistic and siloed. It’s unacceptable. The idea of tech for its own sake, and tech on its own terms makes me angry to no end. Technology should be tools to help people, to enable humans. Even beyond moral questions, many engineers just make bad technology because they don’t think about humans when they’re making it...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
A presentation on our responsibility of designers and by association technologists to change the world. This is a great presentation by Mike Monteiro which is well worth watching. --- The presentation appears to have occurred at Joint Futures recently. via: https://twitter.com/JanKorsanke/status/1184534571951575040| Fight With Tools by AramZS
The Washington Post is taking a proactive approach to digital display advertising issues with a new project that is set to fix bad code, while saving brands from code errors and cross-platform bugs in ad code. The Ad Performance and Safety Protocol (APSP) focuses on accidentally harmful ad behaviors to ensure a better user experience for all readers on The Post’s Classic iOS App. Ad safety has become a major issue for publishers over the last few years. Most solutions that have approached t...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
A site discussing how to imagine, build, analyze and use cool code and web tools. Better websites, better stories, better developers. Technology won't save the world, but you can.| Fight With Tools by AramZS
I am very happy to find out that more people read my blog on RSS than anywhere else, but how to figure that out and technically measure RSS readers proved di...| Fight With Tools by AramZS
