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@dmarti.eurosky.social
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I don't check this account much. See blog.zgp.org/hello for contact info. Speaking only for myself here he/his/him

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Chapell @achapell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
If you control the attribution data set, you essentially control the ads space. In this clip, @dmarti.eurosky.social suggests that the privacy problems that the standards bodies sometimes focus on are different from the privacy concerns faced by actual people.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026
Good point. An FBI bulletin recommending blocking your cash cow service because of malware would be a "never waste a crisis" moment at any normal company. But Google corporate culture encourages dismissing this kind of signal
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026
One surprisingly quiet project—if successful—would impact the entire ad-supported Internet. When a few large companies control the measurement of how effective advertising is, they're in a position to influence how all ad spending is allocated—which will mean more money for slop and disinformation.
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Chapell @achapell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What is the "Attribution Cartel"? Don Marti has been active within the W3C. Per Don, the Attribution Cartel is a group of companies and browsers attempting to determine who gets access to the critical data that helps advertisers determine whether their campaigns are working tinyurl.com/3vyr4abu
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026
A proposed standard now under discussion at W3C aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured…this proposal would centralize measurement under the control of major platform players, including Google, Apple and Meta #attributionCartel www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
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What Happens When The Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising’s Halo Effect?
A proposed W3C standard aims to redefine how ad effectiveness is measured. But it would centralize measurement under the control of Google, Apple and Meta.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
Not yet, more games and demos are still needed. IMHO more companies and energy decision-makers should be funding teams to try a realistic "Operation Spiderweb" or similar blog.zgp.org/surveillance...
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Surveillance risks and the TIDALWAVE report
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026
Bonjour, fellow virtual Europeans, from my new account on eurosky dot social
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
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Erik Bugge @erik.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026
A very good summary by @dmarti.bsky.social on the challenges of publisher revenue - whether it is from micropayments or advertising. blog.zgp.org/micropayment...
Snippet from article highlighted: "The problem with marketing today isn’t that marketers have gotten “too technical” and ignored the creative mystique or whatever—it’s that marketers are so afraid to look “non-technical” by asking the hard questions."
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026
Because the core values of news professionals and Big Tech oligarchs are so different, you might expect news organizations to stand up against Big Tech when bills that would limit Big Tech harms are the subject of hearings at state legislatures. You’d be wrong. rjionline.org/news/big-tec...
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Big Tech runs counter to journalism values. So why is the news industry helping tech take over?
News organizations have a natural ally in state privacy law debates — the consumer advocates who stand up for privacy and against deception.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 26/01/2026
So does that mean that a bot will take what I tweet here on Bluesky and post it back to the Fediverse? Or the other way around? (either way it sounds useful, I want to tweet to _all_ teh twitters but only have to type once)
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025
For now you can still block the click-throughs organization-wide even if you don't want to deploy an element hiding ad blocker blog.zgp.org/search-malve...
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Search malvertising protection using enterprise policies
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025
Need a good reason to block the click-throughs to the search ads? #adBlocking #security krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dron...
krebsonsecurity.com
Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill
A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious connections to a Kremlin-connected oligarch whose Russian university build...
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 22/11/2025
Agree that consent banners are an antipattern -- see the article. Both Flo and Meta made people go through a "consent" process but the jury found that by California standards no consent was actually given
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 21/11/2025
Weak cases have been getting thrown out for lack of standing, and lawyers are learning to adapt. They're finding clients w. significant harm that can be traced back to data collection. Knowing what we know about Meta scams it's reckless for any site to pass them data (by pixel/sdk/capi) on a user
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Oakland Privacy @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
“With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it is the wrong time to weaken these protections." Take a look at this article co-written by OP member @dmarti.bsky.social discussing the repercussions of SB 690 on the dismantling of CA's CIPA.
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Why Weakening CIPA Would Hand Big Tech A Free Pass On Data Abuse | AdExchanger
With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it's is the wrong time to weaken CIPA's private right of action protections.
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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 20/11/2025
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 20/11/2025
One-third of all scams in the USA originate with Meta? Not quite—the real source is the companies that pass personal info to Meta, knowing that Meta's ML will use it to inflict harm. Fortunately, #California has a #privacy law that—when used properly—will help. www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-...
adexchanger.com
Why Weakening CIPA Would Hand Big Tech A Free Pass On Data Abuse | AdExchanger
With privacy under unprecedented attack by data brokers and social media, it's is the wrong time to weaken CIPA's private right of action protections.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/11/2025
So let's say, hypothetically, that some teenager in the USA is an AI skeptic or even "AI vegan" and working on a college short list. Any strategies to avoid getting stuck with slop for 4 years? (This research is hard enough without the whole AI fad thing)
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/11/2025
And imagine that Walton had found not just a messy store, but an exec running a criminal scheme, Google or Meta style blog.zgp.org/thought-expe...
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a thought experiment starring Sam Walton
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/11/2025
And the people at the top either don't care, or find that "safety" works in the opposite direction to what they want. If Sam Walton had walked into a dirty, disorganized Walmart, stuff would have been fixed fast, whatever the VPs said. Zuckerberg and Pichai are all "meh" about high-profile crimes.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/11/2025
Mix #scamCulture with the efficiency of #openSource, and you get #surveillanceCapitalism and an economy-wide collapse in trust. While American business culture has always celebrated “fake it ’til you make it,” we have pivoted to “make it, then fake it even harder.” rjionline.org/news/the-tra...
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The traffic and revenue crisis for news is a symptom of Big Tech’s economy-wide trust collapse
The news business is a key part of the solution.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 11/09/2025
Every time I try a Google Search for [sergey brin epstein files] Google gives me a CAPTCHA...is this happening for anyone else?
Screenshot of a reCAPTCHA prompt, stating "our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network"
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 08/09/2025
update: I think I fixed it, enterprise policies to the rescue -- a fairly simple #security / #privacy protection to block the risky search ad clicks without breaking the ads on legit sites blog.zgp.org/search-malve...
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Search malvertising protection using enterprise policies
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025
Ideally you would be able to keep only legit ads by default—with user's GPC choice applied—but for now that's hard to set up, so IT depts. have to be able to educate users when it's a good idea to turn off uBO for a site and when it's not. (feature request: check ads.txt, unblock if it's legit) 3/3
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025
If you're going to run a school or public computer, you need to make sure the Google Search ads aren't showing up or at least are not clickable. Right now uBlock Origin will do that reliably but search ads are out of scope for Privacy Badger blog.zgp.org/winners-don-... 2/3
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Winners don’t click search ads
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025
This is mostly good advice, but has one problem. The biggest ad-related threat to most random users now is fake SaaS and employee portal login pages on Google Search. Users try to go to the site where they have an account, click on the Google ad, and get compromised. 1/3
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 07/09/2025
Another web maintenance todo: if you still have #groklaw links on your blog or other site, time to make a local copy of the original pages from archive.org and fix the links fossforce.com/2025/08/grok...
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Groklaw Domain Hijacked? Site Now Serving Crypto Content - FOSS Force
Groklaw’s storied domain has fallen into unexpected hands. What’s behind the sudden flood of crypto content—and is the site lost for good?
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 06/09/2025
Drone strikes on refineries and tanker terminals (easier to put out of action with a smaller drone because they're already flammable) could even be revenue-positive for a terrorist group that can invest in the oil futures market #energySecurity
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
What can I say, the cover of the incoming Spanish translation of Blood in the Machine is absolutely incredible.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 06/08/2025
This is a very interesting paper (HT @older.bsky.social & @philippmarkolin.bsky.social). I need to sit on some of these thoughts a little longer, but here's a first approximation 🧵 of reactions — in no particular order and without much filtering.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 07/08/2025
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 05/08/2025
Q: how do you get the Board of Directors to give you a 29 billion dollar pay raise? A:
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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Consider, your Honor, that my client was being extremely productive at the time of the crash.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025
As each Big Tech switches away from high-growth value-extractive mode to earning more like a normal legacy IT company, that means more growth opportunities for the firms that are now on the losing end of their anticompetitive tricks. Total impact on an index fund investor will be somewhat positive
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 21/07/2025
Great article, but I don't believe that the fall of the "Magnificent 7" firms will crash the stock market. Ever since Big Tech pivoted from "create more value than you capture" to the other way around, every $1 in Big Tech market cap means the destruction of > $1 in the legit economy
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/07/2025
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 15/07/2025
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t... "Those who believed the piece was AI-generated were 14% less likely to consider purchasing the product featured in the adjacent ad."
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Adam Jacobson @adjacobson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I wrote for a magazine called Risk Management and went to risk management conferences and this is 100% true. The people who file and pay out insurance claims know climate change is real.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 15/06/2025
Just tested out @manusai.bsky.social to see if the agent can make it through a #CCPA #RtK process on the verizon.com site. Good news -- after a dead end first attempt, it looks like it worked! blog.zgp.org/encouraging-...
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encouraging first result from an AI right to know
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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
No judge should be worried about their personal safety when they’re deciding a case. That’s how the rule of law ends. I’m proud to lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues in demanding that we fund efforts to get Judges' personal information off the internet.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Pink Guy is attending an interview with the chief exec and CEO of a company.
CEO: “Our company does not adhere to DEI hiring practices 

Panel 2:
CEO continues: “We believe in hiring based strictly on qualifications”

Panel 3:
Pink Guy interjects and says “Actually, DEI is about addressing a systemic imbalance in-
CHIEF EXEC butts in: HEY

Panel 4:
CHIEF EXEC: Don’t talk back to my dad
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025
"Use an ad blocking extension when performing Internet searches" -- the FBI techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/f...
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Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker | TechCrunch
The feds say cybercriminals are buying online ads to impersonate brands with the aim of stealing or extorting money from victims.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025
(In general, any time someone reports on how much spam and fraud they blocked, and not how much their users were exposed to, they're pretty deep in the shit. A platform that's actually making progress can report better stats.)
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025
Source: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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The great Google Ads heist: criminals ransack advertiser accounts via fake Google ads
An ongoing malvertising campaign steals Google advertiser accounts via fraudulent ads for Google Ads itself.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 16/04/2025
A report about how Google's AI helps catch fake ads on Google is not exactly the best #contentMarketing for Google's AI. Check other sources of info about the scam ad problem over there and you'll see Google has even run fake ads for (checks notes) ads.google.com
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Google Ads - Get Customers and Sell More with Online Advertising
Discover how online advertising with Google Ads can help grow your business. Get customers and sell more with our digital advertising platform.
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025
Good reminder to block all the fundraising texts (and the bridge toll and traffic ticket texts while you're at it)
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dmarti.eurosky.social @dmarti.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025
Some links blog.zgp.org/advertising-...
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advertising personalization: good for you?
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