Who will build a better ad-blocker, Google or Apple?
Google is in the tracking/surveillance business and sells ads.
Apple sells physical devices, iPhones and iPads and Macs — and a whole bunch of cables…
The commercial web is increasingly like the Eagles’ Hotel California…
You can check-out any time you…
As the general public has become smarter, snake oil is being sold to the dumbest members of our society: marketers.
So, tell me more about this supposedly implied contract: I read an article once on your website, and I will be tracked forever, wherever I go on the web? Is that really part of the implied contract? Getting tracked by as many as 2,053 trackers. Really?
In Chapter 3 of my book, I wrote:
Last but not least, there is the unspeakable truth in an era in which we have come to idolise Social Media: the New Yorker was much more of a real Social Network and of a Community than Facebook or Twitter ever were or…
Why do we have an advertising funded Web? Not necessarily because it works. It doesn’t.
Advertising became the default business model on the web, “the entire economic foundation of our industry,” because it was the easiest model for a web…
Seldom, if ever at all, have I read such a long, elaborate and so well thought-out post about something — like Uber Zero — that doesn’t make any sense at all.
Free, ad-supported Uber rides are inevitable, and if Uber doesn’t do them, a different competitor — perhaps Google! — will do…
