Tag Archives: Privacy

One of the annoying consequences of the GDPR is the popups asking you if it’s okay to set cookies. Mostly, those cookies are used to track us and are something we definitely don’t want to enable. Sadly, some of those … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I wrote a post praising Daring Fireball for it’s take on adtech’s panty-wetting reaction to Apple’s plan to require user permission before accessing the advertising ID (IDFA) on Apple devices. Adtech loves the IDFA because it … Continue reading →

I’ve been a big fan of Daring Fireball for years. Sadly, of late it’s devolved from being a tech blog that occasionally mentioned politics to a political blog that occasionally mentions tech. Nevertheless, Gruber can still bring it when a … Continue reading →

A really great article by Gilad Edelman in Wired asks Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? The article is from March but I somehow missed it and it’s definitely worth writing about. Even without going into any details at … Continue reading →

The (Canadian) Financial Post has a truly horrifying story about out-of-control tracking by the chain coffee shop Tim Hortons. James McLeod uses the Tim Hortons ordering app on his Android phone so he could order his “morning medium coffee with … Continue reading →

I don’t write about Facebook very often because many people that I care about are—inexplicably—Facebook devotees and if I wrote about Facebook to the extent warranted, I would likely alienate my friends and loved ones. Still, sometimes Facebook’s behavior is … Continue reading →

Everybody—especially readers of Irreal—knows that our browsing habits and Web activities are being vacuumed up by the malignant Adtech industry but you probably have no idea of how out of control they are. Techcrunch has a terrifying and infuriating article … Continue reading →