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DATE | 2016-03-28 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] hangout Digest, Vol 6, Issue 53
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On 03/28/2016 04:45 PM, Paul Li wrote: > Hi Rubin, > > Is there a tech meeting tomorrow, Tuesday night? >
yes, but next week I will be gone for 5 days until Wednesday
> Paul > > Please excuse typos. Sent via mobile. > >> On Mar 27, 2016, at 12:00 PM, "hangout-request-at-nylxs.com" wrote: >> >> Send hangout mailing list submissions to >> hangout-at-nylxs.com >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://www.nylxs.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> hangout-request-at-nylxs.com >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> hangout-owner-at-nylxs.com >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of hangout digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Wired and Privacy News (Ruben Safir) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 20:11:15 -0400 >> From: Ruben Safir >> To: Hangout >> Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Wired and Privacy News >> Message-ID: <56F72523.7040209-at-mrbrklyn.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >> >> Alexander HanffAlexander Hanff >> >> Privacy Consultant >> Follow >> Wired blocking access to privacy stories because I choose to protect my >> privacy... >> Mar 20, 2016 >> >> 422 views >> 18 Likes >> 6 Comments >> >> Share on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on Twitter >> >> Several years ago, Wired UK wrote a profile piece about my privacy work. >> I wasn't aware they were writing the piece, they never contacted me for >> any quotes or informed me they were planning to publish anything about >> me, so you can imagine my surprise when I was approached at a privacy >> event in Brussels and congratulated on the piece by several individuals. >> >> It was really something quite special for me, being a Wired reader since >> they launched and I have since contributed to many stories they have >> written on privacy. One could accuse me of being something of a fan. >> >> But if that same story were published today - I would not even be able >> to read it and it is likely that many other privacy conscious >> individuals wouldn't be able to read it either. Why? Because many of >> us are presently using adblocking tools to protect our privacy and >> security from illegal tracking, profiling and malvertising and currently >> if you are using such tools, Wired blocks you from reading their content. >> >> So today I stopped following Wired on Twitter because frankly, what is >> the point? Their Twitter feed is used to promote stories - stories I >> and many others can no longer read because we value our privacy. >> >> I would much rather see Wired lead the way by forcing the adtech >> industry to behave more ethically, than going to war with their readers. >> As I said to publishers recently at an event in Germany - they are the >> ones with the audience, they are top of the value chain and they should >> be the ones in control of the content on their web sites - not adtech. >> >> Sadly Wired have chosen to go the route of attacking their readers >> rather than defending them by removing intrusive scripts from their web >> site; it is a bizarre move and one I feel they will ultimately live to >> regret. >> >> I am ending this piece with a quote from Wired from that very same >> profile piece they wrote in 2010: >> >> "Inconvenient as it may be for advertisers and media owners, Alex Hanff >> and his colleagues remind us that the future remains unwritten. They >> stretch the conversation away from the easy assumption that being >> digital revolves exclusively around consuming goods, services and >> advertising. For that, we should thank them." >> >> ... but instead they choose to block us. >> >>> From Linkedin, which is itself a humorous twist on this story... >> >> -- >> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town >> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological >> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 >> http://www.mrbrklyn.com >> >> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 >> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software >> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive >> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! >> http://www.brooklyn-living.com >> >> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, >> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> hangout mailing list >> hangout-at-nylxs.com >> http://www.nylxs.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of hangout Digest, Vol 6, Issue 53 >> ************************************** > _______________________________________________ > hangout mailing list > hangout-at-nylxs.com > http://www.nylxs.com/ >
-- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ hangout mailing list hangout-at-nylxs.com http://www.nylxs.com/
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