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Love that this is on talium

Coral doesn't typically die due to rising ocean temperatures... it flees the reef. I think these articles are trying to be contrarian on semantics. Not great.

Good idea - but why? If the purpose is to make sure someone's human, bots are pretty good at cracking captchas. If it's to slow someone down, help them think before they post, then fine, but why a captcha? They are really annoying. Why not make them listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k all the way through?

Really cool - I was just reading this and worrying about cross scripting attacks: https://adamj.eu/tech/2020/02/18/safely-including-data-for-j...

Could see your site being really useful as a linting/ci tool. Is that where you're planning on taking it?

one step closer to Norway https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239

Glad they explore what the modern day equivalent of burning books is... not a precise comparison but good to noodle on. "Ovenden sees myriad threats to knowledge amid this ‘digital deluge’. There is ‘linkrot’, those links that lead you to websites that are no longer available. There are denial-of-service-type cyberattacks, like the one that crippled Estonia in 2007, which see websites bombarded with queries, overwhelming servers and causing them to crash (even the Bodleian has been targeted). There is ‘fake news’, as well as ‘alternative facts’, and the manipulation or intentional erasure of data. Ovenden sees the emergence of ‘private knowledge kingdoms’ and ‘surveillance capitalism’ as particular threats: a ‘disproportionate amount of the world’s memory has now been outsourced to tech companies without society realising the fact or really being able to comprehend the consequences’."

Hi! Super cool extension for readers, seems easy for publishers too. I like that it isn't baked into the browser like the Brave BAT.

Just curious - what split have you seen so far between readers picking ads v micropayments?

Question before I try it out -How do you serve up ads? Are you a part of a network? I noticed you collect all data from sites with the extension, curious to know if the ad alternative is collecting my data and targeting me with personalized ads.

"High uniqueness hold seven when histories are truncated to just 100 top sites." This is similar to the app finger printing they do with mobile phones, identify you by the unique assortment of apps on your device.

Should the top concern be about identification or deep collection of browsing history?

Cool investigation. Thanks for sharing. Have you analyzed what data Marvin collects in each session? Before switching I'd want to see a comparison.

just happy i dont need to create a fortnite account to have a meeting yet.

+1 I'd also pay for something like this...

Thanks for sharing - can be super hard as a solo founder. Even harder to be honest about challenges.

"When we contemplate an invasion of privacy–-such as having our personal information gathered by companies in databases–-we instinctively recoil. Many discussions of privacy appeal to people’s fears and anxieties.9 What commentators often fail to do, however, is translate those instincts into a reasoned, well-articulated account of why privacy problems are harmful."

I came across a practical discussion of this on reddit -> https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ez1tyo/how_do_i_co.... it's helpful but also befuddling.

Same concern - I'm working on getting some info removed from mastodon. it's terrifying how hard it is to get someone (volunteer mods) to actually remove something...

This sort of case makes me an advocate for centralized access to moderate/regulate/also be accountable... but then if there's this magic backdoor to data access and removal...?

Really interesting legal question - "Seems like the ball is with Google at the moment, the exposed data is on their GCP servers. So, they can figure out next steps." is a comment above. How will the chain of insecure infrastructure + the data scrapers + the people responsible for configuration react?

Actually working on that project right now - www.thekanary.com. Super early stage but have a big list of brokers and opt out links that I'm automating. Would love early feedback.

It's weird because for oxydata you have to contact their sales team... but peopledatalabs has an opt out form.

https://www.peopledatalabs.com/opt-out-form

People Data Labs privacy policy: 3. ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OVER INFORMATION A person may do any of the following at any time by contacting People Data Labs at support@peopledatalabs.com. People Data Labs will reply to a person’s request within five business days.

A. Access any information we have on them, if any.

B. Change, correct, or delete any information we have them, if any.

C. Express any concerns about People Data Labs using their information.

People Data Labs' team will act swiftly upon a person’s email request to change, correct, provide, delete, or explain anything a person query.

People Data Labs understands if a person would like to opt out of People Data Labs' database. Opting out will stop all data sharing and enriching of all PII in People Data Labs servers for that person. Click here, if you would like to opt-out, or choose to have all data about you removed from People Data Labs' database.

For https://www.oxydata.io/: Review and changes to your information Contact us at sales@oxydata.io to find out what information we have collected about you, and to request any changes to or deletion of it.

For frustrated folks like myself who are also lazy like myself:

How to deactivate: https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/article/How-to-deactiv...

Where to deactivate: https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/contactsupport?languag...

*for what its worth, deactivation and deletion are mostly semantics if the point is to send a message to a company that their mismanagement erodes trust with users. "churn" is a metric that very much matters to executives and "deactivation" impacts that.

Start by figuring out how much YOUR data is worth - that's the hardest part of all this. Individuals will need to create scarcity like the big ad networks do today, otherwise a market flooded with copies of personal data will have very little value. https://app.fastgarden.io/assessment

Your data is worth whatever someone will pay. It isn't just about ad revenue, it's about the market research that becomes a behavioral futures market. This app gives you a personal data value estimate (average it's a couple hundred dollars/year): https://app.fastgarden.io/assessment

It is really fun. Thanks for putting thought into the design and UX.

I like the idea of shifting to a demand-driven model. Unrelatedly, check out https://datausa.io/ if you haven't. Deloitte/MIT created a similar platform for US statistics. Doesn't seem like it's being maintained but it looks pretty/is easy to navigate.

This is great! One suggestion, show the theme of the poem or maybe the first few lines so the person doesn't have to read the whole thing / scroll to the bottom to move on or like it.

I like how simple this is. Have you thought about making it a web app?

I really like this idea - and would recommend it to many of my tech friends who have lost their sense of purpose or contribution to the greater good. one piece of feedback is that it makes the project feel less sincere to have your promotion for your 12 in 12 project within the page, so i'd consider removing that

When you join Fast Garden we try to make it clear which datasets are in demand and how they'll be used, for example, location data or purchase behavior. Because of this, payment from companies to sellers is quick. We're testing the details right now; should we pay people in monthly or weekly micropayments? or pay people in yearly sums that are larger? It depends on the goals of the people sharing their data. We've already gotten interest from people who are used to selling their information because unlike a platform like Survey Monkey, we'll create payment predictability for people who sell their information over time.

Thanks for checking it out Eric! Do you mind sharing how much your data was worth?

Thanks! The dollar amounts for data brokers come from their annual revenue statements. Though my experience in the industry plays into the estimate of how big their consumer files are and how much on average they make selling someone's data.

The news about companies making billions off targeted ads and data access agreements is interesting. We get that hackers made money off the Equifax and Marriott breaches. But this information about the data market had me thinking, is my data making these companies a few pennies or is there more on the table?

This app calculates the value of a person’s data based on two sets of information. First, the apps you use, their data sharing agreements, and their annual revenue per user. Second, the email you use and the associated accounts that hackers have stolen information from. We’re working on improving our estimation methodology, but the data brokerage market is pretty opaque. Here are the sources and methods: https://medium.com/fast-garden/fast-garden-assessment-data-s...

Thanks in advance for the thoughts, ideas, feedback.