MailTrackerBlocker
I use Apple’s Mail app for my email so this is very handy:
An email tracker, read receipt and spy pixel blocker plugin for macOS Apple Mail.
Link tags: tracker
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The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com - Signal v. Noise
Can you believe we used to willingly tell Google about every single visitor to basecamp.com by way of Google Analytics? Letting them collect every last byte of information possible through the spying eye of their tracking pixel. Ugh.
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In this new world, it feels like an obligation to make sure we’re not aiding and abetting those who seek to exploit our data. Those who hoard every little clue in order to piece of together a puzzle that’ll ultimately reveal all our weakest points and moments, then sell that picture to the highest bidder.
Tinnitus Tracker
Rob has turned his exhaustive spreadsheet of all the concerts he has attended into a beautiful website. Browse around—it’s really quite lovely!
Rob’s also writing about the making of the site over on his blog.
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr
A spot-on description of how targetted advertising works …or rather, how it doesn’t.
They are still trying to sell me car insurance for my subway ride.
SpeedTracker
This is a great free service for doing a bit of performance monitoring on your site. It uses WebPageTest and you do all the set up via a Github repo that then displays the results using Github Pages.
It won’t give you the power or control of Calibre but it’s a handy option for smaller sites. Here are the results for adactio.com running on a Moto G over 3G.
Obrigado, Eduardo!
LA Times and ads | Nelson’s log
A lot has been written about the future of journalism, the importance of businesses like the LA Times being profitable as a way to protect American democracy. I agree with that in theory. But this sort of incompetence and contempt for readers makes me completely uninterested in helping their business.
Like Craig says…
between personal data suction and total disrespect of bandwidth, I'm not sure how you can *not* run ad blockers and browse the web
— A Walkin' Dude (@craigmod) March 26, 2017
Dystopia Tracker
Documenting depictions of dystopian futures and tracking which ideas are turning out to be predictions.
Change Proposal Status
Purely for my own benefit because I keep needing this URL, here are the current outstanding issues registered at the W3C for HTML5.
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